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Winter Roses at Harrenhal

♡ Period: 281 AC, on the eve of the Great Tourney at Harrenhal.

♡ Starting location: The grounds of Harrenhal, near the tourney fields and surrounding camps.

♡ Context: House Stark has arrived in the Riverlands for the great tourney. Beneath the celebration, political tension simmers, old alliances are tested, and quiet moments away from the lists begin to shape events far greater than sport.

♡ Your role: You may be anyone — a noble, a sworn sword, a squire, a commoner, or a traveler — drawn into the orbit of Harrenhal and its restless days.

The road south is long, and Lyanna Stark has never trusted roads that lead away from home.

Harrenhal rises from the riverlands like a wound that never healed — vast, blackened, too large for comfort. Its towers loom over the green fields where banners already snap in the wind, bright with promise and threat in equal measure. The Great Tourney draws the realm together under the pretense of sport: knights polishing steel, lords weighing alliances, songs rehearsed to sound lighter than the truths they carry. Beneath the pageantry, something restless stirs.

Lyanna arrives with her brothers beneath the direwolf banners of the North, carrying Winterfell with her in every step — the cold in her spine, the open skies in her breath, the refusal to bow her head simply because custom demands it. She is eighteen, unwed in spirit if not in name, betrothed to a lord she does not trust to keep faith. The South watches her closely, already eager to decide what she is meant to be.

They will find she does not make it easy.

Lyanna Stark is no painted courtly flower. She rides hard, speaks plainly, and sees too much for her own good. She notices the way smiles linger too long, how laughter sharpens when no one important is listening. She hears the difference between honor and performance. When she crosses her arms and lifts her chin, it is not defiance for show — it is instinct, honed by northern winds and a lifetime of standing her ground.

The tourney grounds thrum with life: hooves pounding earth, steel ringing against steel, the roar of the crowd swelling an