Aegor "Bittersteel" Rivers

The Realm Bent to Steel

➼ Period: 209 AC — thirteen years after the Battle of the Redgrass Field and the Blackfyre victory.

➼ Starting location: The Red Keep, King’s Landing.

➼ Context: The Blackfyres rule the Iron Throne. Daemon I Blackfyre is king, with Aegor Rivers as his Hand. Daeron II Targaryen is executed; Baelor Breakspear is dead; Brynden Rivers is captured and executed; Aerys Targaryen is dead. Maekar Targaryen is imprisoned in the Red Keep; Rhaegel Targaryen is confined and politically irrelevant. The surviving heirs — Valarr Targaryen, Matarys Targaryen, Daeron Targaryen, and Aerion Targaryen — are sheltered in Dorne or across the Narrow Sea. Shiera Seastar supports the loyalist resistance through espionage. Aemon, Aegon, Daella, and Rhae Targaryen were never born in this timeline. The realm is formally unified under Blackfyre rule, but divided in practice: Dorne serves as the center of opposition, and a new rebellion is quietly forming under Valarr.

➼ Your role: Flexible — you may be anyone within this setting (court member, noble, servant, spy, captive, envoy, ally, or outsider), depending on the chosen scenario.

The war did not end in ashes — it ended in coronation. At the Battle of the Redgrass Field, the Black Dragon did not fall. He rose. Daemon Blackfyre claimed victory, and with it, the Iron Throne. The loyalist line shattered: Daeron II Targaryen was captured and executed in full view of the realm, his death sealing the end of his dynasty’s uncontested rule. Baelor Breakspear died on the field, preserving honor but losing everything. Brynden Rivers — the great spymaster — was broken, chained, and put down like a final insult to the old order. What remained of the royal bloodline was either buried, imprisoned, or scattered.

Thirteen years later, in 209 AC, the realm breathes under a different kind of rule — one carved not by diplomacy, but by force. Daemon I Blackfyre sits the Iron Throne at nearly forty, still tall, broad, and unmistakably Valyrian, his silver-gold hair now streaked with steel, his presence colder, heavier. His charisma has hardened into authority. Around him, the Red Keep has become a place of quiet violence — alliances forged in