AGOT 3

And then the game reels you back in.

Clearly, it was being to easy. It had to change.

King Rhaegar's reign was good, for a lunatic. He had a son with Lyanna Stark, and didn't burn people to death like Aerys did. Then he died in battle, with his son Aegon (with Elia Martell) becoming King, the seventh of his name.

Aegon also had a mad streak in him. He eventually arrested his whole Kingsguard for conspiracy. But... King Aegon offered me Jaime Lannister. Pay ransom, and i get Jaime back. No longer King's Guard. Jaime's arrest and imprisonment took care of that, and Aegon released Jaime from service.

This complicated things. Tywin always wanted Jaime to be the heir, but i had negotiated a strong hand for my new son, Tytos. Maybe too strong. I knew something had to break. So i took King Aegon's offer, and reclaimed Jaime as my heir.

Of course, the Lords of the North rose up against Lady Jeyne Stark. The Karstarks led the rebellion, except Roose Bolton managed to put an end to the Karstark uprising... but not before securing new titles for himself in the Riverlands. Ramsey Snow managed to get himself killed off (so sad). the North was showing its fractures.

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Stannis eventually got tired of King Aegon's paranoia and started the second Baratheon rebellion (with Robert now as Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, and no longer having a valid claim). Cersei married Stannis (or, more accurately, i married off Cersei to the Baratheons, like Tywin did in the books... except my choice was Stannis, not Robert)... so this was a win for me.

I joined Stannis' rebellion, and put the Baratheon line on the throne after Aegon abdicated. Except Cersei didn't give Stannis a child unless you count the son born of Jaime and Cersei's continued incest.

With Jaime out of prison, and now the heir, i married him to the young and eligible Margaery Tyrell.

The rest of Tywin's time was pretty unremarkable, having Stannis rule a relatively quiet period.

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After Lord Tywin died in his sleep (in his mid 50s), Jaime became Lord Paramount of the Westerlands, during the latter half of King Stannis' reign.

Again, King Stannis' reign was fairly peaceful. But his son (actually the child of Jaime and Cersei) has significant mental deficiencies. And fairly peaceful does not mean totally peaceful. Stannis dies in battle during an uprising by the Arryns of the Vale.

Cersei only had the one child as Stannis' queen. So the Lords of Westeros demanded that King Rhaegar's other son, Rhaegal (the son of Rhaegar and Lyanna Stark), take the throne.

Unlike the others, it was a bloodless rebellion.

Aside from uprisings by the Iron Islands and a brief civil war initiated by the Dornish, King Rhaegar has been a good king.

However, Cersei was ever ambitious. And Jaime broke off the relationship, becoming committed to his wife Margaery. So Cersei took a pile of gold and bought herself a mercenary army to invade the Westerlands.

So what happened? During the first battle of Cersei's invasion, Jaime spots her on the battlefield and shoves his sword into her (no euphemisms either). Dead! No more Cersei! Probably one of the greatest random things I've seen in Crusader Kings.

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(Tytos? His betrothal to Jeyne Stark did not survive. As a probable puppet of the Boltons, Lady Stark broke the betrothal to poor Tytos. So if i didn't choose Jaime, i would have been screwed.)