Blood of Dragons

Learn about notable events that have occurred throughout the Seven Kingdoms in recent years in this year-by-year chronicle. For years preceding the start of the game at the beginning of 158 AC, information is scarcer, but players are invited to submit entries for important events from their backgrounds.

Index

• 140 AC: A hastilude at Storm’s End.
• 141 AC: A tourney at Gulltown and ensuing violence.
• 142 AC: Temp
• 143 AC: The year 143 AC brought instability to the Sisters when Lord Maron Sunderland drowned and his young son Gelion inherited under regency. A later Longthorpe attempt to seize the boy-lord showed how uncertain Sunderland authority had become in the first weeks of his rule.
• 144 AC: The year 144 AC saw a new lord rise at Seagard, a Connington household death reshape fosterage and service, and Lord Lyonel Hightower’s natural children receive legitimacy. These changes placed several later court figures into the kinship and service networks that would shape their public lives.
• 145 AC: The death of the Master of Coin.
• 146 AC: The year 146 AC brought deaths and marriages that reshaped several houses: House Serry entered a regency struggle on Southshield, House Darklyn celebrated a prominent love match, House Mallister secured a Bracken bride, and House Baratheon passed through a poisoning that raised Lord Corwen Baratheon to rule.
• 147 AC: In 147 AC, lordly succession and regency questions continued in the Westerlands and Reach, while tourney honors raised Halder Frey from squire to knight. Southshield’s regency struggle also reached a public resolution in favor of Renys Serry’s father.
• 148 AC: Tourneys at Highgarden and Stonehelm.
• 149 AC: A tourney at Rosby.
• 150 AC: The year 150 AC marked changes in religious, stormlander, and household fortunes. Elwood Hunter took vows in the Royal Sept, Arson Rogers’s legitimization placed Endron Rogers in the Amberly succession, and a fire at Bronzegate killed members of House Buckler’s household.
• 151 AC: A tourney on Oakenshield.
• 152 AC: The year 152 AC saw unrest in the Sisters, public tourney honors in King’s Landing, and Dornish violence in the Marches. Lord Gelion Sunderland took rule in his own right after rebellion overturned his mother’s regency, Almer Connington rose at Princess Rhaena’s nameday tournament, and raids in the Marches brought death into the Stormbreaker household.
• 153 AC: Tourneys at Riverrun.
• 154 AC: Tourneys at Pebble and Highgarden.
• 155 AC: A tourney in Lannisport.
• 156 AC: Tourneys at Fair Isle, Starfall, King’s Landing, Sandstone, and Lemonwood,  as well as a wedding and tourney at Sunspear.
• 157 AC: A detailed chronicle of the conquest of Dorne, from Daeron’s ascension to the final push towards Sunspear.
• 158 AC: Sunspear and its aftermath, both in Dorne and King’s Landing.
• 159 AC: Efforts to pacify the Dornishmen continue, as the king returns to King’s Landing. A grand tourney takes place to celebrate the king’s great victory. Tensions in the city of King’s Landing due to the Dornishmen lead to violent riots.
• 160 AC: A guild tourney in King’s Landing, unrest in Vaith, and the results of Ser Lormon Buckler’s expedition into the kingswood.
• 161 AC: The year begins with turmoil in the realm, as King Daeron prepares to return to Dorne to put down the rebellion.
• 162 AC: A tourney in Highgarden, a feud, and the slow recovery of the king.
• 163 AC: The king resumes his role in running the realm after his long recovery from the ardours of his march of penance through Dorne, while in the south trouble assails the Dornish as the Yronwoods raise up arms against the Martells. Towards the end of the year, the Blackwoods and Brackens resume their ancient feud, but members of the royal court come to the riverlands for a wedding take part in bringing it to an end.
• 164 AC: The feud between the Brackens and Blackwoods comes to its conclusion thanks to the intervention of the Tullys and visiting knights and lords from the royal court, a Dornish embassy reaches the court, and a notorious outlaw joins forces with pirates of the Narrow Sea to seize Stonedance on Massey’s Hook.
• 165 AC: Stonedance is recovered from the outlaw Red Rhys of the Scourge, but at great cost. Embassies are dispatched by the Iron Throne and Dorne to attempt to win Braavos’s intervention (or lack of it) in the conflict brewing over control of the Stepstones between Pentos, Lys, and their respective allies. The embassies end in debacle, after princes from both realms are caught up in the politics of the Sealord’s court and one of their hosts is assassinated when mistaken for Prince Aegon. House Martell and House Santagar become estranged after a falling out between Prince Cadan and his lady wife, Senara. King Baelor recovers from his latest bout of fasting, and issues new edicts that raise eyebrows, and soon after reveals his intention to swear a septon’s vows.
• 166 AC: 166 AC opened with returning exiles and renewed alliances: Mylene Gargalen proclaimed her homecoming to Sunspear, Rylla Tyrell and Myles Hightower announced their betrothal, and the Crackclaw Point kidnappings forced Ser Dermett Corbray, Ser Mathin Lannister, and the royal huntsmen into relentless patrols that ended with Mathin’s arrest, vigil, and trial. In Dorne the feud between Houses Dalt and Gargalen exploded, prompting Sunspear’s council to banish Willum Gargalen, bring the disputed wells under princely wardship, and weather Prince Marence’s ergot-poisoned collapse even as Joleta Sand resigned her office and Dornish envoys shuttled between the Stormlands and Free Cities. In the Vale, a wedding between scions of House Hunter and House Corbray is celebrated with a two-day tourney. The year’s end belonged to the Stormlands: the royal court sailed for Ser Orson Baratheon and Ryone Prester’s wedding only to endure the Great Storm, after which Septon Elwood Hunter and Ser Dermett Corbray led Baelor’s relief host through Griffin’s Roost, fought Vaario Quanis twice over, knighted Arros Beesbury, and returned to King’s Landing with orphans, wounds, and hard lessons.
• 167 AC: King Baelor Targaryen officiated Ser Aidan Dayne’s wedding to Lady Aisling Ryswell and watched twin tournaments that let the Dornish embassy remind King’s Landing of its pageantry, while Sunspear feted new matches meant to calm rival houses. Princess Daena Targaryen’s flight from the Maidenvault, her recovery in the Dragonpit ruins, and Ser Quinlan Qorgyle’s first court as Lord Protector defined the middle months as King Baelor deepened his pious policies and Dornish officers weighed inviting the Iron Throne’s fleet to use their ports. By year’s end Prince Viserys Targaryen and Lord Alyn Velaryon had forged a joint armada with Prince Rhodry Martell and Ser Laurent Dalt; the fleet endured tempers in Planky Town, then fought Pentoshi sellsails around Grey Gallows while Unsullied garrisons forced the allies into siegecraft.
• 168 AC: The year 168 AC was dominated by the war in the Stepstones, where the fleets and armies of the Iron Throne and Dorne fought to break Pentoshi power, and by the continuing strain caused by King Baelor’s confinement of his sisters. Victories at Grey Gallows and Bloodstone brought glory to Lord Alyn Velaryon, Prince Rhodry Martell, and their allies, while Princess Daena’s renewed escape from the Maidenvault showed that peace at court remained fragile.
• 169 AC: The year 169 AC centered on Dorne, the Faith, and the marriage pact meant to bind the Iron Throne and Sunspear. Prince Rhodry Martell returned to Sunspear, the High Septon died after extracting promises from King Baelor, and the royal fleet carried the king and court south for the wedding of Prince Daeron Targaryen and Princess Mariah Martell. Tensions between Dornish hosts and royal guests flared before the marriage could be made.
• 170 AC: The year 170 AC opened with the marriage of Prince Daeron Targaryen and Princess Mariah Martell, the great union meant to secure peace between the Iron Throne and Dorne. King Baelor pursued reconciliation in Sunspear before returning to King’s Landing, but the court was soon unsettled by Princess Daena’s escape, return, and pregnancy. The year also saw King Baelor grow more severe, Prince Maron hold court in Sunspear, and the Faith choose a child as High Septon.
• 171 AC: The year 171 AC brought the death of King Baelor I, the accession of King Viserys II, and the first signs of the rule that would follow him. Baelor’s fast after Princess Daena’s birth of Daemon Waters ended in collapse and death. Viserys began his reign by undoing many of Baelor’s restrictions and restoring the machinery of rule, while Prince Aegon remained restless, pleasure-seeking, and ill-suited to Dragonstone.
• 172 AC: The year 172 AC saw the end of King Viserys II’s short reign and the beginning of King Aegon IV’s. Princess Elaena’s pregnancy by Lord Alyn Velaryon caused scandal and exile, while Viserys’s death placed Aegon on the Iron Throne. Aegon quickly favored Lord Bracken and Lady Barba Bracken, whose son Aegor Rivers was born before Queen Naerys’s dangerous childbirth brought the royal household to crisis.
• 173 AC: The year 173 AC opened after Lady Barba Bracken’s dismissal from court and saw King Aegon turn his favor to Melissa Blackwood. Queen Naerys slowly recovered, Prince Daeron and Princess Mariah removed their household to Dragonstone, and court life settled into the pattern of Aegon’s pleasures, Blackwood favor, and small-council governance. The arrival of Bellegere Otherys further exposed the king’s old foreign attachments.
• 174 AC: The year 174 AC was marked by disorder in the Kingswood and King Aegon’s disastrous attempt to renew war against Dorne. A royal masquerade displayed Melissa Blackwood’s influence, white ravens announced summer, and Aegon declared war despite Prince Daeron’s opposition. Anti-Dornish feeling flared in King’s Landing even before the war, while Reach and stormland hosts gathered for the threatened campaign. The invasion collapsed in wildfire and storm before it reached Dorne, leaving the Kingswood burned, the army bloodied, the pyromancers ruined, and the Red Keep uneasy after the king’s return.
• 175 AC: The year 175 AC brought the end of summer, renewed Braavosi and Dornish diplomacy, and great courtly spectacles tied to King Aegon’s mistresses and the Dornish court. The lingering consequences of the Kingswood disaster reached the throne room when Tylarra Bolling was judged for murdering a pyromancer, while Crownlands disorder culminated in the Rosby peasant revolt and the killing of Ser Gerys Darke. Princess Mariah’s son Maekar was anointed before the court, the Sealord of Braavos came to Sunspear, Septa Helia’s flight with the Braavosi embassy caused pursuit and scandal, and Missy Blackwood gave birth to Brynden Rivers before the Tourney of the Setting Sun.
• 176 AC: The year 176 AC saw movement in Dorne, the continued consequences of the Kingswood disaster, and a series of royal court scandals and contests in King’s Landing. Dorne prepared a new embassy to Braavos and dealt with Prince Rhodry’s return with a new child, while King Aegon arranged Princess Elaena’s betrothal to Lord Ossifer Plumm. Struggling hamlets near the Rosby Road revealed the war’s lingering damage, the Kingswood rebellion was beaten back, a new King’s Justice was chosen, tourneys sharpened royal favor and disfavor, and Princess Elaena’s wedding ended with Lord Ossifer’s death.
• 177 AC: The year 177 AC was shaped by uncertainty in House Plumm after Lord Ossifer’s death, Prince Daeron’s northern progress to White Harbor, the failed return of a claimant to Starfall, and King Aegon’s increasing public favor toward Lady Bethany Bracken and her circle. White Harbor hosted royal guests, a great wedding, a tourney, a melee, and the Night’s Watch, while Dorne heard and dismissed the claim of Lyonel Dayne. In King’s Landing, public sport, appointments, deaths, and open court revealed the political weight of Bracken favor, the King’s quarrels with Blackwood and Lannister, and the cost of accusations carried into the realm’s sight.