![]() Others fell behind or drifted away, never to be seen again. As many or more turned back in fear, and were taken by slavers out of Volantis. More than a hundred ships foundered and sank in the first storm her fleet encountered. Of those going to Westeros, some are blown off course and shipwrecked in the Stepstones or taken by Tyroshi and Lyseni as slaves. After they took to the sea again, they make their way to Westeros but some leave to follow a priestess back to Rhoyne and are taken slave. ![]() After more than a year they took to the sea again, wandering other places, first to Naath where they left because of the diseases, then to an uninhabited rock later called Isle of Woman which they left again as it had poor soil and many starved. More people are lost on Sothoryos to nature, especially the young and the very old and of the four places the Rhoynar settled, people of one vanished overnight. Two score ships are put to the torch and hundreds of people are taken by the corsairs. With an unknown number of ships that set sail, over a hundred are lost in the first storms and as many or more turn back. "The man who owns a boat need never be a thrall," Hake writes, "for every captain is a king upon the deck of his own ship." It is their catch that feeds the islands. However mean and poor these men might be on land, upon the sea they are their own masters. Archmaester Hake, born and raised on Harlaw, estimates that seven of every ten families on the Iron Islands are fisherfolk. Crabs and lobsters are found along the shores of all the islands, and west of Great Wyk swordfish, seals, and whales roam the Sunset Sea. The waters of Ironman's Bay are home to great schools of cod, black cod, monkfish, skate, icefish, sardines, and mackerel. Dagmer Cleftjaw had not yet returned from Old Wyk with the Stonehouses and Drumms, but all the rest were there-Harlaws from Harlaw, Blacktydes from Blacktyde, Sparrs, Merlyns, and Goodbrothers from Great Wyk, Saltcliffes and Sunderlies from Saltcliffe, and Botleys and Wynches from the other side of Pyke. The long smoky hall was crowded with his father's lords and captains when Theon entered, near four hundred of them. "The Drowned God makes men," old King Urron Redhand had once said, thousands of years ago, "but it's men who make crowns." And when you have seen your kings shit over the rail and turn green in a storm, it was hard to bend the knee and pretend they were gods. If every captain was a king aboard his own ship, as was often said, it was small wonder they named the islands the land of ten thousand kings. The islands were too small for awe, and a longship smaller still. Ironborn captains were proud and willful, and did not go in awe of a man's blood. It would have been a much different voyage if a longship from the islands had been waiting at Seagard as he'd hoped. Nymeria receives word soon after the defeat and takes any watercraft that can be found, cramming them with women and children, because almost all the men of fighting age were gone and dead. ![]() This gives us 250.000 x 100/40 = 625.000 for the population of the cities, Sarhoy not included.īear in mind that neither the %40 nor the 250.000 are exact numbers and even if they were, there are still some men of fighting age left behind.īut since we aren’t told “near three hundred thousand” or “over two hundred thousand” but instead “ a quarter of a million”, the actual number would be close to this, even when the men left behind is included. From the headwaters of the Rhoyne down to her many mouths, every man of fighting age took up sword and shield and made his way to the festival city to join this great campaign According to Beldecar, it was a quarter of a million strong. The largest army that Essos had ever seen soon assembled at Chroyane, under the command of Prince Garin.
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