Starfall

Starfall is a castle in Dorne, the region controlled by House Martell of Sunspear, and the seat of House Dayne. The castle is located in the far west of Dorne, near the border with the Reach and south of Blackmont.
== Layout ==
The castle is located in the western Red Mountains on an island in the Torrentine where it pours into the Summer Sea. Starfall includes a tower called the Palestone Sword. Northeast of Starfall is High Hermitage, the seat of a Dayne cadet branch.
== History ==
=== Older History ===
According to legend, Starfall was built where the first Dayne found a magic stone after he followed the path of a shooting star. The Daynes grew in power to become the Kings of the Torrentine and one of the strongest houses of Dorne.
The Daynes submitted to House Nymeros Martell during Nymeria's War.
=== Targaryen Era ===
After Ser Joffrey Dayne attacked Oldtown during the First Dornish War, Queen Visenya Targaryen burned Starfall with her dragon, Vhagar.
Prince Oberyn Martell and Princess Elia Martell visited Starfall on their way to Casterly Rock where their mother was to broker their marriage to the Lannister twins, Cersei and Jaime.
In the aftermath of Robert's Rebellion, Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning, perished at the tower of joy. When Lord Eddard Stark returned Arthur's sword, the ancestral blade Dawn, to Starfall, Arthur's sister Ashara threw herself from the castle's Palestone Sword tower.
Category:Castles
Category:Dorne
Category:House Dayne