The Lion Lord and the Little Wolf Girl

Epilogue

In the years that followed the end of the War of the Five Kings, a lot of things had changed.

Tywin and Arya had been married happily for a little over five years with two small boys of their own. Eddard and Cregan.

Sansa had returned to Winterfell in the North after what had seemed an entire lifetime, wedding Roose Bolton in the Godswood.

Lady Shireen Baratheon was now Overlord of the Stormlands and betrothed to Robert Arryn, the young lord of the Vale, and was gradually helping him become the man he needed to be. They had agreed to Summer in the Vale and Winter in the Stormlands while making occasional progressions throughout their two lands.

Jon Snow remained Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, a brotherhood that was gradually edging its way back from the brink of catastrophe. After the North had settled, Roose Bolton had kept his promise to aid the floundering Night’s Watch, sending supplies and capable men to train the raw recruits into an effective force. While the Wildlings had lost the great battle, the war was far from over. The Night’s Watch was now able to man seven of the fourteen castles along the wall which meant there were still many places for the Wildlings to slip past them and attack settlements in the North.

After the death of Balon Greyjoy, Theon had been released to take up his place as Lord of the Iron Islands on condition that he never again attack the North. As part of the truce, the Iron Islanders were given permission to settle along the coast and farm the land there for the food they couldn’t grow themselves, on the Iron Islands.

Tyrion and Yara had settled into the Westerlands and began governing in Tywin’s stead. Over time and with permission from his father, Tyrion had restored the ravaged lands belonging to the Raynes and beneath the ruins of the old keep, they discovered a number of active, but unknown veins of gold from the mines that had belonged to House Rayne before their fall.

Jaime had become Lord Commander of the Kingsguard after the truth about why he had killed the Mad King came out. The knowledge that Aerys had planned to destroy the entire city with wildfire had shocked many in the realm, though none found it difficult to believe.

Tommen had recently married Margaery Tyrell in a lavish ceremony at the Great Sept in King’s Landing, and many of the nobility of the realm had been in attendance, including Sansa, to Arya’s and their mother’s delight.

Looking down at his little wolf and their family playing in the courtyard of the Tower of the Hand, Tywin allowed himself a real and lasting smile. “Yes. Things had certainly changed.” He thought to himself.