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Nymeria: Part 2 – Ten Thousand Ships

GRRM’s version of the Odyssey is here! We’ve got Brindled Men, wyverns, killer diseases, ancient cities, corsairs, dark gods. Plus characters like Daenerys, Missandei and her brothers, Victarion, Barristan Selmy and his new knights. See our previous episode in our Nymeria series here. Special thanks to Michal Schick of Vassals of Kingsgrave podcast and Hypable for the voices.

Legend tells us that Nymeria took ten thousand ships to sea, searching for a new home for her people beyond the long reach of Valyria and its dragonlords. Beldecar argues that this number was vastly inflated, perhaps as much as tenfold. Other chroniclers offer other numbers, but in truth no true count was ever made. We can safely say there were a great many ships. Most were river craft, skiffs and poleboats, trading galleys, fishing boats, pleasure barges, even rafts, their decks and holds crammed full of women and children and old men. Only one in ten was remotely seaworthy, Beldecar insists. 
Nymeria’s voyage was long and terrible. More than a hundred ships foundered and sank in the first storm her fleet encountered. As many or more turned back in fear, and were taken by slavers out of Volantis. Others fell behind or drifted away, never to be seen again. The remainder of the fleet limped across the Summer Sea to the Basilisk Isles…

– The World of Ice and Fire
  • The Rhoyne and Sothoryos
  • Zamoyos
  • Basilisk Isles
  • Isle of Toads & Toad Stone (also Klaradox)
  • Sothoryos
  • Wyvern Point
  • Zamettar
  • Naath
  • Summer Isles
  • Abulu
  • Jaqen H’ghar
  • Missandei by Eluascinnamon
  • The Greenblood

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Nymeria: Part 1 – Mother Rhoyne

The first of multiple episodes on Nymeria of the Rhoynar. Foreshadowing for ASOIAF via the rise & fall of the Rhoynar; includes: greyscale, Darkstar, water wizards, the Water Gardens of Dorne, Volantis, dragons and much more. Special thanks to Michal Schick of Vassals of Kingsgrave podcast and Hypable for the voices.

“This is Ny Sar, where the Mother gathers in her Wild Daughter, Noyne,” said Yandry, “but she will not reach her widest point until she meets her other daughters. At Dagger Lake the Qhoyne comes rushing in, the Darkling Daughter, full of gold and amber from the Axe and pine-cones from the Forest of Qohor. South of there the Mother meets Lhorulu, the Smiling Daughter from the Golden Fields. Where they join once stood Chroyane, the festival city, where the streets were made of water and the houses made of gold. Then south and east again for long leagues, until at last comes creeping in Selhoru, the Shy Daughter who hides her course in reeds and writhes. There Mother Rhoyne waxes so wide that a man upon a boat in the center of the stream cannot see a shore to either side. You shall see, my little friend.” – Tyrion IV, ADWD

Tanselle Too-Tall by Eliyadoodles (left) & Hong-Ara (right)
Tanselle Too-Tall by Eliyadoodles (left) & Hong-Ara (right)
Old Man of the River by Klaradox
Old Man of the River by Klaradox
Areo Hotah by Hubsher
Areo Hotah by Hubsher

Rhoynar Cities
Rhoynar Cities
Map 1 - Rhoyne
Map 1 – Rhoyne
Map 2 - Tyrion's Journey
Map 2 – Tyrion’s Journey

Map 3 - Rhoyne and the Trident
Map 3 – Rhoyne and the Trident
Map 4 - Selhoru to Westeros
Map 4 – Selhoru to Westeros
Map 5 - Andalos
Map 5 – Andalos

Map 6 - Cities
Map 6 – Cities
Map 7 - Volantis
Map 7 – Volantis
Map 8 - Norvos
Map 8 – Norvos

Map 9 - Qohor
Map 9 – Qohor
Map 10 - Ar Noy and the Sorrows
Map 10 – Ar Noy and the Sorrows
Map 11 - Bridge of Dream
Map 11 – Bridge of Dream

Map 12 - Andalos and Valyria
Map 12 – Andalos and Valyria
Map 13 - Volantis
Map 13 – Volantis
Map 14 - Mouths of the Rhoyne
Map 14 – Mouths of the Rhoyne

Map 15 - Sarhoy
Map 15 – Sarhoy
Map 16 - Chroyane
Map 16 – Chroyane
Map 17 - Sar Mell
Map 17 – Sar Mell

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House Dayne: Part 2 – History & Lore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvBv3eU_rA8


Aziz and special guest Lucifer Means Lightbringer discuss the mystical and ancient side of House Dayne. Dawn (is it Lightbringer?), Sword of the Morning (who decides?), the castles of Starfall and High Hermitage… and plenty more!

Thanks to Lucifer Means Lightbringer of Astronomy of Ice and Fire for joining us on this episode, and for helping with the quotes.

The primary topics in this episode:

  1. Intro
  2. Part 1 – The Dawn of Dayne
  3. Part 2 – Under the Sun and the Spear
  4. Part 3 – Starfall in Flames
  5. Part 4 – The Sword of the Morning
  6. Part 5 – The Look of Dragonlords
  7. Outtro

“The Daynes of Starfall are one of the most ancient houses in the Seven Kingdoms, though their fame largely rests on their ancestral sword, called Dawn, and the men who wielded it.”

“At the mouth of the Torrentine, House Dayne raised its castle on an island where that roaring, tumultuous river broadens to meet the sea. Legend says the first Dayne was led to the site when he followed the track of a falling star and there found a stone of magical powers. His descendants ruled over the western mountains for centuries thereafter as Kings of the Torrentine and Lords of Starfall.”

“The Swords of the Morning are all famous throughout the Seven Kingdoms. There are boys who secretly dream of being a son of Starfall so they might claim that storied sword and its title. Most famous of all was Ser Arthur Dayne…”

Matters escalated, and more Dornish seats fell to dragonfire in 9 AC. The Dornish responded a year later by sending a host under Lord Fowler that seized and burned the great marcher castle of Nightsong and carried off its lords and defenders as hostages, whilst another army under Ser Joffrey Dayne marched to the very walls of Oldtown, razing the fields and villages outside it.”

“Its origins are lost to legend, but it seems likely that the Daynes have carried it for thousands of years. Those who have had the honor of examining it say it looks like no Valyrian steel they know, being pale as milkglass but in all other respects it seems to share the properties of Valyrian blades, being incredibly strong and sharp.”

“The two years that followed were later called the years of the Dragon’s Wroth. Grief-stricken at the death of their beloved sister, King Aegon and Queen Visenya set ablaze every castle, keep, and holdfast in Dorne at least once . . . save for Sunspear and the shadow city.”

“The great beauty of the Valyrians – with their hair of the palest silver or gold and eyes in shades of purple not found amongst any other people in the world – is well known, and often held up as proof that the Valyrians are not entirely of the same blood as other men.”

“When Mors Martell took Nymeria to wife, hundreds of his knights, squires, and lords bannermen also wed Rhoynish women, and many of those who were already wed took them for their paramours.”

“When at last she died, it was the eldest of her four daughters by Mors Martell who succeeded her, not her son by Davos Dayne, for by then the Dornish had come to adopt many of the laws and customs of the Rhoynar.”

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