The Mystery Knight ÔÇö Dunk XII
The net closes without a battle: Daemon taken, the wedding lords bled white with fines, Whitewalls forfeit ÔÇö to be pulled down stone by stone. Bloodraven, a thousand eyes and one, lets a certain hedge knight and his squire ride free ÔÇö with a nod that says he knows everything.
The chapter retold
The Second Blackfyre Rebellion ends without a battle worth the name. Daemon is taken alive, the wedding lords are bled white with fines, and Whitewalls is forfeit ÔÇö to be pulled down stone by stone so that no monument to the gathering remains. The chapter closes on the age's presiding intelligence: Bloodraven, a thousand eyes and one, lets a certain hedge knight and his shaven-headed squire ride free with a nod that says he has known exactly who they are, and what they are worth, the entire time. The saga's last completed tale ends with Dunk and Egg back on the road ÔÇö small players who keep turning up at the hinges of history, watched over by a spymaster who misses nothing.
This movement: The Black Dragon and the White
- The Fiddler unmasked: Daemon the Second of House Blackfyre, come to hatch a dragon and a rebellion in the same marble hall.
- Egg's boot yields Maekar's signet ring, and Dunk spends its weight to buy Glendon Ball a knight's answer: trial by joust against the pretender himself.
- Fireball's son puts the black dragon in the dirt in a single course ÔÇö and dawn shows Bloodraven's host ringed around Whitewalls.
- The Second Blackfyre Rebellion ends without a battle: Daemon taken, the wedding lords fined to the bone, Black Tom Heddle dead on Dunk's sword, and Whitewalls condemned to come down stone by stone.