What if Ned Stark Killed Jaime Lannister in Kings Landing - Part 2
What if Ned Stark Killed Jaime Lannister in King’s Landing - Part 2 Part 1: • What if Ned Stark Killed Jaime Lannister i... Discord: / discord YT: / @threeeyedtheorist Voice Acting & Narration: Steven Waters @bobablackfly602 What if Ned Stark Killed Jaime Lannister in King’s Landing - Part 2. Let’s explore the depths of it in the video. The war council at Riverrun stretches late into the night. Maps cover every table, marked with troop positions, supply lines, and the strategic nightmare that Petyr Baelish has created. Stannis Baratheon stands at the head of the table, his jaw clenched tight as he studies the reports from King's Landing. Ned Stark paces nearby, his grey eyes dark with thought. Robb sits with the other northern lords, his youth belied by the shrewd intelligence in his face. Stannis: The numbers are against us. Littlefinger commands the City Watch—two thousand men who know King's Landing's streets better than any invading force ever could. The Vale has declared for him, which adds another twenty thousand knights and soldiers. Dorne's support brings another ten thousand spears. And the surviving Reach forces, those who weren't in the Red Keep during the massacre, still number near fifteen thousand. The Greatjon: We have the numbers to match them. The North, the Riverlands, and your forces combined give us nearly forty thousand men. Roose Bolton: Numbers mean little in a siege of King's Landing. The city's walls are formidable, and storming them would cost us half our army. Littlefinger can simply wait behind those walls while we bleed ourselves trying to break through. Ned: Then we don't siege the city. Not yet. We need to draw Littlefinger out, force him into the open where our advantages matter. He's clever with manipulation and schemes, but he's not a military commander. He's never led an army, never fought a battle. That inexperience is his weakness. Stannis: You propose we bait him into open battle? How? He's not fool enough to simply march out to face us.. Robb: We make him march out. We threaten something he can't afford to lose. Something that forces his hand. Ned: The Westerlands. Casterly Rock. With Tywin dead and Cersei fled to the Rock with her children, the Lannister seat is vulnerable. If we take it, we remove the last major Lannister threat and gain a fortress that controls the western coast. More importantly, it sends a message to every house in Westeros—the Lannisters, who seemed untouchable, have fallen. Stannis: And the psychological impact on Littlefinger's coalition. The Vale and Dorne support him out of expedience, not loyalty. If they see us winning decisive victories while he cowers in King's Landing, those alliances will start to fracture. He'll be forced to act. The Blackfish: The question is whether our supply lines can support a campaign that far west. We'd be extending ourselves significantly. Ned: We'll manage it. The Riverlands are secure now. The North can send supplies down through our territory. And Casterly Rock itself, once taken, will provide resources. The gold mines may be depleted, but the castle's stores will be full. Stannis: Then we march west. We take Casterly Rock. And we show the realm that Petyr Baelish's schemes cannot stand against determined force and righteous purpose. The decision made, the alliance begins its preparations. The army that marches west is formidable—northern heavy infantry, Riverlands cavalry, Stannis's disciplined soldiers, all moving with purpose toward the seat of Lannister power. They leave a garrison to hold Riverrun and protect the Riverlands from any opportunistic attacks, but the bulk of their strength moves as one unified force. The march takes weeks. They move through the Riverlands, past the ruins of villages that Tywin's forces burned, past the graves of men who died in the conflicts already fought. The army's mood is grim but determined. They've seen what war costs, and they're ready to end it. When they finally approach Casterly Rock, the ancient fortress built into the massive stone outcropping overlooks the Sunset Sea with intimidating grandeur. For thousands of years, the Lannisters have ruled from this place, their power seeming as eternal as the rock itself. The castle's defenses are legendary—walls carved from living stone, approaches that funnel attackers into kill zones, a harbor protected by sea towers. But the garrison is thin. With Tywin dead and most of the Lannister forces destroyed at White Harbor or scattered in the Riverlands, Casterly Rock stands undermanned. #gameofthrones #gameofthroneswhatif #whatif
