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----- This is the 2nd book of the series -----
Seven years had passed since the Greyjoy Rebellion, also known as the Wolf Massacre or the Rising of the Wolf, due to the massacre caused by the North in that rebellion, 11 houses of the Iron Islands became extinct for trying to confront the naval and military force that the North possessed. As expected, fear was present, but even more so when it became known that Lord Stark executed Lord Bolton for treason, the complaints of the other lords were not long in coming, everyone went to King's Landing to claim what Lord Stark did, extinguish one of the oldest houses in all of Westeros. But the crown was not going to be able to punish anyone, since Lord Stark followed the rules of the north, and Robert was King of the seven kingdoms. However, he still had to respect the rule of each kingdom. More so that of the north currently, even Jon who wanted to see the way to get Harry out of the way had his hands tied in this event, since the Boltons were his spies in the north, they were going to be able to rise in rebellion to be able to affect the advance of the north. Still, they were not discovered and Harry showed that he was not a pious person.
After that, the North closed itself off completely, 7 years since anything was heard from the North again, 7 years since most of the kingdoms tried to sneak a spy into the kingdom but without any sign, since the spies did not return and neither were their heads sent to the lord's door as they used to do before. For Jon, that was bad because it meant that the North was advancing again, creating new tools that they could not reach and were only going to destroy any possible enemy army. It was very bad, but this was the opportunity to find out what the hell was going on in the North, Robert was invited to the North, of course, he was going to go, it had been a long time since he had seen his best friend, that's why he was in the front row to see everything in detail what the North had at the moment and if he could plan something to make it clear that he was the person who commanded the kingdom. Unfortunately for him, Tywin Lannister also came on this trip, the golden lion was and is a headache during all this time, in all the meetings that the royal council had, Tywin won them all, they did what he said, displacing his power, it was something that he could not allow even if the economy of the kingdom was good.
The lions and the wolves had a good relationship, too good for Jon, that friendship helped the crown to postpone the payment of the debt that the crown had with the Stark family of Winterfell. Paying fifty million gold dragons was a lot for the crown, so the crown was looking for a way to pay that debt without going into another debt, it was something that Tywin thought through very well. The crown could not get out of one debt and go into another and since it was practically impossible to pay that amount of gold, even if it was done in installments, it was better to reach an agreement between both parties, that was why Tywin was in this place. In addition, he wanted to speak with his ally about some very important issues, such as the marriage between his grandson and heir Tommen and the last daughter of Eddard Stark, he wanted to meet her to see if she was worthy of carrying the Lannister name. Although Tywin did not come alone, his youngest son and his wife came with him, Tyrion although he was a dwarf which was the only displeasure Tywin had about his youngest son, he proved to be the most efficient of his sons, apparently he was not wrong in letting his son marry Tysha, the girl was very efficient, more than his daughter.
Tyrion had to admit that the natural defenses of the North were good, this fog was truly annoying, and from what he was seeing the lake that divided the North from the other kingdoms was infested with crocodiles, whichever madman tried to cross that lake, and get to the other end was going to have a statue in the royal council, since it was something that many of the council wanted to do, someone to enter the North to find out what the hell was going on. But the fog began to disappear, and everyone saw the castle that was in front, Moat Cailin, it was claimed that Moat Cailin dates back about 10,000 years ago, by the First Men, and that it was the responsibility of Brandon the Builder. It was a great fortress, with twenty towers and a great black basalt wall as high as Winterfell. It used to be the key to the defense of the North against which the Andal armies launched themselves again and again without success. According to myth, the Children of the Forest attempted to use Moat Cailin to stem the onslaught of invasions by the First Men using their powerful magic from one of the towers. When this failed due to the sheer number of invading humans, the Children attempted to break the Neck and completely separate the North from the South in the same way they shattered the Broken Arm of Dorne centuries before.
However, they were unsuccessful and the floods only created swamps and marshes. However, the cataclysm demonstrated the strength of their power and proved momentous in getting the First Men to agree to the terms of the Pact, which ended hostilities between the two races. Although now the supposed swamp or lake, he did not know what to say about what he saw was infested with crocodiles and who knows what else it was known that this place was infested with snakes, poisonous flowers, and monstrous lion lizards with teeth like daggers. A key point is that Moat Cailin was only designed to withstand attack from the south and therefore its northern flank is relatively exposed to attack, even from a small force. Although that castle was at the beginning, the castle I was looking at had walls as large as King's Landing, had cannons on the edges, and in the towers had huge ballistae pointed at the only way this place had to enter, without a doubt its defenses both natural and in the arsenal were much better than those of the other castles in the entire west and it was only one of the many forts that the north had.
Winterfell
The city of Winterfell, in seven years, changed more than ever, and in the same way, the Starks were never so loved and so feared at the same time as today, Harry Stark did what no Stark could do, be loved by his people and feared by his enemies. Many northerners claimed that since the rebellion began the stage of the wolf, because of that, the Stark House was the most powerful currently both economically and militarily, and the Lannister House was the second although propaganda was sold that they were on the same military level, although naval was another story, the seas had new owners and they were the Starks, many lords sent letters of concern to Lord Stark when one of his monstrous ships were seen towards their kingdoms, everyone was afraid that they were attacked or bombed by the ships, no one wanted to be in Lord Stark's sights. Harry eventually got many nicknames, King Stark, the Bloody Wolf, and the True Wolf, among other funny nicknames, but the one that truly represented Harry was a nickname that Oberyn Martell put on the table "The True King" when Oberyn said that, no one objected, not even the royal council or Robert himself.
Because of that simple fact, before the Greyjoy rebellion many other houses were trying to make a rebellion because they saw that Robert was not a king as such, he was not like the Targaryens who knew how to manage their kingdom and of course, they had dragons that were their weapons of destruction, but Robert did not have dragons and did not have the credibility of being a king, the Lannisters were his greatest alliance, but even with the lions as allies, there were houses that planned to remove the stag from his throne. But now no one was thinking about rebellion, people who think about rebelling have to think about it many times, one of those people was the brother of the same king, Stannis and Renly Baratheon, both were angry with their older brother and tried to gather an army to rebel against their brother, and then argue over who would take the place of king. Before they could plan, a gift from the north arrived, it was a flag that belonged to the Greyjoys with some words that made the two brothers think twice before acting -"Winter is Coming."- Never before was that phrase so scary as it is now and no one acted like a braggart, when the lord of House Stark sent you a warning.
But there was also something that caught a lot of attention in the North, it was the relationship between Harry and Margaery Stark, the two were already married and at 25 years old they still did not have an heir, something that worried the other lords, because of the decision that Lord Stark had made. Five years ago, the Starks took off the market a powder that was used so that women did not get pregnant, that powder could be mixed with water or any other drink they chose. They had to take it every day, and when the woman finally decided to have a child, the same powder served to make it much easier to get pregnant. That powder became the largest source of income for the Stark House since it was sold to all the people in the kingdom, especially the brothels. Margaery used that powder because she understood that Harry had many enemies and although the North was safe, expansion was in Harry's plans, something that undoubtedly pleased Margaery who wanted to be queen. But Margaery's desire to be a mother was latent, so every day, she went to the center of Winterfell to read stories to the children who wanted to see Lady Stark. Margaery adored children and they adored her in the same way.
The center of Winterfell was in the middle of a market. Every time Margaery was there, many mothers left their children while they went shopping, there was no reason to worry after all. The Valkyries were in charge of Margaery's custody, they took care of those children, Harry had an idea, since the Spartans were a division only for men, why not make one exclusively for women who wanted to be warriors, although they could join the Vikings or the Persians. He decided to create a division with exercises and methods just as hard as the Spartans, and without a doubt, it was very useful, the Valkyries could fight on land, water, and air. And how could they fly, these seven years, the north went through a stage of reproduction, all the animals that were old enough to reproduce were used, and among them was the pegasus, the emblematic animal of the valkyries, Harry took advantage of every moment of the magic that the north produced, and thanks to the prayers of the people to the ancient gods, he helped the magic grow, which made the north an increasingly better place to live because the north was magical.
-"Lady Margaery, may I ask you a question?" – A girl raised her hand to get Margaery's attention who always had a smile on her face when she was surrounded by children. They were very curious and always wanted to know more – "Is it true that Lord Stark talks to wolves?"-
-"My father told me that he can turn into a wolf." – a boy spoke and it only made Margaery laugh, well it was a story for children, who were afraid of something, the parents told them that there was nothing to fear, Lord Stark talked to wolves, and they always watch over the north from all evil, in the same way that Lord Stark turns into a wolf to protect the north, they were good stories in her opinion – "My mother also told me that the moon tells her everything that happens in the north... that is true Lady Margaery."-
-"True, Harry talks to the moon, and she answers him." – Margaery saw how the children had surprised faces, hearing that, for her, this was funny because the children were so innocent, that they believed it so easily, and they did not doubt that it is true – "even when the sun is at its highest, the moon watches, and talks to it."-
Immediately afterward a howl was heard, making the children instead of getting scared, look everywhere, some people began to give way and among the crowd, a white wolf appeared. It was not an ordinary wolf, it was a Direwolf; an adult wolf was as big as a horse, and could tear a man's arm off. A young direwolf is quite capable of killing a man by tearing his head off with ease, physically they are not simply larger versions of wolves but are slightly different in proportion to their smaller cousins, their heads are larger with a thinner more pronounced muzzle, their legs are longer in proportion to their body and they have proportionally larger teeth which are often used to crush bones. They are an extremely intelligent and loyal species, members of House Stark each had one, and the only people who owned more direwolves were Mya, Artemisia, and Lyanna who each had 2 wolves. Whereas Harry had 4 direwolves. And this white wolf was one of them, he was the leader of them all, the eldest, Aslan was the wolf's name and he was so to speak the closest to Margaery. Aslan is very good, he likes company, although he should not be bothered – Margaery could tell that Aslan was the calmest of all the wolves, and although anyone would think that they could touch him because he was calm, it was quite the opposite, very few people were able to pet Aslan, even these children could only look at him, but if they tried to touch him, he would surely tear their arm off – When Aslan howls and he is the only one who howls, everything is fine, but when his brothers respond to him, something is bothering Harry.
-"Lady Margaery, where is Lord Stark right now?" – A child asked a reasonable question, Harry is a very busy person, he rules a huge kingdom, which for any person would be impossible to govern and even less control, Harry luckily had no problems with that, and it gave him time for some things.
This one would hunt with her sister – It was well known that Lyanna Stark was the jewel of the North, everyone loved Lord Stark's little sister, she was the most protected person in the North at the moment, she was like a female version of Harry, but with more freedom, and Margaery was not going to deny that sometimes she felt jealous of Lyanna when she stole her husband's attention, although she wanted to have a daughter as cheerful as Lyanna.
Winterfell Forest
Lyanna Stark was running through the forest, she had escaped from her brother, or rather she was running from him, next to her were her two wolves, Thor and Freya, they were two direwolves that grew up with her, and they were three years old, but she could easily climb on top of one of them as if they were horses, they were still small compared to the size of her brother's wolves, but they reached up to half the size of an adult person and they were still 3 years old and had yet to grow, Lyanna was hunting with her brother, every day they went out for a run through the forest and once a week they went out hunting just the two of them, it was a good time between siblings. But sometimes Lyanna wanted to wander around the forest, she was much more curious than Harry in his childhood, so now she was looking for a place to hide from her brother and his wolves who were surely looking for him, well it was complicated when they could track you; and your own wolves were betraying you because they howled to let them know where they were. It was certainly annoying that her friends betrayed you in this way because they were afraid of their parents, Thor and Freya were children of two of Harry's wolves, for Lyanna this was unfair.
The princess of the north, as she was called, knew perfectly well that her mother was going to be upset with her, Harry was not going to punish her, but her mother was, she had no mercy with punishments, but she had to try to beat her brother, she had to escape from him at least once. She was twelve years old, and she wanted a little more freedom, to know the forest that they say was infested with dangerous animals, she was not interested in the other kingdoms, but she did want to know what other creatures were in the kingdom, she saw bears, giant wolves, lions, among other kinds of animals, but many times she heard that there were dragons in the north. She always sneaks away so she can listen to her brother's talks with the captains or lords, she knew that her brother did not want the other kingdoms to know that there were dragons in the north, she knew perfectly well why that was, but she wanted to see them with her own eyes and she knew that they had to be here in the forest, she had to find them, but before she could go any further, a giant black wolf appeared in front of her, causing her to crash into him, her two wolves, upon seeing their father, lowered their heads, and more because he was growling. –"This is unfair, it's too unfair, Hades is very fast." – It was Lyanna's complaint that she saw how her brother walked up to where she was and lifted her as if she weighed nothing, to the frustration of the little Stark – "I just wanted to see the dragons." –
–"It will be another day, we have to prepare for Robert's arrival" – Harry put his sister on his shoulders who gave up completely, she couldn't compete with her brother, it was unfair from any point of view, so she was going to solemnly complain – "Don't you want to meet the king of Westeros?"-
-"Everyone says that you are the true king." – Lyanna was not the most interested in meeting the supposed great Robert Baratheon, she listened to everything that happened in her brother's meetings, and everyone made fun of that guy – if the king allowed someone to make fun of him, he is not a true king…
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