Rhoynar Culture & Language

Dedicated to the Rhoynar Culture & Language. Inspired by and based on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones. Lomar Rhoynos is a conlang created by me inspired by the Rhoynar in these works.

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Lexember 2025 Day 14

voria (n.) ['vor.ia] *vauria

Rain

Today's word in the lomar rhoynos term for rain.

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Lexember 2025 Days 11-13

Days 11-13 are three of key words used in the early stages in creating Lomar Rhoynos:

kian (n.) [kian] *kian

Water

quor (n.) [quor] *kuor

Grass

kel (n.) [kɛl] *kil

Cloud

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Lexember 2025 Day 10

nyut (v.) [naij.ʊt] *naiyut

To Sing

Today's word is the lomar rhoynos verb to sing. The Rhoynar city of Ny Sar (the city ruled by Princess Nymeria) was described in The World of Ice and Fire as "alive with song" which gave the inspiration for this verb. The city of Ny Sar in Lomar Rhoynos would mean a "Singing City".

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Lexember 2025 Day 9

noyur (n.) [‘nɔɪj.ʊr] *nojur

Marble

The cities of the Rhoynar are described for their marble, including Ar Noy, which was the inspiration for this word.

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Lexember 2025 Day 8

Kroyut (v.) [‘krɔɪj.ʊt] *kroyut

To Cross a River

Today's word is the verb for crossing the river in Lomar Rhoynos. It is inspired by the Rhoynar city of Chroyane, which meets at the confluence of the Lhorulu and the Rhoyne.

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Lexember 2025 Day 7

melia (n.) [‘mɛl.ia] *mbilia

Water Lily

Water flower

The word today is the Lomar Rhoynos word for water lily. It can also refer to any flowers that grow in the water. It is inspired by the Rhoynar city of Sar Mell, which is famous for its flowers. The city name in Lomar Rhoynos is Saria Melia.

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Lexember 2025 Day 6

saria (n.) ['sar.ia] *saria

City

The word today is the Lomar Rhoynos word for City. The word is based on names of the Rhoynar cities of Sar Mell, Sarhoy and Ny Sar from The World of Ice and Fire.

Sar Mell by Benjamin Schulte

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Lexember 2025 Day 5

mara (n.) ['mar.a] *mara

Mother

Today's word is the Lomar Rhoynos word for mother.

Mara Rhoyna is the Rhoynar name for Mother Rhoyne, or Mother River, the principal deity in the religion of the Rhoynar.

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Lexember 2025 Day 4

sakarur (n.) [sə.'kɑr.ʊr] *skar

Crab

The word today is the Lomar Rhoynos word for crab. In the religion of the Rhoynar the Crab King is the rival of the Old Man of the River. They fight against each other for control of all the creatures that live in the River Rhoyne.

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Lexember 2025 Day 3

The word today is the word in Lomar Rhoynos for turtle. Turtles are an important part of Rhoynish culture, with the large turtles in the River Rhoyne called the Old Men of the River and being worshipped as a consort of Mother Rhoyne.

dameyia (n.) [dɑ.'mej.ia] *dameia

Turtle

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Lexember 2025 Day 2

The word today is the word for father. I noticed that many languages tend to use labial stops (p, b) in their word for father so that's what I used here also. The rolling r is what dornishmen accents are noted for in A Song of Ice and Fire so I decided that this should be a common part of the rhoynar language:

bara (n.) [‘bɑr.a] *bara

father, dad

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Lexember 2025 Day 1

For Lexember 2025 I am posting a word from my Conlang for the Rhoynar, Lomar Rhoynos. The first word is the word for the River Rhoyne:

rhoyna (n.) ['ɹɔɪn.a] *runa

The River Rhoyne

This was the first word I created, it seemed appropriate to start with the River Rhoyne given it was the centre of the Rhoynar civilisation. My assumption is that most Rhoynar words known are the Valyrian interpretations, hence rhoyna rather than rhoyne.

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What Happened to the Rhoynar?

They were destroyed or forced to flee their cities by the Freehold of Valyrian 1,000 years before A Game of Thrones.

Princess Nymeria of Ny Sar led 10,000 Ships and fled to numerous locations before settling in Dorne in Westeros. The modern Dornish are a mix of First Men, Andals and Rhoynar. House Martell descends from Princess Nymeria and her marriage to Prince Mors Martell andThe Palace of Sunspear is built in the Rhoynish style.

Some of the Rhoynar refused to merge with the Dornish and became the Orphans of the Greenblood, who still worship Mother Rhoyne.

The Dornish differ from the rest of the Seven Kingdoms with their laws of equal primogeniture and their tolerance of paramours and homosexuality due to the influence of the Rhoynar culture.

Art by Karla Ortiz, from The World of Ice & Fire

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Where did the Rhoynar live?

The Rhoynar lived on the banks of the River Rhoyne in Essos, near to where the Free Cities now are.

They lived in 6 city states: Chroyane, Ny Sar, Sar Mell, Sarhoy, Ar Noy and Ghoyan Drohe.

File:Rhoyne.jpg - A Wiki of Ice and Fire

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Who were the Rhoynar?

The Rhoynar are an ethnic group of people who lived in Essos for before being driven out by the Valyrian Freehold 1,000 years before A Game of Thrones.

They were a slender people with olive skin, black hair and dark eyes. They were more tolerant than other races in A Song of Ice and Fire such as practicing equal primogeniture, tolerated paramours and homosexuality and their women were allowed to be warriors.

They were famous for their art and music.

They were a fiercely independent people, living in separate city states.

Princess Nymeria, by JK Drummond, for The World of Ice & Fire