someone who has read the books up until now, any insight to this?
Posted Jun 28, 2011, 9:09 PM UTC
Spoiler Obviously:
I'm not too sure what you're referring too. I'm assuming you mean when Robert and Ned overthrew king's landing and made Robert King.
Basically, here is what happened:
The Targaryen's showed up after their civilization was destroyed (never explained how) they conquered Westeros and ruled for hundreds of years, using dragons to enforce their power. The dragons eventually died out.
Brandon Stark (Ned's older brother) was about to marry, Catelyn Tully, but learned that Lyanna Stark (Ned and Brandon's Sister) had been kidnapped by Prince Rhaegar Targaryen (daenerys' older brother, not Viserys). Brandon rode to the Red Keep and demanded her back.
King Aerys II ("The Mad King", Rhaegar, Viserys, and Daenery's father) ordered Brandon arrested. Then he ordered Lord Rickard Start (Ned'd Father) to come to King's landing for a trial by combat for his Son's freedom. Aerys then killed Lord Rickard and Brandon and all the Stark soldiers present.
So long story short Robert Baratheon, Ned Stark, Jon Arryan and others went to war. Eventually making it to King's Landing. At this point Jamie Lannister (one of the King's sworn body guards) stabs him in the back, hence his insulting nickname "Kingslayer."
Robert becomes King, Jon Arryan becomes the Hand, and because Brandon and Lyanna are dead, Ned marries Catelyn.
Later on, there is the Greyjoy rebellion, but thats a different issue.
Check the wiki for a more detailed account. This is actually a crude summary....
I think you mean "the fall of King's Landing"? The name of the capital city is "King's Landing". Anyway a full answer to that question would, no exaggeration, take several pages of text. Short version is Rhaegar disappeared with Lyanna, Brandon and Rickard went to Aerys to demand that Rhaegar return Lyanna, Aerys killed both of them and then sent word to Jon to bring him Robert and Ned so he could kill them too, and Jon said fuck that Aerys Time is over.