1 Jan 83 Jahr - The Fourth Dornish War

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The Fourth Dornish War, known among smallfolk as Prince Morion's Madness and the War of the Hundred Candles, took place in 83 AC.
Unlike the Second and Third Dornish Wars, which were against bandit lords (who may have had indirect support from the Martells), the fourth war was actively led by House Martell itself.
During the Third Dornish War, the Iron Throne took up arms against the Vulture King, who had been raiding the stormlands. The Vulture King was eventually defeated by a force led by King Jaehaerys I Targaryen and Lord Rogar Baratheon, Lord of Storm's End.
The Prince of Dorne had kept his armies out of the conflict. Regardless, his son, Morion Martell, regarded it as a slight against Dorne that knights of the Iron Throne had marched into the Red Mountains of Dorne without being harmed, whilst the armies of Dorne left the Vulture King to his own fate. When he succeeded his father, Prince Morion decided to rectify this, and began to plan an invasion of the Seven Kingdoms.
Morion planned to invade the stormlands by ship. As Dorne lacked strength at sea, he hired pirates from the Stepstones, sellsails from Myr, and corsairs from the Pepper Coast. This took him the best part of a year. Although Morion had hoped to take Jaehaerys unaware, the king on the Iron Throne had spies in Morion's own court, and friends among some of the Dornish lords, and was therefore warned far in advance of the plans made by the Dornish prince.
In 83 AC, Prince Morion was ready to attack and sailed his spearmen to Cape Wrath to begin his invasion. The Fourth Dornish War consisted of a single battle, and lasted a single day. King Jaehaerys and his two eldest sons, Prince Aemon and Prince Baelon, awaited the Dornish on Vermithor, Caraxes, and Vhagar, whilst Lord Boremund Baratheon awaited the Dornish with his army at Cape Wrath.
As the Dornish fleet was sailing north on the Sea of Dorne, Jaehaerys and his sons struck first by descending from the skies with their dragons. Though the Dornish responded by filling the air with scorpion and crossbow bolts, none of the projectiles pierced the dragons' scales. Dragonflame destroyed the Dornish fleet.

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