Sun upon the Sands

by GangerlyBalls

The story of Princess Nymeria's conquests from beginning till end, from the point of view of the people around her.

2. List of Characters

CHARACTER LIST

- DORNE -

HOUSE MARTELL

House Martell is one of the many independent fiefdoms on the eastern coast of Dorne, only notable in their strategic position upon the Greenblood River. They are nominally vassals of the High Kings of Dorne, currently the Yronwoods. Its founder was the Andal adventurer Morgan Martell, who slew the petty kings Gunthor Wade and Franklin Shell then conquered their lands for his own. Their sigil is a gold spear on white.

LORD WALTYR MARTELL, Lord of the Sandship, a veteran of fifty years;

-his wife, LADY PENELOPE, of House Santagar, bedridden with the pox;

-their children,

-SERRA, a Septa, noted for her silver mask to hide Greyscale, twenty-two;

-MORS, called LORD POPPY, nineteen years old, his heir;

-his drinking companions, TRYSTON, LOMAS DALT, WILLEM, and JOREN;

-EDWYLE, a knight of eighteen;

-BERTHA, a pretty girl of thirteen;

-his siblings,

-[ARNOLD MARTELL], killed by corsairs off the coast;

-MYRIAH MARTELL, nine and thirty, m. Ser Loryn Lake

-EDMYN LAKE, their only child, squire to Lord Mors;

-his household:

-SER BORYS LAKE, master-at-arms;

-SER KARYL, QARLTON, PITTY, guardsmen;

-MARQ THE TOOTHLESS, court healer;

-SEPTON MARCEL, SEPTON TYRON, SEPTA LIA, priests;

-SER ANDERS TRIPLEBARR, SER GRENDYL LAKE, sworn-shields;

-HALLOBHO, a eunuch from the Summer Islands;

-his bannermen,

-SER ARTYS LAKE, of Smallswood;

-SER DARYN WELLS of Greystroke;

-SER MARIC SALTGIVER, of Saltston.

THE BLOODROYALS – HOUSE YRONWOOD

The oldest and one of the most powerful houses in Dorne, House Yronwood dominates the Boneway and is the principle claimant to the High Kingship of Dorne. They title themselves the 'Bloodroyal', ancient title tracing back, according to the family, to the King of the First Men. Their seat, Yronwood, controls the entrance to the Boneway, and they grow rich off the silver mined under their castle. Their sigil is a black portcullis grill over sand. Their words are We Guard the Way.

KING EDGAR YRONWOOD, the Second of His Name, the Bloodroyal, King of Redmarch, Lord of the Stoneway, Protector of the Passes;

-his former wife [QUEEN ARIANNA], of House Wyl, died in childbirth;

-their children,

-PRINCE HENDRIK, heir to the Boneway, current Lord of Ghaston Grey and heir to the Bloodroyal;

-his wife, LARRA DRINKWATER

-their only child, PRINCE GARETH, a boy of ten and six;

-PRINCE YORICK, called LEPERHAND, afflicted with Greyscale covering his left arm;

-PRINCESS WYLLA, a girl of eighteen, m. Ser Allar Redspring

-their daughters, ANYA and MARYA REDSPRING;

-PRINCE SAMWELL, currently en route to the Wall;

-his council and household;

-LORD LOWYL WYL, his castellan;

-SER YOREN SPIRES, called ONE-EYE SPIRE, his marshal-at-arms;

-SER DERICK SIXHILL, his lawmaster;

-SAELYS MAELYON, a half-Valyrian, half-Ghiscari, his coinmaster;

-EDMUND TREGOR, his shadowmaster;

-MAESTER PETYR, a fat man from Oldtown, his maester;

-LORD ELTON ULLER, ambassador and heir of the Mad King Uller;

-his knights, bannermen, and soldiers,

-LORD MORTEN WYL, of Wyl;

-LORD HURTON, of Orange Grove;

-LADY SARRA HOLT, of Holt;

-LORD ORMOND SALTBORN, of Salt Shore;

-LORD MORGAN MONTAMAR, called MORG THE MONSTROUS;

-his son, MORGAN, called MORG THE MEEK;

-LORD DAMYN VAITH, of Vaith;

-LORD QUENTYN QOYGYLE, of Sandstone, called the BLACK SCORPION;

-LORD TRYSTIFER ALLYRION, of Godsgrace;

-SER LESTYR DRINKWATER, of Fullwells;

-SER SAUL KESTFIST and SER PAUL KESTFIST, twins;

-SER PETYR SCOURGE, of Scourge;

-SER RION HULL, SER ULTON OF BROWNHILL, SER MARK OF RAINWOOD, knights in his service;

HOUSE DRYLAND

The Drylands were an Andal clan which migrated deep into the deserts of western Dorne following their expulsion from the Greenblood by the Vaiths. From their exile, they declared themselves the Kings of the Brimstone and founded Hellgate Hall and Hellholt, with the fellow outcasts the Ullers. And despite the rebellion of the Ullers nearly twenty years ago, they maintain firm control of the river and continue to resist incursions by the Bloodroyals.

Their sigil is a blistered hand on checkered red and yellow.

KING LOTHOR DRYLAND, called the LAME, King of the Brimstone, and Lord of Hellgate Hall, castrated by the Mad King Uller;

-his wife, QUEEN EMSA, of House Fowler;

-his children,

-his first son, [PRINCE LOGAN], died of the heat;

-his second son, [PRINCE LOREN], drowned in the Brimstone;

-his third son, [PRINCE LORIMAR], strangled by the umbilical cord;

-his fourth and only living son, PRINCE LUCIFER, a sickly boy of ten;

-his household,

-YAEROL, a Valyrian exile, his castellan;

-SER DAMON OF REDGATE, his master-at-arms;

-MAESTER GURON, his maester;

-SER TORGON BLACKSAND, his headsman;

-the story-tellers,

-ONE EAR GREG, SAMMY SMALL, and PENNY PETE;

OTHER KINGS AND LORDS OF DORNE

KING GARRISON FOWLER, King of Stone and Sky, Lord of the Wide Way, Lord of Skyreach, called the BLIND KING, secluded in Skyreach;

-his son and heir, PRINCE TREMOND, current serving regent in his father's stead;

-his sister, QUEEN ESME, consort to the King of the Brimstone;

-SER HARLAND BROOK, his champion, Lord of Stranger's Watch;

KING ULRICK DAYNE, called the SWORD OF THE MORNING, King of the Torentine, Lord of Starfall;

-his children,

-[PRINCE SAMWELL], once called the SWORD OF THE MORNING, killed by bandits near Prince's Pass;

-[PRINCE ULRICK], called the YOUNG STAR, beheaded by the Mad King Uller;

-PRINCESS ULRIKA, sixteen years old, recently widowed;

-her late husband [SER YOREN REDKNIGHT], of Reachmont, also beheaded by the Mad King Uller;

-PRINCE VORIAN, called the SWORD OF THE EVENING, denied the ancestral sword and residing in High Hermitage, a man of nearly thirty years;

-[PRINCESS CAROLYN], died of the pox;

-PRINCE DAVOS, ten and four, serving as a page;

-his champion, MAGOR THE MIGHTY, a half-Ghiscari, half-Andal mutt nearly seven feet tall;

KING ELLARD ULLER, called the MAD KING ULLER, King of Hellholt, tributary to the Bloodroyal;

-his cousin and heir, LORD ELTON ULLER, currently serving the court of the Bloodroyal;

KING BENEDICT BLACKMONT, Lord of Blackmont, tributary to the Bloodroyal;

KING STEVON OLIVYNE, of the Lemonwood, called the SOUR;

KING ALTOR MANWOODY, King of Kingsgrave, called the HEADSMAN;

-his uncles, DAGOS DARKHARD and ALBIN THE TERROR;

KING DEVYN OF THE SANDS, KING EDD HART, KING PERSTON BRIAR, KING EDARK BOIL, petty kings of the Greenblood;

LORD MARTYN SANTAGAR, of Spotswood;

-his sons, DRAGAS and SAMWYLE;

LORD DESMOND JORDAYNE, of the Tor, tributary to the Bloodroyal;

- ESSOS -

FREEHOLD OF VALYRIA

By Blood and Fire, the Valyrians have conquered an empire stretching from the Shattered Sea to the white beaches of Qarth. With dragons and the magical Fourteen Flames, they maintain a firm grip upon the known world and many consider them divine or even gods. Their government is controlled by a cabal of dragonrider families, which elect their leader, the Archon, by vote between themselves.

ARCHON VAERGOR VUGAROS, Archon of Valyria, Keeper of the Fourteen Flames, Lord Freehold of Vugaros, rider of Beraxes;

-his family,

-LADY DAENELYS, LADY ELAENYS, LADY RAENYS, his three daughters;

-his wife, TAELA SAERYON, rider of Lanyx;

-his cousin, [LAENOR VUGAROS], rider of Saelihar, recently passed of an illness;

-his court and household,

-[LORD AEGYS AEGORYON], rider of Maekynar, former Imperial Viceroy,killed by believed Rhoynar assassins during a diplomatic mission;

-his ward, LORD GAERION VELARYON, rider of Visengar, lost on the River Rhoyne;

-LORD HAEGON YAEGION, rider of Oryn, Imperial Viceroy;

-LORD LANYX TALERR, rider of Palys, Imperial Viceroy;

-LADY AELYXA EYSAEN, rider of Urrax, Imperial Chief General;

-VHAELGEN THE WORM, Imperial Goldmaster;

-LORD LORVAROS EYSAEN, Imperial Spymaster;

-GRAZAY, his Ghiscari slave;

-LORD JAEKAR HONORYON, rider of Belichys, Imperial Auditor;

-SILLY SALAR, formerly the Rhoynar Prince of Nar Gon, castrated and made into the court fool;

-his Aemovaes Mareyar,

-LORD MARGOROS HONORYON, called the MONSTROUS, rider of Baelorys;

-LADY ALYSAE JAENKAR, called the HELLFIRE, rider of Haefyre;

-VISERYS and VISENYA QHAEDAR, twins who ride the two-headed Maegor;

-DAELON VUGAROS, distant cousin of the Archion, rider of Vaegon;

-PAELRYS PAELRYON, called the BLUE, rider of Daepynos;

-the commander, EKLAENOS THE WHITE, natural son of late Lord Yaegion, rider of Syranos;

Some of the principle families of the Freehold include Aegoryon, Honoryon, Vugaros, Delyros, Paelryon, Qhaedar, Visenyos, and Talerr.

THE RHOYNAR

The Mother Rhoyne supplies for all her children and the Rhoynar are the principle of her offspring. When the Valyrians invaded their lands after betraying their very trust, the Rhoynar united under Prince Garin the Great, whose army of 250,000 warriors held the Valyrian Empire at bay for years, but broke following the arrival of the Three Hundred Riders. With the greatest of the Rhoynar cities sacked and destroyed, many now flee down their mother to the safety of the west.

PRINCESS NYMERIA, Princess of Ny Sar, Last of the Princes, Lady of the Ten Thousand Ships, a girl of sixteen;

-her father, [PRINCE DYGOS], called the OLD TURTLE, killed at the Third Battle of Sehorys;

-her mother, [PRINCESS MERIA], of the City of Chroyane, killed at the Sack of Chroyne;

-her eldest uncle, PRINCE GARIN, called GARIN THE GREAT or GARIN THE FALLEN, Prince of Chroyne, captured by Valyrians at the Battle of Volantis;

-her youngest uncle, [LUDYMOS], killed at the Battle of Volon Therys;

-her aunt, LYMALIA, one of the Ladies of the Ten Thousand Ships;

-her sister, PRINCESS LAMENKIA, heir to Nymeria, a short, chubby girl of ten;

-on her ship the Rhoynos,

-GARISS, a shapely youth of eight and ten, her paramour and one of her commanders;

-ADMOS OF SARHOY, her champion;

-the last of the priestesses,

-TYRENELLA, of the White Rhoyne, a woman of nearly ninety years;

-OBARA, of the Blue Rhoyne, rumored to be over one hundred, unresponsive and in the care of her fellow priestesses;

-LYWENA, of the Blue Rhoyne, seven and fifty;

-RUTEKA, of the Red Rhoyne, a short girl of fifteen;

-her servants and milk-sisters, ANNELLA and NENATTA;

-on the fleet of the Ten Thousand,

-OBERYN, former commander of Gar Len, captain of the Losson;

-POLONOS, captain of the Rhutek;

-ISYLIA, captain of the Erglenos;

-her daughter, ELIA;

[I will be updating/changing this list of characters as the time goes on, so this is not final. Any errors, mistakes, or feedback, please give them, as I do wish to better my writing skills. Also, the original format for this screwed up when it was transferred to this website, so I'll try to make it better for the eye later.]