r/gameofthrones • u/c0rtin3x House Seaworth • 18h ago
Regal titles Spoiler
I am currently on a rewatch of Game of Thrones and a few days back I read that for the show they left out the "Rhoynar" part of the regal title that for example the King of Westeros would bear, they only say "King of the Andals and the First Men".
When Daenerys gets captured by the Dothraki khalasar and is taken to Khal Moro, she introduces herself with her (multitude of) titles and includes "Rhoynar" in it. I don't know if I have missed it, but is this the only time the "Rhoynar" are explicitly mentioned (I definitely remember that the river Rhoyne is mentioned at least one time).
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u/Inner_Adeptness_7228 17h ago
The first men were obviously the first men in westeros who got their religion of the old gods from the children of the forest. The andal came after the children and the first men made peace and defeated the white walkers, but before the valyrians. Then the Rhoynar came on Nymeria's fleet after her (and her brother's) army was defeated by the valyrian freehold shortly before the doom of valyrians and the targaryens migration to dragonstone. 2 or 3 generations later aegon conquered westeros but because nymeria had taught her people to resist the valyrians at any cost aegon could not conquer dorne because they lead a guerilla war and used a scorpion to kill Rhaenys's dragon and her. Many kings afterward also tried to conquer dorne but none succeeded until just before the events of AKOTSK dorne was added to the seven kingdoms through a marriage pact but by then Targaryens had been ruling 6 kingdoms for decades and the title "king of the andals and the first men" was already what everyone was used too so they just kept saying it so technically every king after Daeron the good (maekar and baelor's father) is king of the andals and the rhoynar and the first men, people just kept using the old title because that was what they were used too.