Editing Vale mountain clans (section)

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===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Sir Heartsalot T & Clansmen.jpg|thumb|350px|right|[[Bronn]], [[Tyrion Lannister]], and Tyrion's clansmen, by Sir Heartsalot ©]]
The clans have become more active since the death of [[Jon Arryn]], [[Lord of the Eyrie]].{{Ref|AGOT|34}}

While returning from [[King's Landing]], [[Catelyn Stark]] considers visiting her sister, the widowed Lady [[Lysa Arryn]], at the [[Eyrie]], but decides the passes through the [[Mountains of the Moon]] are too dangerous.{{Ref|AGOT|28}} After seizing [[Tyrion Lannister]] in the [[inn at the crossroads]], Catelyn decides to bring him east to the Eyrie rather than north to [[Winterfell]]. Their party is attacked by clansmen along the [[high road]]{{Ref|AGOT|31}} before they reach the [[Bloody Gate]].{{Ref|AGOT|34}}

After Tyrion wins his [[trial by combat]] at the Eyrie through his proxy, [[Bronn]], Lysa has them leave the [[Vale of Arryn]] through the dangerous high road. Tyrion and Bronn encounter clansmen during their journey, however. In return for promising them [[steel]]{{ref|AGOT|56}} so they can conquer the Vale,{{Ref|AGOT|42}} Tyrion enlists them to fight for his family, "[[House Lannister|Clan Lannister]]".{{Ref|AGOT|42}}

About three hundred clansmen join Tyrion as he leaves the foothills; [[Gunthor]] remains in the mountains to raise more clansmen.{{ref|AGOT|62}} When Tyrion reaches the encampment of his father, Lord [[Tywin Lannister]], near the [[inn at the crossroads]], he requests three thousand helms and hauberks among other [[armament]].{{ref|AGOT|56}} The three hundred fight alongside Tyrion in the Lannister vanguard during the [[battle on the Green Fork]], with perhaps half of them surviving.{{Ref|AGOT|62}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
Serving as the acting [[Hand of the King]], Tyrion brings the surviving clansmen to King's Landing, where they reside in barracks below the [[Tower of the Hand]].{{Ref|ACOK|3}} [[Petyr Baelish]] reports to Tyrion that Lysa Arryn has been dealing with raids of mountain clansmen in greater numbers and better armed than ever before; Tyrion, who had armed them, suggests he could help Lysa deal with the clans in exchange for her and and her son, Lord [[Robert Arryn]], swearing fealty to King [[Joffrey I Baratheon]].{{Ref|ACOK|17}} As Tyrion is without the benefit of [[House Lannister guards]]men, he uses the clansmen as his own guards and soldiers. Before the [[Battle of the Blackwater]], he sends them into the [[kingswood]] to disrupt the army of [[Stannis Baratheon]].{{Ref|ACOK|49}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
After the Blackwater, [[red cloaks]] and Kingslanders prevent [[Chella]] and the [[Black Ears]] from returning to the capital. [[Timett]] returns to the mountains with the [[Burned Men]], while [[Shagga]] remains in the kingswood with the [[Stone Crows]].{{Ref|ASOS|4}}

in the foothills of the Mountains of the Moon, [[Arya Stark]] and [[Sandor Clegane]] learn that the clans in the Vale are bolder as of late and are carrying steel, with Gunthor and Timett leading raids.{{Ref|ASOS|65}}