Pact of Ice and Fire
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The Pact of Ice and Fire was the alliance that brought House Stark of Winterfell to declare for Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen during the Dance of the Dragons, the civil war that tore House Targaryen in two.
It was struck in the North, between Prince Jacaerys Velaryon and Lord Cregan Stark, and it carried with it the support of the northern lords for the black cause.
Alliance with the Starks
When war broke out between Rhaenyra's supporters and Aegon II's, Prince Jacaerys Velaryon flew across the realm to Winterfell to win the Starks over to his mother's side. His talks with Lord Cregan Stark carried an awkward condition: a princess of royal blood would marry into the Stark line.
The bargain went beyond words. Lord Roderick Dustin led the Wolves of Winter to join the black cause, and House Manderly sent its own knights to fight for Rhaenyra. The whole North was now bound to the queen.
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Hour of the Wolf
Cregan did not stay behind at Winterfell. He gathered a host and rode south to King's Landing himself, though he came too late — by the time his men reached the capital, King Aegon II was already dead, poisoned.
In that brief gap in power, remembered as the Hour of the Wolf, it was Cregan who ruled the city. The promised marriage between the Starks and the royal house never took place, but the Lord of Winterfell left those days with real standing, and went on to back the young King Aegon III.
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Participants
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Who was there
- Jacaerys VelaryonCrown PrinceAppears in Alliance with the Starks
- Cregan StarkLord of WinterfellAppears in Alliance with the Starks, Hour of the Wolf
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Others in the account
- Rhaenyra TargaryenAppears in Alliance with the Starks
- Aegon II TargaryenAppears in Hour of the Wolf
- Aegon III TargaryenAppears in Hour of the Wolf
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The chronology of events
- Ambush on the Boneway
- Death of Rhaenys Targaryen and Meraxes
- Great Council of 101
- Coronation of Viserys I
- Maidenpool Tourney
- Death of Aemma Arryn
- Naming of Rhaenyra as heir
- Wedding of Viserys I and Alicent Hightower
- War for the Stepstones
- Daemon Targaryen proclaims himself King of the Stepstones
- Battle of the Stepstones
- Fifth anniversary tourney
- Rhaenyra named Princess of Dragonstone
- Wedding of Rhaenyra Targaryen and Laenor Velaryon
- Wedding of Daemon Targaryen and Laena Velaryon
- Death of Laena Velaryon
- Fire at Harrenhal
- Death of Laenor Velaryon
- Aemond Targaryen claims Vhagar
- Wedding of Daemon Targaryen and Rhaenyra Targaryen
- Wedding of Aegon Targaryen and Helaena Targaryen
- Execution of Vaemond Velaryon
- Dance of the Dragons
- Death of Viserys I
- Death of Lyman Beesbury
- Coronation of Aegon II
- Coronation of Rhaenyra I
- Duel of the Cargyll twins
- Blockade of Blackwater Bay
- Jacaerys Velaryon's mission to White Harbor
- Pact of Ice and Fire
- Death of Lucerys Velaryon
- Blood and Cheese
- March of the Winter Wolves
- Capture of Harrenhal
- Battle of the Burning Mill
- Capture of Stone Hedge
- Sack of Duskendale
- Battle at Rook's Rest
- Sowing of the Seeds
- Capture of the Gay Abandon
- Battle of the Gullet
- Battle of the Honeywine
- Fall of King's Landing
- Dalton Greyjoy's raids on the Westerlands
- Battle by the Lakeshore
- Ambush at Crossed Elms
- Butcher's Ball
- Battle of the Red Fork
- Battle of Acorn Hall
- Siege of Longtable
- Sack of Bitterbridge
- First Battle of Tumbleton
- Arrest of Addam Velaryon and imprisonment of Corlys Velaryon
- Fall of Dragonstone
- Taking of Maidenpool by Daemon Targaryen
- Aemond Targaryen's reprisals in the Riverlands
- Battle Above the Gods Eye
- Death of Helaena Targaryen
- King's Landing Riots
- Storming of the Dragonpit
- and 107 more in the index