Editing Rhoynar (section)

==History==
===Ancient Rhoynar===
The Rhoynar lived in city-states along the vast network of the river Rhoyne, including [[Ar Noy]], [[Chroyane]], [[Ghoyan Drohe]], [[Ny Sar]], [[Sar Mell]], and [[Sarhoy]].{{ref|TLOIAF| The Free Cities}} The Rhoynish civilization was as storied and ancient as the [[Old Empire of Ghis]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: Ten Thousand Ships}}

The Rhoynar taught the [[Andals]] how to work iron, although the ''[[Seven-Pointed Star]]'' of the [[Faith of the Seven]] teaches that the Andals received this gift from [[Smith (the Seven)|the Smith]].{{ref|ADWD|5}} The Rhoynar used [[water magic]] to defend themselves from enemies.{{Ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: Ten Thousand Ships}} [[Garris the Grey]], Prince of Ny Sar, is said to have driven [[hairy men]] from the [[Noyne]].{{ref|TWOIAF| The Free Cities: Norvos}}

However, the [[Valyrian Freehold]]'s expansion from the east threatened to overtake the Rhoynar hundreds of years before [[Aegon's Landing]]. For some two and a half centuries, the [[Rhoynish Wars]] were fought between the Valyrians and the Rhoynar. In the last of the these, [[Garin (prince)|Garin the Great]], Prince of Chroyane, led two hundred and fifty thousand Rhoynar to their deaths in battle against the Valyrians. [[Nymeria]], Princess of Ny Sar, led the surviving Rhoynar, mostly women and children, in fleeing Essos in [[ten thousand ships]].{{ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: Ten Thousand Ships}} During and after the Rhoynar evacuation, the Valyrians destroyed the great cities of the Rhoynish realm; their massive ruins are still easily observed from the Rhoyne.{{ref|ADWD|8}}{{ref|ADWD|18}}

===Rhoynar in Dorne===
[[File:Nymeriaandmors Karla Ortiz.jpg|thumb|350px|Princess [[Nymeria]] wed Lord [[Mors Martell]], art by Karla Ortiz]]

Nymeria led her followers on dangerous journeys to the [[Basilisk Isles]], [[Sothoryos]], [[Naath]], the [[Summer Isles]], the [[Stepstones]], and finally [[Dorne]] in southern [[Westeros]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: Ten Thousand Ships}}{{ref|AFFC|13}} Nymeria married a Dornish lord, [[Mors Martell]] of the [[Sandship]], and helped him consolidate Dorne under his rule through [[Nymeria's War]].{{ref|AFFC|40}} Under the rule of [[House Martell|House Nymeros Martell]] of [[Sunspear]], the Rhoynar have lived and intermingled with the native Dornish since that time.{{Ref|aFfC|21}} 

Having abandoned the Rhoyne, most Rhoynar adopted the [[Faith of the Seven]] in Westeros. In ''[[The Conquest of Dorne]]'', King [[Daeron I Targaryen]] differentiated between three sorts of [[Dornishmen]], so-called stony, sandy, and salty Dornishmen.{{ref|ASOS|38}} The salty Dornishmen are held to have the most Rhoynish blood, being dark haired, olive skinned, and living close to the shore. The salty Dornishmen no longer speak the language of the ancient Rhoynar,{{ref|TWOIAF| Dorne: Queer Customs of the South}} although they do speak the [[Common Tongue]] with a distinctive drawl.{{ref|AFFC|Prologue}} Unlike the rest of the [[Seven Kingdoms]], equal primogeniture is practiced in Dorne as it was along the Rhoyne.

Some descendants of the Rhoynar did not assimilate and continue to practice the traditions of their ancestors, however. Called the "[[orphans of the Greenblood]]", these individuals live on rafts along the river [[Greenblood]] and consider themselves orphaned from their Mother Rhoyne.{{ref|AFFC|21}} They are of pure Rhoynar blood and still speak the Rhoynish language in secret.{{ref|TWOIAF| Dorne: Queer Customs of the South}}