Myr
Of the nine Free Cities, Myr rises on the eastern coast of Essos and ranks among the wealthiest trading ports of that shore: only Braavos and Pentos outmatch it in power. It lives off trade -its summer wines, its oranges, its glass and lace- and off the crossbowmen who leave its walls to fight as sellswords far from home.
Its history stretches back further than its own people can fully account for: no one knows for certain who first raised a city there, before the Valyrians founded Myr on the ruins of someone else's.
Chapter 1
A people already vanished
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No one truly knows who built the first city where Myr now stands. Some maesters believe a settlement stood there as far back as the Dawn Age, and that it survived -or fell to ruin- during the Long Night, the work of a people whose very name has been lost.
Long afterward the Andals arrived and raised their own fortified city over those stones. It was a band of Valyrian merchants and adventurers who took it from them, killing much of the population and enslaving the rest; the Myr we know rose from what was left.
The origins of the Myrish themselves are little more than guesswork: some maesters link them to the Rhoynar, pointing to the olive skin and dark hair the two peoples share, though no one claims it as certain.
Chapter 2
The Triarchy and the Dance of the Dragons
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Myr did not stay out of it either during the Dance of the Dragons: the city joined Lys and Tyrosh in the Triarchy, an alliance ruled by a High Council shared between the three.
The Triarchy backed the Greens and sent its ships into the Battle of the Gullet, a naval clash as bloody as it was decisive for the course of the war.
The alliance did not long outlast the fighting: by 130 AC it had already grown weak, and the bond between the three cities was coming apart.
Chapter 3
The crossbowmen who arrived late
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Myr is famed for its crossbowmen, craftsmen of a weapon the city builds to loose as many as three bolts in a single shot. Many of them make their living as sellswords far from home.
When Daemon Blackfyre rose against the Iron Throne, a good number of those crossbowmen crossed the narrow sea meaning to fight at his side.
They never made it in time. Storms held them back, and the Battle of the Redgrass Field was decided without them.
Chapter 4
On the brink of war
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Years later, when Tyrosh and Lys stood on the verge of open war with each other, both cities tried to win Myr over as an ally, each pulling it toward its own side.
The tension did not stay away for long: by the time Myr again found itself on the brink of conflict with its two neighbors, it had strengthened itself by hiring the Golden Company -- and the company broke its contract, leaving the city without the force it had counted on.
Chapter 5
Wine, glass, and oranges
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Myr's wealth comes from the hands of its artisans. The glass that leaves its workshops is fine enough that a single pane is worth its weight in spices, and its crossbows can loose several bolts at once.
The city also exports a prized summer wine, delicate lace, and a green nectar. Its boats, painted red, sail in loaded with oranges that are then carried across half of Essos.
The physical world
La mayoría de myrienses nativos son de pelo negro y ojos oscuros y las mujeres visten ropas que dejan el vientre al descubierto.
Population · Vientos de Invierno, Mercy.
Es conocida por sus encajes y su néctar verde.
Trade · Juego de Tronos, Capítulo 54, Daenerys.
Gallery
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