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The Triarchy, also known as the Kingdom of the Three Daughters and rudely called the Kingdom of the Three Whores, are supporting antagonists in the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series. They were an alliance/oligarchy of the Free Cities of Lys, Myr, and Tyrosh, three former colonial cities and legacies of the Valyrian Freehold, as well as current city-states in Essos. As the Triarchy, these cities and their respective regions formed a single and united nation.
During the War of the Stepstones, the Triarchy were enemies with House Targaryen, most notably Prince Daemon Targaryen and House Velaryon. During the Dance of the Dragons, they formed a brief alliance with Aegon II Targaryen's branch of House Targaryen, the Greens.
The Triarchy was established in 96 AC, lasting until its dissolution from a civil war which began in 130 AC. After the dissolution, the civil war between six of the Nine Free Cities eventually developed into the Daughters' War and ended up involving Westeros in it.
Government[]
The Triarchy was an union between the Free Cities of Lys, Myr, and Tyrosh, which was relatively short-lived and amorphously defined, intended to be an "eternal alliance" between the three former rival states. During the Triarchy's existence, from 96 AC to 130 AC, the cities of Lys, Myr, Tyrosh, and their controlled respective regions, countrysides and cities formed a united nation. It was not quite a new political entity, but all three of them acting collectively. The Triarchy was governed by the High Council of the Triarchy, a group of thirty-three magisters with eleven from each city-state.
This alliance called with several different names, all of which were actually inaccurate. And although the name "Triarchy" was official, it was considered inaccurate for two reasons: the first being that Volantis was already famously ruled by three Triarchs, making the union of the three cities not the only Triarchy in the world, and second being the fact that no officials in this alliance officially held the title of "Triarch" like in Volantis. Westerosi lords took to calling the Triarchy the "Kingdom of the Three Daughters", referring to the fact that the three Valyrian colony-cities, along with all the other Free Cities were known by the world as the "daughters of Valyria," and Braavos the "bastard daughter of Valyria. However this nomenclature was also inaccurate, because the three allied states never became a kingdom and had no king.
High Council of the Triarchy[]
The High Council of the Triarchy was the Triarchy's governing body. It was composed of thirty-three magisters, eleven each from Lys, Myr, and Tyrosh. The egotistic and self-centered magisters, however, never displayed a real sense of unity and instead often sought to advance the interests and causes of their respective home cities. As a result, the High Council's topics were usually subject to endless debate.
Biography[]
Origin[]
The city-states of Tyrosh, Lys and Myr originally had a long strife with each other, but their respective leaders managed to set their differences and rivalries aside during a conflict against Volantis over the control of the Disputed Lands, ultimately defeating the Volantenes and driving them from the Disputed Lands in the Battle of the Borderlands in 96 AC. The three nations decided to end their conflict with each other and forged an "eternal alliance", thus founding the Triarchy. A governing body of magisters, called the High Council was established, to control this newly-united power.
Under the leadership of Myrish prince-admiral Craghas Drahar, also known as the Crabfeeder, the military forces of the Triarchy conquered the island chain between Westeros and the Free Cities, the Stepstones, by clearing them off pirates and outlaws, who had made their dens there (as always). This gained the Triarchy the approval of the Seven Kingdoms, as the trade lanes of the Narrow Sea were made safe, and the Westerosi lords and sailors were happy to pay the Triarchy's tolls for passage.
Unfortunately, the Triarchy and their admirals, including Craghas Drahar, soon became greedy and they increased their tolls to really high levels on trade. The Lyseni proceeded to enslave women, girls, and comely boys and take them back to their pillow houses. Amongst them was the niece of the Lord of Stonehelm, Lady Johanna Swann, who would become an influential and famous courtesan in Lys.
War for the Stepstones[]
Because of the Triarchy's mistreatment, imposed high tolls and abuse of power, this earned them the resentment and outrage of the Westerosi, including Lord Corlys Velaryon, the Sea Snake and Lord of the Tides, who felt slighted by these tolls. Declaring war on the Kingdom of the Three Daughters in 106 AC, Corlys allied with Prince Daemon Targaryen in driving the Triarchy back to their domains, as the latter hoped to carve out his own kingdom, since his older brother King Viserys I Targaryen, had refused to name him his heir.
In the ensuing War for the Stepstones, Corlys commanded the Velaryon fleet, while Daemon led an army of sellswords, freeriders, cutthroats, landless adventurers, and second sons. In addition to those forces, Daemon invaded the Stepstones atop his dragon, Caraxes. King Viserys himself supported Daemon's campaign with gold. Despite their own military forces outnumbering those of Corlys and Daemon, the Triarchy suffered a string of defeats for two years until Craghas Drahar was defeated in single combat by Daemon, who beheaded him with his blade Dark Sister in 108 AC.
Despite the Crabfeeder's death, the war continued. By 109 AC Daemon's armies ended up in control of all but two of the Stepstones, and Lord Corlys' fleets had naval supremacy. The same year, Daemon declared himself King of the Stepstones and the Narrow Sea, receiving his crown from Corlys. He made the island of Bloodstone his seat and his kingdom's vassals were sellswords and freeriders.
Fighting continued in 111 AC, but by 110 AC, the Triarchy managed to gain the alliance of Dorne and its ruling monarch, Prince Qoren Martell, as the Dornishmen were wary of the Targaryen-backed Kingdom of the Stepstones and the Narrow Sea, as it posed a threat to their trade and economy. In response to the conquest of nearly all of the Stepstones, the Triarchy dispatched a counterattack led by Tyroshi captain-general Racallio Ryndoon, which was now supported by their newly-acquired Dornish allies.
The War for the Stepstones continued into 111 AC, with Daemon struggling to defend his kingdom from the Triarchy and Dorne. The conflict kept going even while Daemon eventually withdrew to court at King's Landing for six months. By 115 AC, the war was still not over, but Daemon abandoned his seat at Bloodstone for the Vale of Arryn, where he made a failed attempt to claim Runestone following the death of Rhea Royce. Nonetheless, Daemon was tired of the Stepstones and its war, and ended up marrying Corlys Velaryon's only daughter, Laena Velaryon.
Despite the end of the War for the Stepstones, the Triarchy and the Dornish allies had to continue fighting their own war to regain control of the Stepstones, as Daemon's forces and leaders that were left holding the conquered Stepstones continued to occupy the lands. Thus, fighting kept raging beyond 115 AC. In the aftermath of the war, five other men, including Racallio Ryndoon, would follow Daemon as Kings of the Narrow Sea. The Stepstones would continue to remain a disputed sellsword kingdom for over the next decade until 134 AC.
Almost nothing about the other Free Cities' political involvement with the Triarchy's struggles and ambitions is known. Pentos, bordering Myr to the north and wary of the rising power of the Myrish to their south, often welcomed Prince Daemon as an ally. Volantis similarly welcomed Daemon warmly when he visited, though the Volantenes were not much in a position to fight back against their rivals to the west. The power and influence of the Triarchy never extended to the northeast, where Norvos and Qohor remained little concerned about them.
Dance of the Dragons[]
Joining the Greens[]
During the Dance of the Dragons, a bloody Westerosi civil war between Iron Throne claimants Queen Rhaenyra I Targaryen and her half-brother King Aegon II Targaryen, Prince Daemon and Lord Corlys Velaryon joined the Blacks, the party in support of Rhaenyra. During the early stages of the war, the Velaryon fleet blockaded the Gullet and Blackwater Bay. In response, Ser Otto Hightower, the Hand of the King to Aegon II and a leader of the Greens, who knew that the Triarchy is enemies with Daemon, proceeded to reach out to the magisters' of the Triarchy for support in breaking House Velaryon's blockade.
As it took some time to persuade the Triarchy to join the war, Aegon II lost patience with his grandfather's prevarications, as he believed them to be cowardly and ineffective. He proceeded to strip him of his office of Hand of the King. Despite this, Otto's schemes eventually took effect, as the High Council of the Triarchy met in Tyrosh and accepted the Iron Throne's offer of alliance, thus allying themselves with the Greens, the supporters of King Aegon. The magisters sent ninety warships, commanded by Lysene Admiral Sharako Lohar, to the Stepstones under the banners of the Three Daughters. The fleet sailed to the Gullet, the water stretch between the Narrow Sea and Blackwater Bay.
In 129 AC, as a Pentoshi cog, the Gay Abandon, was ferrying Princes Aegon and his brother Viserys to Pentos for their safety, under the fostership of the Prince of Pentos, it encountered the Triarchy's fleet, who were still en route to the Gullet. The cog was soon captured and her escorts were attacked, being either captured or sunk. It resulted in the capture of Prince Viserys, who was taken by a Tyroshi captain, while Prince Aegon was able to escape on his dragon Stormcloud, even though the beast was wounded by the enemy fleet, who fired arrows and scorpion bolts to try and bring them down. Stormcloud later died at Dragonstone from his wounds and Aegon never flew again for the rest of his life.
Battle of the Gullet[]
Prior to their battle in the Gullet, the Triarchy's fleet of 90 warships was split by admiral Sharako Lohar into two squadrons, and they entered the Gullet north and south of Dragonstone during the night. When sunrise came, on the fifth day of 130 AC, they proceeded to launch a surprise attack on the Velaryon fleet. However, the Triarchy fleet was met with an attack from above by Prince Jacaerys Velaryon, Queen Rhaenyra's eldest son, who swooped down upon a line of Lysene galleys on his dragon Vermax.
The Triarchy engaging in battle with Jacaerys Velaryon and the Dragonseeds.
Having gained experience from fighting Prince Daemon Targaryen and his dragon Caraxes in the Stepstones, the captains of the Triarchy fleet were now fully prepared, and the targeted Lysene ships immediately directed their attacks on Vermax and Jacaerys. However, two Lysene ships were caught on fire, and Jacaerys was joined by other Targaryen dragons, who were ridden by Targaryen bastards and commoners called Dragonseeds: Ulf the White on Silverwing, Nettles on Sheepstealer, Addam Velaryon on Seasmoke, and Hugh Hammer on Vermithor. Together, they shattered the line of ships from the Free Cities, as one galley after another turned away.
When Vermax crashed into the sea, due to flying too low, it was possible that he was wounded by a crossbow bolt to the eye or grappled by a grapnel. However, survivors of the battle claim to have seen the dragon struggling in the rigging of a burning galley before sinking with it. Prince Jacaerys was able to leap free, but was soon killed by Myrish crossbowmen.
The battle of the Gullet continued into the night, both north and south of the island of Dragonstone. Eventually, the southern squadron of the Triarchy fleet concluded that Dragonstone was too strong to attack and decided to bypass. Thus, the Triarchy fleet went to attack the island of Driftmark, in which they used fire ships to burn Spicetown's harbor before proceeding to sack the town itself, in which its inhabitants were slaughtered and left unburied. High Tide, the ancestral seat of House Velaryon, was then burned by Myrish and Tyroshi soldiers, and all the treasures that Lord Corlys Velaryon had collected during his voyages were destroyed. Servants of High Tide were cut down as they tried to escape. Spicetown would never be rebuilt following the Battle of the Gullet and the Triarchy fleet managed to destroy almost a third of the Velaryon fleet.
By the time the battle was over, there were thousands of Casualties on both sides. Despite this, the Greens had ultimately failed in their goal of breaking the hold of the Velaryon fleet, even though it suffered from heavy losses. In the aftermath of the battle, the casualties on the Triarchy's side were tremendous, as they lost 62 of their warships and too many men for celebrations. Only 28 warships were able to return home, though almost all of them were Lysene ships, with the exception of only three ships. Despite their failure, however, the Triarchy fleet were successful in breaking House Velaryon's blockade of the Stepstones. The Battle of the Gullet is regarded as one of the bloodiest sea battles in all of history.
Withdrawal[]
Back at the Kingdom of the Three Daughters in Essos, the battle at the Gullet was deemed a disaster by the public. Having lost their husbands during the battle, many widows in Myr and Tyrosh proceeded to accuse Sharako Lohar of having held back his own ships while sending the fleets of Myr and Tyrosh to their destruction. This fact caused some in Myr and Tyrosh to turn against Lohar and believe he conspired against the interest and unity of the Triarchy. This sparked the beginning of infighting, mistrust and internal instability between the Three Daughters, which would eventually result in a civil war two years later. As for the Dance of the Dragons, the Triarchy decided to permanently withdraw from the Dance of the Dragons, and as a result played no further part in it. Thus, the Greens lost their foreign allies in the southern Free Cities.
From his capture preluding the Gullet, Prince Viserys Targaryen was brought back to the Kingdom of the Three Daughters by a Tyroshi captain, but Sharako Lohar soon took the boy into his custody. In need of gold and allies due to his disgraceful defeat in the Gullet and fall from the Triarchy and the public's favor, Lohar sold Viserys to Lysene Magister Bambarro Bazanne, in exchange for the prince's weight in gold and a promise of support.
Daughters' War[]
Dissolution[]
In 130 AC, soon after the Battle of the Gullet, the Triarchy began to fall apart as tensions between Lys, Tyrosh and Myr built up. A year later in 131 AC, the same year King Aegon II Targaryen was found poisoned and the Dance of the Dragons came to an end, the disgraced Sharako Lohar was murdered by one of his rivals for the favor of the famous Lysene courtesan known as the Black Swan, whose true name was Johanna Swann, the Westerosi stormlander lady who had been enslaved by the Lysene authorities of the Triarchy many years ago prior to the War of the Stepstones.
Since Sharako had been blamed by Myrmen and Tyroshi for the disastrous Battle of the Gullet, Lys believed that the rivalry over the Black Swan's hand was just a pretext to kill Lohar without large scale consequences. Instead the Lyseni suspected that Sharako's death was a political assassination orchestrated by Myr. This would soon lead to more building tensions between the Three Daughters, which were accompanied and aggravated by a series of retaliatory murders, eventually leading to a civil war that would in turn involve other Free Cities and quickly develop into the Daughters' War. The Free Cities of Braavos, Pentos, and the normally-isolationist Lorath, formed a rival alliance, which helped in bringing down the Triarchy. As the Triarchy was beginning to collapse, Magister Bambarro of Lys thought it prudent to keep his prize, Prince Viserys Targaryen, hidden away and he forbade the boy from leaving his manse, although he kept him with his own family and had him tutored in many skills.
The Triarchy soon collapsed around 130-131 AC, and said collapse was reported in Westeros in 131 AC by Ser Marston Waters, who also said that the three Free Cities were hiring free companies for their civil war. Two Westerosi sellsword companies, the Wolf Pack (then consisting only of northmen and founded by Hallis Hornwood and Timotty Snow) and the Stormbreakers (founded by Ser Oscar Tully) traveled to Essos to support their respective chosen sides in the conflict. Both companies were founded soon after the end of the Dance of the Dragons.
While the Daughters' War initially started as a civil war between Lys, Myr and Tyrosh, it was so disruptive that it extended to the north and ended up involving the four other aforementioned Free Cities, the Iron Throne of Westeros, the Principality of Dorne, and the independent pirate-kingdom of the Stepstones, officially called the Kingdom of the Narrow Sea. The war widened in 132 AC, two years after the Battle of the Gullet, and it was chaotic, with constantly shifting allegiances and betrayals between the participants.
The Three Daughters in the Conflict[]
The Daughters' War started between the three divided states of the Triarchy; Lys, Myr and Tyrosh. Since the three states were one united nation as the Triarchy, the conflict was initially regarded as a civil war. After Sharako Lohar's murder, the first belligerent were Lys and Myr, who fought each other while the Archon of Tyrosh sent captain-general Racallio Ryndoon to conquer the Stepstones, then still ruled by a king. However, after killing the King of the Narrow Sea, Racallio betrayed Tyrosh and decided to claim the Stepstones for his own kingdom, taking the same title as his predecessors. This widened the war's sides, which were now four: Tyrosh, Lys, Myr, and the Kingdom of the Narrow Sea. The conflict caused a disruption in trade, and in Westeros it especially hampered trade in Duskendale, Gulltown, King's Landing, and Maidenpool. The actions and reign of King Racallio over the Stepstones and the Narrow Sea ended up involving and angering other Free Cities and ports of the Seven Kingdoms.
As the three belligerent states fought each other in the Stepstones, other Free Cities began approaching the Iron Throne of Westeros for an alliance, wanting to enter the war against King Racallio. However, Ser Tyland Lannister, the regent and Hand of the King to Aegon III Targaryen and de-facto Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, declined the offers made by envoys from Pentos, Braavos and Lorath, insisting to the council of regents of Aegon III that it was wiser to keep out of the endless wars of the Free Cities. Thus, during Tyland's rule, the Iron Throne never entered the Daughters' War. Tyland's decision was poorly received by the majority of the public and nobility in Westeros, who despite their recent disastrous civil war in Westeros wanted to join the war, because of the threat against trade and business between Westeros and Essosi countries. In 132 AC, Pentos, Braavos and Lorath officially entered the war without the Iron Throne.
The war between Lyseni, Myrmen, Tyroshi, the people of the Stepstones, and the alliance between the Braavosi, Lorathi and Pentoshi raged in the Narrow Sea and the Disputed Lands. Typical of the Free Cities, the battles were mainly fought with sellswords, sellsails, adventurers, pirates and freeriders, including the two aforementioned Westerosi companies that previously joined. The Lyseni suffered a series of defeats, and Magister Bambarro Bazanne was betrayed by a sellsword company that he was leading against Tyrosh. The mercenaries turned against him over a matter of back pay and thus killed him. After Bazanne's death, it was discovered he was enormously in debt, explaining why he was neglecting to pay his warriors immediately. The magister's creditors seized his manse, sold his wife and 9 trueborn children (he had at least 16 other bastard children) into slavery. All Bazanne's possessions, including his captive Prince Viserys Targaryen, prize of the Triarchy's battle of the Gullet, passed to Lysandro Rogare the Magnificent, a Lysene banker, head of House Rogare and the Rogare Bank, which was even more powerful than the Iron Bank of Braavos at the time. Lysandro wed Viserys to his daughter, Larra Rogare.
By 133 AC most of Racallio Ryndoon's naval strength had been defeated, although he still controlled the island of Bloodstone and some other smaller islands. When it became clear that the Tyroshi would soon defeat Racallio, the Lyseni and Myrmen made peace and became allies once more (but not as a united nation like before) and jointly attacked Tyrosh. By then Lorath had left the war, persumably because their objective was just to get rid of Racallio's sea control and it had been achieved. The remaining Stepstones were occupied by Pentos, while their Braavosi allies controlled the nearby waters.
Meanwhile, during 132 to 133 AC, Westeros had suffered a great epidemic of Winter Fever, which claimed the lives of thousands, including Ser Tyland Lannister in 133 AC, just as the breakout was finally receeding. Thus, rule over the Iron Throne's regency passed to Lord Unwin Peake, who became the new Hand of King Aegon III Targaryen and had already served as one of the king's lords regent since the beginning of his reign. Lord Peake desired to reopen trade in the Narrow Sea and had the Iron Throne officially enter the Daughters' War, tasking Ser Gedmund Peake, Ned Bean, and Lord Alyn Velaryon with defeating King Racallio and establishing a Westerosi presence on Bloodstone. At the same time, Tyrosh, Braavos and Bloodstone formed an alliance to fight against the allied Lys and Myr and Pentos together.
When the Iron Throne's royal fleet was at Tarth, on their way to the Stepstones, Lord Bryndemere Tarth informed the navy officials that Racallio had allied with the Archon of Tyrosh and the Sealord of Braavos, discarding the Prince of Pentos, who was betrayed by the Braavosi. This new alliance reached an agreement to jointly rule the Stepstones and control trade. While Ser Gedmund Peake, who was the admiral of the royal fleet, waited for further instructions from Lord Unwin, Lord Alyn Velaryon took it upon himself to lead the Velaryon fleet south. They crushed the Braavosi fleet in a naval assault among the Stepstones, with Alyn personally sinking Grand Defiance with the ram of Queen Rhaenys.
Although he returned to King's Landing as a war hero, he had failed to capture any of the Stepstones and King Racallio remained powerful. Lord Unwin Peake sent an embassy led by Lord Manfryd Mooton to Braavos to negotiate the avoidance of open war between the Seven Kingdoms and the Free City, which was and still is regarded as the most powerful and formidable of the Nine Free Daughters of Valyria.
In return for a large indemnity, the Sealord of Braavos ended his alliance with Tyrosh and agreed to cede the Stepstones to Westeros, which by then still remained occupied by Racallio and Pentos. Racallio controlled Bloodstone and the southern Stepstones, while the northern and eastern isles were controlled by Pentoshi sellswords hired by Tyrosh. When Alyn and his fleet were sent by his rival Lord Peake to resolve the threat of Lord Dalton Greyjoy and the Ironborn to the western coast of Westeros, he was forced to sail past the dangerous Sepstones, which he did under a parley flag. Racallio held him as a captive and guest for more than a fortnight, eventually allowing him and his fleet to sail past his kingdom in return for three ships, an alliance, and a future kiss from Alyn's wife, Lady Baela Targaryen.
Always in 133 AC, Lys and Tyrosh managed to gain an alliance with Dorne and its ruler, Princess Aliandra Martell, against Racallio in their struggle for the Stepstones, just as their fallen Triarchy and Dorne had done in the past war for the islands chain. In 134 AC, in Lys, House Rogare returned Prince Viserys Targaryen to the Iron Throne after successful negotiations with Alyn Velaryon, allowing an overjoyed King Aegon III to reunite with his brother.
The Daughters' War finally ended after Racallio Ryndoon decided to abandon his kingdom in the Stepstones before fleeing to the Basilisk Isles in Sothoryos, likely as one of the many pirate lords dwelling there. As a result, Dorne took control over most of the Stepstones. In the aftermath of the war, Lys, Myr and Tyrosh reached an agreement and restablished peace, dividing the Disputed Lands among themselves. Princess Aliandra Martell and the Archon of Tyrosh gained the greatest spoils from the war, while Myr lost the most. Lys fell into internal feuds and infighting as noble houses and magisters fought one another.
Legacy[]
Out of the three most famous military leaders of the Triarchy known in Westeros (along with the Myrish Craghas Drahar and the Lysene Sharako Lohar) captain-general Racallio Ryndoon was ultimately the one who lived the longest. In 135 AC, while he lived in the Basilisk Isles, he was included among the suspects who might have hired the Faceless Men to assassinate the brothers Lysandro and Drazenko Rogare, which marked the beginning of the fall of House Rogare and their bank.
In the Seven Kingdoms, during the reign of King Aegon IV Targaryen, Grand Maester Greydon wrote a comprehensive history of the Triarchy in 182 AC, fifty-three years after the Dance of the Dragons.
A Song of Ice and Fire[]
In 300 AC, during the second stage of the War of the Five Kings in Westeros, Myr, Tyrosh and Lys, who had once been the Triarchy, are on the verge of war against each other. The Myrmen contract the Golden Company and are then rumored to have allied with Tyrosh against Lys, but the sellswords break their contract unexpectedly before hostilities begin, to fight for another cause with Pentoshi Magister Illyrio Mopatis.
House of the Dragon[]
Season 1[]
The Triarchy was formed during the reign of King Viserys I Targaryen. While under the leadership of Craghas Drahar, it conquered the Stepstones, destroying the various pirate kingdoms located there. While this pleased the royal court, however, Lord Corlys Velaryon, the head of House Velaryon, became concerned that the prospect of the Triarchy's occupation of the Stepstones would deny him access to the shipping lanes through the island chain.
Four months later, as exactly what he feared, the situation worsened when the Triarchy began attacking Westerosi ships with hostility and they sunk four ships along with one from the Velaryon fleet. When Corlys pressured King Viserys to go to war with the Triarchy, the latter refused, as he believes that Westeros is not prepared for war, and prefers to act with caution and make common sense with the Triarchy's enemies; Pentos and Volantis. Corlys Velaryon, however, decided to take matters into his own hands by returning to the island of Driftmark and prepare for his invasion of the Stepstones without Viserys' leave. In addition, he also invited Prince Daemon Targaryen, the king's brother, to join in.
Three years later, the Velaryon fleet besieged and assaulted the Triarchy on Bloodstone during the night, but the oligarchy defeated them and Craghas Drahar uses his war hammer to stake survivors on the beach so they could be fed to the crabs. Craghas even placed some crabs on a Velaryon knight so he could die slow and painful death. When Daemon arrived on his dragon Caraxes, who began burning the Triarchy's foot soldiers, they and Craghas Drahar immediately retreated into the island's caves. From there, and using the darkness of their hiding places to their advantage, they drove Daemon and Caraxes away by firing flaming arrows at them, which also wounded Daemon.
The forces of House Velaryon suffered heavy losses at the Triarchy's hands by the time Prince Aegon's second nameday came along. When this was reported to King Viserys by Ser Tyland Lannister, the Master of Ships, the king rejects it as it is Aegon's nameday. Shortly after it came to past, Vaemond Velaryon, the brother of Corlys Velaryon, requested aid. While King Viserys was against it, he eventually changes his mind after being persuaded by his wife, Queen Alicent Hightower. The king sends Ser Addam Velaryon and a contingent of Targaryen soldiers to send a letter to Prince Daemon with haste.
Back at the Stepstones, while Daemon and his dragon provided cover for a trio of sailing Velaryon ships, Lord Corlys and his men has assembled a war council on the island of Dwarfstone. Though Caraxes burned Bloodstone, the Velaryon ships were attacked by the Triarchy, who managed to deal heavy damage on to one of the ships with a fireball. Upon Daemon's return to Dwarfstone, Ser Addam Velaryon gives him King Viserys' letter causing Daemon to angrily beat him. Rowing to Bloodstone, he proceeded to trick the Triarchy into thinking that he has surrendered, making them vulnerable, allowing Daemon to attack them before being forced into hiding when the Triarchy fired arrows at him.
Though Daemon was wounded in the process, his distraction allowed the Velaryon forces to land on the island unnoticed and ambush the Triarchy while Ser Leanor Velaryon attacked from above while on his dragon Seasmoke. During the ambush, Craghas Drahar retreated into his cave but was soon followed by Daemon. In the cave, Craghas was slain and bisected. With his victory over the Crabfeeder and the Triachy, Daemon was crowned King of the Narrow Sea by House Velaryon, which granted him his own kingdom, though Daemon surrenders his crown to Viserys, as he acknowledged that there should be only one king.
Ten years in 126 AC following Daemon's victory, the Small Council received alarming reports that the Triarchy has formed an alliance with Dorne, as since Daemon never bothered to fortify the Stepstones, the oligarchy seeks to reclaim the island chain. There were even reports of a Tyroshi general who is of gigantic size and, according to Leanor Velaryon, he dyes his beard purple and wears women's frocks. Though the Triarchy was defeated once again, their war for the Stepstones was resumed six years later in 132 AC. During that period, Corlys Velaryon was lured into an ambush, leaving him severely injured, causing him to be sent back to Driftmark. Despite Corlys' absence, the Velaryon forces were ultimately victorious over the Triarchy, allowing them to fully secure and take control of the Stepstones, which is then given to Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen.
Season 2[]
External Links[]
- Triarchy on the A Wiki of Ice and Fire.
- High Council of the Triarchy on the A Wiki of Ice and Fire.
- Myr on the A Wiki of Ice and Fire.
- Lys on the A Wiki of Ice and Fire.
- Tyrosh on the A Wiki of Ice and Fire.
- Triarchy on the Wiki of Westeros.
- Myr on the Wiki of Westeros.
- Lys on the Wiki of Westeros.
- Tyrosh on the Wiki of Westeros.
