The Court

The brother who held a castle for him and was never once thanked for it.

The brother who looked most like him and least resembled him.

Robert's father, drowned within sight of home.

The founder of Robert's house, three centuries before him.

Robert's niece, and the only trueborn Baratheon of her generation.

The Baratheon ancestor whose temper Robert inherited wholesale.

Robert's grandfather, whose marriage gave the stag its claim to the throne.

Foster brother, closest friend, and the one man who told Robert the truth.

The woman Robert was to marry, and the memory he never once let go.

Lyanna and Ned's father, murdered by the king Robert overthrew.

Ned's son, raised up as a king in the wreckage Robert left behind.

Lyanna and Ned's eldest brother, murdered in the throne room.

The boy Robert believed was his son and heir.

His daughter in name and law, and in nothing else.

The youngest of the three children Robert never fathered.

His queen, his alliance, and the architect of his ruin.

The knight who won Robert his throne and fathered the children Robert thought were his.

The late ally whose price for helping was a throne shaped around his family.

The squire who poured the wine on Robert's last hunt.

The king who forged the throne Robert would one day take by force.

The man who took Lyanna, and the reason the hammer came down at the Trident.

The king whose demand for Robert's head began the rebellion.

The exiled child Robert wanted dead — the order that cost him Ned Stark.

Robert's grandmother — the dragon's blood that made him a claimant rather than a rebel.

Robert's great-great-grandfather by way of Rhaelle — and Rhaegar's too.

The foster father who raised Robert, then went to war rather than surrender him.

Jon Arryn's wife — the second wedding that paid for Robert's war.

The lord whose price for joining the rebellion was two weddings.

Ned's wife — betrothed first to his brother, and part of the price of the rebellion.

The besieger Stannis outlasted at Storm's End.

A later queen, in the dynasty Robert's marriage left behind.

The lord whose rebellion gave Robert his last real war.

The price Balon paid for rebelling against Robert.

The enemy knight Robert saved, then promoted.

The master of coin who conjured Robert's gold — and Robert's debt.

The smuggler whose onions kept Robert's brother alive.

Robert's mother, lost in the same wreck as his father.

The last child Robert fathered, born in King's Landing at the very end.

A daughter Robert left behind in the town where he hid from a king's Hand.

The son who inherited everything of Robert's except the knowledge of it.

Robert's firstborn bastard, and by some accounts the child he actually loved.

Robert's one openly recognised bastard.

The whisperer who told Robert exactly as much as suited Varys.

Robert's great-great-grandmother, married for love into the dragon line.

One of three vassals who rose against Robert and lost inside a day.

The royal Hand who came closest to ending Robert before the Trident.

A stormlord vassal who chose the king, and met Robert's hammer at Summerhall.

The captive enemy Robert turned into a follower — his signature trick.

Stannis's wife — and the marriage that soured before Robert's ever began.

Edric Storm's mother, and the reason Stannis never forgave his brother.

The legendary builder of Storm's End, where Robert was born and raised.

Another of the three stormlords Robert scattered before the war truly started.

The commander who handed Robert the only defeat of his career.