Princess Deria placed in his hands a private letter from her father, Prince Nymor. Aegon read it upon the Iron Throne, and men say that when he rose, his hand was bleeding, so hard had he clenched it. He burned the letter and departed immediately on Balerion’s back for Dragonstone. When he returned the next morning, he agreed to the peace and signed a treaty to that effect.
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Was Rhaenys still alive in the letter?

But that is not the way of House Dayne. The wielder of Dawn is always given the title of Sword of the Morning, and only a knight of House Dayne who is deemed worthy can carry it.

Does Dawn become more magical if it is carried by a knight who is NOT worthy of it?
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Even among the ironborn there are some who... acknowledge the more widely accepted view of an ancient descent from the First Men—even though the First Men, unlike the later Andals, were never a seafaring people. Certainly, we cannot seriously accept the assertions of the ironborn priests, who would have us believe that the ironmen are closer kin to fish and merlings than the other races of mankind.
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The Ironborn are from

I cobbled together a timeline for the first Long Night using all the stories we know about it from #ASoIaF and #TWoIaF and it gives something kind of coherent, I think.

https://alexissomethingrose.wordpress.com/2022/05/31/the-long-night-tryin-to-streamline-the-information/