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Starks are not Villainous, but the intentions of one Lord in the line of many may not really align with the teachings of the ancestors. A couple of bad apples in the basket full of good ones don't make the entire house evil.

The readers need to understand that an elopement (Kidnapping) of a lady by a Crown Prince does not cause a rebellion unless there are forces already thinking of overthrowing the King. Had those forces not been considering getting rid of Targaryens, were truly loyal, and Aerys was sane, things would have been different. In a normal scenario without Aerys' madness and the certain Lords' treacherous thoughts, Rhaegar, for what he did, would have been stripped of his title of the Crown Prince, sent into exile, and Azaerys would have been named Aerys' Heir. That's not what happened. To demand a Crown Prince's head under any circumstance means that the respect and fear for the Crown are long gone. Targaryens had ruled for too long. 300 years and more than half of their reign was without the force that helped them form the Crown. A rebellion was inevitable, especially since they were different from other people. Starks, who hate going south, have a Lord who sends his second son to Eyrie. The Heir of the Storm's End just happened to be the squire of the same Lord. Then Lord Stark decided to marry his daughter, against her wishes (Canon), to a Southern Lord because the Young Lord was infatuated with her. Seriously? Was there no motive? Why did Starks need an Alliance with a Southern Family? Who was truly behind this match? These things were never truly explained in the books. Martin always leaves certain things up to the readers to use their own imagination. And this is what I am doing. I am delving deeper into the layers of politics in this Fanfic, and also into the magical mysteries. Starks were no heroes. Targaryens were no heroes. Robert certainly wasn't a hero. Rhaegar was not a hero either. And Lyanna, young and naive, was not a heroine either. Some people were using their minds, and some were using their hearts. The board was set to usurp the throne, and of course, who better than Robert Baratheon to take it? After all, he had the Blood of Kings, the Targaryen Blood. 🤣 (Sarcasm) Azaerys, who knows everything, has never once said that his father was doing the right thing. As for right and wrong, Lyanna, though not innocent, was not as much at fault for what happened as her older brothers and father were. They pushed her into a corner. Ned and Brandon were not as much at fault as Rhaegar was for the decision he made. Rhaegar was not as much at fault for what happened as Aerys was. And then there were treacherous people with their own motives, who now had enough excuses to rally the people behind their 'cause'. And those with motives, who had been waiting for this opportunity for a while. The Rebellion did not happen because of Lyanna. It's silly to think that a girl was so important in that society, to those people, who used young girls like her to make alliances and considered them nothing more than broodmares. The rebellion happened because powerful people wanted Targaryens gone. We will learn more about these things as the story progresses.