a visit to the capital

winterfell 294 ac

grand meeting

the grand meeting in the north started 2 days ago, lords from all over the north came here to hold the grand meeting to discuss plans of utmost importance many of them were awed to see Winterfell with its new large two walls, marble floors, and plumbing. the chandeliers and the lights the food is never seen before and many more, usually the ladies are not present during meetings, but I requested their attendance no matter what the reason is that everyone needs the full support of the family no matter what for what we are about to do when the commenced my father asked me to greet everyone in attendance.

torhen: my lords and my ladies I torhen stark offer you, my most heartfelt welcome to my home Winterfell, its hospitality is yours for the next week

hear hear boom boom of cups smashing together and many more noises were heard at the time it was an appreciation for the young lord of the starks

lord kartsark: no no lord tohen because of you north has seen prosperity never witnessed in 8000 years we are the ones filled with gratitude for the starks

maige ormont: yes my lord because of you no iron islander or any of the pirates today can enter the northern seas for our ships are impregnabble

many lords showed thier gratitude for me in this situation and all boomed with laughter and merry but we had plans to discuss

torhen: my lords if this over, we have some important things to discuss

at me saying that the entire great hall went silent and serious expressions took everyone

lord manderly: my lord what might those be some new projetcs a new construction of some sort

torhen: yes my lord we have new and projects of construction coming up but, before that, we have some punishments to doll out, whose recipients are here at this moment.

when i said that tension grew in the air and many lords started talking among each other

torhen: jorah mormont come forwards and confess

at my order, jorah came forward to me in the center of the great hall

jorah: what might I confess about my lord

torhen: do I need to spell it to you, you know what you did now come forward and confess

joraj: I really don't know what you are referring to my lord

torhen: the fact that you sold people into slavery despite knowing, it against the law

as soon as I said that the entire great hall went silent for a few seconds and then boomed with large voices and anger asking jorah why did he do what he did

jorah: i had no choice my lord my aunt left me no option

torhen: and how did she do that

jorah: she sent me my wife to sea dragon point then let us live on the bear island

torhen: that was on my orders because you are much more of a soldier than a lord, living among soldiers would have helped become a good naval general, but even if that was a problem, what made you sell slaves

jprhen: she sent us no money, my wife grew up in the south she cannot live in the harsh north without the luxury

torhen: let me tell you something, the money granted to you and your wife was thrice of what u were getting before and if you had waited more patiently then this money would have doubled or even tripled nut you did not do that and sold people to slavery. and let me tell you your wife had started to sell northern secrets of shipbuilding to the south, that is also one of the reasons you were sent to sea dragon point

jorah could not beleive what I told him his eyes were watery his legs were shaking

torhen: so jorah mormont what will you do

jorhen: any punishment you desire my lord

torhen: slavery is a grave crime but you did those on matters made by me maybe we were harsh on you a bit much, a person for your crime would get executed but I will exile you if my father wishes so

eddard: what my son says is right, jorah mormont Eddard stark lord of Winterfell lord commander of the northern armies and the lord paramount of the north hereby exile you from the north you may never pass the neck in your life

upon the declaration of my father jorah immediately left Winterfell to pick his wife from sea dragon point and then take her south possibly oldtown

torhen: now that one form of punishment has been dolled out we will need to take care of another one Ramsay snow and Roose Bolton come forward

when I said those words all the people had gone mad and I mean literal mad they were yelling and chattering amongst each other. soon roose bolton and ramsay snow stepped forward

torhen: lord roose bolton and ramsay snow both of you stand accused of flaying and raping women, not only in your lands but in others as well

ramsay: so what if i did they are all useless and i am the lord i can do what i want

torhen: you are a bastard and even if you were a lord it still against the law

Ramsay: what do you know boy of pleasures go suck on your mother's tit

torhen: Ramsay snow for your crimes you are sentenced to death. rick come and take him away

when I asked for a rick a winter guard came forward heald Ramsay by hid neck and took him away to be executed

torhen: lord Bolton you stand accused of not only flaying people but also selling northern secrets to tywin Lannister

upon my words, the entire hall went silent again. but this was not true I came to the conclusion that rose has played his part and is no longer needed. so he must be dealt it all accusations on him were a lie but he is under my geass to do exactly as I say

Roose: that is because you stark are too strong I have not forgotten what happened to my ancestors and I never will I am guilty of all you say but I don't regret it

many lords got angry at him and wanted to beat the guy to death people yelled in anger as well badly that is at this I asked the lords to be silent and my father to punish him

Eddard stark: Roose Bolton of house Bolton I Eddard stark the lord of Winterfell, the lord commander of the northern armies and the lord paramount of the north sentence you to die and all of your lands to be confiscated.

in this world domeric Bolton was never born so taking away his lands was not a problem. once all this ended the people got silent and the hall remained in silence for some minutes. after which we once again presumed our meeting

lord umber: what were the new projects you were talking about my lord

torhn: yes my lord I am coming to that, so our first project will be the reconstruction of moat Cailin . as many of you know the northern armies are fat to in the north, I intend to take these forces and have them stationed more south so that they can quickly reach any point of the invasion when the need may arise.

lord manderly: it will be expensive my lord how do we pay for it

torhen: the starks will pay a third of it the rest will come from taxes and extra collected from the collective wealth of the northern lords, I plan to house some 20000 soldiers there. as many of you know moat caillin was an impregnable castle that destroyed many southern invasions if the dragons had not come we would still be an independent kingdom. as such I intend to make it bigger and rebuild all 20 towers, once it is completed no southern army will ever harm the north

most of the lords accepted that proposition and commended it as well

torhen: our next project is a trip to the valyrian freehold to look for artifacts or treasures of ancient valyria, they will help us in trade or even find us information on new methods of making things and technologies which have been lost.

a few objected to this because it was not the most conventional idea, considering the poisonous gas which rules the area, but I assured them that it will be fine and the lords who invest in it will get a few benefits from whatever is find.

torhen: there are two more things to discuss

lord ryswell: what might those be my lord

torhen: one of them being the northern games which will happen next year when the colosseum is completed, so I want all lords to publicize it as much as possible so that when it happens people from all over the world will come here. other one being some lords seem to have a problem with our new-found prosperity and thus are making problems in the court I intend to fo there and curb it and a need volunteers for that, who among you great lords will come with me to Kingstanding.

2 months later

I am in sea dragon point at this moment and will be leaving for the capital tomorrow morning on the titanic its the name of the stark mother ship it large and one of the only two ships in this world which work on a steam engine. it is 100 meters long and fitted with 300 cannons and sails it a marvelous ship the ones accompanying me on this trip include lord manderly and lord talhart and 300 winter guards along with sir guts and sir Suzaku kururugi and my personal bodyguards along with 20 servants which include Claude as well I the carrying a diamond my mother set aside for the queen along with games for the children a valyrian steel sword for joffery, not that he needs one and a large hammer for the king. there are 1000 more soldiers on the ships if needed in the future along with a carriage for Sansa is accompanying me. to the capital news of my travel to the capital spread through Westeros like wildfire.

kings landing

cercie pov

that stark is coming here what for offer taxes or something else, it is difficult to think he also has his sister accompanying him could it be a betrothal for my son, maybe but ned stark he won't do that but his son he may think of it

peter

that stark bastard is coming here, it is a good opportunity I should kill him when I can the starks have grown to much because of him, but this is the capital it won't matter people are not loyal as they are in the north. maybe the faith can help me in this

tywin lanister casterly rock

that wolf coming down south, I should not lose this opportunity and got here to meet him the starks have gone too strong it will be dangerous to start a conflict with them now an alliance is better, yes much better