1.5. The Rhoynar
- Nymeria was a warrior queen who led her people across the narrow sea 1,000 years ago (I: 59. II: 233)
- A story (probably false) has it that Nymeria led women who fled from their cities on the Rhoyne river (I: 203. EHC)
- Nymeria was the warrior queen of the Rhoyne who brought ten thousand ships to land in Dorne, taking Mors Martell as her husband and aiding him in vanquishing all rivals for the rule of Dorne (I: 690)
- The Rhoynar influence led to the rulers of Dorne to style themselves "Prince" rather than "King" (I: 690)
- Rhoynar law also led to lands and titles being passed to the eldest child, regardless of gender (I: 690)
- It is said that the Dornishmen have warred against the Reach and Storm's End for a thousand years, which is likely dating from the unification of Dorne under Mors Martell and Nymeria (II: 233)
- Beldecar's History of the Rhoynish Wars makes mention of elephants (III: 136)
- There are three sorts of Dornishmen, as King Daeron I had observed. There are salty Dornishmen who live along the coasts, lithe and dark with smooth olive skin and long black hair; sandy Dornishmen who live in the deserts and the long river valleys, who are even darker, faces burned brown by the hot Dornish sun; and stony Dornishmen who live in the passes and heights of the Red Mountains, the biggest and fairest, sons of the Andals and the First Men, brown-haired or blond with faces that freckled or burned in the sun (III: 430)
- Rhoynish influence in Dornish customs gives a special status to mistresses, or paramours as they name them, that places them above mistresses in the rest of the Seven Kingdoms but beneath wives (III: 431. SFC)
- Rhoynish customs impacted Dorne in a number of ways, especially in the rights of women, but it did not extend to women taking active part in battles (SSC: 52)
- The Rhoynar brought various old gods with them, but they have largely disappeared and been replaced by the Faith of the Seven (EHC)
- The Martells name themselves prince or princess after the Rhoynar custom. The Rhoynar rulers of the various cities along the Rhoyne river followed the same convention (EHC)
- There is a stigma attached to homosexuality everywhere in the Seven Kingdoms, save in Dorne (SFC)
Last revised January 31, 2007
