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Baelor The Blessed or Idiot

The news only caused Rhaenyra to be disappointed in Daemon and Laena's descendant, but she was broken out of her thoughts"Sorry, Rhaenyra. They not only insulted Gandalf and Saruman,but also the Valar. I can't turn a blind eye to this."

Rhaenyra sighed and replied, "I know, I guess this is time for Five Kingdoms to stand on their own."

Rhaenyra did hope, everything would get better in the future. But she was not sure about it, she felt more idiots like Baleor and Maegor will show up.

The relationship between Middle Earth and the Five Kingdoms soured. The same can be said for North too.

Baelor and High Septon were ignorant or arrogant to the fact their Kingdom was probably going down the drain. The effects were not obvious at the start, but every trading agreement made was broken, and re-negotiations failed.

No matter how much Baelor or others tried no answers were given. Then came another issue Tyrells and Dorne completely isolated themselves from the Five Kingdoms, no matter how much Baelor ordered Tyrells and Dorne ignored it.

The treasury was depleting especially because

the king emptied the treasure regularly for his so charitable acts. The smallfolk loved Baelor, at least at the start slowly food shortage started and it affected the smallfolk the most,a Lord who hated Baelor for landing them in this situation made sure to destroy the image small folk had of Baelor by telling them this whole situation was Baelor's fault.

The Five Kingdoms were having a hard time because till now they had a very smooth jouney because of North and Middle Earth's help,so when it was gone trading agreement became more harsher and Essos was quick to jump on them.

Also during this time announcement of New Valyria came and it shocked everyone,also Rhaenyra being the Queen caused excitement among the Targaryen's in Westeros.But that quickly died out, when they were denied invitation citing the reasons to be humiliation suffered at the hands of Baelor.

This caused a huge fight between Daena and Baelor,Daena already detested the idiot for causing the relationship between Middle Earth and them to go sour.

Baelor's uncle Visery II who was an advisor,but his coucils were always ignored because Baelor went with the advice of the High Septon.So he too distanced himself from Baelor.

The effects became more evident as the debts started to pile up. Some of the Lords banded to rebel fearing the Kingdom would be destroyed because of Baelor.

But that was squashed, then Baelor's pardon them and publicly forgive them despite outcry from his lords and council.

Many similar acts of piety and forgiveness occurred throughout his nine-year reign.But these acts didn't matter to them.

Baelor arrived at Sunspear after an arduous journey, which was considered the first miracle of his reign. Baelor forged a peace with the Prince of Dorne, which was considered the second miracle. Part of the agreement was that Baelor's young cousin, Prince Daeron, the only grandson of his uncle and Hand, Prince Viserys, would marry the eldest daughter of the Prince of Dorne, Princess Myriah Martell, when both children were of age.

Baelor next decreed prostitution to be outlawed in King's Landing, putting more than a thousand whores and their children out of the city. This was heavily protested, but Baelor refused to listen and closed his eyes to the unrest that followed. He busied himself with building a new sept on Visenya's Hill which he had seen in a vision. Baelor's erratic decisions made his lords uneasy, wondering if he is in the right mind. Being a septon prevented Baelor from having children, and the High Septon gained increasing influence over the spiritually-inclined king.But at the same time lost a lot of supporters because of his actions, many viewed Faith of thr seven in a bad light after this.

Baelor earned the contempt of his nobles by forcing the proud Lord Belgrave to wash the feet of a leper.He tried to replace messenger ravens with doves.

He granted tax exemption to lords who protected their daughters' virtue through chastity belts.

He also had many books burned, including all books of Valar,Middle Earth or even something related to the North.

He claimed they are heretics and sorcerers.

But again most ignored him because they had bigger reasons to worry about.Baelor soon starved himself to death by prolonged fasting to remove all the problems the Five Kingdoms we're suffering.

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