The Meeting Ambush

[edricdayne]

Damn, that was an ambush to tell a story about. Geez... Poor Hightowers are gone. Aaron is gone too. Who will lead the reach now?

[Fel]

The Hightower line is most definitely not finished just because Robert died. An ancient and powerful family like that would have no end of heirs.

[syd]

Very right. It would almost certainly fall to a cadet branch now.

[Lord Rhodri Arryn]

Agreed with both above.

[melon]

I was going to write it about a Bastard that Robert had.

[Lord Rhodri Arryn]

Cousins or cadet lines would take primacy over bastards.

[melon]

It was always written that Robert father was an only child then it was Robert and Donals wife then she died and now Robert is died so yea.

[Erik]

And Robert's father's father had no siblings? And his father's father's father? And his father's father's father's father?

[melon]

Yea thats pretty much true

[Princess Ariel Targaryen]

Yeah. Though once things fall this far, it starts to get messy and lords have been known to reassign. Particularly if the next heir already holds somewhere.

[Fel]

There would still be plenty of people with the Hightower name though. Like Crake said, there would be cadet branches who had their own holdings, and they would probably all be pretty aware of who had the better claim.

[syd]

fel said:

There would still be plenty of people with the Hightower name though. Like Crake said, there would be cadet branches who had their own holdings, and they would probably all be pretty aware of who had the better claim.

Agreed.