Chương 90: Chapter 90
The next few days went by in a flurry of activities as various lords from all across the North arrived in Dreadfort for the Tourney.
They were all very surprised by the amount of wealth on display in his lands and quite a few of them tried to set up a betrothal for him with their daughters. Lord Manderly himself talked with him six times about having a betrothal with one of his granddaughters.
And while he would admit that it was a little flattering at the start, it got annoying far too quickly for him.
By the end of another week, almost all the lords from the North had arrived in Dreadfort and he finally started the Tourney.
Unlike the South, the North don't have very many horsemen or knights. And even those who knew how to ride a horse didn't knew how to use a lance with it. So he skipped the joust entirely and started with melee.
But instead of having people fight one on one against each other, he had people sign as a group and fight in group vs group fights.
This lead to all the great houses forming their own groups while the smaller houses joined together to form a decent block of warriors on their own.
It was quiet fascinating to watch.
The competition was especially tense because instead of gold or silver as a reward, he had decided to give 1000 Full plate armor as a reward for the 1st group, 100 horses for the runner up and 50 swords for the 3rd place.
These things might be expensive for other lords. For example, a full plate armor easily cost between 10 gold dragons to 30 gold dragons depending on how good it was. And his own armors sold for about 25 gold dragons.
But their production cost was only 5 gold dragons at best. So in truth, he was giving away a reward of 5,000 gold dragons while to the others, it seemed like he was giving a reward of 25,000 gold dragons.
Not that he would have faced any particular problems by giving away 25,000 gold dragons as a reward. But years of living in near poverty under the Dursleys taught him to rest money so he the habit of trying to save wealth whenever he could get away with it.
Other than the Melee, there were other individual and group cometitions as well.
The group section of 'tug-of-war' became especially famous as the other lords like Greatjon, Rickard Karstark and Lord Ned Stark himself descended on the field to lead their teams in this show of strength.
Lord Greatjon Umber became even more pumped when he told them that the winner team will get to take part in a tug of war against a single giant.
The whole tourney lasted for a whole week and there was a festive atmosphere in his domain during that whole time.
Of course, he had to import some more whores for the brothels to serve as Taverns waitress and maids during this week as he would have been pissed if some lordling tried to paw at the women working in his castle just because they were 'smallfolk' and no cares about them.
Regardless of the the precautions and his subordinates had taken, he still increased the amount of Bolton guards in Dreadfort by 3 times and the police force in the outside town by 5 times for maintaining the order.
13 men were sent to Nights Watch during this time because they tried to rape the women in the town. Of course, all of them were caught before the act could happen thanks to all the precautions he had taken in place.
Some lords grumbled about him sending their men to the Wall when the rape didn't even took place. He made sure to rip a new one into them with his own counter arguments.
He might have made a few enemies among the small lords but the other lords got his message clear enough and started to reign in their men after that.
No one wanted to be humiliated by their own host in front of the whole North.
Lord Stark seemed especially proud of him for protecting his people with such fervour.
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