![]() ![]() The Seven Kingdoms and the Free Cities have fought for control over some or all of the islands, but these gains were always temporary. By the time of the Targaryen Conquest, one century after the Doom, the Stepstones were already home to a large number of pirates. Whatever control the Valyrians may have once exerted over the Stepstones collapsed after the Doom of Valyria, and pirates apparently thrived there during the chaos of the subsequent Century of Blood. There are pockets of Rhoynar on the islands dating back to the migration of Nymeria's ten thousand ships. Slavers from the Stepstones captured the Wolf's Den at the mouth of the White Knife during the reign of King Edrick Stark, and pirates from the isles also sometimes attacked the eastern riverlands and Vale of Arryn. ![]() The Freehold of Valyria established Tyrosh as a military outpost to control trade near the Stepstones. During the Breaking, the greenseers of the children of the forest are said to have used magic to shatter the land-bridge into an archipelago named the Stepstones, located between the Broken Arm and the Disputed Lands. More than ten thousand years ago the First Men used that land-bridge to cross into what is now known as Dorne to begin their invasion of Westeros. According to legend, the Stepstones are remnants of the Arm of Dorne, a land-bridge which once linked Westeros and Essos. ![]()
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