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.
Day 12: Ser Mavros Uller weds Delicia Blackmont at the Planky Town guildhall.
Day 23: King Baelor Targaryen marries Ser Aidan Dayne to Lady Aisling Ryswell and sponsors the Tower of Devotion tourney, where Ser Aidan defeats Prince Aemon Targaryen and crowns his bride Queen of Love and Beauty.
Day 26: Goldcloaks halt a royal court session when they report Princess Daena Targaryen missing from the Maidenvault, prompting Prince Aemon Targaryen to seal the Red Keep and sweep King’s Landing for his runaway sister.
Day 4: Ser Quinlan Qorgyle reopens court in Sunspear, appoints Lord Neilyn Toland Keeper of the Tower of the Sun, retires Ser Ulwyn Uller with a Planky Town holdfast, and debates inviting the Iron Throne’s fleet to patrol the Stepstones from Dornish waters.
Day 7: Princess Daena Targaryen is discovered half-starved inside the Dragonpit ruins and returned under guard to the Maidenvault after a fortnight in hiding.
Day 10: Ser Quinlan Qorgyle knights Farien Yronwood at dawn and then witnesses the young knight’s marriage to Princess Ariana Martell, followed by a sodden tourney in which Ser Laurent Dalt finally bests Ser Felix Sand for a thousand-gold purse.
Day 3: Ser Roland Hunter springs a trap on the Flea Bottom crime boss Cotter inside a dockside tavern, breaking the gang that ambushed him and forcing the City Watch to intensify patrols through the slums.
Day 18: The squire Ryam Greyjoy distinguishes himself in a local tourney at Vinetown, holding the lists against several young Reachmen despite his lameness and earning notice in Lord Hightower’s household.
Day 1: Lady Ammena Piper is betrothed to Ser Bryar Mooton, joining the interests of Pinkmaiden and Maidenpool in a match said to be warmly received by both.
Day 4: Ser Joffrey Caswell weds Lady Elyse Meadows in the royal sept, then personally carries the wedding tourney to crown his new bride before the Reach and Stormlands courts.
Day 4: Ser Bryon Waynwood marries Lady Orene Lefford beneath the eyes of the High Septon, finishing the feast with an archery contest that quietly tightens Vale and Westerlands ties.
Day 21: A white raven from the Citadel ends the long winter; King Baelor spends the day in prayer while sailors report Pentoshi impressment of Westerosi crews along the Stepstones.
Day 21: Ser Arion Baratheon weds Lady Alys Swann at Storm’s End, and the rain-soaked tourney that follows leaves more bruised pride than pageantry among the visiting court.
Day 22: While courtly attention lingers on Ser Arion Baratheon’s wedding tourney, bailiffs and goldcloaks descend on Flea Bottom to seize the crime lord Cotter. Ser Roland Hunter leads the raid with Ser Ryckon Westerling, Ser Mathin Lannister, Ser Elmer Crakehall, and Ser Dermett Corbray among the fighting men; after a bloody battle underground, Cotter is struck down and taken alive for hanging.
Day 3: Prince Viserys Targaryen recalls royal galleys to the yards, replaces key officials with battle-minded men such as Lord Allos Swann, and coordinates with Ser Quinlan Qorgyle on a joint expedition meant to shove Pentos off the Stepstones.
Day 14: King Baelor consults the High Septon about enforcing chastity across the court, ordering septas to examine maidens in the Maidenvault and considering tax relief for families that lock away their daughters.
Day 12: Three windless days leave Lord Alyn Velaryon’s fleet becalmed in Blackwater Bay, stoking brawls between sailors, quarrels between Lord Velaryon and Ser Sarmion Baratheon, and rumors that some septons hope the stillness will scuttle the campaign.
Day 9: The royal fleet reaches Planky Town, where Dornish levies muster under Prince Rhodry Martell while Lord Velaryon triples the harbor guard to keep Stormlanders and Dornishmen from stabbing each other before they ever reach the Stepstones.
Day 24: Lord Athell Connington’s tourney meant to soothe tempers ends with Ser Garlan Hunter and Ser Holtyn Rosby claiming the final tilts, deepening Dornish resentment and leaving war councils deadlocked over how their spears will be used.
Day 9: Lord Alyn Velaryon’s galleys drive off Pentoshi warships west of Grey Gallows, letting Ser Laurent Dalt and Prince Rhodry Martell land their spears to begin the siege of the island citadel.
Day 17: Sellsword captain Menio Cravys agrees to sell the Grey Gallows fortress for gold but is executed by its Unsullied garrison, who hurl his corpse and those of his lieutenants from the walls rather than surrender.
Day 25: The allied host batters a breach in Grey Gallows’s wall and throws Dornish spears against the Unsullied defenders, forcing the Stepstones campaign into brutal street fighting even as Pentoshi sails gather on the horizon.