And the the Oh, The exit of Egon the Conqueror and most of his remaining soldiers from the army that he brought into Dorn triggered

the defenestration of Sunspere which featured all of the Targarian Garrison's becoming

no more. They were all slaughtered. And the non-Dornish Gar were treated much the same with a little extra torture sprinkled in before their lives were ended.

Unsurprisingly, this was not the end of the violence, though it never did return to the sort of standard war of armies and sieges and such. It was more of a war of shadows,

a war of constant dragon fire raining down despite the war of shadows. of Shadows was kind of an unusual variation on this type of war.

Sean last time mentioned Vietnam and Afghanistan and that's very very appropriate as a parallel. The destruction of many Dornish castles, structures, fields, was a constant thing.

Though, maybe not that many Dornish people. The Dornish people were pretty good at staying alive

despite all of this hellfire and starvation

and destruction being reined on them.

From there it got worse though.

Bounties and assassinations, maimings, other atrocities, each year

seemingly worse than the last. Yet with the passage of time it seemed clear that very little that either side did seem to move the needle

towards an end and though Dorn as a whole suffered mightily arguably the Targaryans

lost more in terms of power and prestige.

Isn't that often the case with war though?

Nobody wins.

Everybody loses.

This one is a particularly bad,

or good example, no bad example of, well okay, strong example, powerful example,

tragic example. Yes, the first Dornish War, the second half of it, has all that and more on this episode of

History of Westeros podcast.

Hello and welcome everybody, we're back with another episode of Valar Rarreidus for Fire and Blood here on

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