Editing Sandoq the Shadow (section)

==History==
Sandoq's history before his service to [[House Rogare]] is uncertain, but it is said that he had been a veteran [[pit fighter]] in [[Meereen]], with a hundred wins to his name. When Prince [[Viserys II Targaryen|Viserys Targaryen]] returned to [[King's Landing]] from [[Lys]] in {{Date|134}}, Sandoq accompanied Viserys's wife, Lady [[Larra Rogare]], as her personal guard. Larra liked to hear the music played by Sandoq on his [[Sandoq the Shadow's instrument|stringed instrument]], although it always made her cry.{{Ref|FAB|The Lysene Spring and the End of Regency}}

In {{Date|135}}, during the plot against the Rogare family amidst the [[Lysene Spring]], Larra and her kin were accused of being part of a conspiracy to overthrow King [[Aegon III Targaryen]], and Larra's arrest was ordered. Ser [[Amaury Peake]] of the [[Kingsguard]] and a dozen [[men-at-arms]] went to [[Maegor's Holdfast]] to arrest her, but Prince Viserys and King Aegon refused to give Larra up. Viserys planted an [[axe]] upon the drawbridge and warned Peake and his men not to cross it, before retreating back into the holdfast. When Amaury's men passed the axe, Sandoq emerged from Maegor's and slew all the guards with his Valyrian steel sword and Ser Amaury himself with the axe, tossing them on to the [[iron]] spikes of the dry moat below the drawbridge. After Sandoq was done, he retreated within the holdfast, and the king commanded the portcullis be lowered and the drawbridge raised. Thus began an [[Secret siege|eighteen-day standoff]] before the plot unraveled.{{Ref|FAB|The Lysene Spring and the End of Regency}}

[[File:Aegon III ends his regency by Doug Wheatley.jpg|350px|right|thumb|Sandoq accompanies King [[Aegon III Targaryen]] to end his [[Regency of Aegon III|regency]], as depicted by Douglas Wheatley in ''[[Fire & Blood]]''.]]
Sandoq, alongside several Kingsguard, accompanied King Aegon upon his sixteenth [[nameday]] when he entered the [[small council]] chambers. Sandoq's presence unnerved the [[Torrhen Manderly|Hand of the King]] and the [[Regency of Aegon III|regents]] as the king dismissed them from their service.{{Ref|FAB|The Lysene Spring and the End of Regency}}