Place

Rook's Rest

The Crownlands

Kind
Castle
Region
The Crownlands

House Staunton's seat, and Criston Cole's trap. Meleys and Rhaenys die here, Sunfyre is crippled, Aegon burns. Aegon is still hiding in the ruins in season 3.

What happens here

  1. S2E4 Criston baits a dragon out with a siege. Aegon flies in uninvited on Sunfyre and Aemond waits in cloud on Vhagar.
  2. S2E4 Criston Cole marches the crown's host up the coast to Rook's Rest, which is the bait.
  3. S2E4 Meleys kills Sunfyre's flight and is torn out of the sky by Vhagar. Rhaenys dies with her.
  4. S2E4 Vhagar's fire takes Sunfyre and Aegon together. Aemond does not call her off.
  5. S3E4 Aegon mourns over a dragon's body in the ruins at Rook's Rest.
  6. S3E5 Tyland Lannister finds Aegon and Larys hiding in the ruins at Rook's Rest.
  7. S3E7 Soldiers find Aegon and Tyland. Sunfyre appears and kills them.

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