After Aegon and Rhaenys returned to King's Landing on their Great Dragons, night quietly fell. In the darkness, the stonecutters of Shadow City began their secret operation. With hammers and chisels in hand, they carefully carved twelve hidden channels beneath the city walls.
These channels twisted like subterranean snake trails, winding their way toward Sunspear. The stonecutters worked without a sound, like ghosts in the night, unnoticed by anyone.
Yet those twelve hidden channels became passages through which mobs infiltrated Sunspear. Like venomous snakes, they slipped into the city through the tunnels.
The royal troops stationed in Sunspear were utterly unprepared, caught off guard by the sudden onslaught. A bloody massacre unfolded within the city. Helpless against the mob's attacks, the royal troops were slaughtered to the last man.
The Earl of Rosby and the other nobles were not spared either. Their heads were brutally severed and hung high on the battlements of Longspear Tower. Swaying in the hot wind, they resembled peeled Dornish pomelos, a chilling sight.
Standing atop the hundred-foot-high battlements, Princess Meria watched it all with a cold sneer. Her laughter echoed through the night, as though mocking and scorning those nobles.
"The sound of these nobles' bodies splitting open when they hit the ground is far sweeter than a dragon's roar." Princess Meria's words were cold and merciless. She seemed to feel no pity for their deaths.
(Note: later maesters discovered in "Geological Studies of the Red Mountains" that the bedrock beneath Longspear Tower contained unusually high concentrations of rust deposits and blood-colored magical substances.)
In the distant Reach lived a renowned commander named Harlan Tyrell. He led eight thousand armored warriors toward Vance City, but this powerful legion suffered a strange calamity along the way.
According to shepherds, they had seen those eight thousand armored