Editing Field of Fire

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| image = [[File:Fields of Fire2.jpg|350px]]
| caption = Men burned alive by the [[dragons]], supplemental art from ''[[Game of Thrones]]''
| battle_name = Field of Fire
| conflict = [[Aegon's Conquest]]
| date = Around {{Date|-2}}
| place = Northern [[Reach]], south of the [[Blackwater Rush]] and near the [[Goldroad]]
| result = [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] victory<br>Extinction of [[House Gardener]]<br>Submission of [[House Lannister]]
| combatant1 = [[File:House Targaryen.svg|30px]] '''[[House Targaryen]]'''
*[[File:House Mooton.svg|20px]]  [[House Mooton]]
| combatant2 = [[File:House Lannister.svg|30px]] '''[[Kingdom of the Rock]]'''/[[House Lannister]]:
[[File:House Gardener.svg|30px]] '''[[Kingdom of the Reach]]'''/[[House Gardener]]:
*[[Order of the Green Hand]]
*[[File:House Florent.svg|20px]] [[House Florent]]{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}
*[[File:House Oakheart.svg|20px]] [[House Oakheart]]{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}
*[[File:House Peake.svg|20px]] [[House Peake]]{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}
*[[File:House Redwyne.svg|20px]] [[House Redwyne]]{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}
*[[File:House Rowan.svg|20px]] [[House Rowan]]{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}
| commander1 = [[File:House Targaryen.svg|20px]] [[Aegon I Targaryen]]<br>[[File:House Mooton.svg|20px]] Lord [[Jon Mooton]]
| commander2 = [[File:House Lannister.svg|20px]] [[Loren I Lannister]]<br>[[File:House Gardener.svg|20px]] [[Mern IX Gardener]]†<br>[[File:House Gardener.svg|20px]] [[Edmund Gardener]]†<br>[[File:House Oakheart.svg|20px]] Lord [[House Oakheart|Oakheart]]
| strength1 = 11,000 and 3 [[dragon]]s
| strength2 = 55,000
| casualties1 = Fewer than 100 men<br>[[Visenya Targaryen]] injured{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}
| casualties2 = 4,000 men burned alive<br>1,000 from sword and spears<br>30,000 surrendered<br>[[Mern IX Gardener]]†<br>[[Edmund Gardener]]†<br>[[Gawen Gardener]]†<br>Lord [[Armen Peake]]†
}}

The '''Field of Fire''' was a major battle during [[Aegon I Targaryen]]'s [[Aegon's Conquest|war of conquest]]. According to semi-canon sources the field is located in the northern part of the [[Reach]].<ref>''[[A Game of Thrones (game)|A Game of Thrones RPG and Resource Book]]'', Guardians of Order</ref>

==Prelude==
[[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon Targaryen]], Lord of [[Dragonstone]], landed at what would become [[King's Landing]] and began subjugating the [[Seven Kingdoms]]. After the submissions of [[burning of Harrenhal|Harrenhal]], [[Crackclaw Point]], and [[Last Storm|Storm's End]], Aegon and his sisters, [[Visenya Targaryen|Visenya]] and [[Rhaenys Targaryen|Rhaenys]], gathered at [[Stoney Sept]] with their [[dragon]]s. Most of [[House Targaryen]]'s soldiers were conscripts from the recently-liberated [[riverlands]]. Lord [[Jon Mooton]] of [[Maidenpool]], one of the first lords to come over to the Targaryens, was given command of the Targaryen army.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}{{Ref|AGOT|13}}

[[Loren I Lannister]], [[King of the Rock]], joined forces with [[Mern IX Gardener]], [[King of the Reach]], at [[Goldengrove]] in an attempt to throw the Targaryen invaders back. Between the two kings they had roughly 55,000 men, roughly five times as many as the Targaryens, including 5,000 mounted [[knight]]s. Marching beside King Mern were the [[House Oakheart|Oakhearts]], the [[House Florent|Florents]], the [[House Rowan|Rowans]], the [[House Peake|Peakes]], and the [[House Redwyne|Redwynes]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}

Having brought half as many more men to the battle than Loren, Mern commanded the center and his son [[Edmund Gardener|Edmund]] led the vanguard. Loren led the right wing while Lord [[House Oakheart|Oakheart]] had the left.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

Lord [[Manfred Hightower (Aegon's Conquest)|Manfred Hightower]], the Lord of the [[Hightower]], heeded the advice of the [[High Septon (Aegon's Conquest)|High Septon]] and did not join his liege lord, King Mern, on the march and instead kept his forces back at [[Oldtown]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

==Battle==
The two armies met in the plains south of the [[Blackwater Rush|Blackwater]], near the present [[Goldroad]]. While the Two Kings hoped to flank Aegon and then smash Aegon's center with knights, the Targaryens established themselves in a defensive crescent.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

The allies' charge began to break the Targaryen spear lines, but Aegon and his sisters took to the air on their dragons, [[Balerion]], [[Meraxes]], and [[Vhagar]]. The dragons began to set the dry field aflame on all sides, especially upwind of the [[House Gardener|Gardener]] and [[House Lannister|Lannister]] armies. Lord Mooten's Targaryen forces were safely upwind, allowing them to finish off allied soldiers who emerged from the flame. King Loren rode through the flame to safety when he realized Aegon would be triumphant.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

The dragons killed 4,000 men of the combined Lannister and Gardener army, among them King Mern and all of his sons, grandsons, brothers, uncles, cousins, and other kin.{{Ref|AGOT|13}}{{Ref|FAB|Aegon's Landing and Conquest}} The knights of the [[Order of the Green Hand]] were wiped out.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: Highgarden}} Lord [[Armen Peake]] and his sons perished.{{ref|fab|Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows}} Another thousand men perished from sword and spears and arrows while 10,000 men suffered burns. Of the Targaryens less than 100 were lost while Visenya took an arrow to the shoulder. One nephew of King Mern survived the battle, but he died of his burns three days later. When he died, House Gardener died with him.{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

The battle, the only time in [[Aegon's Conquest]] in which all three Targaryen dragons took to the battlefield at the same time, become known afterward as the Field of Fire.{{Ref|AGOT|13}}

==Aftermath==
[[File:Loren Kneels HBO.png|thumb|350px|right|Loren the Last bends the knee, as depicted in ''[[Game of Thrones]]'': ''Histories & Lore''.]]
The swords of the defeated were sent downriver on the [[Blackwater Rush]] to the [[Aegonfort]], where they would form part of [[Aegon I Targaryen|Aegon the Conqueror]]'s [[Iron Throne]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}{{Ref|AGOT|43}} [[Loren I Lannister]], [[King of the Rock]], was detained the following day. Loren the Last gave up his claim to kingship and became [[Warden of the West]] under the rule of [[House Targaryen]].{{Ref|AGOT|13}}

Aegon marched for the extinct Gardeners' seat of [[Highgarden]], whose steward, [[Harlan Tyrell]], surrendered without conflict. Aegon rewarded him by giving [[House Tyrell]] dominion over the [[Reach]] and raising him to Lord of Highgarden, [[Lord Paramount of the Mander]], and [[Warden of the South]].{{Ref|AGOT|Appendix}}{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}} The Houses [[House Oakheart|Oakheart]], [[House Florent|Florent]], [[House Rowan|Rowan]], [[House Peake|Peake]], and [[House Redwyne|Redwyne]] bitterly protested the elevation of the Tyrells, insisting that their blood was nobler than that of the "upjumped stewards" and that they had closer relations to House Gardener,{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}} with the Florents boasting the superior claim by blood.{{Ref|ASOS|Appendix}} However, their protests were unsuccessful, perhaps in part because they had taken arms against the Targaryens on the Field of Fire, as speculated by Maester [[Yandel]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reach: House Tyrell}}

After the surrender of Highgarden, Aegon marched north to the [[Red Fork]] of the [[Trident]] to face 30,000 [[north]]men marching south under the leadership of [[Torrhen Stark]], [[King in the North]]. Aegon and his sisters gathered an army of 45,000 from the [[riverlands]], [[stormlands]], Reach, and [[westerlands]] in response. Having learned of the [[burning of Harrenhal]] and the Field of Fire, Torrhen [[Inn of the Kneeling Man|knelt]] in submission to Aegon rather than give combat, becoming Aegon's [[Warden of the North]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest}}

==Quotes==
{{Quote|It was the only time that [[Vhagar]], [[Meraxes]], and [[Balerion]] were all unleashed at once. The singers called it the Field of Fire.{{Ref|AGOT|13}}|thoughts of [[Tyrion Lannister]]}}

==References==
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