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| Lodos the Twice-Drowned's rebellion | |||||||||||||
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| Date | 37 AC | ||||||||||||
| Place | Iron Islands | ||||||||||||
| Result | Iron Throne victory | ||||||||||||
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Lodos the Twice-Drowned's revolt was a revolt by Lodos the Twice-Drowned against the Iron Throne in 37 AC.
History
King Aegon I Targaryen led an invasion of the Iron Islands as part of the Wars of Conquest. One of the claimants opposing Aegon was Lodos, a barefoot holy man who claimed to be the son of the Drowned God.[1] Lodos, unsuccessful in his call for krakens to destroy the fleets from the green lands, filled his robes with stones and walked into the Sunset Sea, claiming he would take counsel with the Drowned God. Thousands of his followers did the the same, and their drowned bodies continued to wash up on Old Wyk in the following years, although the body of Lodos was never found.[1][2]
Following the death of Aegon the Conqueror and the coronation of his son, Aenys I Targaryen, in 37 AC, revolts broke out throughout Westeros, including Harren the Red's rebellion in the riverlands, Jonos Arryn's rebellion in the Vale of Arryn, and the Second Dornish War. In the Iron Islands, a priest-king calling himself Lodos the Twice-Drowned claimed to have returned at last from visiting the Drowned God.[3]
Goren Greyjoy, Lord of the Iron Islands, dealt with "King" Lodos's rebellion himself. Lord Greyjoy descended on Old Wyk and Great Wyk, where Lodos's support was strongest, with a hundred longships, and the pretender's followers were cut down by the thousands. Goren had Lodos's head pickled in brine and sent to King's Landing as a gift for Aenys.[3]
Pleased by Lord Greyjoy's actions, King Aenys offered his vassal a boon of his chance. Goren requested permission to expel septons and septas from the Iron Islands and thereby halt conversions from the Drowned God to the Faith of the Seven, to which Aenys agreed.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fire & Blood, Reign of the Dragons - The Wars of King Aegon I.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Iron Islands: The Greyjoys of Pyke.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Fire & Blood, The Sons of the Dragon.