And the the Oh, Egon the conqueror wanted all of Westeros south of the wall, not most of it.

All of it! From his perspective he had been relatively

patient. With few exceptions the majority of the realm had bent the knee to the

iron throne during the conquest that's why they called it. of the which stands for after the conquest.

It wasn't until the year 4 AC that attacks on Dorn began.

So there was, as we talked about last time in the Dragon's interim,

a good bit of time between when hostilities broke out.

Queen Rainies had promised to return with fire and blood, and she did.

But Maria told her to remember, or Miria rather, Miria told her to remember the words of House Martel.

Words echoed throughout Dorn on rare caisms such as this.

An outside invasion is the best time for unbowed, unbent, unbroken,

and broken to be all of Dorn's motto, not just the words of their princely house.

They're all Martels in terms of this attitude when the

dragons come or when anyone comes but especially the dragons. But what do those

words actually mean when faced with dragons and large armies?

It's a difficult proposition, but Aegon might have been a bit overconfident given his earlier successes, and the Dornish might have been

confident in that and some other factors. You might be familiar with the general

idea of what happens to invaders even dragon riding invaders in those deep deserts.

But this is before the Targaryans knew that.

They hadn't tried this before.

This was new to them.

Now it wasn't new to some of the people in their armies, but it was new to House Targary.

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