Recaps

As the Westerlands army collapsed, Gawen Westerling surrendered his remaining troops while Suleiman demanded that captured Westerland lords submit properly. Tyrion Lannister refused to kneel and provoked his captors, but Suleiman declared that he would spare him and set him free.

• Gawen Westerling waited for the fleeing Westerlands nobles to get farther away, then ordered his soldiers to surrender to Walter Hean.
• Suleiman rejected the captured Westerland lords’ friendly greetings, ordered them disarmed, and refused to accept their offer to bend the knee on their own terms.
• A messenger reported that Gawen Westerling had surrendered his remaining troops to Walter Hean.
• Arwood Halton demanded that Tyrion Lannister kiss the ground and submit to House Targaryen, but Tyrion refused and mocked his captors.
• Walter Hean kicked Tyrion and nearly attacked him again, but Suleiman intervened and asked Tyrion what he would have done if he had captured him.
• After Tyrion described humiliating and killing him, Suleiman said his punishment would be harsher and declared that he would spare Tyrion and set him free.

After defeating the Westerlands, Suleiman rallied the Riverlands army with a vision of unity and a shared nation, then proclaimed that the Heavenly Mandate shone bright. At Bitterbridge, news of the royal army’s destruction at King’s Landing and the Westerlands’ defeat shattered The Reach’s confidence, and Randyll Tarly called Suleiman the Seven Kingdoms’ number one.

• Suleiman climbed a mound of corpses and urged the Riverlands soldiers to defeat their final obstacle so they could go home and earn rewards.
• Suleiman declared that the people of the Riverlands shared a nation, recalled their history of conquest, and inspired the army to unite around that identity.
• Suleiman snapped the captured Lannister banner and led the soldiers in chanting, “The Heavenly Mandate shines bright.”
• At a lavish feast in Bitterbridge, Mace Tyrell and The Reach lords mocked Suleiman and expected their rivals to exhaust each other before they took King's Landing.
• A knight reported that wildfire destroyed the royal army at King's Landing and a chained pirate fleet burned the Royal Fleet, wiping out the Baratheon joint army.
• Another knight reported the Westerlands army had been crushed, and Randyll Tarly concluded that even an army of a hundred thousand could not harm Suleiman and called him the Seven Kingdoms’ number one.

The Reach debated whether to fight for the Baratheons or switch allegiance as Randyll Tarly warned that Suleiman had likely used Wildfire and Jon Arryn’s corpse to trap the Vale army. After his victories inspired fervent worship among the Riverlands soldiers, Suleiman released Tyrion Lannister and provoked him with news about Tysha, leaving Tyrion to seek the truth.

• Randyll Tarly warned Mace Tyrell and the Reach lords that Suleiman could have lured the Vale army into attacking Harford City by displaying Jon Arryn’s corpse, then devastated them with Wildfire.
• Randyll Tarly explained that The Reach could still fight by attacking King's Landing or committing to a prolonged war, but both choices carried grave risks and would require full commitment.
• Riverlands soldiers heard that the royal army and the Vale forces had been ravaged by Wildfire, then hailed Suleiman as an agent of the gods.
• Suleiman released Tyrion Lannister without ransom, and Tyrion asked whether Suleiman had killed his missing uncle; Suleiman denied it and threatened that many Lannisters would die by his hand.
• Suleiman told Tyrion that he had met Tysha and said she was heading for the Free Cities, prompting Tyrion to deny caring before asking what she had said.
• Suleiman refused to explain Tysha’s story and told Tyrion to go find his answer.

Tam and the Riverlands defenders refused to surrender Harford City, provoking Yohn Royce into a furious assault after Tam used Jon Arryn's skull as a drinking bowl. The defenders held the walls through a day of slaughter, but Brynden Tully feared Suleiman's soldiers could defeat them.

• Yohn Royce's envoy delivered an ultimatum to Harford City, and the defenders answered by firing the envoy's head back to the Vale army.
• Tam and three Riverlands officers vowed to repay Suleiman by living and dying with the city.
• Tam revealed that his drinking bowl was Jon Arryn's skull, enraging Yohn Royce and the Vale army.
• Yohn Royce ordered an assault, and Tam led the defenders as the Vale soldiers attacked Harford City's walls.
• Tam kept the Black Lion banner raised after an arrow pierced his right arm, inspiring the defenders to continue fighting.
• Brynden Tully watched the defenders resist and warned that Suleiman's soldiers might leave his forces unable to survive.

Yohn Royce’s Vale army captured Harford City after its Riverlands defenders fought to the death, but Tam and the survivors held the inner keep. A buried green explosion then annihilated the city and the surrounding Vale forces, leaving the battlefield stunned before Suleiman’s destructive power.

• Yohn Royce ordered the Vale army to attack Harford City at dawn after Brynden Tully explained why the Riverlands commoners fought so fiercely for Suleiman.
• The Vale army breached the outer city, and two captured Riverlands officers leaped from the walls rather than surrender.
• Tam withdrew his surviving soldiers into the inner keep and vowed to hold until death, while Yohn Royce ordered the Vale army to storm the defenses.
• A deep tremor shook Harford City, and Tam recognized that his mission was complete as he prayed for Suleiman and the Riverlands.
• A colossal pillar of green flame erupted beneath Harford City, destroying the city and killing the surrounding Vale soldiers as survivors watched in terror.

After Harford City was destroyed by Wildfire, Brynden Tully struggled to keep the terrified Vale and Riverlands forces together as news arrived that Stannis Baratheon had lost at King's Landing. Suleiman arrived with his victorious army, the Vale nobles fled, and his troops began pursuing the shattered coalition.

• Harford City and the Vale nobles and soldiers inside were consumed by Wildfire, driving the surviving army into panic.
• Brynden Tully struck Morton Waynwood and ordered him to restore order, while Morton mourned the noble houses lost in the city.
• A messenger reported that Stannis Baratheon had been defeated at King's Landing and the Lannister army of The Westerlands had been annihilated.
• Suleiman arrived with the Riverlands army, and Morton Waynwood and the other Vale nobles fled after learning House Frey was withdrawing.
• Loran Vick seized the Arryn Eagle Banner and presented it to Suleiman, who praised him and ordered the assault.
• The Riverlands army charged the fleeing coalition, while William Mooton and Arwood Halton reflected on Suleiman's rise.

After Suleiman’s army crushed the West Riverlands and Vale coalition, he pardoned the surrendered soldiers and won several hundred knights to his service. Brynden Tully’s flight ended at the Trident, where he took his own life rather than surrender, and his body was brought to Riverrun.

• Suleiman’s army routed the West Riverlands and Vale forces, while Bryn pursued Brynden Tully and Rosso Brune hunted the fleeing Vale nobles.
• Suleiman freed several hundred captured West Riverlands knights, pardoned surrendered soldiers, and received the knights’ oaths of loyalty.
• Brynden Tully and his dwindling party fled through the woods and villages, where a former servant of Riverrun revealed that Tully soldiers had killed her son.
• Clement Piper met Brynden Tully by the river, explained that he would seek Suleiman’s forgiveness, and offered Brynden a route to The Westerlands, but Brynden chose to return to Riverrun for Edmure.
• Morrison’s army and Suleiman’s pursuers trapped Brynden Tully at the Trident; he sent his two knights to surrender and gave Bryn a letter for Suleiman.
• Brynden Tully killed himself beside the Trident, and his headless body was brought to Riverrun, where Edmure Tully saw it.

Suleiman honored Brynden Tully’s request to spare Edmure Tully if he surrendered, but Patrick Morrison’s disguised men used the refugees Edmure had sheltered to seize Riverrun and kill him before the letter arrived. Suleiman ordered Edmure buried with his father and uncle as the Riverlands passed to new masters.

• Suleiman confirmed Brynden Tully’s death, read his letter urging Edmure to surrender, and promised to spare Edmure if he opened Riverrun’s gates and bent the knee.
• Grieving Brynden’s death, Edmure refused to expel refugees from Riverrun despite his knight’s warning that the city’s food supplies were limited.
• Patrick Morrison sent Will and disguised men into Riverrun among the refugees, where they started fires, seized weapons, opened the gates, and let Morrison’s army capture the city.
• Edmure awoke to the attack, blamed himself for letting the refugees in, and was captured and hanged by the rebels.
• Suleiman’s messenger arrived with Brynden’s letter and found Edmure dead; Patrick Morrison admitted to the execution, and Suleiman ordered Edmure buried with his father and uncle according to Tully water-burial rites.

Suleiman summoned the Reach and Dorne to a summit, set his terms for Robert Baratheon, and ordered Patrick Morrison to pacify the West Riverlands. Meanwhile, fleeing Vale knights were hunted through the Riverlands until Moton Waynwood and Horton Redfort confronted the wreckage of their defeat.

• Suleiman invited House Tyrell and House Martell to a summit in King's Landing and challenged Robert Baratheon to meet him in battle after yielding Seaguard for his landing.
• Suleiman appointed Patrick Morrison to govern and command the West Riverlands, ordered House Smallwood exterminated, and sent six thousand Poor Fellows to Riverrun.
• Suleiman ordered Brynden Tully and Edmure Tully's heads displayed throughout the West Riverlands before their bodies received a proper burial.
• A thousand fleeing Vale knights abandoned fallen companions and discarded their armor as Riverlands pursuers and armed commoners attacked them along the road.
• Moton Waynwood and Horton Redfort reached a village Moton had once ordered massacred, and Horton mourned the fallen Arryn banner as he described Suleiman's rise.

Morton Waynwood’s fleeing Vale cavalry was ambushed and nearly annihilated by Riverlands militia, and the survivors were taken prisoner and humiliated. When Morton tried to persuade Rosso Brune to free them through promises of noble rewards, Rosso rejected his birth family and vowed to build his own house and one day destroy the Vale houses.

• Morton Waynwood led the fleeing Vale cavalry into a forest clearing blocked by felled trees, where Riverlands militia attacked with wooden javelins and rocks.
• The militia surrounded the disorganized cavalry and slaughtered them despite their pleas to surrender, until Riverlands knights charged in and separated the survivors from the attackers.
• Fewer than a hundred Vale knights survived and became Suleiman’s prisoners, enduring a humiliating march south as Riverlands commoners mocked them and threw bread into the mud.
• Morton Waynwood approached Rosso Brune and offered gold, castles, and marriages in exchange for releasing the prisoners, but Rosso said House Brune had rejected him.
• Rosso Brune struck Morton with a riding crop, declared he would found his own house, and vowed to invade the Vale and destroy its noble houses.

Suleiman assessed how the Riverlands’ position left him surrounded by enemies and unable to exploit his military advantage. He considered breaking into the Vale but found the Bloody Gate impassable, then turned his attention to Dorne and The Reach.

• Bryn noticed Suleiman’s worry as he studied the map and asked what troubled him.
• Suleiman explained that Robert Baratheon, Eddard Stark, the Vale, and the Iron Islands could rebuild their armies within six months and threaten the Riverlands from every side.
• Suleiman described the barriers blocking offensives into the Westerlands, the North, and the Vale, and said he was trapped despite his superior force.
• Bryn warned that five hundred warriors could hold the Bloody Gate against an army of a hundred thousand.
• After Bryn left, Suleiman rejected direct assault, bribery, alliances, and incitement as ways into the Vale, then considered what Dorne and The Reach might demand.

Suleiman consolidated control over the Riverlands, pardoning Clement Piper and setting conditions for House Blackwood while House Smallwood’s women appealed to him as a father. He spared the Smallwoods and began planning to dismantle the Riverlands’ feudal order and govern it directly for the coming war.

• Suleiman forgave Clement Piper, seated him among the East Riverlands lords, and ordered him to leave his troops behind before departing for King's Landing.
• Jonos Bracken urged Suleiman to exterminate House Blackwood, but Suleiman challenged Bracken for arriving only after the victory and warned that Blackwood would face the same fate as Smallwood if it resisted.
• Lady Smallwood led the women of her house into Suleiman’s tent and argued that the Riverlands was a family with Suleiman as its father.
• Suleiman accepted Lady Smallwood’s appeal, spared her family, and ordered every Smallwood to go to King's Landing.
• Suleiman planned to transfer the Riverlords to new fiefs in the Crownlands, replace feudal rule with direct administration, and turn the Riverlands into a loyal military kingdom.

Suleiman told his closest subordinates he would leave the Riverlands in their hands while he went to King's Landing, and ordered them to seize control and remake its institutions. He declared his resolve to build a new world, and his followers knelt in submission.

• Suleiman announced that he would travel to King's Landing with only Rosso and Brune, leaving Bryn, Bana, Toman, Lushen, and Roslyn behind to command more than twenty thousand religious followers.
• Suleiman explained that he planned to transfer the Riverlands lords' fiefs to the Crownlands and have his subordinates seize power across the Riverlands.
• Suleiman ordered Bana to record reforms abolishing the lord-vassal hierarchy, placing everyone under his administration and law, and granting advancement through military merit or religious education.
• Bana warned Suleiman that overturning the existing order was dangerous, but Suleiman insisted he would create a new world rather than become merely another King of the Trident.
• Suleiman drove his dagger into the table and declared that his decision was final, after which Bryn, Roslyn, Lushen, and Toman knelt and pledged submission.

Suleiman named his companions heroes and prepared them to test the Riverlands lords’ response to the return of noble captives. He then approved the Sons of the Warrior’s hymn and granted them custody of commoner prisoners for a year of labor, along with Harrenhal as their permanent base.

• Suleiman called Bana, Bryn, Toman, Lushen, and Roslyn heroes after they spoke fearlessly of Robert Baratheon, then told them to act as the situation demanded when Vale captives returned.
• Theodore Wells and ten Sons of the Warrior sang Suleiman a hymn and asked him to name it; he called it “Knight, Your Salvation Shall Come.”
• Theodore Wells asked Suleiman to spare the Westerlands and Vale commoner captives, whom he said were children of the Seven.
• Suleiman gave the Sons of the Warrior custody of the commoner captives for a year of labor rebuilding the Riverlands and fighting bandits, promising to release them afterward if they behaved well.
• Suleiman offered Harrenhal as the Sons of the Warrior’s permanent base and promised to provide food and Gold Dragons for the order.

Suleiman granted the Sons of the Warrior custody of thousands of Westerlands and Vale prisoners for a year of labor, then announced he would spend 500,000 Gold Dragons building twelve thousand sanctuaries. He left the Riverlands lords alarmed and the Faith’s followers acclaiming him as a saint, while his plan to make village monks part of a royal religious bureaucracy remained hidden.

• Theodore Wells asked Suleiman to release the prisoners, and Suleiman assigned them to the Sons of the Warrior for a year of work rebuilding the Riverlands and fighting bandits.
• Arwood Halton objected to releasing the prisoners and demanded that their sword fingers be cut off, but Suleiman silenced him.
• Bana called for septs throughout the Riverlands, and Suleiman pledged 500,000 Gold Dragons to build twelve thousand sanctuaries.
• The monks and Sons of the Warrior hailed Suleiman as a saint, while Arwood Halton grew suspicious of his intentions.
• Suleiman declared that each village would have a sanctuary and Barefoot Monk to lead worship, teach, and mediate disputes.

Suleiman tested the Riverlands lords and knights by ordering increasingly extreme acts against the Vale prisoners. The chapter ended with six knights frozen as Suleiman commanded them to boil Morton Waynwood and his son alive.

• After Theodore Wells and the monks left, Arwood Halton realized Suleiman had been desensitizing the Riverlands lords with his earlier demands.
• Rosso Brune brought Morton Waynwood and the other captured Vale nobles into the tent.
• Morton Waynwood refused to kneel to Suleiman and argued that the demand insulted Westerosi customs.
• Arwood Halton urged Suleiman to let the Vale nobles save face and kneel to the Targaryens in King's Landing instead.
• Suleiman ordered Morton Waynwood and his son boiled alive and their flesh fed to livestock, leaving the six Riverlands knights who held Morton motionless.

Suleiman tested whether the Riverlands knights would obey his order to torture Vale nobles, then used their complicity to bind the Riverlands lords to him. After news arrived that the Reach and Dorne had joined his cause, he demanded the Vale prisoners’ executions and declared that war meant taking everything from the defeated; the chapter ended with three lords agreeing to plot against him.

• Suleiman stayed silent while six Riverlands knights hesitated over his order to boil Morton Waynwood alive, and Robert finally summoned a pot and firewood, prompting the other knights to act.
• The knights dragged Morton Waynwood and his son away as the Riverlords looked on, and Horton Redfort condemned Suleiman and demanded his own execution.
• A messenger announced that the Reach and Dorne had mustered armies and wanted to negotiate the restoration of the Targaryens, lifting the Riverlords’ spirits and crushing the Vale nobles’ hopes.
• Suleiman again asked who would kill the prisoners, and Lymond Guburk and William Mooton led the Riverlords in taking the Vale nobles outside to execute them.
• Suleiman told the Riverlords that their enemies had broken the rules first and promised them power if they remained loyal to him.
• After Suleiman left, Arwood Halton, Walter He An, and Gyles Leger agreed that he was a threat, and Walter He An vowed to eliminate him with House Legg’s help.

At Highgarden, Olenna Redwyne rejected Mace Tyrell’s idea that Suleiman was Rhaegar Targaryen’s ghost and argued that Suleiman’s rebellion was a consequence of the order Robert Baratheon and the other Usurpers had destroyed. She left Willas Tyrell with a warning that Suleiman was not Maegor Targaryen, but a pure-blooded Andal.

• Mace Tyrell wondered whether Suleiman was possessed by Rhaegar Targaryen’s ghost, but Olenna Redwyne dismissed the idea and urged him to learn what Suleiman wanted before sending him away from court.
• Willas Tyrell warned that Suleiman was more dangerous than Tywin Lannister and said the Tyrells could not work with him.
• Olenna explained that the Targaryens had ended the wars between Westeros’s kingdoms and that their overthrow had broken the order restraining ambitious lords and knights.
• Olenna argued that Baratheon, Stark, Arryn, Lannister, and Tully—not Suleiman—had broken the rules by overthrowing the Targaryens.
• Willas compared Suleiman to Maegor Targaryen among the Andals, but Olenna called him a pure-blooded Andal.

At the Citadel, Maester Perestan explained why he considered Suleiman a return to the ruthless Andal conquerors of old. The chapter left Mollander confronting the idea that modern Andals feared the very violence their ancestors had used to conquer Westeros.

• Mollander found Suleiman's name added beside the legendary Andal king Erreg in Maester Perestan's history of the Andal conquest.
• Perestan told Mollander that Suleiman resembled an archaic Andal conqueror whose authority rested on force, discipline, and distributing spoils.
• Perestan described original Andal chivalry and faith as codes that rewarded loyalty and sanctified violence against the First Men.
• Perestan annotated the book with examples of conquest-era brutality, including extermination, trophies, torture, and broken surrender agreements.
• Perestan concluded that modern Andals had become like the First Men they conquered, while Suleiman embodied their original conqueror ancestors.

Jon Connington and Varys realized Suleiman’s victory had stripped the Golden Company of leverage, so Varys planned to seek support in the Stormlands while three plots against Suleiman took shape. Meanwhile, Suleiman’s envoy arranged ships to carry the Ragged Prince and thousands of mercenaries from Essos to the Vale, and the fleet set sail.

• Jon Connington and Varys discussed Suleiman’s victory and concluded that Viserys Targaryen and his sister were their only bargaining chips.
• Varys revealed that three assassination plots were brewing against Suleiman, including one involving the Riverlords and a likely plot by the Reach.
• Varys told Jon Connington they would sail to the Stormlands rather than King's Landing and seek the Dornish’s support.
• Polly Hewen arrived at the Andalos Coast and announced that Suleiman had paid one hundred thousand Gold Dragons for Braavosi ships to transport the mercenaries to the Vale.
• The Ragged Prince and the mercenary companies boarded the ships, and the Ragged Prince ordered the fleet to set off.

After the Westerlands army was destroyed, Tyrion returned to Deep Den and found Tywin alive and commanding the surviving lords. Tywin disowned him as heir but ordered him to reform the Westerlands before being sent to the Wall, while Tyrion warned that Suleiman had reasons to release the captured lords.

• Tyrion rode alone toward Deep Den, fearing the Westerlands lords would blame him for the army’s destruction.
• At Deep Den, Tyrion found the surviving lords gathered in order before Tywin, who had survived his grave wounds.
• Tywin condemned Tyrion’s defeat, declared Jaime would inherit Casterly Rock, and ordered Tyrion to take the black after completing his final service to the family.
• Tywin instructed Tyrion to seize lands left by dead knights, grant them to commoners who would fight, and hold the captured lords’ families as hostages.
• Tyrion agreed to reform the Westerlands and warned Tywin that Suleiman might release the lords to keep them from surrendering the region to the Iron Throne.
• Tywin decided to negotiate for the captured lords and lamented that Suleiman had not been born into the Lannister family; Tyrion left into the night.

Arianne Martell urged Doran Martell to let her marry Suleiman after reading Oberyn's report of his overwhelming victories, but Doran refused and revealed his plan for her to marry Viserys Targaryen. Doran sent Oberyn to meet Suleiman and determine whether he intended to rule as a warlord or serve House Targaryen.

• Arianne Martell read Oberyn Martell's letter describing Suleiman's destruction of one hundred thousand enemy troops in two months.
• Doran Martell acknowledged that Suleiman had accomplished in two months what he had spent more than ten years preparing to do.
• Arianne Martell demanded to marry Suleiman so Dorne could join the winning side, but Doran refused and warned that Suleiman would control her.
• Doran Martell claimed Suleiman would die within three months and revealed that Arianne was betrothed to Viserys Targaryen, who would make her queen.
• Doran Martell decided Oberyn should meet Suleiman and judge whether he sought power for himself or remained loyal to House Targaryen.

Sealord Ferrego Antaryon and the Iron Bank's keyholders considered Suleiman's offer to assume the Targaryen debt in exchange for a Braavosi small council seat and a trade monopoly in the Riverlands. They weighed backing his reforms against the risks, then ordered Tychus Nestor to warn Suleiman that assassins were targeting him.

• A keyholder warned Sealord Ferrego Antaryon that Robert Baratheon's imminent fall threatened the Iron Bank's three million Gold Dragons in unpaid debt.
• Naho Demetis revealed that Suleiman had promised to assume Robert Baratheon's debt and appoint a Braavosi to the small council under a Shadow Pact.
• Naho Demetis outlined Suleiman's offer of exclusive Braavosi trading rights in the Riverlands and his request for help carrying out civic reforms.
• Naho Demetis argued that Suleiman had the money, popular support, and military strength to pursue reform, while the keyholders debated the agreement's risks.
• A frail keyholder reported that Braavosi swordsmen had accepted contracts to assassinate Suleiman, though hiring the Faceless Men would cost far more.
• Sealord Ferrego Antaryon ordered Naho Demetis to have Tychus Nestor warn Suleiman that he must stay alive until Braavos achieved its objectives.

After the Blackwater Rush disaster, Renly Baratheon learned that Stannis was presumed dead and turned to Melisandre and the Red God for power. Convinced that a prophecy promised Suleiman’s eventual downfall, Renly left Dragonstone with Melisandre and the surviving fleet for the Vale.

• Morford Velaryon told Renly Baratheon that Stannis was presumed dead in the Blackwater Rush explosion, while Davos Seaworth had survived.
• Renly Baratheon ordered Melisandre killed, but her words and the flames that suddenly engulfed his sword convinced him to seek the Red God’s aid.
• Renly Baratheon demanded power from Melisandre and promised to replace the Seven with the Red God’s worship if she helped him reclaim the throne.
• At Renly Baratheon’s tacit approval, nobles destroyed and burned Dragonstone’s sept, while Maester Cressen was injured trying to stop them.
• Morford Velaryon advised Renly Baratheon to flee to the Vale, and Renly interpreted Melisandre’s prophecy about snow in the desert as a prediction that Suleiman would fall.
• Renly Baratheon sailed from Dragonstone with Melisandre and the remnants of his fleet, while Melisandre privately recognized the prophecy as Renly’s fate.

Robert Baratheon learned that Balon Greyjoy was exploiting the royal army’s defeats and that Jaime Lannister had deserted, then received Suleiman’s challenge to battle. Eddard Stark persuaded Robert to avoid a likely defeat, and Robert decided to regroup while Eddard returned to The North.

• Barristan Selmy reported that Balon Greyjoy demanded The North, the Riverlands, and Iron Islands independence, while Robert Baratheon raged at the terms.
• Robert Baratheon learned that Jaime Lannister had fled toward The Westerlands with nobles and soldiers, but Eddard Stark stopped him from pursuing Jaime.
• Balon Greyjoy continued stalling with more demands, including marriages involving Theon Greyjoy and Asha Greyjoy.
• Suleiman’s envoy delivered a letter challenging Robert Baratheon to meet him in battle in the Riverlands, and Robert ordered his forces to assemble.
• Eddard Stark warned Robert Baratheon that his exhausted army could not defeat Suleiman’s forces, and urged him to avoid battle and regroup.
• Robert Baratheon accepted Eddard Stark’s advice, decided not to go to Seaguard, and told Suleiman’s envoy he would remember the challenge for now.