Game of Thrones: Robert's Rebellion & Battle of the Trident 283 AC

It is the year 262 After Aegon’s Conquest, 35 years prior to the events that take place at the start of Game of Thrones.

Aerys Targaryen the Second of His Name ascends to the Iron Throne in King's Landing.

During the first years of his reign, the Seven Kingdoms were thriving and the ambitious young king strived to maintain prosperity.

The majority of the old administration was replaced with fresh faces.

Shortly, Aerys befriended a young knight, ser Tywin Lannister, heir of Casterly Rock.

Being impressed by the Lannister's administrative prowess and ruthlessness,

he soon brought Tywin to the royal court and appointed him as the Hand of the King.

It was a smart move, as the new Hand perfectly complemented the King's shortcomings,

whose desire was to be the greatest ruler the Seven Kingdoms had ever seen.

While Aerys boasted about his grandiose plans of building a new wall in the North

or a shiny marble-city on the other bank of the Blackwater,

it was Tywin who painstakingly worked to ensure that the kingdoms would actually thrive.

Years passed and it was slowly becoming obvious, that the realm's prosperity was in fact solely due to Tywin's merit,

though he gained little love for his service, as he was stern, insensitive and brutally effective.

Aerys had quickly grown jealous of his Hand, and their relationship, which was never easy, complicated even more.

The King's mental health degenerated over the years after multiple miscarriages and stillborns by his sister-wife Rhaella,

and the Duskendale mutiny, where Aerys was captured by the mutineers and imprisoned for half a year.

Although Lord Tywin and Ser Barristan Selmy managed to free him,

from then on the King feared for his life and didn't leave the Red Keep in King's Landing at all.

His suspicious nature gradually plunged into paranoia and Aerys slowly descended into madness.

He soon started to thwart Tywin's actions as a Hand and belittle his achievements,

, but even after the death of his beloved wife, Tywin stood firmly at the King's side.

Yet things started to change in 281 AC, when King Aerys appointed Tywin's son and heir,

fifteen-year-old Jaime Lannister as the youngest ever member of the Kingsguard.

On the surface, it was a great honour for House Lannister, yet with this cunning move Aerys stripped his Hand of an heir.

Lord Tywin, whose ambition was to restore the might of his house,