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two In 258 on Esos, another challenge rose to Egon's reign when nine outlaws, exiles, pirates, and cell-sword captains met in the disputed lands beneath the tree of crowns to form an unholy alliance.

The band of nine swore their oath of mutual aid and support in carving out kingdoms for each

of their members. Among them was the last blackfire, Maly's the Monstrous, who had command

of the Golden Company, and the kingdom they pledged to win for him, was the seven kingdoms.

Prince Duncan, when told of the pact, famously remarked that crowns were being sold nine a penny.

Thereafter, the band of nine became known as the Nine Penny Kings in Westeros.

It was thought at first that the free cities of Esos would surely bring their power against them and put an end to their

pretensions. But nonetheless, preparations were made should Maly's and his allies turn on the seven

kingdoms. Yeah, welcome back, my fellow Westerians. That is a great quote to start this fun episode off

about Males the Mant, and the Nine Penny Kings

and the Band of Nine, when Septin Maribald gave his famous Broken Man speech, one of the more

memorable and moving passages in the entire series of books. This was the war he was talking of. Of course,

he was speaking of war in general, but he himself fought in the War of Nine Penny Kings,

and it's the one that he remembers most clearly, most personal.

I think it's fair to say Robert Trebellion was a war that did a lot to define the lives of the men and women who came of age roughly 20 years before a Song of Ice and Fire started.

The war that defined their fathers and mothers

generation, however, if any did, was the war of 9.10 Kings. Like Roberts Rebellion, there are

huge gaps in our knowledge of what actually transpired during it, but we know quite a lot

and the world we're given is so well defined that we can extrapolate quite a bit more too.

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