“You may take my castle, but you will win only bones and blood and ashes.” Princess Argella Durrand
“You may take my castle, but you will win only bones and blood and ashes.” Princess Argella Durrandon was the daughter and only child of Argilac the Arrogant, the last Storm King.At the approach of Orys Baratheon and the Targaryen host, Argella barred the gates of Storm’s End and declared herself Storm Queen. When Queen Rhaenys flew Meraxes into the castle to parley, Argella announced that the defenders of Storm’s End would die to the last man. However, her garrison refused to share the fate of Harrenhaland revolted, raising a peace banner and delivering Argella to Orys’s camp, gagged, chained, and naked. Orys, however, removed the chains with his own hands, wrapped his cloak around her, and gave her food and wine. He spoke to her gently, telling her of her father Argilac’s courage in deathAegon rewarded Orys Baratheon with Storm’s End, the rule of the Stormlands, and Argella. On his marriage to Argella Durrandon, and to honor Argilac’s valor, Orys Baratheon adopted the sigil and words of House Durrandon as his own. -- source link
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