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Siege of Meereen II
Mike Capprotti Ser Barristan.jpg
Ser Barristan Selmy will command his queen's forces © FFG
Place Meereen
Result to be decided
Combatants
Daenerys Host Yunkai army, allies and hired mercenaries
Commanders
Ser Barristan Selmy
Grey Worm
Widower & Jokin
Skahaz mo Kandaq
Symon Stripeback
Marselen
Tal Toraq
Rakharo
Great Masters
The Tattered Prince
Bloodbeard
Brown Ben Plumm
Gylo Rhegan
Strength
Total: max. 14.000
8,600 Unsullied

Brazen Beasts
Mother's Men
Free Brothers
Stalwart Shields
26 squires of Ser Barristan
Khaleesi's Dothraki warriors
500 Stormcrows
~200 Pit Fighters
Viserion?
Rhaegal?
The Iron Fleet?
Total: est. ~56.000
est. 10000-15000 Yunkai army
3 galleys and 4-6 legions out of New Ghis each 6,000 men strong
100 armored and towered war elephants
Tolosi slingers
500 Second Sons
2,000 Windblown
3000 Company of the Cat
800 Long Lances
300 Elyrian Crossbowmen
Qartheen fleet
Qartheen Camel Corps
The six sisters
Casualties
unknown Little Pigeon killed by Red Lamb, Pudding Face killed by the Windblown
Ser Barristan looks at a smouldering Meereen - by Marc Fishman ©

The Second Siege of Meereen is about to take place at the start of The Winds of Winter.

Prelude

Yunkai and her allies march on Meereen in order to cast down Queen Daenerys Targaryen and retake Meereen.

Daenerys marries Hizdahr zo Loraq, a Ghiscari noble of the city of Meereen, in order to broker peace. Daenerys holds the wedding feast in the Great Pyramid, with the Yunkish lords and sellsword captains in attendance. An exchange of seven hostages is arranged in order to ensure the peace. The Yunkai remain encamped outside of Meereen and the peace does not last after Daenerys goes missing on her dragon Drogon. Her Hand Ser Barristan Selmy has to take command in her stead along with the ruling council of Meereen.

Meanwhile Tyrion Lannister and Ser Jorah Mormont escape slavery and join the Second Sons encamped outside the city. Both Tyrion and Ser Jorah have surmised that the Second Sons are fighting for the wrong side and they need to go over to Daenerys Targaryen, Ser Jorah says,

“We are all like to be feeding worms by the time this battle is done. The Yunkai'i have lost this war, though it may take them some time to know it. Meereen has an army of Unsullied infantry, the finest in the world. And Meereen has dragons. Three of them, once the queen returns. She will. She must. Our side consists of two score Yunkish lordlings, each with his own half-trained monkey men. Slaves on stilts, slaves in chains … they may have troops of blind men and palsied children too, I would not put it past them.”

Just as the battle commences Victarion Greyjoy and the Iron Fleet arrive in the bay.

Battle

The battle begins shortly before dawn. Dead men and dragons move through the sky, whilst warships crash and clash on Slaver's Bay and Ironborn are swarming ashore. The battle is split in two, one out on the bay, another one beneath the city.

The battle fought beneath the city

  • Dragonbreaker - defended by ?
  • Harridan - defended by a Ghiscari legion 6,000 strong, herons
  • Harpy's Daughter - defended by Bloodbeard and two Ghiscari legions
  • Wicked Sister - defended by ?
  • Ghost of Astapor - defended by the Long Lances
  • Mazdhan's Fist - defended by ?

Ser Barristan leads the charge on the Harridan with all available cavalry fighters, while all of the Unsullied he could muster pour out the city gates to form a shield wall and face the bulk of the enemy force. A number of Meereen's pit fighters also join the attack. The Harridan is being defended by a Ghiscari legion six thousand strong and six ranks deep.

Ser Barristan is making a feint at the Harridan and he suddenly turns away from the legion guarding the trebuchet at the last minute and heads for Paezhar zo Myraq's Herons. In the air Viserion is snatching and devouring corpses being thrown by the Wicked Sister.

The Second Sons are commanded by the Girl General to defend the Wicked Sister. They have a meeting in Brown Ben's tent. By this time Viserion has flown back to his lair in the Pyramid of Uhlez. A Yunkish nobleman then comes to the tent to inform them that Morghaz zo Zherzyn, supreme commander of the Yunkai'i, wants them to defend the Harpy's Daughter instead, as the Unsullied are advancing toward the trebuchet while Bloodbeard and two Ghiscari legions stand against them.

The Second Sons are then informed that Gorzhak zo Eraz has been slain, cut down by the Tattered Prince - meaning that the Windblown have gone over to Daenerys Targaryen. The Yunkish nobleman suddenly recognises Tyrion as an escaped slave and demands he be turned over. Ser Jorah Mormont answers the nobleman by killing him with his sword. Brown Ben Plumm then announces that the Seconds Sons have always been the queen's men and that rejoining the Yunkai'i was just a plot.

The battle fought out on the bay

Warships crash and clash on Slaver's Bay. Rhaegal circles above the bay banking and turning. The ships of the Yunkai and her allies are are sinking, burning, fleeing, being taken, and their men put to the sword. The ironborn are swarming ashore.

Result

To be decided.

Quotes

Dragons wheeled overhead, their shadows sweeping across the upturned faces of friend and foe alike.


We have ironborn swarming ashore and Ser Barristan and his Unsullied pouring out the city gates, with us between them, fighting on the wrong bloody side. I am terrified myself."

- Tyrion, to Penny


"We do not want to be fighting for the slavers when Daenerys returns… and she will, make no mistake. Strike now and strike hard, and the queen will not forget it. Find her hostages and free them. And I will swear on the honor of my house and home that this was Brown Ben's plan from the beginning."

- Ser Jorah, to Inkpots

References and Notes