Editing Robert's Rebellion (section)

===Sack of King's Landing===
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[[File:Eddard_Jaime_Aerys_Iron_Throne_Room.jpg|350px|thumb|Ned finds Jaime seated on the Iron Throne by Amok©]]
Already prior to the Battle of the Trident, King Aerys had been preparing his [[wildfire plot]]. His Hand of the King, Lord [[Qarlton Chelsted]], however, eventually became suspicious of the frequency with which the pyromancers visited the king. When he discovered the king's wildfire plot, he attempted to change the king's mind, and when nothing worked, he choose to resign his position. For this, Aerys had him burned alive.{{Ref|ASOS|37}} Following the Trident, Aerys named [[Rossart]], his favorite pyromancer,{{Ref|ASOS|37}} as his new Hand of the King.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Fall of the Dragons: The End}} He would only be Hand for a fortnight.{{Ref|ASOS|37}} Meanwhile, Aerys sent his wife, Queen [[Rhaella Targaryen|Rhaella]], and his new heir, their second son, Prince [[Viserys Targaryen|Viserys]], to [[Dragonstone]] for safety, where they would have the protection of, amongst others, Ser [[Willem Darry]], the master-at-arms of the [[Red Keep]], and [[royal fleet]].{{Ref|agot|39}}{{ref|agot|3}} Aerys refused to allow Rhaegar's wife, Princess [[Elia Martell]], and their children [[Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Rhaegar)|Rhaenys]] and [[Aegon Targaryen (son of Rhaegar)|Aegon]], to leave the city, keeping them by his side instead.{{ref|asos|37}}
 
While the Trident is seen by many as the decisive battle of the war, the capital remained untaken until the [[Sack of King's Landing]]{{Ref|ACOK|3}}{{Ref|AGOT|3}} (5 on the map) in {{date|283}},{{ref|ADWD|Appendix}} the last major battle of the war. Because [[Robert I Baratheon|Robert Baratheon]] had been injured in battle, Lord [[Eddard Stark]] and his army pursued the remnants of Rhaegar's army, who had fled back to the capital. Lord [[Tywin Lannister]], who had refused calls to arms from both the loyalists and the rebels until that point,{{ref|AGOT|12}} appeared at the gates of King's Landing with an army of twelve thousand men,{{Ref|agot|12}} mere hours before Eddard Stark would arrive.{{ref|agot|12}} Lord Tywin professed his loyalty to King Aerys, and while Lord [[Varys]] counseled Aerys to keep the gates locked, the king chose to listen to [[Grand Maester]] [[Pycelle]] and open the gates to Tywin's men. Once inside, the forces from the [[westerlands]] began to sack the city.{{Ref|asos|37}}

Upon the realization that all was lost, Aerys ordered Rossart to ignite the wildfire caches throughout the city, wishing to leave Robert nothing but “ashes and bones”. He ordered Ser [[Jaime Lannister]], Lord Tywin’s eldest son and the only knight of his [[Kingsguard]] present in the city, to kill Tywin and bring his head to Aerys. Instead, Jaime killed Rossart, and upon the realization that Aerys would simply give the order to burn the city down to another pyromancer, returned to the Red Keep and murdered Aerys himself in the throne room, mere seconds before soldiers from the westerlands entered.

Meanwhile, Ser [[Gregor Clegane]] and Ser [[Amory Lorch]] had entered [[Maegor's Holdfast]] to deal with the rest of the royal family, to secure the throne for Robert, and to prove that [[House Lannister]] had forsaken the Targaryens forever. Gregor killed Prince [[Aegon Targaryen (son of Rhaegar)|Aegon Targaryen]], Rhaegar's son and heir in front of the child's mother, Princess [[Elia Martell]], and then raped and murdered Elia herself with Aegon's blood and brains still on his hands. Amory dragged Princess [[Rhaenys Targaryen (daughter of Rhaegar)|Rhaenys Targaryen]] from under her father's bed and killed her, stabbing her half a hundred times.

When Eddard Stark arrived in the city, he found Jaime seated on the Iron Throne and Aerys's corpse slumped below it.{{Ref|AGOT|3}} Robert Baratheon arrived in the city at a later point, upon which he was presented with the bodies of Elia, Rhaenys and Aegon by Lord Tywin. Robert was pleased by these deaths, but Eddard called it murder of children. This resulted in an argument between Eddard and Robert, and Eddard rode out alone in anger to fight the final battles of the war in the south.{{ref|AGOT|12}}

In the days that followed the Sack of King's Landing, Jaime Lannister sought out and killed [[Garigus]] and [[Belis]], the remaining two pyromancers aware of the [[wildfire plot]].{{Ref|ASOS|37}}