Editing Aegon's Conquest (section)

===Submission of the North===
[[File:The King Who Knelt by Jota Saraiva.jpg|thumb|right|400px|The King Who Knelt, by Jota Saraiva]]
Aegon's next planned to secure [[Oldtown]], the [[Arbor]], and [[Dorne]], but while at Highgarden he learned that [[Torrhen Stark]], [[King in the North]], had crossed the [[Neck]] with an army of [[north]]men some thirty thousand strong. In response, Aegon and his queens gathered the lords and knights who had already yielded to [[House Targaryen]].

When Torrhen's northmen reached the [[Trident]], they found a Targaryen host half again their size south of the river, including men from the [[Reach]], [[riverlands]], [[stormlands]], and [[westerlands]]. Some northern lords wanted to attack, while others wanted to fortify [[Moat Cailin]]. [[Brandon Snow]] offered to assassinate the sleeping Targaryen [[dragons]]. With Harrenhal and the Field of Fire in mind, however, Torrhen instead sent Brandon with [[maesters]] to negotiate a peace. The following day Torrhen crossed the Trident and yielded to Aegon, becoming [[Lord of Winterfell]] and [[Warden of the North]]. Torrhen has subsequently been known as ''the King Who Knelt''.{{ref|TWOIAF|The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}