Game of thrones: The Red lion

[ The next day ]

My presence in this world hasn't really change anything major in the grand scheme of things yet, or well before yesterday. The fact that I have been named heir is a massive change , I expected Father to not want to name me as heir like he did with Tyrion in the future.

Arriving at the door to my Father's study, the two red cloaks opened the door for me. I could see Tywin sat behind his desk with a board in front of him, Inviting me to sit down on the chair in front of him with a hand gesture he says "do you know what this is?" indicating towards the board in front of him. 

Recognising what it is I reply "It is a Cyvasse board ?" with a curious tone as to why he has one without the pieces. Inwardly I'm surprised, Cyvasse originates from Volantis and has been played their for decades, however not a lot of Westerosi know this and assume that Dorne created Cyvasse because it is very popular there.

"It is, do you know how to play?" to which I respond with a Cyvasse is like a much more complicated chess, with pieces that can only take out certain pieces. I learn the rules from a book of foreign games by Maester Wrentall.

"Good" he says as he fold up a screen, the screen was there to make sure that you couldn't see other player's formation. The game pieces of Cyvasse are: rabble,crossbowmen,spearmen, light horse, heavy horse, trebuchet, catapult, dragon, elephant and finally the king.The king is the only objective of the game, like chess if you get the king you win, on the other hand the king fan only move one square at a time and the only piece on the board that cannot take out another piece.

After signalling that we were both ready to each other the board came down to where I beard witness to a very unorthodox formation on Father side of the board.Now, I wasn't any good at chess, sure I could play it well with the flow but I don't know any technique or named moves and strategy whatever, but Father formation almost backwards, as if he was playing himself.

His king was at the front flanked by a catapult and a spearmen, the complete opposite to mine where I have gone with the more typical and orthodox of having my king at the back surrounded by the other pieces.

[Two and a half hour later]

A Cyvasse board is bigger than a regular chessboard because it meant to allow more flexibility and to stimulate the size of the battlefield, However that tends to make game much longer.Over the two and half hours that we were playing for we played a total of nine games, and I will humbly accept that I lost each one, although I was getting better at the end, I can feel it.

As it turned out that lesson was a one off because the lessons that would come after would be of things one would expect an heir to learn of, occasionally we would play Cyvasse.

As the day pass turning into weeks and weeks into months those lessons would continue with an increasing difficulty, a tournament was missed and a new year would come about, life at the Rock was normal until a letter came upon Rock speaking of abductions, madness , burning and wear.