The King

Chapter Nineteen

The Greyjoys were going to revolt, I didn't know when, I didn't know how, but the Tullys couldn't control the Kraken, the messenger that was sent by the Tullys was killed, maimed, and sent to the Tullys, showing a hostile attitude to the supposed House that they were supposed to obey by the King's orders. And in the most cowardly way possible, the Tullys were asking for help from the crown to help put the Greyjoys in their place, knowing that they were the people who gave the Ironborn so much freedom.

What else could he do, he had no idea, how to help the Tullys, how to stop the Greyjoys, whatever he thought of doing, then he was going to be attacked by his main political enemies. Tywin Lannister was going to attack his ineptitude for allowing that to go forward, the Northerners were perfectly within their rights not to buy food from the Tullys, just as the Lannisters could just as easily go and buy food from the Tyrells, they were not obliged to do anything. And for the King's Hand to allow one of the kingdoms not to work as it should, only made him unfit for the King's Hand.

Now the North was playing a very different game to them, Harry concentrated on arming and fortifying the North, to the point that no spy could get in, and no one could see what was going on in Manderly harbor which was covered in a thick fog, the years of treating the northerners like fools turned to annoyance and fear.

Not long ago Robert rose to power, and the north took the position as one of the great powers for the mysteries it currently hid, the only thing they knew was that Moat Cailin was built in a damn year, being bigger and more terrifying than it was before. The boy took advantage of the war, where the dragons were on destroying the rebel army, and the lions were on who was the best candidate to support and were in their cave waiting, but the smart wolf didn't send his full power, he just let them kill each other. The Stag won the crown, and defeated the Dragon, and the cunning Wolf stood by and watched, growing bigger and bigger, as the other houses killed each other for power, Jon thought the Greyjoys were his trump card, but it only made things worse.

When you realize you have made many mistakes sometimes it is too late to fix them, Jon Arryn realized that too late, allowing the Tully's to give too much freedom to the Greyjoys was a big mistake only because he wanted to stop the advances the North was making.

A powerful North was bad, enough already had the kingdom with the Lannisters who had a great hunger for power and always wanted more, allowing the North to taste power was bad, and perhaps in his time many northerners didn't care about that, they only cared about their kingdom and nothing else, that the southerners were fighting for power. It was because of that little detail that Southerners treated Northerners badly because they didn't play the game, they just concentrated on what they had, and they had no ambition.

But the new Lord of House Stark and ruler of the North, is ambitious, only sending 10,000 men in a rebellion, predicting that they would be used as cannon fodder and nothing more. After that he asked for a great deal of money for the dead people, Robert gave him 10,000 gold dragons, a huge financial hit to the royal coffers.

There was so much mental pressure on Jon that he couldn't think straight, and as it all got out of his control, he thought that letting the Greyjoys attack the North would interfere with the North's rise to power. But no, all he heard was that the Greyjoys could not attack the North, and the ships that left for the North would never return. That fear, made him let all this happens, since Robert rose, his political power was diminishing more and more, and now Varys and his pupil or former pupil had much more political power and purchasing power than himself, he was overcome, the one who had to look at him as his master now looked at him as an equal or something much lesser, for his little intelligence Petyr Baelish took advantage that he was distracted with the North to gain power. He made several trips to Dorne and Dominion to converse with the Martells and Tyrells the rulers of that realm, Varys instead went to the West and easily manipulated Robert's younger brother Renly into following his advice and having a stronger bond with the Tyrells. Where Varys wanted Margaery to be the bargaining chip, to remove the girl from the betrothal to Lord Stark which was impossible so far because of her interest in Harry Stark.