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The Tyrells claimed Highgarden, but they didn't build it.

They claimed descent from the first king of the Reach...

...but only through the female line.

The truth is House Gardener built Highgarden...

...when they ruled the Reach as kings, not lords.

And as their name attests, they were the true heirs of Garth the Gardener...

...who founded their house and the kingdom...

...and brought law and order to the Reach.

He built Highgarden as a fortress, not a pleasure palace.

In those dark days, the Ironborn raided up and down the Mander at will.

And the Dornish were even more trouble than they are now...

...who are enduring shame...

...a Dornish army once sacked Highgarden and destroyed the oaken seat...

...the living throne of the Gardener Kings...

...planted by Garth Greenhand himself.

The Gardeners responded wisely...

...sending armies of their own to pacify and defend the countryside.

My ancestors of Hornhill joined them...

...as did the other great families of the Reach.

Even House Hightower yielded without a fight...

...choosing marriage in the House Gardener over a war...

...that would weaken us against outsiders.

But the outsiders still came.

The Andals swept across Westeros...

...destroyin many ancient families and kingdoms.

When the invaders arrived at the Reach led by Sir Alester Tyrell...

...House Gardener chose accommodation over battle...

...hoping honours and marriages would sate the foreigners ambitions.

The Tyrells were welcomed into service as hereditary stewards of Highgarden.

Thousands of years later...

...they repaid the Gardeners for their acceptance.

When Aegon Targaryen declared that Westeros was now his...

...King Mern IX allied with King Loren Lannister of the Westerlands.

Together, they fought to save Westeros from another foreign barbarian...

...whose family practices were decent men to shame.

Bu the dragons won.

The Field of Fire claimed Mern and all his sons, grandsons and brothers.

Instead of using the castle for what it was built to do...

...Harlen Tyrell surrendered it to Aegon without a fight.

In exchange, Harlen was given the castle...

...his family had served for thousands of years...

...with all its attendant lands and Lords...

...including my family.

Perhaps the Tyrells were great once...

...but Harlen gave away their honor...

...when he open gates that weren't his to open...

...and to a foreign invader.

Ever since there hasn't been a Lord Tyrell it wasn't a mockery of the title.

Women rule that house.

Everybody knows it. And look what it's fraught.

Their proper lord, heir and queen, dead.

Leaving only a shrunken old woman who forgets her loyalties to the realm...

...either in grief or dotage.

But her thorns will protect her more than any other rose...

...when the hand comes to rip them out.