Recaps

Titus secured Nightsong for Bryce, uncovered Wenda the White Stag’s attempt to infiltrate Starpike, and began expanding his professional troops. The arc leaves him weighing the Harrenhal tourney invitation against the demands of training his recruits.

• Titus defeated and killed Othello Blamont in a duel, then learned that Lord Byron Caron had died under suspicious circumstances.
• Titus traveled to Nightsong, sided with Bryce against Ser Maddy, killed Maddy, and had Bryce execute Alston before knighting him.
• Titus lent Bowen and ten Peake soldiers to Bryce, then encountered Alicent in the forest and brought her and Bull to Starpike.
• Titus exposed Alicent as Wenda the White Stag, leader of the Kingswood Brotherhood, and learned that she was Earl Caron’s daughter and a skinchanger.
• Titus gathered Wenda, Oswin, and her other companions into his service and decided to expand the Pikemen Corps with five hundred professional soldiers.
• Maester Greg brought Titus an invitation to the Harrenhal tourney, but Titus said he could not attend because he had recruits to train.

Titus traveled from Starpike to Harrenhal, strengthening his guard, forming a business partnership with Tobho Mott, and befriending Robert Baratheon and Eddard Stark. At the tournament’s opening, Aerys struggled to address the crowd, Rhaegar finished his speech, and Jaime Lannister joined the Kingsguard.

• Titus learned that Randyll Tarly would miss the journey to Harrenhal, confronted Alester Florent’s attempt to recruit House Peake against Mace Tyrell, and set out with the Reach delegation.
• Titus struck Lorent Caswell after Lorent insulted a smith’s son, then recruited Old Rolly and his son Rolly as the party traveled toward King’s Landing.
• Titus ordered armor and weapons from Tobho Mott, gave him plans for the Berserker Armor, and secured shares in the smith’s King’s Landing shop and a future Reach branch.
• Titus, Wenda, and Bowen fought men posing as Gold Cloaks in an alley, and the surviving attacker identified his employer as “Logan,” whom Titus recognized as Varys.
• Titus sailed with Davos Seaworth aboard the Black Beth and met Robert Baratheon and Eddard Stark at Whitegrove, where they settled a tavern dispute and became blood brothers.
• Titus traveled overland with Robert and Eddard to Harrenhal, where he greeted Parker, arranged for Oswin to coordinate with Davos, and inspected his quarters.
• Aerys II and Rhaegar arrived at Harrenhal as most great lords stayed away, and Titus saw Rhaegar when the tournament’s opening ceremony began.
• Aerys stammered through his address before Rhaegar finished it, then Aerys named Jaime Lannister to the Kingsguard and the opening festivities ended with a banquet.

Titus Peake competed at Harrenhal, won Ashara Dayne’s affection, and built up his forces on the journey home. The arc ended when Rhaegar took Lyanna away, setting Robert and the Starks against him as the realm began to fracture.

• Aerys ordered Jaime Lannister to leave Harrenhal, while Titus met the Stark siblings and befriended Howland Reed at the feast.
• Titus danced with Ashara Dayne, then won a series of jousts in his Berserker Armor and gave her his favor beneath the Heart Tree.
• The Knight of the Laughing Tree appeared at the tournament, while Rhaegar and the other leading knights advanced through the jousting rounds.
• Robert Baratheon won the team melee, and Rhaegar defeated Barristan Selmy to claim the championship before crowning Lyanna Stark Queen of Love and Beauty.
• Titus promised Ashara he would find a way to unite their houses, then traveled through Gulltown, Tarth, and Stonehelm while buying armor and taking Gawen Tarth into his care.
• Titus returned to Starpike, strengthened his army, and urged Robert to keep training as reports came in about Rhaegar’s movements.
• Wenda told Titus that Rhaegar had left with two Kingsguard, and Titus learned that Rhaegar had taken Lyanna away from near Harrenhal.
• Robert reacted furiously, Brandon Stark went to confront Rhaegar in King’s Landing, and Barristan Selmy feared the consequences of the prince’s actions.

As Robert Baratheon’s rebellion grew, Titus Peake betrayed the Reach vanguard, joined Robert, and built a powerful rebel force. The arc ended with Jon Connington’s royalist army attacking Stoney Sept, where Titus’s troops ambushed the Crownlands soldiers and an armored warrior confronted Jon.

• Aerys II burned Rickard Stark and Brandon Stark, then demanded that Jon Arryn surrender Robert Baratheon and Eddard Stark, but Jon refused and summoned the Vale lords.
• Jon Arryn and the assembled lords acclaimed Robert Baratheon as king, while Aerys mocked the rebels and Titus Peake named their conflict the Usurper’s War.
• Robert defeated the forces opposing him at Gulltown and Summerhall, winning support from the Vale and Stormlands as Titus prepared Starpike for war.
• Randyll Tarly led a Reach vanguard against Robert, but Titus betrayed Randyll, helped save Robert, and killed Randyll in combat.
• Titus joined Robert with thousands of troops and secured promises of restored castles and Tarly lands, then persuaded Alyn and Hyle Hunter to serve under him.
• Titus’s army bypassed Alyn Cuy’s feigned siege of Starpike, captured Bitterbridge, and continued toward Stoney Sept as Aerys appointed Jon Connington to stop Robert.
• Titus prepared Stoney Sept for an ambush, and his archers and pikemen repelled the Crownlands assault until Jon Connington led a countercharge.
• An unidentified black-armored warrior led elite cavalry toward Jon Connington and taunted him about carving three lines into his cheek.