THE BRONZE ISLES
The Bronze Isles are one of the seven kingdoms of Cephri and is the only kingdom that are islands. Unlike some of the other kingdoms it retained it's name as "The Bronze Isles" when King Orrd Storm bent the knee ,after the Waterlands bent the knee and after Naerys released the dragon's power on the Bronze Isles after they tried to kill them both in a surprise attack.
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The Bronze Isles is ruled by House Storm who have ruled for ever since the fall of house Greyjoy, the current ruler is Lord Javon Storm. It is unknown when House Storm was created however the Bronzemen believe that House Storm was created when Lord Ayes Storm defied the Storm God and married his own daughter, they sought refuge at the place where Storm’s End stood but the wind followed them and destroyed the castle that stood, Time after time the Storm God would destroy what they built to protect themselves when it was destroyed it is said they asked everyone around to build a castle that would protect them. After the 7th collapse they were told to call Brandon the Builder who was supposedly a child at the time nevertheless they called Brandon the Builder down and he built Storm’s End which repelled the Storm lord’s attacks.
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GEOGRAPHY
The Bronze Isles is an archipelago in Iron Bay, located in the Linking Sea off the eastern coast of Cephri. They are roughly east of the Waterlands, north of the Proudlands, and south of the North.
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The main grouping of islands numbers twenty-one, with the 5 major isles being Storm's End, Great Wyk, Old Wyk, Sapphire Isle and Thunderlands. South-West are a bunch of islands disputed by the Waterlands and the Bronze Isles with skirmishes between them most frequent, four days sail east of Storm's End is a smaller grouping of thirteen clustered around the Lonely Light. Some of the Bronze Isles are used for sheep grazing or are uninhabited. The islands are ruled from Storm's End, the seat of House Storm on the island of the same name.
The Bronze Isles are the smallest and least populated of the Seven Kingdoms. The Bronze Isles are small however surprisingly fertile in some regions while others are infertile with few safe harbors. The seas around the isles are stormy, frequently wreaking havoc with their considerable force.
PEOPLE
MILITARY STRENGTH
The inhabitants of these harsh isles are known as Bronzemen, especially by the rest of Cephri. The Bronzemen are a seafaring people, and some do not like to be far from the sea. The priests of the Drowned God likewise seldom stray far from the sea. The Bronzemen are considered independent, fierce and sometimes cruel. The Bronzemen live in a harsh land and hold no love for the peoples of the mainland Cephri, whom they consider green and weak.
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The Seven aspects of the Allfather and the old gods find small favor with the Bronzemen, as their allegiance is given to their native Drowned God. Because of the scarcity of the Faith, there are few knights in the islands; some Bronzemen believe in returning to the Old Way of reaving and raiding.
HISTORY
An estimated count on the Bronzemen's manpower is between 15,000-25,000. They can raise five hundred longships, their bronze fleet contains at least 100 warships that are 3x as big as longships. The only fleets considerably comparable would be the Royal Fleet and the Flower's fleet at Eastend.
Maesters believe that the Bronze Isles was first settled down by the First Men however according to old maps there was no Bronze Isles only a place known as "The Vale" which was similar to today's Bronze Isles with mountainous terrain. It is unknown when but it appears after the Long Night The Vale broke up into the Bronze Isles however Maesters are still confused how it happened.
THE DAWN AGE
THE SOLITARY KINGS
After the breaking up of The Vale the Bronze Isles came into existence. The king's there ruled their own islands in isolation until King Dagon Orfun of the island Old Wyk stormed each island and conquered them, finally he took his army and marched to the outside of Storm's End where it is said on numerous accounts that he called upon the wind and blew it inside the castle. The deathly wind emptied the castle flinging the defenders into the air. Once King Dagon won he threw the King Naon Bund off Storm's End surprisingly as a sacrifice to the Storm God rather than the Drowned God. Due to his faith in the Storm God rather than the Drowned God he was unpopular however he is looked back in esteem due to him seizing control of all the isles. His following sons kept to Dagon's rule keeping far away from mainland Cephri where it was a constant state of waring. The Bronze Isles's surprisingly were peaceful for these tens of years.
THE OLD WAY
It is unknown if House Orfun were usurped or if they died out naturally but House Rored followed them as kings, they introduced a method of raiding and reaving currently known as 'the old way". House Rored took advantage of the state of fractured Cephri and raided all sides of Cephri, they were practically successful in The Kingdom of Rivers and Waters and the Proudlands. Their attacks were so frequent the Proudlands built the castle North's Node to keep watch for any Bronzemen. After many generations of raiding the Waterlands one King known as Raymore the Red Beard who launched a massive offensive through the River Trident raiding across the Waterlands, the offensive was a big victory for the Bronze Isles but it also meant that they were effectively at war with the Waterlands
BRONZO-WATER WAR
During the war between the Bronze Isles and the Waterlands it was mainly a defensive one for The Bronze Isles who let the Waterlands attack them, once or twice they may attack the Waterlands but not much. Once the Waterlands made gains in the Sapphire Isles taking it the Bronze Isles nearly panicked and nearly fell into disarray but called together by King Ryb Rored they eliminated the threat in the Sapphire Isles by defeating the Water King, Julien Jusen, and sacrificing him to the Drowned God, King Rored tried to level an army to take the Water Kingdom however after the first Bronzo-Water war he could not bring a loyal army to attack the Kingdom of Rivers and Waters.
50-200 years after The Third Bronzo-Water war, the Fourth Bronco-Water war broke out. At this period the Water Kingdom was divided and didn't have one king who ruled over them all.The new rulers of The Bronze Isles, House Greyjoy, alongside the Pirates ravaged the East coast and they had taken large portions of the coast however Bronze Beast which had just recently been constructed held out against the Bronzemen. In the end they defeated the Waterlords and ruled the Bronze Isles and the Waterlands. The pirates were rewarded heavily one instance was of a pirate settling down in the Bronze Isles and starting his own House: House Myre.
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However their new rule did not last as long as they hoped, House Strong who had been exiled from The Hunter's Gift swiftly made gains of power in the Kingdom of Rivers and Waters eventually joining with all the houses and with help of The North toppled House Greyjoy. One epic tale tells of the young son of King Anthony Strong called Aaden Strong who swam under the castle and squeezed in through a gap, from there he took out the guards one by one and opened the gates of the 3 River Stronghold.
BLACKFYRE CONQUEST
During the Blackfyre Conquest, Naerys Blackfyre flew to the Bronze Isles to negotiate the Bronze Isle's surrender something they were not aware of before hand. For days the Bronzemen would not give a permanent answer to Naerys, they were waiting until the battle between King Aemon and the Water King. When they caught wind that the Water King had 30,000 men and Aemon only about 10,000, they cooked up a plan. Under the impression there was no way King Aemon could beat 30,000 men King Orrd Storm conspired to kill Naerys and her dragon while Aemon and Daenerys died on the battlefield, ending the conquest. However he had under estimated the dragon's power and the dragon rider's cunningness. Naerys had read on the Bronzemen and their history, from her reading she found the men to be less than "pleasant". She knew the rebuffal of King Storm not giving a permanent answer meant something. So she had been expecting an attack on her so when it finally came she knew what exactly to burn and who to burn. It is said the whole island shook with flames, an account from 1BC described the scene as "The Red God plays puppets with his dragons and The Bronze Isles are his playground". After Naerys threatened to burn the whole of Storm's End to the ground and every one standing on it, King Storm was hit with an ultimatum, bend the knee or die.
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After hearing news of King Aemon's victory at the Crossroads rather shamefully compared to his ancestors King Storm bent the knee and gave up his crown in utter humiliation.
THE YOUTH REBELLION
The Bronze Isles did not do much during the Youth Rebellion however they did join the rebel side but only to gain a share of the pie not because they believed in the cause. This is evident after Lord Storm betrothed his daughter Brielle Storm to Lord Nestor Nik of the Hunter's Gift who was part of the loyalist side.
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Ser Samuel Royce outright embarrassed Lord Nestor and the whole of The Bronze Isles when he "spoilt" Brielle during the celebrations after the victory of the war.
RECENT EVENTS
A CROWN FOR A KING
The Bronze Isles declare for the rebel cause, helping Ulthor invade the Dawnlands all the while harassing Ignis's supply lines for food from Eilleas. Under Jax Storm they are able to infiltrate the Waterlands. The majority of Bronzemen are destroyed at Redwater Bay when the defenders of King's Landing explode their ships with Red Fìros. The few remaining Bronzemen are in the Waterlands and The North.