In principle, while it can be bought that and why the Valyrians never made an attempt to conquer Westeros, it seems out of the question that none of the Free Cities ever warred with any of the Seven Kingdoms prior to and after the Doom. One can certainly make a case why the Dornish have no great fleet after the union with the Iron Throne - but the fact that they apparently never had a fleet since Nymeria came is hard to swallow, as is the idea that they never faced a major invasion from the east. And nobody really gives a shit about those people and their lives. Unless you're a peasant living in Sunspear or some coastal village. ![]() Those two things combined make a navy seem like an unnecessary expense. All you need do to raze the place is move a fleet there and land your men. Sunspear is completely defenseless against a naval attack. It is rather odd that a Free City like Tyrosh or Lys (or adventurers from those cities), being as close to Dorne as they are and with Valyria and its dragonlords coming to their aid if the need arose, would (1) never get into a serious conflict with the Dornish, and (2) would have never been interested in invading the place.Įven if that were the case, then the pirates and privateers and adventurers on the other Stepstones - if those guys existed before the Doom - certainly would have sometimes harassed or attacked the Dornish.Īnd to deal with that it would have been profitable to have some kind of fleet. during the Century of Blood and/or before the Doom took Valyria. And they could have taken place before the First Dornish War fiasco, i.e. Well, such invasions and raids from the sea could have tried to target coastal regions only. And the Dornish are so tough, they burn their villages and vanish into the deep desert rather than submit.ĭorne doesn't need a navy it has a reputation. An invading army wouldn't be able to live off the land they'd have to bring their own food and water, for their animals as well as themselves. Most of the land is desert, sparsely populated, not really worth the effort to conquer. People have tried to conquer Dorne before. Seeing as Dorne can field so few men and has no naval defence it should be an easy thing to raid Sunspear or the Greenblood. I agree with you, and also, given the blood between the Reach and Dorne, surely somewhere along the line the Redwyne fleet would have attacked Dorne from the sea. ![]() There could have been wars with Tyrosh, Lys, and Myr, and Dorne could even have had a history of involvement in the quarrels for the Disputed Lands. Vice versa, adventurous and ambitious Princes of Dorne should have been interested in extending their power to the Stepstones and, especially, the Essos proper. ![]() I mean, sure, desert land is not that great a prize, but not all adventurers and raiders and conquerors are smart. There is wealth to be had at Sunspear, the shadow city, and the Planky Town, and the north-eastern reaches of Dorne are reasonably fertile. It is odd, just as it is odd that the Stepstone pirates - and the Free Cities - apparently never tried to conquer (parts of) Dorne - or at least raid the more wealthy parts of it.
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