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The Conflict with the Sparrows took place in King's Landing during the aftermath of the bloody War of the Five Kings. Following the death of Lord Tywin Lannister, the Hand of the King, a cult of the Faith of the Seven known as the Sparrows began flocking the city led by a man known as the High Sparrow. Eventually, Cersei Lannister had her son, King Tommen I reestablish the Faith Militant, a military order that enforced the beliefs of the Faith of the Seven. However, this plot would backfire on Cersei, and it soon erupted into a conflict within the city.

Prelude
The War of the Five Kings had devastated the country, resulting in the death tolls that numbered in the thousands and leaving many without their homes and their families. Many of the smallfolk had become disgruntled by the nobility, and were disturbed by the violations of guest right throughout the war. Eventually, a new religious movement rose within the Faith of the Seven: the Sparrows. The Sparrows rejected wealth and privilege, and sought to rid corruption within the ranks of the Faith and return it to its former, more strict days.

Aftermath
Despite her victory in destroying the Great Sept of Baelor with wildfire and exacting her revenge on Septa Unella, Cersei Lanniser had one major loss: her last surviving child, Tommen, the King of the Seven Kingdoms, committed suicide just after witnessing the destruction of the sept and hearing of the demise of his wife at the hands of his mother. As Tommen left no heirs, House Baratheon therefore became extinct, and Cersei seized the Iron Throne for herself. As the surviving royal court and Jaime Lannister, Cersei's twin brother, watched on with grim and disgusted faces, Qyburn, Cersei's Hand, proclaimed Cersei the Queen of the Andals and the First Men and Protector of the Seven Kingdoms.