What If Ned Stark Took Joffrey Hostage Before Robert Died?

Join our Discord community:   / discord   The throne room doors closed behind Joffrey. Robert was alive, away on the hunt. Ned Stark set the Hand's seal on the table and his men barred the doors. "Hound, kill him." Sandor Clegane did not move. A living king could still ask why his Hand was dead. Ned had the book of lineages, a black-haired apprentice at a forge, and a question he could not prove. In the show he warned Cersei first. Here he held her son behind two doors, fed and unchained, so that Robert would hear the truth before the children vanished. Then the boar found the king. Now Cersei holds the city outside the room, Janos Slynt holds the gate, and a paid berth at the quay is the only road home for Sansa and Arya. Can a man who took the heir hostage still get his daughters out of King's Landing? ▶ The full alternate history, in one video. Settle in. Unofficial fan-made alternate history of Game of Thrones. =================(CHAPTERS)================= 0:00 Cold Open — The Hand's Seal 0:32 Act I — A King's Son Behind a Door 4:43 Act II — A Mother at the Threshold 9:16 Act III — The Other Two Children 13:33 Act IV — The Wounded King 18:53 Act V — An Accusation Is Not a Verdict 23:35 Act VI — The Price of a Berth 29:25 Act VII — When the King Can No Longer Answer 35:34 Act VIII — The Exchange 40:32 Act IX — The Empty Chair #GameOfThrones #NedStark #Joffrey #TheHound #Cersei #RobertBaratheon #ASOIAF #AlternateHistory #Westeros #RewrittenWesteros