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Utkar22 wrote: That is why Stannis was given Dragonstone, and Renly Storm's end?

It is slightly more complicated then that. Dragonstone was a castle surrounded by notable Loyalists to the Targaryens- the Velaryons, the Celtigars and etc. Robert needed a man's strenght to rule there , not a boy , who could easily be deposed. Robert was paranoid of a Targaryen invasion, and thus his actions reflected it. It was also given to signfy Stannis's postion as the heir, until Joffery was born , of course. Stannis didn't take it that way though. Dragonstone commanded few lords and was a desolute rock in the sea, and by right , when Robert became king , in his eyes, Storm's End should have been his. He viewed it as an insult given to him unfairly after he had failed to capture Viserys and Danearys. Robert thought he was doing Stannis a favour, by giving him the more "prestigious" castle, but Stannis thought otherwise.