kingscourt

it has been two days since Lannister family meeting, tywin Lannister has come to the conclusion to make a deal with a stark boy but he wants two hold a high ground over him when the negotiations take place. for that he needs the starks to be in a difficult spot and the perfect chance for that has finally arrived the first time torhen stark will present himself in the king's court while it was nothing more than a guest representation of the north it was already established between the forces existing in the capital that most of the nobles and all who are unhappy with the starks will plead the case to the king that they want the north to put a halt on their development and revert back to the old ways because it will return balance to the court and the realm, a foolish decision according to him why will anyone do that and he knew that under no circumstances will such a petition move forward that starks had the support of the arryns and the tullys and the king himself. it was known that donation and heavy taxes were sent to the capital by the starks and that is what is keeping the capital and the crown afloat, despite the heavy debt they had and this was not because of any national obligation but simply because of the friendship between Eddard Stark and the king Robert Baratheon.

thinking of all the many things which could happen tywin made his way to the throne room his gameplan was to wait for a time when the stark boy will have difficulty answering the court at that moment he will come to their support making the starks obligated to help him for their high honor when tywin reached the great hall its massive doors opened and the and he saw quite the spectacles many high lords were in the throne room olenna Tyrell and his son, oberyn Martell and his wife lord john arryyn and his lady wife, along with the members of the small council, all of them leaving them he also lord Hoster Tully in there sitting on a chair and two guards behind him. he also saw the king sitting on his high throne with his daughter and her three children along with Jamie standing with the king's guard along with tyrion standing with many lords from the crownlands he also saw lords from the reach as well and a few merchants from essos who lost their business because of the stark ventures. one would imagine it quite impossible for a man from a medievel world to know of the faces of the many lords and merchants from over the seas but tywin lannister was not just any man he was far more smart to not be able to recognize people, his large spy network and huge ensured that he knew about all that was happening around and he has already known about the presence of these people in the capital the one he didnt knew about was was hoster tully and how he came into the city without him knowing and many others were also thinking the same thing namely the tyrells, peter baelish, the queen and the martells even renly baratheon for he was responsible for knowing who came inside and who did not, considering that he was the master of laws this was just a small fraction of the show of the power made by the starks because there was no possible for the tullys to have entered the capital unnoticed without the support of the starks, the only one who knew was the spider, varys his spies notifoed him about hoster leaving the riverlands so he was pretty sure that he was going to appear in the capital.

a few moments later the doors opened once again and the guardsman announced the starks along with them, came their vassal lords lord talhart and lord manderly along with guts and Suzaku along with infamous rumored female knight Marianne followed by 20 knights of the winter guard and many servants carrying caskets presumably gifts their entire group went in front of the throne and knelt to show respect to the king after Robert told them to be at ease torhen stark stood up and loudly proclaimed that his lord father and lady mother has prepared gifts for the royal family he announced that his mother prepared a diamond from their mines for the queen, at his proclamation Sansa stark took a small wooden chest in her hands and opened it presenting a large diamond far larger than any ever seen in the realm most of the merchants on attendance were ogling the prized stone. Sansa told everyone that it was called the winter moon diamond and was the largest mined diamond from the stark mines and it was specially kept away for the queen on the orders of her lady mother. the queen was astounded to see the diamond she wanted that no matter what she completely forgot about her discrimination towards the stark call that a women's instinct, or her world defining pride which dictated that all the best things should belong to her, soon Sansa went up the stairs to her seat and presented it to cercei, her eyes gleamed to hold the diamond in her minds she simply thanked the starks for the very precious gift and smiled a smile with condensation in them no sarcasm no pride genuine happiness, it was a smile that no one had seen on the queen and one that tywin or Jamie or Tyrion had seen in decades even Robert was surprised at that. soon torhen opened a larger chest and brought out a big Warhammer it was black in color and had a golden engraving of a stag with a crown the sigil of the royal house and despite how heavy and strong it looked it baffled everyone how torhen easily held it in his hands, while it was known that starks children were of well built and strong but this was different the boy was 11, seeing the Warhammer Robert stood up from his throne and came down with excitement in his eyes he came and stood in front of torhen and took the hammer from him, he had used hammers for a long time and knew how sturdy, strong one is just holding them but this one was much lighter and then any he ever held and was easy to manage as well he looked at torhen curiously and thought to himself that this child will bring a wave which will sweep all of Westeros under it