#nymeria of the rhoyne

[jennyofoldflowers]

i have never wanted a book to show adaptation in my LIFE as much as i have wanted the nymeria tv show 😭 i need to see my boss babe and her malewife mors conquer dorne so bad 💔

#martell #house martell #nymeria #nymeria of the rhoyne #mors martell #house nymeros martell #nymeros martell #pro martell

[laurellerual]

The mummers off the Ship showed her how a hero stands, and taught her speeches from The Song of the Rhoyne, ...

@insomniarama

#arya stark #asoiaf #asoiaf fanart #braavos #the ship #I really liked this suggestion #hope you like the result! #nymeria of ny sar #rhoyne

[asoiafreadthru]

HOUSE MARTELL

Nymeria, the warrior queen of the Rhoyne, brought her ten thousand ships to land in Dorne, the southernmost of the Seven Kingdoms, and took Lord Mors Martell to husband. With her help, he vanquished his rivals to rule all Dorne.

The Rhoynar influence remains strong. Thus Dornish rulers style themselves “Prince” rather than “King.” Under Dornish law, lands and titles pass to the eldest child, not the eldest male.

Dorne, alone of the Seven Kingdoms, was never conquered by Aegon the Dragon. It was not permanently joined to the realm until two hundred years later, and then by marriage and treaty, not the sword.

Peaceable King Daeron II succeeded where the warriors had failed by wedding the Dornish princess Myriah and giving his own sister in marriage to the reigning Prince of Dorne.

The Martell banner is a red sun pierced by a golden spear.

Their words are Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken.

The principal houses sworn to Sunspear include Jordayne, Santagar, Allyrion, Toland, Yronwood, Wyl, Fowler, and Dayne.

#a game of thrones #appendix #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #house martell #house nymeros martell #dorne #sunspear #princess nymeria #rhoyne #rhoynar #ten thousand ships #mors martell #aegon the conqueror #daeron ii targaryen #daeron the good #myriah martell #maron martell #princess daenerys of dorne #unbowed unbent unbroken #house jordayne #house santagar #house allyrion #house toland #house yronwood #house wyl #house fowler #house dayne #prince of dorne #house targaryen

[fromtheseventhhell]

Nymeria nipped eagerly at her hand as Arya untied her. She had yellow eyes. When they caught the sunlight, they gleamed like two golden coins. Arya had named her after the warrior queen of the Rhoyne, who had led her people across the narrow sea. (Arya I, AGOT) *George directly compares Dany to Nymeria*

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This time the monsters did not frighten her. They seemed almost old friends. Arya held the candle over her head. With each step she took, the shadows moved against the walls, as if they were turning to watch her pass. "Dragons," she whispered. (Arya IV, AGOT)

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If I had wings I could fly back to Winterfell and see for myself. And if it was true, I'd just fly away, fly up past the moon and the shining stars, and see all the things in Old Nan's stories, dragons and sea monsters and the Titan of Braavos, and maybe I wouldn't ever fly back unless I wanted to. (Arya X, ACOK)

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"I wish I had a flaming sword." Arya could think of lots of people she'd like to set on fire. (Arya IV, ASOS)

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Arya drew back from him. "He killed the slave?" That did not sound right. "He should have killed the masters!" (Arya II, AFFC)

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"I would like to see a dragon," Mercy said wistfully. "Why does the envoy have a chicken on his chest?" (Mercy, TWOW) *said to her friend Daena*

This is the same Arya Stark who I'm supposed to believe isn't going to be instant besties with Daenerys Targaryen...okay. I think it's time for some of y'all to go back to the books and actually read them.

#arya stark #daenerys targaryen #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #daenerya #so many people who don't even like them hate on the idea of them being friends and it's sooooo miserable #if you don't care about either of them then what's the issue with them being friends? 😭 #either way they're George's two favorite female characters you can bet that he's going to be writing them positively interacting #one of the most foreshadowed meetings in the books fr...what that show really took from us #people are right that they aren't going to be friends cause they're actually going to kiss 🫶🏾 #daenarya is the ship that was promised it is known

[natividadmoon]

Day 05 Martell Week: Favorite Pre-Doran Martell

That Nymeria doesn't have the last name Martell? sorry, she is the founder of the NYMEROS MARTELL house. There's not much to say, Nymeria surfing while she remembers her childhood in Rhoyne when she was a girl, both clothes are based on Egyptian clothing with Arabic influence, and fantasy obviously <3.

Arianne as a pic announcing the week (it was months ago, sorry, but I have to finish this challenge, sorry)

#martell week #nymeria #nymeria of ny sar #arianne martell #house nymerios martell #house martell #asoiaf art

[glibgossamer]

I noticed that some artists tend to draw Nymeria of Ny Sar like a salty Martell and not a sandy Rhoynar princess from Essos, so here she is, folks.

I chose teal for the Rhoyne, and the symbol on her belt is the Imazigh symbol for ships (according to Google anyway) 💚

#asoiaf #asoiaf fanart #nymeria of ny sar #nymeria #dorne #rhoynar #dornedaily #house nymeros martell #greenblood #olive skinned my ass you can pry melanated north african rhoynar out of my decaying dead hands #is it possible to be gay for your own drawing? #i’m quite proud of the spear holder thingy #valyrian scrolls

[jedimaesteryoda]

"He told about Prince Garin, I remember, the one that I was named for." "Garin the Great," offered Drey, "the wonder of the Rhoyne." "That's the one. He made Valyria tremble." "They trembled," said Ser Gerold, "then they killed him. If I led a quarter of a million men to death, would they call me Gerold the Great?" -AFFC, The Queenmaker

Arianne thinks herself Nymeria when Daenerys is actually the image of Nymeria: a ruling warrior queen from the east who after years of wandering leads her people on ships to Westeros to escape slavery, married three times and remains undefeated on the battlefield.

Arianne is more Garin the Great: the Rhoynish prince/ess who leads their people to war and after some initial success, loses to invading Valyrian dragonlords.

Garin dismissed Nymeria who warned him and the other Rhoynish princes that they could not win a war against the Valyrians. Garin led his people, and after a few tactical victories, Nymeria's warnings proved correct when an army of 300+ dragons descended from the sky and burned his army. He died in a golden cage as his city of Chroyane was destroyed with his only release being the Rhoyne flooding the city and turning the festival city into the Sorrows, an uninhabited, plague-infested ruin.

His story is effectively a lesson on arrogance and the foolhardiness and dangers of blindly going down a path to avoid confronting the inevitable, harsh truth. As is often the case in these stories, he took the path that ultimately did lead to the destruction of his city and the absorption of the Rhoynish lands by the Valyrian Freehold, the exact fate he tried to avoid.

It was ultimately Nymeria who accomplished what Garin could not: preserve Rhoynish independence against Valyrian domination. She also proved to be a successful military leader winning all her wars and crushing her enemies in Dorne.

Arianne's desire is less noble than Garin's given he was defending his homeland while Arianne is getting involved in the game of thrones. When Daenerys inevitably reaches Westeros, Arianne will learn Garin's lesson the hard way when she chooses to fight the last living dragonlords to keep her crown and avoid confronting the truth that Aegon is a false pretender. While Dorne will once again be conquered by an invading warrior queen.

#a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #arianne martell #house martell #dorne #dragons #house targaryen #queen daenerys #daenerys stormborn #daenerys targaryen

[game-of-style]

Nymeria, the Warrior Princess of Rhoyne and the ancestor of House Martell - Alexandre Vauthier Couture fall 2023

#nymeria of ny sar #house martell #dorne #brown #game of thrones #a song of ice and fire #alexandre vauthier #haute couture

[siravalondulac]

"-AND SO EACH KINGDOM PRACTISES THE FAITH A BIT DIFFERENTLY AND IN DORNE THEY VALUE THE ASPECT OF THE MOTHER THE MOST BECAUSE THE RHOYNAR USED TO WORSHIP MOTHER RHOYNE AND AFTER THEY IMMIGRATED THERE NYMERIA TOLD THEM TO INTEGRATE AND THAT MEANT LETTING GO OF THEIR PAST FAITH BUT REMNANTS OF IT CAN STILL BE FOUND IN THEIR CURRENT WORSHIP OF THE MOTHER HEY ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING"

#asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #game of thrones #dorne #house martell #asoiaf fanfiction #fic: meet me in the dark kiss me in the moonlight #fic: gilded stars of silver grace

[aegonbeingfakeisracist]

If you were writing ASOIAF, what would you change about Aegon's story, both in its content and direction?

I find this an interesting question because we've really seen so little of him so far. So I'm going to ramble for a bit about his story and see if I come up with a conclusion.

One of the things I really enjoy about his story as it is right now is that his Rhoynish heritage is so present. They pass Nymeria's palace. He's on a boat with exiles of various forms. Everyone around him knows that they need Dorne. The surface is all the Targaryen side - he looks like Rhaegar, it's Rhaegar's friend that's been raising and guiding him, the original goal was for him to get to Dany, he's pursuing a claim through his father - but underneath that, his story is tied to his mother. All the references to Nymeria and the Rhoyne, the way he's ultimately going to meet with Arianne. So even though there's been so little of him so far, we get the impression of these layers to his identity.

In addition to this, Aegon is a cool character in his own right! He's friendly and likable and a compelling speaker. He gets along well with other people; he can convince people to follow his lead; he refuses to let harm befall Tyrion after Tyrion saves his life; he insists that he values Duck more than any knight of great renown and points out that Jaime Lannister had been that knight of renown. He's also prickly and argumentative and imperfect - he argues with people trying to keep him safe; he lashes out at Tyrion in response to needling; he freezes up because he's never seen battle; he's got a chip on his shoulder and comes across as a man that feels he has something to prove.

Now, keeping all that in mind...Aegon is, like, weirdly well adjusted. We're talking about a guy whose mother and older sister were murdered that has never known a single member of his family, despite his mother's siblings and their children being alive and well, despite his paternal aunt and uncle famously alive and in Essos. He's been raised with the idea of going back and reclaiming a throne. His father figure undoubtedly cares for him, but he is obsessive and controlling and not someone who's guiding him with clear eyes. And yet, he's just...living life, wandering around on a boat, trusting easily and seemingly not dwelling on the past.

To some degree, that makes sense - relatively speaking, he's been in a psychologically safer environment than other characters. It's not like he was in, say, Dany's shoes with a volatile and violent older brother pushing her into situations. But overall, I think it's a wasted opportunity, because psychologically safe is not synonymous with devoid of complexity. With so many other characters, we see the impacts of the past on them. Jon, despite having never known his mother, is heavily influenced by that absence. So Aegon, who has never known his mother or sister as people, but knows about their brutal murders, should be so influenced by that. Since we have no insight into his own thoughts, we don't know if he is or isn't, though.

So I think really what I would change is the amount of emphasis on why he's doing what he's doing. Why does he want the throne? What does the prospect of meeting Arianne mean to him? How does it affect him that people don't believe his story? What are his thoughts on the Mountain, on Tywin Lannister, on all these people that knew or could have known his family? I brought up his line about how "the Kingslayer was a warrior of great renown, and the son of a great lord as well" earlier, but I think it's worth reiterating: that is an insane line to leave at just that.

It would be one thing if that were, say, to have come up as a point of contention between Catelyn and Robb. In that case, it's just this famous event that sparked Jaime's notoriety. But it's Aegon that says it. Aegon, the grandson of the king referenced in the Kingslayer nickname. Aegon, whose mother and sister were being murdered while Jaime was sitting on the throne. Aegon values loyalty above all else because of this action - it's personal to him in a way it's not to anyone else. So how does he feel about not just Jaime, but everyone else involved? Why, in this world where entire families are held to account for the actions of one member, does he not have negative feelings towards Tyrion?

We haven't seen enough of him for me to know what I'd want to change, but I think this is what I'd want to see: what is actually driving him to make the decisions he does. Thanks for asking!

#A Song of Ice and Fire #Aegon VI Targaryen #starbright91 #replies

[lya-dustin]

All is bliss

Chapter 11

Taglist: @mercedesdecorazon @darylandbethfanforever9 @sweethoneyblossom1 @aemondx

Gif by @imagine-all-the-things

The court is afire with Vaemond’s case.

He outright accuses her of very true things and seeks to usurp the legal heirs of Corlys Velaryon to make himself Lord of the Tides.

Not content with being Jacaerys’ regent should Corlys die prematurely, nor placing Baela’s claim forward, he looks to use his son’s goodfamily to get what he wants.

Everyone waits with bated breath for the hearing, especially when her arrival is that of a dirty secret being smuggled into court.

Nymeria of the Rhoyne had been smuggled into the Sandship in a Rhonynish rug, Rhaenyra half expected to be told to be told to go through the servant’s halls.

But the smallfolk had still come to see them go down the road to the red keep causing problems for the guard who assumed no one would show.

Aemma hugs her tightly when they arrive. Her usual joy and sunny disposition shrouded behind clouds.

Her poor little girl forced to suffer here without ladies she could trust.

But not anymore, Rhaenyra will be here to protect her as she should have done much sooner.

“My sweet girl, it will all be better now.” Mother says as she kisses the top of her head. “Mother is here now.”

Daemon gives her a sympathetic look, sure he and Aemma butted heads, but he’d kill for her, just as any kinsman would.

“Anything you need us to do, we will do it.” Rhaenyra whispers hoping it is murder.

“I need you to ask the king to dissolve my marriage.” Aemma whispers in High Valyrian,

When Aemma leaves them as they wait for Alicent, after their visit with father, they speak about it.

“Father already thinks Aemond is the one wed to Aemma. Infertility is a reason to end a marriage, especially a political one like this one.” Rhaenyra comments and Daemon nods, processing what they managed to learn so far.

Aemma had not been able to speak about it much, except to say that she loved Aemond and that he felt the same.

If he had not taken up Aegon on his offer, who knows who he would have chosen, Aemma had said not wishing to think about it more.

The one to suggest Aemma cuckold Aegon just as Laenor suggested Rhaenyra cuckold him, was Alicent.

Alicent who had hoped for leverage and a reason to make Aemma loyal to her cause.

Aegon had chosen his brother, the same brother who has been in love with Aemma for some time.

Something she had not expected.

To expose Aemma was to kill Aemond, as much as she loathed them, she loved her children more.

“I suppose if the High Septon refused to do as he’s told, I know who we should remove from the portrait.” Daemon comments as if kinslaying were not a greater sin than infidelity.

“I would rather we have the marriage annulled with father’s backing. The High Septon can deny a princess, but not the king, especially now that he knows Aegon cannot sire heirs. For my sake, I ask you to stay your sword, valzȳrys.” She said squeezing his shoulder.

It takes far too long to be rid of company and have a moment alone with her.

The arrival of her family had set him on edge, and he needed her if he were to make it through this day without killing her brothers.

Despite knowing the strong lads are no real threat, the sight of them has his blood running hot.

He’d do anything to be able to have little Luke feel everything he did, to take his eye as it would have been done had his mother not been Rhaenyra.

But sweet Aemee would hate him if she’d find him taking what was owed to him.

When his blood thirst threatens to reach its peak, he seeks out his woman.

His Aemma, the only one he has wanted to the point of madness.

Aemma who opens like a flower just for him.

You are my only happiness in this fucking place, she had said as she asked him to leave with her.

Aemma who he dreams of fucking on the Iron Throne with her belly swollen with their child.

Not one Aegon will claim as his, one Aemond can proudly call his son.

A prince, a son named Aemon after Rhaenys’ father and because it is a variation of his own name.

“I need you, jorrāeliarzo.” He kissed her insistently as he maneuvered her onto the small table where they broke their fast just this morning.

Aemond has his beloved tearing his clothes off as he spreads her legs and rucks up her skirts and shift.

“I need you more, valzȳrys.” She says using the word she only uses with great sarcasm with Aegon.

They are lit by the same fire. Cannot feel close enough nor satisfied if it isn’t with each other.

“I have asked mother to have the king end my marriage.” Aemma says nipping at his earlobe.

She loves biting him, marking his skin with bites and scratches because that is the only way she can claim him.

And he loves teasing her, working her up until she cries out for him to fuck her.

“Truly?” he asks, pausing to her annoyance.

Aemma has asked her mother to help her get her marriage annulled.

And whatever Rhaenyra wants, she gets.

Tomorrow.

Tomorrow the king orders the High Septon to have Aemma and Aegon’s marriage dissolved on account of Aegon’s inability to provide heirs.

They can marry in a moon if it happens.

As Aegon’s heir, he is in a better position to keep the peace given there will be no heirs between him and the throne.

“Yes, the High Septon is coming here anyways, why not ask him at dragon-point whether we have the grounds to seek an annulment?” She is happy in ways she has not been since she discovered the truth.

She has not truly forgiven him for lying to her, but the hope of stepping out of the shadows and into the sun has him knowing it won’t be long now.

“We will be husband and wife by the next moon, my sweet Aemee.” And what better to celebrate than making their first born?

Who knew knowing her marriage finally comes to an end would make her want to be a mother?

A mother to a trueborn child sired by the man she will marry once her previous marriage is undone.

Won’t matter if little Aemon or little Aenya comes eight moons after, everyone knows the babe would be Aemond’s who will have been her husband in the eyes of the gods and men.

“Ābrazȳrys,” the word rolls of his tongue like the sweetest honey.

Wife, gods, she could get used to this.

“Valzȳrys.” Aemma laughs quietly as they fixed their clothes as best as they could.

“I love you.” She says as they kiss one last time before returning to the world outside her bedroom.

Aemma has no idea why she said it, it just felt so natural, like everything does with him.

She never gets to hear it back, when her stepsisters and cousins burst into the room unannounced.

#aemma velaryon #aemond targaryen x velaryon!oc #all is bliss fic #aemond targaryen x velaryon!reader #aemond targaryen #aemond x ofc #ewan mitchell #hotd fic #the great au

[thelustybraavosimaid]

Needleheart Winter 2022 - Wargs, Wolves, and Connections

The kennelmaster once told her that an animal takes after its master. (Sansa I, AGoT)

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He had known what Snow was the moment he saw that great white direwolf stalking silent at his side. One skinchanger can always sense another. Mance should have let me take the direwolf. There would be a second life worthy of a king. (Prologue, ADwD)

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Arya had named her after the warrior queen of the Rhoyne, who had led her people across the narrow sea. That had been a great scandal too. (Arya I, AGoT)

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"Some will tell you that they are demons. They say the pack is led by a monstrous she-wolf, a stalking shadow grim and grey and huge. They will tell you that she has been known to bring aurochs down all by herself, that no trap nor snare can hold her, that she fears neither steel nor fire, slays any wolf that tries to mount her, and devours no other flesh but man." (Brienne V, AFfC)

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He was watching the action, so absorbed that he seemed unaware of her approach until his white wolf moved to meet them. Nymeria stalked closer on wary feet. Ghost, already larger than his litter mates, smelled her, gave her ear a careful nip, and settled back down.

...

He messed up her hair again and walked away from her, Ghost moving silently beside him. Nymeria started to follow too, then stopped and came back when she saw that Arya was not coming. (Arya I, AGoT)

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Arya was in her room, packing a polished ironwood chest that was bigger than she was. Nymeria was helping. Arya would only have to point, and the wolf would bound across the room, snatch up some wisp of silk in her jaws, and fetch it back. But when she smelled Ghost, she sat down on her haunches and yelped at them. (Jon II, AGoT)

He sat on his haunches and lifted his head to the darkening sky, and his cry echoed through the forest, a long lonely mournful sound. As it died away, he pricked up his ears, listening for an answer, but the only sound was the sigh of blowing snow. (Jon VII, ACoK)

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And then, far far off, beyond the godswood and the haunted towers and the immense stone walls of Harrenhal, from somewhere out in the world, came the long lonely howl of a wolf. (Arya X, ACoK)

In another place, his little sister lifted her head to sing to the moon, and a hundred small grey cousins broke off their hunt to sing with her. The hills were warmer where they were, and full of food. Many a night his sister's pack gorged on the flesh of sheep and cows and horses, the prey of men, and sometimes even on the flesh of man himself. (Jon I, ADwD)

#asoiaf #jon snow #arya stark #ramble #needleheart #jonrya #canonarya #canonjonsnow #needleheartwinter #ghost #nymeria

[laurellerual]

Sometimes we discuss parallels between characters in order to understand what their future will be like and we forget to look at what is already there. Today I was thinking about this nice connection that deserves some love:

Nymeria of the Rhoyne - Nymeria of the Trident

The Rhoyne and Trident are directly compared from the books:

"Yollo," shouted Yandry as the Shy Maid passed the point, "tell me again of those Westerosi rivers as big as Mother Rhoyne." "I didn't know," he called back. "No river in the Seven Kingdoms is half so wide as this." The new river that had joined them was a close twin to the one they had been sailing down, and that one alone had almost matched the Mander or the Trident.

The landscape described in TWOIAF should sound extremely familiar to the ASOIAF reader:

Down the river Nymeria led this ragged fleet, past ruined and smoking towns and fields of the dead, through waters choked with bloated, floating corpses.

In these terms it is difficult not to notice the similarities with the journey that Arya has already taken: leading a ragged pack through the war-torn Riverlands, until her escape that will lead her to cross the narrow sea to reach a port safe on the other side.

And then there's the mother-daughter thread that ties Arya to the Riverlands through Cat:

The Tullys drew their strength from the river, and it was to the river they returned when their lives had run their course.

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"How can you be orphans if you have mothers and fathers?" the girl asked. "They are the Rhoynar," Arianne explained, "and their Mother was the river Rhoyne."

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Tyrion saw more 'snappers sleeping in the slips where half a hundred ships might once have docked. He knew where he was then. That was Nymeria's palace, and this is all that remains of Ny Sar, her city. [...] "This is Ny Sar, where the Mother gathers in her Wild Daughter, Noyne,"

#asoiaf #arya stark #nymeria #catelyn tully #rhoyne #riverlands

[asoiafreadthru]

A Game of Thrones, Arya I

Nymeria nipped eagerly at her hand as Arya untied her. She had yellow eyes. When they caught the sunlight, they gleamed like two golden coins.

Arya had named her after the warrior queen of the Rhoyne, who had led her people across the narrow sea. That had been a great scandal too.

Sansa, of course, had named her pup “Lady.”

#a game of thrones #arya i #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #arya stark #nymeria #direwolf #direwolves #princess nymeria #rhoyne #rhoynar #narrow sea #ten thousand ships #dorne #sansa stark #lady #house stark

[dialux]

i will burn with a light of my own - notes

Duncan’s prophecy is in three parts:

Moonlight shall be your shield and dawn shall be your sword - refers to Sansa appearing like Talyah/the Mother Rhoyne with the help of moonlight to Lady Zara Wyl, and then how she used the changing light of dawn to appear like Talyah/the Mother Rhoyne to Lord Wyl, Arianne, and the people in the courtyard.

From the eldest shall come the oldest - Jon is the eldest Stark child of the new generation, and he achieves the oldest skill of the Starks, wolfsinging.

The only answer for death can never be death - when Sansa asks the dragon to stop slavery and it offers to burn Meereen and all of Slaver’s Bay to the ground.

The tracts of wood for Castle Wyl’s surrounding walls are made of pine, primarily as a shout-out to my favorite estuary in SoCal, Torrey Pines. 

Prince Lewyn really did have a paramour despite being a Kingsguard, which has been living rent-free in my brain since I read Arys’ chapter in AFFC. Not that Sansa knew this, of course, but there should totes be some random weedy looking folks popping out of nowhere to claim Martell blood is what I’m saying ;)

“Grief is a river which carries me along, but I am the river, too,” whispers Zara. “Hate is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger. Rage is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.” - This line is adapted from the Jorge Luis Borges essay, “A New Refutation of Time,” which goes “Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.”

Druselka was Nymeria of Ny Sar’s companion, a priestess of the Mother Rhoyne who accompanied Nymeria on her journey from the Rhoyne when the Valyrians invaded. She claimed to have heard the Mother Rhoyne calling her children home and led her followers back to the Rhoyne, where the Valyrians enslaved them. In this story, her prophecy was a ruse designed by Nymeria to ensure those that followed her to Westeros would not be without a choice (to return home).

The names of the Wyl sisters (Talyah, Zara, and Mariah) are riffs on Hebrew names, though Mariah is notably also used as a Martell name. 

The four Sand Snakes they meet in the desert are Obara, Nymeria, Tyene, and Elia.

Sulphurous rivers, as far as I can tell, do not exist on Earth, though there is a “Sulphur River” in Texas; sulfur water, on the other hand, does exist, and often results in a) a very strong smell and b) water on fire. So that’s why the Brimstone burns when dragonfire touches it.

Blue fire is usually considered the hottest color, but purple fire would match the eyes of the Targaryens, wouldn’t it?

Fire turns sand to glass if it’s hot enough. The hills of Meereen have copper in them, which is why they form “a crunchy, icy glass that gleams a blue even brighter than the sky.” Were the glass that formed near the Hellholt to be described, due to the sulphur contamination, it would have been a deep, amber color.

“I will live under it for the rest of the days of my life. And if I falter… then death shall be my reward, as it has been for all the rest of my kin.” - A riff on JRRT’s Silm line, “His valour was as a fire yet steadfast as the hills of stone; wise he was and skilled in voice and hand; troth and justice he loved and bore goodwill to all, both Elves and Men, hating Morgoth only; he sought not his own, neither power nor glory, and death was his reward.”

“You question where you can find a beach without waves,” says the old dragon, “but the truth at the heart of this world is that there are no eyes that cannot dream.” - Taken from the Telugu song “Nee Prashnalu Neeve,” from the movie Kotha Bangara Lokam.

#a tempest; a cyclone #my writing

[aegor-bamfsteel]

Why do you think there weren’t any new Dornish houses formed during Nymeria’s conquest that were purely Rhoynar in origin?

"We are in part, Your Grace. Nymeria's blood is in me, along with that of Mors Martell, the Dornish lord she married. On the day they wed, Nymeria fired her ships, so her people would understand that there could be no going back. Most were glad to see those flames, for their voyagings had been long and terrible before they came to Dorne, and many and more had been lost to storm, disease, and slavery. There were a few who mourned, however. They did not love this dry red land or its seven-faced god, so they clung to their old ways, hammered boats together from the hulks of the burned ships, and became the orphans of the Greenblood. The Mother in their songs is not our Mother, but Mother Rhoyne, whose waters nourished them from the dawn of days." —AFFC The Queenmaker Standing apart from the rest of the Dornish—salty or sandy or stony alike—are the orphans of the Greenblood, who wept when Nymeria burned their ships. From their ruins they made their poleboats, to ply the Greenblood and dream of the day that they could return to Mother Rhoyne. Of pure Rhoynish blood, they still speak their tongue amongst themselves, it is said—though in secret after the three successors of Nymeria's grandson, Prince Mors II, attempted to forbid it. —TWOIAF on Dorne

Nymeria and her followers assimilated into Andal culture for the most part, adopting their language and religion (though not their succession laws); while she did become a conqueror, she did so alongside her Dornish husbands, and so did many of the refugees. Establishing a purely Rhoynar noble house in Dorne would’ve taken away land from the indigenous population to people with no political power. Better to just marry a Rhoynar to a Andal lord with an actual blood claim to that land.

Secondly, is that the Greenblood Orphans—aka the only people in Dorne of pure Rhoynish descent—have famously refused to assimilate into this Andal culture even despite persecution, keeping their language in secret, their animistic religion over the Seven, and marrying each other. They don’t view Dorne as their home (hence their sorrow at the ships burning) nor call themselves Dornish. Rather, their home is on the Rhoyne, and they hope one day it’s safe enough to return there (though some like Ysilla and Yandry have already returned). Agreeing to own Dornish land, give up their language, adopt the Andal customs of knighthood, would be assimilating, which they’ve fought hard to resist. It makes sense why no new purely Rhoynar noble houses would arise; though obviously there’s pure Rhoynar families around in Dorne with the Greenblood Orphans, they’re considered without real power and take menial jobs (parallels to other marginalized ethnic diaspora groups in Europe, such as the Jewish and Rroma people, seem apparent at least to me).

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