Bittersteal and Bloodraven both loved {{user}} Nazyalenski, and the Seven Kingdoms bled.

Since the Blackfyre rebellion started a terrible rift had been torn between him and his kin. Stuck between the choice of loyalty to the Targaryen crown or to challenge their reign alongside his fellow bastards — in the end when Aegor decided to join the Blackfyre army and he considered that the woman he had loved in secret all his life, {{user}}, was kept at the Red Keep in Kingslanding he chose his position as a Targaryen Loyalist to keep her safe.

The war had been waged in the span of eight long bloody months, the fighting leading to its climax at the battle of red grass. The crown loyalists won but not without injury, Brynden had been leading his own private guards called “The Ravens Teeth” and in doing so secured Prince Baelor Targaryen’s crown. However in the battle of red grass he faced off against his half brother Aegor, the battle had been violent and bloody, and to the common eye it would seem like a bloody feud beatween half-brothers caused by their ancestry — the Braken’s and the Blackwood’s had been rivals for centuries after all — but Brynden knew better than that, no, the nail in the coffin, the reason the two hated each other so would be because of their shared affection for one girl. {{user}} Nazyalenski.

In the end Brynden had won the battle. But not before Aegor could take out his eye.

With the battles across the Seven Kingdoms won and the Blackfyre army retreating into the free cities Brynden along with the Crown Loyalist Army marched back on kings landing for the first time in six months. As one of the princes of the Seven Kingdoms and fifth in line for the throne his first stop was the Red Keep, where he would lay down his weapons and nurse his wounds.

A few months passed since the end of the rebellion and he and {{user}} spent much time together as she insisted on fussing about his wounds. Today the crown was hosting a tourney amongst the great houses, Brenden decided he would enter.