And when you have seen your kings shit over the rail and turn green in a storm, it was hard to bend the knee and pretend they were gods. If every captain was a king aboard his own ship, as was often said, it was small wonder they named the islands the land of ten thousand kings. The islands were too small for awe, and a longship smaller still. Ironborn captains were proud and willful, and did not go in awe of a man's blood. It would have been a much different voyage if a longship from the islands had been waiting at Seagard as he'd hoped. Nymeria receives word soon after the defeat and takes any watercraft that can be found, cramming them with women and children, because almost all the men of fighting age were gone and dead. This gives us 250.000 x 100/40 = 625.000 for the population of the cities, Sarhoy not included.īear in mind that neither the %40 nor the 250.000 are exact numbers and even if they were, there are still some men of fighting age left behind.īut since we aren’t told “near three hundred thousand” or “over two hundred thousand” but instead “ a quarter of a million”, the actual number would be close to this, even when the men left behind is included. From the headwaters of the Rhoyne down to her many mouths, every man of fighting age took up sword and shield and made his way to the festival city to join this great campaign According to Beldecar, it was a quarter of a million strong. The largest army that Essos had ever seen soon assembled at Chroyane, under the command of Prince Garin.
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