A new era

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POV of Jon Arryn

The battle of the trident was over and everything had been determined in our favor, Rhaegar had died at Robert's hands and the threat of the mad king had ended at the hands of our Prussian mercenaries who had stood out for their brutality and cunning when facing their enemies.

The Prussians arrived at a critical moment in the battle, where all seemed almost lost, thousands of Prussian knights charged the Targaryen lines led by their leader, causing the battle to turn, the men still loyal to the Targaryen fought on bravely to the last

While thousands of other men fled for their lives, for they knew all was lost with reinforcements arriving and their leader dead it was natural

Only the Prussians showed no mercy, the survivors of the massacre that followed in the battle were mainly nobles, but they were only a few hundred, Rhaegar's army numbered nearly fifty thousand men and now only his remnants are left and they can barely number two thousand men.

It was a matter of observing the battlefield full of bodies, scattered as far as the eye could see and hundreds of heads rolling, since the Prussians have a sword to decapitate on horseback.

But it was all over and by the grace of the seven it had ended well, my protégés Robert and Eddard had survived and I had done my duty to protect them as I had promised their fathers.

But now we must heal the wounds we have caused in this war, the lands of the rivers in their southern part are almost destroyed by the constant battles between our men and the Targaryen.

If the messages we received from Stannis are true, the stormlands had suffered an even worse fate, the tyrell had burned hundreds of villages, and slaughtered their populations to ensure that the siege was fruitful, but now there are only empty lands, both in crops and people.

That left most of our loyal banner men with empty pockets and it would take years for everything to get back to normal.

But the reach, had been our biggest failure, by the Prussians

When Brynden and Lyn told us that the Prussians had conquered everything in the reach no one had believed what they had told us, in less than a fortnight they had subdued the most powerful territory in the seven kingdoms and defeated the tyrell's immense army without a fight because they had cut off their supplies and made it almost impossible for them to return to their territories leaving them unwilling to fight.

Certainly, I would like to think it is for the best, but hundreds of nobles will be left landless and very unhappy about what had happened and it was something I wanted to avoid, if anything history taught us that the best way for the surviving Targaryen to receive support in a possible future return is to severely punish those who support the Targaryen, but now the solution to a problem had become a problem in itself.

We're going to hand over the most fertile territories in the realm to a foreigner and someone who follows a faith entirely different from ours, no matter how much I wanted to break our bargain

I gave my word.

"Lord Arryn, there's a fight in the camp," said one of my knights.

I sighed wearily

''Again?, what happened now?'', I said, running my hand through my hair.

''The Frey, who arrived yesterday, tried to claim the loot from the Prussians and fought each other, six dead all Freys, the Prussian knights crushed them'' the knight said

'How can those fools be so brazen, they don't respond to the call to arms only to arrive when the war is won demanding the spoils of the Prussians'.

''Well, the problem must be solved immediately, how clumsy must they be to try to demand the spoils from a numerically superior group of Prussians?'', I said getting up from my chair.

''I saw the fight personally my lord and the Prussians were only eight, they were loading the loot into one of their transport wagons, the Frey came fifteen of them, but the Prussians knew how to fight as a team and quickly overwhelmed the Frey, it wasn't even a fight,'' said the knight with a tone of respect for those men.

''So it's not just rumors about the ability of those men, lord walder has said he wants to solve this problem, it would be the last straw if he demanded something about the behavior of his men,'' I said walking out.

''We haven't spoken to him, I came as fast as I could when the fight between the Freys and the Prussians was over'' answered the knight.

Walking towards the center of the camp, I observed an argument between the giant Prussian called Charles because it was very obvious, since he wears horns on his helmet bigger than any of his men, arguing with the Frey lord.

''Those armors that your men tried to steal from us, are armors of Prussian heroes fallen in battle, they are not a piece of metal, they are custom-made from my fallen brothers'' I said Charles showing with a rather agitated tone.

When I arrived both men focused their gaze on me.

''Lord Arryn, it is a pleasure to see you again on this pleasant day delivered by the will of our lord, the almighty''said Charles in a kind tone

''Lord Arryn, the Prussians killed many of my men and wounded several more'' said lord walder

Charles looked back at the Frey

''It was in defense, self-defense, your men tried to threaten us why take those armors to your camp, they tried to rob us, you bastard, without honor'' Charles said angrily

''My men only wanted a share of the loot and since you had so much we only wanted to help you with that heavy burden'' said lord walder without much interest in what the Prussian knight had to say.

''You didn't even participate in the battle, you have no right to the fruits of victory'' replied Charles.

''And you had no right to kill my men'' replied walder.

Charles looked like he would kill walder at any second, but the Prussian knight had enough self-control.

''Lord walder, please, we both know you have no right to anything, you preferred to wait for the outcome of the battle than to help, so avoid this trouble'' I said a bit annoyed at the Frey's shameless attitude.

''I was raising my men for battle, we were just late, you can't wait for my men to come back empty-handed or else'' said walder

''Coward, you just hid waiting for a winner nothing more, you are simply a coward without honor ''said Charles pointing his fingers at him.

''Charles there is no need for further discussion, lord walder, you did not participate in the battle, you have no right to the spoils and that's it'' I said turning to go back to my tent.

''Those men killed six of my knights that I had been training for years, are you going to let it all end like this?'', said lord walder a bit annoyed.

''I prefer to believe the words of the men who helped us lord walder and one of my men saw the fight, so I know what you are trying to do, so don't do it again or you will be in trouble'' I said, ending the conversation.

Lord walder frowned, and the Prussian knight started to follow us.

''Lord Arryn, I am grateful for your support, but I must tell you that we are ready to return to the capital'' Charles said

''You have nothing to thank be Charles, your support in the war has been crucial to winning, the Freys, unfortunately, have become outcasts since lord walder is the head of that family, so I apologize for that'' I said to the knight

''Yes we are sorry we had to kill them, but they wanted to steal the armors of my fallen brothers, our tradition states that the armors must be preserved and the names of the fallen written in the book of honor, we had no other choice'' said Charles apologizing

''I fully understand ser Charles and I am grateful that you have controlled yourself against that leech, if everyone is ready, we will march to the capital today'' I said to the knight.

Charles nodded

And I went back to order the lords about our march, besides advising Lord Tully of the actions of his banner man.

After a few hours I got everyone moderately ready to march, we would leave about two thousand men behind to take care of the wounded because we must crown Robert as soon as possible.

And we began to march slowly towards the capital across the road.

The Prussians were well ahead of our infantry, their men were already marching alongside us.

all the men in full armor marching in almost perfect order along the road while they also carried backpacks on their backs where they carried their food, water and tools.

''What are we going to do with the Prussians'' Lord Hoster asked.

''What do you mean?, fulfill what we promised, naturally'' I said looking at Hoster.

''You will be handing over to a foreigner a rich and fertile territory, we should try to limit how much he got'' said Hoster grimacing with his mouth while holding the reins of his horse.

At that moment, the Prussian men turned their eyes to us fixing their gazes on us as they continued to keep up the pace of their march without letting us out of their sight as they continued their march.

Hurriedly, I moved away from the Prussian marching column taking Lord Hoster with me moving our steeds away from Prussian ears.

''You idiot they understand our language'' I said to Hoster who had almost gone pale with fright.

''I had forgotten, but I thought it was only their leaders who spoke it'' said Lord Hoster calming down.

''Didn't you talk to ser Charles or lord Hohenzollern, their knights speak more than three tongues, lord Hohenzollern himself says he speaks more than fifteen tongues, you can't expect them not to speak our language'' I said a little annoyed.

''I don't like Prussians'' Hoster replied.

''It's fine that you don't like them, but not in front of them Hoster, and we certainly won't be able to reduce much what we offered to lord Hohenzollern'' I said after sighing

''We have a little over twenty-three thousand men and if lord Hohenzollern still retains his great army he outnumbers us almost seven times and control the capital'' I said to Hoster.

Hoster did not continue to bring up the subject of trying to ruin the deal.

We stopped talking and concentrated on getting on our way

When the sun was going down and we were thinking about setting up camp, we came to the fact that the Prussian vanguard had already built a camp and they only had to get the fires ready for the night while we were just starting to set up our camp.

I had some visits from lords who complained about the lack of loot because some lords went intending to plundering the field on their way to the capital, but the Prussians had already taken everything, except for some grains that were left for the next harvest.

But obviously these lords took the grain and killed the peasants.

This routine was repeated for several days until we were about to arrive at the capital, every day we were closer to the beginning of a new era.

When we marched again, we were about to arrive when we found that the Lannister had also arrived at the capital.

I got nervous wondering what would have happened

but the Prussians simply ignored them and began to form lines near the city.

I joined Robert, Hoster and Eddard to enter the city and Lord Hohenzollern approached us bringing several steeds as the city gates opened behind him.

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