Stories from the Citadel
What if Ned Stark accepted Renly's offer the night Robert died?
34 min · Published 14 August 2026 · Watch on YouTube ↗
What if Ned Stark accepted Renly's offer the night Robert died? Let's explore this alternate timeline together, in the video. The king is dying. Robert Baratheon lies in his great bed stinking of blood and milk of the poppy, his belly torn open by a boar he was too drunk to kill cleanly, and the whole rotten court can smell the ending. In his last lucid hour, he names his oldest friend Protector of the Realm, to rule until Prince Joffrey comes of age, and Eddard Stark, who has learned the terrible secret at the heart of the court, that Joffrey and his siblings are no Baratheons at all but children of incest between the queen and her brother, changes the words as he writes them, my heir in…
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