𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐎𝐃𝐒 | robert baratheon

𝐯. my other half

.·:*¨༺ ༻¨*:·.

After at first refusing to send aid to Aerys, both due to his caution as well as due to his anger over treatment, Prince Doran had agreed to send ten thousand to strengthen the army Prince Rhaegar was gathering. King Aerys sent Prince Llweyn Martell, Doran's uncle, to take command of these forces, but also threatened him by stating that he held Princess Elia, Prince Rhaegar's wife, and their two young children, Rhaenys and Aegon, hostage.

Doran watched from his balcony all the way in Sunspear, staring at the horizon where he could just see the outline of where Kingslanding would be had he the eye sight of a dragon. He hoped Elia was safe although he knew she wasn't.

"She won't forgive you, you know." A voice called from behind him, belonging to his little brother Oberyn. "Pavarti, I mean."

"She will understand I did it to keep Elia safe." The Prince of Dorne sighed. "Pavarti is intelligent, she knows what I am trying to do."

"Pavarti is intelligent yes, far more than you, brother." Oberyn said, standing from his seat and clapping his brother on the back. "Intelligent enough to know that Elia hasn't been safe since she set foot in that country."

With that, Doran heard Oberyn turn on his heels and leave him alone in the cold night air. They would learn the next day of Robert's success in the battle of the trident and the death of Prince Rhaegar Targaryen to his sword. He would learn of how Pavarti lead an extra battalion of rebels, while pregnant, upon Moondancer but how she did not even need to fight because the size of her new battalion struck such fear into the hearts of the Targaryen host that they practically broke and ran at the sight of them.

But he would also learn of the rape and murder of Elia Martell and her children in the sack of Kingslanding. While the Trident is seen by many as the decisive battle of the war, the capital remained untaken until this fateful battle now known as the sack of Kingslanding but would forever be known as a day of grief for House Martell.

Because Pavarti's husband had been injured in battle, Doran would learn that Lord Eddard Stark and his army pursued the remnants of Rhaegar's army, who had fled back to the capital. Lord Tywin Lannister, who had refused calls to arms from both the loyalists and the rebels until that point, appeared at the gates of King's Landing with an army of twelve thousand men, mere hours before Eddard Stark would arrive. 

Lord Tywin professed his loyalty to King Aerys, and while Lord Varys counseled Aerys to keep the gates locked, the king chose to listen to and open the gates to Tywin's men. Once inside, the forces from the began to sack the city.

Upon the realization that all was lost, Aerys ordered Rossart to ignite the wildfire caches throughout the city, wishing to leave Robert nothing but "ashes and bones". He ordered Ser , Lord Tywin's eldest son and the only knight of his present in the city, to kill Tywin and bring his head to Aerys. Instead, Jaime Lannister killed Rossart, and upon the realization that Aerys would simply give the order to burn the city down to another pyromancer, returned to the Red Keep and murdered Aerys himself in the throne room, mere seconds before soldiers from the Westerlands entered.

Meanwhile, Ser Gregor Clegane and Ser Amory Lynch had entered Maegor's Holdfast to deal with the rest of the royal family, to secure the throne for Robert, and to prove that House Lannister had forsaken the Targaryens forever. Gregor killed Prince Aegon, Rhaegar's son and heir in front of the child's mother, Princess Elia, and then raped and murdered Elia herself with Aegon's blood and brains still on his hands. Amory then dragged Princess Rhaenys from under her father's bed and killed her, stabbing her half a hundred times.