Recaps

Roslyn burned Lord Suleiman’s letter urging retreat and chose to defend Lion's Den as Vale cavalry raided the East Riverlands. He ordered civilians armed and organized into militias, turning the region into a battlefield while he prepared to hold the mountain forts to the death.

• Roslyn rejected the option of fleeing to King's Landing and declared that he and Lushen would defend Lord Suleiman’s land.
• The adjutant reported that Mountain Clan Wildlings were killing East Riverlands people and Vale cavalry were raiding and burning villages.
• Roslyn ordered civilians moved into captured castles, supplied with food and weapons, and led by his soldiers as militias against the Vale.
• Roslyn ordered the old subjects scattered among mountain forts and vowed to hold Lion's Den while drawing the Vale cavalry into a prolonged war.
• Soldiers distributed grain and weapons to the commoners, who eagerly scrambled to arm themselves.

Robert Baratheon learned that Suleiman had rebelled and ordered him captured alive, while Patrick Morrison’s army was routed and the Riverlands campaign deteriorated. After learning Rushmarsh had fallen, Patrick was appointed to command the West Riverlands and was stopped from taking his own life.

• A Crownlands noble reported that House Lychester and Suleiman had raised an army and were marching toward King's Landing, and Robert Baratheon swore to take Suleiman alive.
• Patrick Morrison regretted ignoring Ser Old Lopin’s advice after his six-thousand-man army was crushed by House Smallwood and the West Riverlands coalition.
• Eck Morrison refused Patrick entry to Resting City and ordered his archers to fire, while Ser Old Lopin covered Patrick’s retreat.
• Tytos Blackwood cornered Patrick and demanded his surrender, but Suleiman’s men ambushed the West Riverlands cavalry and rescued Patrick.
• Will reported that House Frey had captured Rushmarsh and Lushen had retreated east; a messenger then appointed Patrick Governor and General of the West Riverlands.
• Patrick tried to kill himself out of guilt, but Will and the other knights stopped him and urged him to reorganize the army and fight again.

Brynden Tully persuaded Ser Old Lopin to surrender, then used him to seize Pinkmaiden, where Ser Eker died defending the castle. Molle Smallwood’s army captured Adam City after three days of fighting, and Molle ordered Tox’s corpse mutilated and displayed as a warning to commoners.

• Brynden Tully convinced Ser Old Lopin to kneel to House Tully and revealed that Suleiman’s men had rescued Patrick Morrison.
• Ser Old Lopin used the surrender ruse to take Pinkmaiden, but let the captured Loach Knights escape; Ser Eker stayed behind and died fighting House Tully’s troops.
• Molle Smallwood offered the defenders of Adam City a pardon, but Tox refused to surrender and vowed to make the attackers pay dearly.
• Molle Smallwood’s army stormed Adam City after three days and nights of battle, suffering nearly two thousand casualties as Tox and the defenders were killed.
• Molle Smallwood ordered Tox’s corpse desecrated, beheaded, and hung from the castle’s highest flagpole as a warning to commoners.

After Patrick Morrison’s defeat, he turned his surviving soldiers to guerrilla raids while Suleiman prepared to evacuate King's Landing and deliberately create a vast Faith Militant. Brynden Tully moved to suppress the rebellion by winning over commoners and trapping the remaining rebels, while privately planning to absorb Suleiman’s followers and preserve his reforms.

• Patrick Morrison rejected retreat to Harrenhal and ordered his thousand surviving men to raid weakly defended areas, seize supplies, and draw commoners into the fighting.
• Suleiman learned that Patrick Morrison was missing, ordered William Mooton to conceal the defeat, and announced plans to evacuate King's Landing and create a vast Faith Militant.
• Brynden Tully ordered the West Riverlands lords to pardon and recruit repentant commoners, preserve Suleiman’s laws, and block the rebels’ escape routes by controlling the waterways.
• Tytos Blackwood challenged Brynden Tully’s refusal to pardon the Mud Knights and Hedge Knights, arguing that House Tully would drive loyal knights toward Suleiman.
• Brynden Tully privately agreed with Tytos Blackwood and revealed that House Tully would accept Suleiman’s followers, preserve his institutions, and reward those who joined them.

Suleiman persuaded Bana to abandon his old identity and become the Gray Bishop, leading a monastic order loyal only to him. Meanwhile, Riverlands forces seized King's Landing and massacred more than a thousand people accused of supporting false kings, leaving Bonifer Hasty and the Poor Fellows forced to submit and call the slaughter a victory.

• Suleiman offered Bana a fabricated past and the role of Gray Bishop, and Bana accepted, pledging his life to Suleiman.
• Suleiman told Bana to build a monastic order that would serve him and help him gain control of the Faith and its armed forces.
• Riverlands armies entered King's Landing through all seven gates and took control of the city's defenses by Suleiman's command.
• Riverlands soldiers rounded up alleged false kings and their supporters outside the Red Keep and executed more than a thousand people without trials.
• Bonifer Hasty tried to stop the massacre, but monks and Holy Hundred members restrained him as Riverlands archers aimed at the castle.
• Brother Vickar urged the frightened Poor Fellows to celebrate the executions as a victory of the Seven, and scattered cheers followed.

Brynden Tully persuaded Suleiman's former knights to submit to House Tully, but Moller Smallwood's cruelty drove them to rebel alongside Patrick Morrison. After Tytos Blackwood killed himself in remorse, Brynden was left facing a renewed uprising and a Riverlands slipping beyond his control.

• Brynden Tully and Edmure Tully convinced more than a hundred knights loyal to Suleiman to bend the knee to House Tully, with Tytos Blackwood vouching for them.
• Tytos Blackwood reported that Patrick Morrison's forces were dwindling, while Brynden questioned whether the surrendered knights could be trusted.
• Moller Smallwood hanged farmers and ordered Old Lopin and the loach knights into a dangerous forest attack, prompting the knights to plot with Patrick Morrison.
• Old Lopin tried to stop the knights from rebelling, but his squire stabbed him, and the knights joined Patrick Morrison in a nighttime assault on Smallwood's camp.
• Patrick Morrison killed Moller Smallwood's two sons and broke through the encirclement, while Moller Smallwood died in the fighting.
• Brynden Blackwood told Brynden Tully that Tytos Blackwood had killed himself to atone, as messengers reported the renewed rebellion and Brynden Tully despaired over the Riverlands.

Morton Waynwood’s Vale cavalry devastated the East Riverlands before retreating behind the Bloody Gate, while Suleiman argued that their brutality would strengthen popular resistance. After Adrian Celtigar warned him that Westerosi vassals would abandon a defeated liege, Suleiman was left alone with the military reports.

• Morton Waynwood revealed his ambition to seize control of the Vale and led seven hundred knights into the Riverlands to ravage its villages and towns.
• Riverlanders increasingly resisted the Vale raiders, and Lushen’s army pursued Morton as the cavalry burned more than a hundred settlements and killed tens of thousands.
• Morton withdrew through the Bloody Gate, praised the Riverlanders’ fighting spirit, and ordered them not to pursue the Vale forces farther.
• At Duskendale, Suleiman laughed at reports of the Riverlands’ defeats and claimed Brynden Tully had failed to unite and strengthen the region.
• Suleiman told the Riverlords to return to their armies and prevent panic, while Adrian Celtigar warned that defeated liege lords could not rely on their vassals.
• After Adrian left, Suleiman crushed the military report in his hand and remained alone in the silent hall.

With Viserys Targaryen missing, Septon Yangsi urged Suleiman to abandon the search for a king and lead the common people, while Bryn pledged his loyalty to Suleiman. Suleiman decided to act without Viserys, then confronted Lymond Guburk as he tried to take his army home, leaving the Riverlands coalition on the brink of breaking apart.

• William Mooton told Suleiman that Viserys Targaryen had vanished at sea, and Suleiman considered capture, shipwreck, or Varys’s involvement as possible explanations.
• Septon Yangsi urged Suleiman to stop supporting the Targaryens and lead a revolt against kings and nobles, while Suleiman challenged the idea of rule by priests.
• Bryn told Suleiman he would kneel before him if he became king, and Suleiman declared that he would have to take the place himself.
• Suleiman’s cavalry intercepted Lymond Guburk’s army as it tried to return home to defend its lands from Vale raiders.
• William Mooton warned Suleiman not to kill Lymond, while Arwood Halton argued that the army would fall apart unless Lymond was killed.

Suleiman spared Lymond Guburk and rallied his soldiers despite news that the Lannisters were marching on King's Landing and Stannis's fleet had entered Blackwater Bay. In King's Landing, he ordered a mass evacuation that sent hundreds of thousands of people toward the Stormlands, the Reach, and the West Riverlands, while keeping able-bodied adults in the city.

• Suleiman received news of the approaching Lannister army and Stannis's fleet, then lifted Lymond Guburk to his feet instead of punishing him.
• Suleiman persuaded the Guburk soldiers to trust him and fight, promised to take them home victorious, and ordered Walter Hean to strengthen the fortifications.
• Suleiman told Bonifer Hasty and the septons that King's Landing's food would run out within a month and ordered them to evacuate civilians before famine struck.
• Bonifer Hasty was assigned to lead 150,000 people to the Stormlands, the High Sparrow to take 50,000 to the Reach, and Yangsi to lead 100,000 to the West Riverlands.
• Suleiman ordered the elderly, infirm, women, and children handed to the departing groups while able-bodied adults and useful families remained in King's Landing, and the great evacuation began.

Suleiman rejected Arwood Halton’s proposal to defend King’s Landing, insisting he could win the war within days or weeks. He planned to lure Stannis Baratheon’s forces through the Mud Gate and destroy them with wildfire, leaving the Riverlands army a path home.

• Arwood Halton urged Suleiman to defend King’s Landing and warned that the Riverlands army could collapse if the war lasted beyond a month, but Suleiman insisted victory was near.
• Suleiman told Bryn, Toman, and Hallyne the Wise that several Riverlands lords seemed suspiciously confident and that the enemy would seek a swift battle.
• Suleiman assessed the forces approaching King’s Landing, including Stannis Baratheon’s fleet and armies from the Westerlands, Stormlands, Vale, and Riverlands.
• Hallyne confirmed that wildfire had been planted throughout Mud Gate and nearby homes, sewers, and gatehouse spaces.
• Suleiman planned to leave King’s Landing’s defenses empty, feign surrender to Stannis, and ignite the wildfire after his troops entered the city.
• Suleiman justified the Poor Fellows’ expected deaths by promising to reward their families, then drew his Valyrian steel sword and extinguished a candle.

Stannis Baratheon learned that Suleiman's actions had plunged the Stormlands into chaos and ordered a coalition advance on King's Landing. Suleiman planned to attack the Westerlands army outside the city despite his lords' objections, then rejected Awood Halton's offer to guarantee his survival if he stayed to defend King's Landing.

• Davos Seaworth reported that refugees and Poor Fellows had overwhelmed the Stormlands, while Suleiman held Crownlands nobles' families hostage, and Stannis Baratheon rejected a prolonged blockade in favor of summoning five armies to attack King's Landing.
• Suleiman learned that nearly thirty thousand Reach troops had gathered at Bitterbridge and said House Tyrell would likely stay out of the fighting if Poor Fellows and Ser Bonifer Hasty threatened the Reach border from Dorne.
• Suleiman planned to lead Riverlands forces and elite Poor Fellows out of King's Landing to attack the Westerlands army, while sending one thousand men to defend Harford City against West Riverlands and Vale forces.
• Awood Halton and the other lords urged Suleiman to remain behind the city's walls, but Suleiman insisted they could defeat the Westerlands army because its commander was a dwarf.
• Awood Halton privately offered to guarantee Suleiman's survival if he held King's Landing, but Suleiman refused the proposal.

Brynden Tully chose to march the Riverlands army toward King's Landing despite the West Riverlands remaining unstable, while Clement Piper stayed behind to protect his family. At Harrenhal, Karak rallied the commoners to resist the Vale and support Suleiman, though some questioned whether they should oppose all nobles, including him.

• Brynden Tully received Stannis Baratheon's order to join the assault on King's Landing and learned that Suleiman was sending about a hundred thousand refugees into the West Riverlands.
• Clement Piper refused to accompany Brynden Tully, giving him his army and asking him to rescue his family from Suleiman's custody in King's Landing.
• Vale riders attacked a civilian militia outpost, and a wounded boy reached Harrenhal to warn Karak that the Vale people were coming.
• Karak rang the alarm and told Harrenhal's gathered commoners that the Vale had attacked them and their fleeing lords had abandoned them.
• When an elderly man asked whether they would also fight Suleiman, Karak argued that Suleiman was their ally and urged the commoners to defend the Riverlands with him.
• The crowd rallied behind Karak, shouting support for Suleiman and the Riverlands.

As the Vale army struggled against Riverlands resistance, Lushen and Roslyn arranged to have the Vale soldiers desecrate ancestral graves to enrage the local people. The Riverlanders rose in fury, while Bronze Yohn Royce warned the Vale lords that if they marched on King's Landing and lost, they might never make it home.

• Bronze Yohn Royce and the Vale knights lamented their heavy losses and blamed Morton Waynwood's brutal campaign for turning the Riverlands' commoners into desperate fighters.
• At the Lion's Den, Lushen convinced Roslyn to provoke the Riverlanders by having Vale soldiers dig up their ancestors' graves.
• Vale soldiers desecrated graves outside Lord Harroway's Town, driving its defenders to swear vengeance against every Vale man.
• The desecration spread across the Riverlands, stirring its people to fury and resistance.
• Morton Waynwood urged the Vale lords to march on King's Landing and kill Suleiman, but Bronze Yohn Royce asked how they would return home if they lost.

Suleiman ordered Tam to hold Harford City for two days, while privately revealing to Evelyn that he planned to use wildfire there and at Mud Gate to destroy enemy armies without destroying King's Landing. He explained that preserving his political usefulness mattered more than a straightforward victory, then left Evelyn contemplating his ruthless view of power and history.

• Suleiman sent Tam with a thousand men to garrison Harford City and promised to reinforce him at dawn on the third day.
• Evelyn challenged Suleiman's risky military plan, and he revealed that Aerys Targaryen had buried enough wildfire beneath King's Landing to destroy the city.
• Suleiman explained that destroying King's Landing would kill his civilian supporters and make the Targaryens the ultimate victors, so he planned to trap enemy forces at Harford City and Mud Gate instead.
• Suleiman admitted that Tam and his men needed to hold Harford City so the wildfire trap could devastate the enemy, despite having promised to save them.
• Suleiman told Evelyn that rulers wrote rules to protect themselves and that history judged results more than methods, then closed his book of noble genealogies and wondered whether anyone would keep updating it.

As rival armies converged on King's Landing, Harford City prepared to withstand an assault while Reach commanders debated how to respond to the war. The Vale and Riverlands forces marched south, and Randyll Tarly advised Mace Tyrell to avoid the siege and let others exhaust themselves against Suleiman.

• Tam rallied Harford City's defenders to hold for two days, trusting that Suleiman's reinforcements would arrive at dawn on the third day.
• Brynden Tully met Yohn Royce and learned that House Frey had joined the Vale army with three thousand infantry and two hundred knights.
• Brynden Tully accepted the Frey troops' presence and led the allied Vale and Riverlands armies toward King's Landing.
• Mace Tyrell learned that House Florent had left the Reach army to answer Stannis Baratheon's call, then asked Randyll Tarly to assess the war.
• Randyll Tarly judged Suleiman's best chance to be defending King's Landing and advised Mace Tyrell to let the Baratheons, Vale, and Lannisters bear the siege's losses.

At Mud Gate, Suleiman turned a poor boy’s despair into a rallying cry for the Poor Fellows as he prepared to lead his army. On the Goldroad, Tyrion Lannister rallied the Westerlands lords with lavish bounties and ordered an assault on Suleiman’s camps.

• Suleiman comforted a suffering boy at the Mud Gate worksites, and the boy cried out that he hated his miserable life and wanted to die.
• Suleiman embraced the boy and declared that freedom and equality should exist in reality, prompting the Poor Fellows to roar, “The will of the gods!”
• Bryn told Suleiman that the army was ready, and Suleiman mounted his horse and rode out as Evelyn asked whether he felt guilty; he replied that winning men’s hearts was all that mattered.
• Tyrion Lannister dismissed the Westerlands lords’ concerns and ordered Gregor Clegane to take a thousand men to Ambrose Butterwell’s camp while the rest attacked Walter Hean’s camp.
• Tyrion promised rewards for Riverlands soldiers’ and nobles’ heads, including gold and a castle, and the Westerlands troops cheered his name.

Stannis Baratheon learned that Suleiman had marched west and that the Antler Men planned to open King's Landing's gates, so he agreed to pardon them and prepared to cross the Blackwater. Meanwhile, the Vale army decided to storm Hafor Castle, while Brynden Tully held back and House Frey quietly shifted its banners.

• Stannis Baratheon accepted Salador Saan's offer to bring his fleet into the Blackwater Rush.
• A refugee claiming to serve the Antler Men reported that Suleiman had taken his elite troops west and that conspirators at the Mud Gate would open the gates that night.
• Stannis Baratheon agreed to pardon the conspirators and ordered his forces to prepare a ship bridge and cross the river.
• Bronze Yohn Royce and the Vale lords chose to assault Hafor Castle, while Brynden Tully withdrew with the Riverlands troops.
• As the Vale knights celebrated their expected victory, House Frey's banners quietly moved toward the Riverlands forces.

Toman and Wisdom Hallyne prepared a trap at the Mud Gate while Stannis Baratheon’s army attacked across the Blackwater Rush. After the assault faltered amid the use of noble families as human shields and the Poor Fellows’ resistance, fighting inside the city signaled that the Stag Citizens had begun their uprising, and Stannis led a renewed charge.

• Toman confirmed that the Antler Men believed his false defection and would attack the guards and open the Mud Gate, while he ordered his forces to let them proceed into a trap.
• Wisdom Hallyne questioned how Lord Suleiman knew about the hidden wildfire and the Antler Men, but Toman told him to follow orders and praised Suleiman.
• Stannis Baratheon’s soldiers crossed the Blackwater Rush and attacked the city walls, where they discovered noble families tied up as human shields.
• Stannis ordered the assault to continue, and the soldiers began shooting the captives; the Crownlands nobles then blamed Suleiman and charged the walls again.
• The Poor Fellows drove back attackers who climbed the battlements, while Stannis marched toward the city to rally his faltering army.
• Fighting erupted inside the city as the Stag Citizens made their move, and Stannis drew his sword and led the army forward with renewed resolve.

Stannis Baratheon’s army breached the Mud Gate, only for a hidden green-fire explosion to annihilate the attackers and devastate the Blackwater Rush. Toman watched the trap succeed as the survivors and witnesses interpreted the destruction as divine fire, while Aryan Celtigar revealed that he had survived.

• Antler Men and the royal army attacked the Mud Gate, and Stannis Baratheon personally drove his soldiers forward as Poor Fellows resisted inside and outside the gate.
• Toman explained that Suleiman’s plan had been to make Stannis believe he had won through his own strength, then ordered the Poor Fellows to retreat into prepared street defenses.
• The royal army broke through the Mud Gate, raised Stannis’s banner, and surged into King’s Landing while Stannis declared the outcome decided.
• Davos Seaworth learned that the Lyseni fleet had entered the Blackwater Rush and that the rebels had chained off the river mouth, then tried to stop the ships.
• A vast eruption of green fire engulfed the Mud Gate and nearby city, killing Stannis’s forces and turning the chained fleets and river into a burning, boiling disaster.
• Toman celebrated the trap’s success as Poor Fellows survivors charged the stunned royal soldiers, and Aryan Celtigar watched from the Tower of the Hand and muttered that he was alive.

Suleiman rallied the frightened Riverlords with a plan to exploit the Westerlands army’s divided command and claimed support from wildfire and allied forces. As Tyrion Lannister’s troops attacked Walter Hean’s camp, Tyrion learned why Walter fought so desperately and doubled the battle rewards.

• Ambrose Butterwell told Suleiman that Gregor Clegane had attacked his camp and that he had retreated, while Arwood Halton accused him of abandoning Walter Hean.
• William Mooton urged Suleiman to retreat, but Suleiman argued that Tyrion Lannister’s reward system would fracture the Westerlands army and enable an ambush.
• Suleiman claimed wildfire had been hidden beneath King's Landing and Harford City, announced that the Reach and Dorne would join the war, and rallied the Riverlords to fight.
• The Westerlands army attacked Walter Hean’s fortifications, and Adam Marbrand questioned why Walter refused to surrender despite learning of Ambrose Butterwell’s flight.
• An elderly Westerlands lord explained that Walter Hean blamed himself for the false spring and the fall of House Targaryen, and saw the war as his chance to atone.
• Tyrion Lannister ordered his soldiers to double the rewards and attack Walter Hean’s camp.

Tyrion Lannister struggled to control the Westerlands army as Suleiman’s forces lured its knights into ambushes and disrupted its camp. Pressured by his lords to attack, Tyrion finally marched out to face Suleiman while Gawen Westerling stayed behind to maintain the siege of Walter Hean’s stronghold.

• The Riverlands cavalry lured the Westerlands vanguard into an ambush, where Suleiman’s main force shot down and surrounded the pursuing knights.
• Tyrion Lannister refused Suleiman’s demand to lift the siege, then watched nighttime raids and confusion cause the Westerlands camp to suffer further losses.
• Tyrion ordered the army to remain in camp and strengthen its defenses, but young Westerlands knights broke ranks and were ambushed by Riverlands cavalry.
• At a military council, Tyrion threatened to punish anyone who disobeyed his orders, while Ser Adam Marbrand and other lords urged a frontal attack and Gawen Westerling warned them about Suleiman.
• Tyrion agreed to march against Suleiman, ordering Gawen Westerling to remain behind and continue besieging Walter Hean’s stronghold.

Suleiman lured the Westerlands army into a prepared corridor by exploiting its lords’ impatience and using repeated peace envoys and cavalry feints. The ambush overwhelmed the vanguard, and Ser Adam Marbrand was captured after being knocked from his horse.

• Suleiman ordered the Riverlords to send three more peace envoys, positioned the Poor Fellows and Riverlands forces for an ambush, and instructed Rosso Brune to draw the Westerlands cavalry into the corridor.
• Suleiman revealed to Arwood Halton that Aerys Targaryen had prepared wildfire in King's Landing, though Suleiman had lied about The Reach and Dorne.
• Tyrion Lannister dismissed the Riverlands envoys and advanced, while Adam Marbrand ignored Tyrion’s orders and led the Westerlands cavalry in pursuit of the retreating Riverlands riders.
• The Riverlands cavalry turned on the scattered Westerlands vanguard, then drew it into a trap of hoof-sized pits and an encirclement by Riverlands infantry and ambushers.
• Adam Marbrand fought on despite his wounds, but Riverlands soldiers knocked him from his horse, pinned him down, and struck him on the head with a flail.

Tyrion Lannister’s exhausted Westerlands army faced Suleiman’s Riverlands forces, whose orderly retreat wore down the enemy before a sudden assault broke their right wing. Suleiman then rallied more than a thousand heavy cavalrymen for a decisive charge, declaring that he would lead them to victory.

• Tyrion Lannister learned that Ser Adam Marbrand had been ambushed and led the Westerlands army toward the Riverlands forces.
• Suleiman ordered the Riverlands army to retreat in formation while their lords stayed at the front, gradually exhausting and frustrating the Westerlands soldiers.
• After Tyrion Lannister refused a proposed cavalry attack, the Westerlands formation grew disorganized, and Suleiman ordered the general assault.
• The Riverlands charge struck the Westerlands army; Gregor Clegane and Tyrion Lannister held their lines, but a gap in Stafford Lannister’s right wing let Riverlands soldiers break through and isolate his troops.
• Suleiman joined more than a thousand hidden Riverlands heavy cavalrymen, rallied them with promises of victory and rewards, and declared himself the Sword of the Seven before preparing to charge.

Daven Lannister stopped Stafford Lannister from fleeing and helped the isolated Westerlands right wing hold its ground, while Tyrion Lannister struggled to decide how to use his reserves. After false reports of an attack on the Westerlands camp prompted Harys Swyft to send the reserves toward Gregor Clegane, Suleiman arrived with a thousand heavy cavalry to strike Stafford’s flank.

• Daven Lannister stopped Stafford Lannister from fleeing, rallied the right wing, and persuaded his father to hold a defensive circle.
• Arwood Halton assessed the fighting and ordered troops to check Gregor Clegane’s advance, while Rosso Brune set a fire and arranged for a disguised knight to spread false news about the camp.
• Tyrion Lannister kept his reserves in place as he weighed whether to reinforce Stafford Lannister or Gregor Clegane.
• A disguised knight told Tyrion Lannister that Riverlands cavalry and House Haigh were attacking the Westerlands camp, and the sight of smoke intensified the panic among the reserves.
• Tyrion Lannister gave confused orders, but Harys Swyft led the reserves toward Gregor Clegane’s battlefield without waiting for a clear command.
• Suleiman charged from the eastern forest with a thousand heavy cavalry and struck toward Stafford Lannister’s surrounded right wing.

Suleiman led the Riverlands army in a crushing encirclement that routed the Westerlands forces, captured Tyrion Lannister, and brought the battle to the brink of a massacre. A messenger carrying Suleiman’s order stopped the slaughter and the surviving Westerlands soldiers surrendered, while Arwood Halton suspected Suleiman wanted Westeros to remain divided.

• Suleiman broke the Westerlands’ right flank, cut down its golden lion banner, and wheeled Riverlands troops into the exposed rear of the center.
• As Westerlands lords fled and the center collapsed, Suleiman led a small cavalry force against Tyrion Lannister and shot him in the shoulder; Riverlands soldiers captured Tyrion alive.
• Gregor Clegane abandoned the failing left flank, and Riverlands forces trapped the Westerlands army against the river and began slaughtering its soldiers.
• Arwood Halton ordered his men to kill the surrounded Westerlands troops, but a messenger blew the surrender horn on Suleiman’s orders.
• The Riverlands soldiers stopped attacking and called for the Westerlands to surrender; the survivors dropped their weapons and armor and wept.