Marston Waters

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Marston Waters
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Born Dragonstone
Died In 135 ACKing's Landing[1]
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Ser Marston Waters was a knight of Aegon II Targaryen's Kingsguard and served briefly as Lord Commander and Hand of the King for Aegon III Targaryen.[2][3]

Ser Marston had kin in Dragonstone. He was the bastard son of Tom Tanglebeard’s sister by the knight who took her maidenhead. He was also Tom Tangletongue’s cousin. Marston had other "cousins" on Dragonstone but none of them were actual blood relations.[2]

History

The Dance of the Dragons

When Rhaenyra Targaryen's dragons first appeared in the skies above King's Landing, Lord Larys Strong spirited King Aegon II Targaryen and his children out of the city. He concealed the fugitive king on a fishing skiff and put him in the care of Ser Marston. The skiff sailed for Dragonstone.[2]

After his arrival Aegon stayed hidden on Dragonstone. The wounded Sunfyre eventually returned from Rook's Rest to Dragonstone and fought and killed the Grey Ghost. After his return Ser Marston and his cousins set sail to look for the Grey Ghost’s killer, whom they suspected was Sunfyre. Aegon and Sunfyre were reunited. While they both healed the Two Toms and Ser Marston returned to the other side of the island to seek out men willing to help them take Dragonstone castle.[2]

Marston, Tom Tangletongue, and their men managed to take the castle but Lady Baela Targaryen managed to elude them, locate her dragon Moondancer and rise up on her to challenge Aegon and Sunfyre as they made their descent. After hitting the ground she dragged herself away from her dying dragon, Ser Alfred Broome drew his sword to slay her but Marston wrenched the blade from his hand, saving her life.[2][4]

For his valor King Aegon named Marston to his Kingsguard. Marston, along with the other knights and lords present, did not speak a word of protest when King Aegon delivered his half-sister to his dragon.[2]

After Aegon II returned to King's Landing, he sent Ser Marston across the Narrow Sea to hire sellswords. Ser Marston was unsuccessful as the Triarchy at the time was descending into civil war and hiring mercenaries for the upcoming conflict, Ser Marston could not match the wages the free cities offered so he departed empty handed. By the time Ser Marston returned, King Aegon II was dead.[5]

Reign of Aegon III

Ser Marston kept his position as a knight of the Kingsguard under the new boy king, Aegon III Targaryen as the Regents wanted to show reconciliation between the greens and the blacks. Thus Ser Marston and Ser Willis Fell (both greens) were allowed to retain their positions of the Kingsguard with Ser Willis being named Lord Commander of the Kingsguard and Marston being his second. King Aegon though never forgot how Marston did nothing when his mother died.[6]

After the death of Ser Willis, king Aegon named Ser Robin Massey and Ser Robert Darklyn to the Kingsguard and named Ser Robin as the new Lord Commander passing over Ser Marston. The King's Hand, Lord Unwin Peake, later undid the king's appointments and named Waters as the new Lord Commander of the Kingsguard. Ser Marston personally knighted Alyn Oakenfist when he was honored at a lavish ceremony before the court. During the Maiden's Day Cattle Show, Marston attempted to block the twins Baela and Rhaena Targaryen from entering the hall on their chargers, only for Baela to strike him with her riding crop.[3]

According to Mushroom, the paranoid Lord Peake was convinced that the pregnant Baela was plotting to kill the king if she had a boy and said as much to Ser Marston once.[7]

In 35 AC during the regency of Aegon III, Marston became Hand of the King, after Lord Thaddeus Rowan was arrested for alleged treason. It was said that Prince Viserys, Lysene wife and kin were part of a plot to overthrow King Aegon. Ser Marston ordered the arrest of Lady Larra Rogare, already having arrested her brothers, but her husband Prince Viserys Targaryen and her brother-in-law King Aegon III refused to give her up and locked themselves within Maegor's Holdfast, where they would remain for eighteen days in what would later become known as the secret siege.

Ser Marston refused to storm the castle, as he did not wish to dishonour the white cloak by ordering an attack on the king he had sworn to protect. After the false confession of Lord Thaddeus Rowan, Marston recalled his duty and fulfilled his king's command to arrest those who had implicated Lord Rowan and the Rogares falsely. Ser Marston was eventually slain by his own sworn brother, Ser Mervyn Flowers, when Marston attempted to arrest him. At the time of his death, Ser Marston had held the office of King's Hand for less than a moon's turn. [1][4]

When Lord George Graceford was questioned about those involved in the plot, he claimed Ser Marston was involved from the start, it is not known if this was true or not. Some historians suspect Ser Marston might have been no more than a catspaw, a simple knight deceived by a more cunning man. [1]

Family

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Tom
Tanglebeard
 
Unknown
 
Sister
 
Unknown
knight
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Tom
Tangletongue
 
 
 
 
 
Marston
Waters
 


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Fire & Blood, The Lysene Spring and the End of Regency.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 The Princess and the Queen.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Fire & Blood, Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows.
  4. 4.0 4.1 The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aegon III.
  5. Fire & Blood, The Dying of the Dragons- Rhaenyra Overthrown.
  6. Fire & Blood, Under the Regents - The Hooded Hand.
  7. Fire & Blood, Under the Regents - The Voyage of Alyn Oakenfist.