The Early Days For years, the peninsula of Westeros was a very sleepy, nice place to live for hard working folk. No one ever really experienced wealth, just lived for themselves and their neighbors. Most northern families were around from the beginning, creating connections, relationships and tension. None so famous as the longstanding feud between the upstanding Starks and the mysterious Boltons. The Greyjoys and the Tullys have gone back and forth between being at each other's throats to at each other's sides in their similar industries. The Tyrells tilled the fields, the Baratheons hunted the woods and the Arryns upheld a sense of honor. Then there are the Freys, a family who never really seem to leave, or move on from sanitation work... Eventually as industry dawned all around, more and more people began to move to Westeros. In the mid 1950s, the Martell family came to Westeros looking to make a fortune in the burgeoning all-inclusive resort industry. Mors Martell and his new wife Nymeria, came with a plan of building a great destination for families looking to spend some time in the sun. Step one included buying up real estate on the peninsula which they acquire at a very affordable price. Their destination was southern Westeros where they began building, step two. Eventually the Sunspear Resort was completed and the Martell family began their reign of excellence on the southern edge of the peninsula. For centuries the wealthy Lannister family called the peninsula a second home, vacationing there part of the year, before deciding it to be their full time home. Tywin Lannister grew up on the peninsula before moving away to New York City. Even though they were a previously wealthy family, he made most of his personal fortune in stocks and bonds on Wall Street. After the birth of his third child, Tywin sent his entire family back to Westeros where he could keep judgmental eyes off of his youngest and give his children a real upbringing. The kids would be raised by their extended family, and he felt his wife safer there while he was busy working to restore the family's slipping real estate business with his big city savvy. Soon after their move, Joanna died a very sudden death. While some said that monster baby killed her, others rumored of an involvement with the new Targaryens. Targaryen Rule Not long after the Martells came the Targaryens. It was the Summer of Love, 1967, and Aegon Targaryen, an attractive retired military pilot in his 50s, arrived with two striking young women on his arms and three flashy charter planes he endearingly called his dragons. They would later turn out to be his sisters, but what the town didn't know, couldn't hurt them. His grown son, Aerys, also arrived with his own young son Rhaegar. The Targaryens came to modernize Westeros, and the laid back lifestyle of the sleepy tourist town changed almost over night. Immediately they established a small airfield on the eastern coast, and an airport known as King's Landing, where they housed their gawdy and sometimes faulty charter planes. Not long after the arrival of the Targaryens, Aegon was elected mayor, almost unanimously, starting the beginning of a long lasting dynasty. In late 1985, Aegon Targaryen died of a fatal stroke and left Westeros without a proper leader. By then his sisters had grown tired of their little games in Westeros and all that remained were a few extended family members and his son, Aerys. The man had always had a wild streak about him, and in the spring of 1986, at the dedication of the Aegon Targaryen Memorial Airfield, he announced his plan to run for mayor of Westeros with the endorsement of Tywin Lannister. It was also there that young Rhaegar Targaryen met Lyanna Stark a moment which would soon started a forbidden romance. During this time, Lyanna was engaged to Robert Baratheon, a young county deputy, and Rhaegar was married to Elia Martell, with one young child and another soon to be on the way. While their relationship had certainly been rocky, Robert Baratheon was true to Lyanna to an alarming degree. The only degree which he was not exactly true involved his labido. He loved the young woman, fiercely and with a force many could not quite understand, unfortunately he also loved having sex with random women. When Lyanna found out about the birth of his illigimate daughter Mya, she cut all ties with Robert over night. In grief she gave her new friend Rhaegar a call, starting a taboo dance with the married man. Soon he was sneaking around, seeing her at all hours of the night. Their love and passion grew and Rhaegar proclaimed his love and intention to leave his wife for her. Soon after she found herself pregnant with a married man's child. He never fulfilled his promise to leave his wife, and never would have the chance to. Within a couple years of beginning their secret affair, Lyanna, Rhaegar and his two young children died in tragic car accident in 1990. Not soon after, Elia Martell would spiral into drug addiction and eventually take her own life. After Lyanna's death, the Stark family took in her son Jon, and kept his parentage a secret from any who dare ask. Wild Fire and the Mad Mayor After his father's death, and his election to lead as mayor, Aerys Targaryen was very swift in his administration to not only keep the forward momentum of progress already established, but push it even further. Westeros continued to rapidly develop and started to become a large destination of not only seasonal tourists, but public figures and dignatiries alike. It also has become a fast growing giant of many different industries, including deep sea fishing and forestry. Unfortunately, the pressure of leading this town into greatness began to lead Aerys down a path of corruption and greed. He delved into the drug trade as a way of securing a stronger economic foothold and soon became made with paranoia. He employed incresingly violent tactics against his rivals in Westeros, or anyone who may jeopardize or oppose his enterprise. One such incident was the case of Rickard and Brandon Stark. The deaths of Rhaegar, Lyanna and his children remained unsolved for years and the Stark family always held out hope they would uncover the truth. In the early 2000s, Brandon was anonymously given information about the 'accident.' He quickly involved his father in the investigation, leaving his brothers out as they were close to Robert Baratheon, the man he'd always assumed killed his sister. Soon the Starks realized how high the drug trade went. The Targaryens had been using their airport to traffic the drug, street name Wild Fire, for years. And shortly before her death, Lyanna had uncovered this as well, as they discovered a handwritten letter between she and her lover. "You will never see him again if you don't make this right. Your father will never see him again. I would rather let my son die, not knowing a father than involve him with your crimes," she wrote of discovering that Aerys had been using Rhaegar's flights to bring the drug to Westeros. Both Brandon and Rickard knew Lyanna's honor had been tarnished in her death for loving a married man. If any more truth came out she would be named guilty by association of the Targaryen scandal, and further sully her name. Rickard and Brandon were faced with the difficult choice of whether to bring this information to Jon Arryn or bury it. However in early 2003, both men were found dead, burned alive, before getting a chance to make that decision. After over a decade of struggling with the drug trade in Westeros and racked with grief over the Stark deaths, Jon Arryn finally retired as county Sheriff and shifted power in the direction of Robert Baratheon. The young man had been mentored by Arryn as a boy with his best friend Ned Stark. Baratheon had spent the past few years attempting to uncover what had truly happened with the Starks, but the truth behind the death of his love, Lyanna. However it was as though whatever information Rickard and Brandon had burned up along with their bodies. While he tried his best to investigate the deaths, Robert found himself underwater with a growing drug problem on the peninsula. After the introduction of Wild Fire so many years ago, drug related crimes had begun to increase. Not only was there Wild Fire to deal with, but a few competitors including the Kraken, sold by the Greyjoy boys. Needless to say, Sheriff Baratheon's hands were full. Now, Tywin Lannister had always been close with the Targaryens. His father had been a staunch supporter of Aegon Targaryen and Tywin and Aerys were always close, usually in order to keep an eye on the other. With Aerys in office, the Lnnister's business began to improve. Aerys gave tax breaks to Tywin and helped him correct the damage caused to his company by the Martell's ever-expanding super resorts. While the families were in direct competition, Tywin knew not to cause too many problems with them, and instead maintained a fairly positive relationship. However it wouldn't be long before the Lannisters and Martells were completely at each other's throats. And unfortunately, things were only getting harder with Aerys. After the deaths of Brandon and Rickard, the mayor was starting to fall under more and more scrutiny. Business was great, but they were quickly heading down a very risky path. And by 2003, Tywin had pushed Aerys to name his older son Jaime as his personal security, mere months before the Stark deaths. Robert's Research Unfortunately, information about Aerys' practices started leaking at an astounding rate, and news of the corruption started sweeping the town. Almost over night the Targaryen name was being scandalized. Robert Baratheon always knew, deep down, that the Targaryens were responsible for the death of the Starks, but he never had the proof he needed. It wasn't until Baratheon decided to revisit the cold case of Elia Martell's death, that he finally caught the break he had been looking for. While years ago it was ruled a suicide, Jon Arryn had always maintained a hunch that there was something off about it. Robert began to unravel the proof of the Targaryen involvement in the trafficking, processing and selling of Wild Fire. After reviewing Jon Arryn's files, something struck him which led him to discover a journal of Elia Martell's in the basement of the second Sunspear hotel which had just been built during the time of her death. There he discovered that she had been doing her own investigation into the deaths of her children and the drug trade. She documented all of the Targaryen operations, and also said she was in contact with a man named The Mountain, who was employed by the Lannisters. By 2006, Tywin Lannister had also begun to sense a shift in power in town and was supporting the efforts of Robert Baratheon's investigation. He claimed The Mountain had been his own watchdog in the illegal Targaryen practices, while the Martells had a very different story. Their version of events painted the Mountain as the man who killed not only Elia but was also responsible for the deaths of her children plus Rhaegar and Lyanna. Tywin's sudden shift in allegiance incited the mayor's rage. Amid the chaos surrounding the scandal, Aerys disappeared and was last seen leaving the city with Tywin's son, Jaime. To this day Aerys' whereabouts are unknown. Jaime Lannister maintains that Mayor Targaryen and his right hand enforcer, Rossart, fled the peninsula to preserve the family name. Robert was forced to take the position of interim mayor in 2007. His first act was to call Jon Arryn out of retirement to act as Sheriff and continue his investigation efforts. It was Robert's mission to rid the town of the Targaryen drug trade. He spent no time running family members and businesses from Westeros with little regard for whether they were involved or not. He started a war against Wild Fire and the Targaryens, and in the process strengthened their borders to keep anything suspect from coming in. Once he had cleaned up much of the Wild Fire problem he had to quash the Kraken issue as well, sending a couple of Greyjoy boys to prison in the process. Finally he cemented himself as mayor of Westeros and ran for the office officially in 2008. He has remains unopposed for eight years. Jon Arryn's efforts to locate exactly what happened to Aerys Targaryen were, however, illfated. In early 2016 he was found dead in his office, shot at point blank range. He'd recently been looking into the sudden resurgence of a newly synthesized Wild Fire which is more intense and more addictive. Since then Ned Stark has taken on the cursed position of Westeros County Sheriff.