ectively only having fostered for a little over a year and a half, he had been in captivity for seven years, kept as a prized fighter in a circuit of gladiatorial arenas in the Vale run by several of the Vale Mountain Clans, funded by Tyroshi Slavers, and involving a few minor rogue Houses in the Vale. In 279AC, Eddard and some fellow slaves rose up against his captors. He was finally rescued by forces of the Vale assisting their liege lord, Lord Jon Arryn, in a crackdown against the Tyroshi Slavers and all those who were involved. L