Fifteen years after the Redgrass Field, the Blackfyre cause stirred again, not upon a battlefield but at a wedding. In 211 AC the great houses of the realm gathered at Whitewalls, the seat of Lord Ambrose Butterwell, for a tourney held to mark his marriage; but the true purpose of the gathering, hatched chiefly by Lord Gormon Peake and other unrepentant friends of the black dragon, was to crown Daemon II Blackfyre, a son of the first Daemon, and to raise the realm against King Aerys I. A dragon's egg was to be the prize of the tourney, a token to rally the disaffected to the pretender's banner.
The plot came to nothing. Word reached the crown, and Brynden Rivers, now Hand of the King, descended upon Whitewalls with a royal host before ever a blow could be struck in earnest. Daemon II was taken captive and carried back to King's Landing, there to spend his days a prisoner, and the conspirators were scattered; Lord Gormon Peake and others of the ringleaders lost their heads. So ended the Second Blackfyre Rebellion, remembered less for any battle than for the treachery unmasked at the feast, and for the long shadow it cast over the reign of Bloodraven as the king's Hand.