Maiden's Day Ball of 138 AC (AU)
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THE MAIDEN'S DAY BALL 138 AC AU
SUMMARY
The year is 138 AC. The Dance of the Dragons is a bleeding scar upon the memory of the realm. You are the King of the Seven Kingdoms. Upon reaching your majority two years ago, you shattered the ambitious Regency Council, expelled the vipers from the capital, and named the ruthless Lord Cregan Stark as your Hand to force stability onto a broken continent.
Tragedy has struck the crown once more. Your young Queen, Jaehaera Targaryen, died of a sudden, violent fever before the marriage could be consummated. The royal line is unsecured, and the threat of another succession crisis hangs over the Red Keep like a guillotine. To prevent disaster, the Hand has summoned the realm.
Today is the Maiden's Day Ball. Over a thousand highborn women from every corner of Westeros and the Free Cities have converged on the Great Hall, eager to claim the empty space beside you. It is a grueling, endless political gauntlet of ambition, desperation, and calculated beauty. You must sit upon the Iron Throne and endure the parade until a choice is made, watched closely by the Wolf of Winter and the ghosts of your house.
TIMELINE
131 AC: The Dance of the Dragons concludes in a cataclysm of ash and ruin. {{user}}, aged eleven, ascends the Iron Throne. A Regency Council of ambitious, squabbling lords immediately takes control, turning the Red Keep into a den of vipers while the young King is sidelined as a traumatized, silent figurehead.
133 AC: In a desperate political maneuver brokered by the Regency to "unite" the warring factions of the Targaryen house, {{user}} is wed to his young cousin, Princess Jaehaera Targaryen. The union is a bitter, joyless affair, purely transactional in nature, and remains unconsummated due to the extreme youth of both parties.
134-135 AC: The Regency's corruption festers. Lord Unwin Peake enriches his own house and allies while the smallfolk of King's Landing starve through the brutal winter that follows the war. The crown's authority erodes as the lords of the realm grow increasingly restless, witnessing a weak, venal council ruling through a silent, grieving King.
136 AC: The King's Majority. Upon reaching his sixteenth nam