Battle in the Mountains

### Outcome

**Pyrrhic Baratheon victory*** Mountain clansmen holding Prince Raymont Baratheon and his family hostage annihilated
* Death in captivity of Prince Raymont Baratheon, Lady Valaena Velaryon, Prince Royce Baratheon and Princess Tyana Baratheon

Factions| * **Iron Throne**/House Baratheon of King's Landing
	+ Kingsguard
* House Arryn
* House Tully

Leaders|  Queen Emylia Bracken Lord Commander Brandon Manderly †

Casualties| **Light, but significant*** Prince Raymont Baratheon
* Lady Valaena Velaryon
* Prince Royce Baratheon
* Princess Tyana Baratheon
* Lord Commander Brandon Manderly

The **Battle in the Mountains** refers to a failed rescue mission and subsequent skirmish during the Bloodless War, the mountains in question being the Mountains of the Moon in the Vale of Arryn.

## History

### Prelude

Following the abductions of Prince Raymont Baratheon, his wife Lady Valaena Velaryon, and his children Prince Royce Baratheon and Princess Tyana Baratheon by mountain clansmen, King Robert II Baratheon sent Queen Emylia Bracken to the High Road to negotiate for their release, or conduct a rescue mission to free them.

After several days of negotiations, Queen Emylia Bracken grew tired of the increasingly exorbitant demands offered by the clansmen, and called on House Tully and House Arryn to raise their banners. Fearing a battle was imminent, Lord Commander Brandon Manderly asked Queen Emylia if he could conduct a rescue mission. Queen Emylia approved, but insisted Ser Brandon should go alone, as to not draw attention to himself.

### Failed rescue mission

Brandon successfully infiltrated the camps where Prince Raymont and his family were being held, successfully freeing the four captives. However, as the group attempted to make their escape, the clansmen located them. Cornered, the Lord Commander attempted to cut their way out, but was quickly killed.

Immediately after the battle, it is believed Prince Raymont and Prince Royce were tortured to death, but not before witnessing the rape and enthrallment of Lady Valaena and Princess Tyana. The clansmen moved camp afterwards, leaving behind the mutilated bodies of the two princes.

Upon hearing of the failed rescue mission, Queen Emylia amassed a large force of Tully and Arryn soldiers, refusing request from knights and retainers to mount further rescue missions to rescue Lady Valaena and Princess Tyana. Queen Emylia led the force into the Mountains of the Moon, in hot pursuit of the clansmen.

### Battle

The men under Queen Emylia eventually cornered and surrounded the clansmen, who numbered no more than a couple hundred. The ensuing 'battle' could hardly be called one, as most clansmen surrendered without a fight.

Once the battle was over, the dead bodies of Lady Valaena and Princess Tyana were uncovered, having likely been killed shortly before the battle. Queen Emylia thus ordered that all the captive clansmen be executed.

### Aftermath

Once news reached King's Landing, the health of Raymont's father, Prince Steffon Baratheon, went into steep decline. Within three weeks, he passed away at the age of sixty-two. Prince Steffon's death ostensibly made his last surviving grandson, Prince Robert the Younger, the new heir to the Iron Throne, although King Robert II Baratheon would fail to confirm this until he was lying on his deathbed a year later.

Following the trials in King's Landing, it became apparent to some that Queen Emylia herself may have orchestrated the abductions on the High Road and subsequent Battle in the Mountains, with her liaising with the mountain clansmen prior to the abductions.