Where was Renly Baratheon during Robert's Rebellion?
Six years old, in Storm’s End under siege with his brother Stannis, starving.
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karlmfmarx replied:
did you want to make me cry? because this is how you make me cry.
Everything about the Baratheon brothers makes me cry. :(
bubosquared replied:
Wait, isn’t that show-only? I thought book!Renly’d been sent Somewhere Unspecified for safety before the siege?
No, it’s not show-only? (Selyse being there during the siege was show!only – in the books Stannis wasn’t married yet.) Renly was kept safe during Robert’s Rebellion, but it wasn’t Somewhere Unspecified, it was Storm’s End. I’m sure it was considered very safe… up until the siege, that is.
“When my brother falls, see that no insult is done to his corpse. He is my own blood, I will not have his head paraded about on a spear.”
“And if he yields?” Lord Tarly asked.
“Yields?” Lord Rowan laughed. “When Mace Tyrell laid siege to Storm’s End, Stannis ate rats rather than open his gates.”
“Well I remember.” Renly lifted his chin to allow Brienne to fasten his gorget in place. “Near the end, Ser Gawen Wylde and three of his knights tried to steal out a postern gate to surrender. Stannis caught them and ordered them flung from the walls with catapults. I can still see Gawen’s face as they strapped him down. He had been our master-at-arms.”
Lord Rowan appeared puzzled. “No men were hurled from the walls. I would surely remember that.”
“Maester Cressen told Stannis that we might be forced to eat our dead, and there was no gain in flinging away good meat.” Renly pushed back his hair. Brienne bound it with a velvet tie and pulled a padded cap down over his ears, to cushion the weight of his helm. “Thanks to the Onion Knight we were never reduced to dining on corpses, but it was a close thing. Too close for Ser Gawen, who died in his cell.”
–A Clash of Kings, Catelyn IV
