New Daughters War

### Outcome

**Status quo ante bellum*** Deaths of Queen Lyanna I Baratheon, Prince Daemon Baratheon, and King Rogar I Baratheon
* Vanishing of Prince Raymont Baratheon and Princess Roslin Baratheon
* Accession of King Lyonel I Baratheon to the Iron Throne
* Both sides severely drained of resources, wealth, and manpower

Factions| * **Three Daughters**/Golden Company
* **Iron Throne**/House Baratheon of King's Landing
* House Baratheon of Storm's End
* House Martell
* House Stark
* House Velaryon
* House Harlaw
* **Norvos**
* **Pentos**
* **Qohor**
* Numerous sellswords and volunteer fighters

* **Bay of Dragons**(during the Storming of Meereen)

The **New Daughters War** was a major intercontinental war between the Seven Kingdoms standing by it's ally, the Three Daughters, and many of the independent Free Cities of Essos. It's scope and death toll eclipsed that of even the War of the Narrow Sea, despite war never fully reaching Westerosi shores, and was largely seen as the symbolic end of the period of relative peace that had reigned for well over a century.

## History

### Prelude

Following the War of Gold and Iron, many in the Free Cities came to resent the existence of the Three Daughters, seeing it as nothing more than a Westerosi invasion and colonisation of Essos. Such actions by the Seven Kingdoms were seen as immensely hypocritical, given how fervently the Seven Kingdoms had decried the attempts of the Eastern Coalition to do the same to themselves during the War of the Narrow Sea.

None-the-less, the popular and strong leadership presented by Kings Robert the Elder and Robert the Younger had kept any true conflict at bay, but following the death of King Robert the Younger and the accession of his granddaughter, Queen Lyanna Baratheon, the Free Cities felt confident enough to take action against the 'stain on the map' of the Three Daughters.

### War

In 427 AC, the armies of Volantis, Pentos and Qohor began marching on Myr. Many sellswords and volunteer fighters from other corners of western Essos, particularly Braavos and Lorath, also joined the coalition, despite the official neutrality maintained by their leadership.

Facing imminent attack, Lord Protector Richard Strickland asked for the assistance of the Seven Kingdoms, and Queen Lyanna assembled a large expeditionary force, comprised of men of House Baratheon (including the Storm's End branch), House Martell, House Stark, House Velaryon and House Harlaw.

Due to the sparseness of Essos outside of the Free Cities, campaigns were long and drawn out, and as many men died to disease as to battle. Most battles consisted of small skirmishes along the major Valyrian roads.

In 428 AC, Galeo Hotah of Norvos offered an alliance; his armies in exchange for Queen Lyanna's hand in marriage. Lyanna accepted, and rode for Norvos to conclude the marriage pact.

The following year, Lyanna was badly wounded in the Battle of the Darkwash against Qohori forces. Lyanna returned to Norvos, pregnant with her child by Galeo. Lyanna never recovered from her injuries, and died during childbirth. Her newborn son, Aegon Baratheon, barely lived a day, and as such the Iron Throne passed to Lyanna's uncle, Rogar Baratheon.

Rogar continued the war. Despite having the numerical advantage in troops, his lackluster leadership caused the war to be prolonged for a further three years, during which tens of thousands of his men died. The royal coffers, which had been bursting with gold under the reign of his father, were now almost empty.

In 432 AC, Rogar's son and heir, Daemon Baratheon, was killed in a massacre in the Golden Fields. The particularly brutal way in which Daemon died spurred the Bay of Dragons into action, with the Second Sons and Unsullied regency offering an alliance. Rogar accepted, and sailed the royal fleet to Meereen.

Whilst docked in Meereen, Rogar's two surviving children, Raymont and Roslin Baratheon, escaped into the night. Both had suffered abuse at the hands of their father, and wished to start a new life. Rogar didn't believe they had ran away by their own free will, instead believing they had been kidnapped by the Meereenese. In a black fury, Rogar led his men to storm the city. At the foot of the Great Pyramid, Rogar caught the spear of an Unsullied soldier, and his men soon retreated for the city, sailing back to King's Landing.

With all of Rogar's children either dead or missing, Rogar was succeeded to the Iron Throne by his brother, Lyonel Baratheon. Soon after his coronation, word reached King's Landing that a massive invasion fleet was amassing at the mouth of the Rhoyne. Acting on this, Lyonel consolidated all the warships of the realm that he could together, and sailed into the Narrow Sea to meet the armada. In the ensuing battle, the Valyrian Armada was dealed a decisive blow by the Westerosi forces.

The battle in the Narrow Sea proved to be precisely the political leverage King Lyonel needed to end the war. In a pact signed on Bloodstone, the Seven Kingdoms and the Free Cities agreed to end the war, with both sides respecting the pre-war world order. However, Lyonel agreed to quietly and drastically cut back on the Iron Throne's support to the Three Daughters.

### Aftermath

The war was immensely costly to both sides, in terms of gold and lives. This fact was only worsened by the fact that neither side made any tangible gains against the other. Much of Lyonel's subsequent reign was dominated by rebuilding the realms finances and defenses.

Prince Raymont Baratheon and Princess Roslin Baratheon continued to live in exile, travelling around numerous cities in Essos. Whilst in Essos, Raymont married a mysterious Volantene woman named Kinvara, and together they had a child named Quentyn. Raymont eventually died in 458 AC after twenty-six years of exile, and soon after, Quentyn and Roslin returned to Westeros. Following the death of Queen Nymeria Baratheon, Quentyn has begun contesting the Iron Throne in the Black Succession.