Editing Chroyane (section)

==History==
Chroyane, nicknamed the festival city, was once the richest and most splendid of the cities along the [[Rhoyne]]. It contained the colossal [[Palace of Sorrow|Palace of Love]], a magnificent fastness.{{Ref|ADWD|18}}

According to legend, Prince [[Garin the Great]] of Chroyane gathered a quarter million soldiers in his city during the [[Second Spice War]]. The [[Rhoynar]] marched south and were victorious against [[Selhorys]], [[Valysar]], and [[Volon Therys]], but were then defeated by the [[dragonlords]] of the [[Valyrian Freehold]] in a great battle along the Rhoyne.{{Ref|TWOIAF|Ancient History: Ten Thousand Ships}} Men of [[Volantis]] and [[Valyria]] hung Garin in a golden cage and brought him to Chroyane so he could witness the city's destruction. Garin allegedly called upon [[Mother Rhoyne]] to destroy the invaders with [[Garin's Curse|a curse]], and that night the river's waters rose to destroy the Volantenes and Valyrians. The spirits of the drowned [[dragonlords]] are said to remain beneath the water, however, and their cold breath rises to become fog.{{Ref|ADWD|18}}{{Ref|TWOIAF|Ancient History: Ten Thousand Ships}}

Mists now rule the [[Sorrows]] and people infected with [[greyscale]] roam the ruins. They are called [[stone men]], and the mists are said to be ruled by the enigmatic [[Shrouded Lord]].{{Ref|ADWD|18}} Sunken architecture and statues pose threats to passing boats. Many travelers become lost in the thick fog, eventually succumbing to madness, hunger, greyscale, or stone men.

There has not been law above the Sorrows for a thousand years, so [[pirates]] are common in the Rhoyne north of Chroyane, although they do not enter the ruined city.{{Ref|ADWD|18}} Volantene galleys patrol the river south of Chroyane.{{Ref|ADWD|14}} Thrice yearly the [[triarchs of Volantis]] send a mercy galley to aid the stone men, but sometimes the ships arrive late with more mouths than food.{{Ref|ADWD|18}}

[[Lomas Longstrider]] met descendants of the Rhoynar in the ruins of Chroyane.{{Ref|TWOIAF|Ancient History: The Long Night}}