Daemios Sunwyrm is the incumbent Archon of Tyrosh and rider of the formidable Sunburst. He is the son of Aelor Sand and Sahana Sadaris, and thus boasts direct blood lineage from Maegor Waters, the once Prince of Westeros and Moreo Sadaris, Archon of Tyrosh and his nominal mentor. After a two year exile following his mutilation in 436 A.C, Daemios returned to Tyrosh with the backing of the ruling Rogare dynasty in Lys and assumed the mantle of his grandfather. Rumored to have rediscovered many of the lost arts of the old Valyrian dragonlords, Daemios is said to rule Tyrosh with dragonflame and sorcery. While the illustrious Magister families of Tyrosh view him with disdain and fear, Daemios enjoys considerable popularity among the sellswords, gentry and commoners due to his largesse with grain doles and his previous escapades as captain of the Bold Brethern in Volantis.
Appearance and Character[]
Daemios of Tyrosh is lean and wolfish, gaunt if not for the toned muscle wrought from nearly a decade of a sellsword's lifestyle, with a smoldering gaze the tint of blackened amethyst. Though a man greatly inclined to theatrics— or perhaps megalomania— Daemios eschews much of Tyroshi fashion with the sole concession of dying his ordinarily auburn hair an burnished copper, which is typically worn loose. Instead, the Archon favors the trends of Volantis: smoky lamellar, scale pteurges and cloaks richly dyed a deep violet coherent with his eyes, extracted from Tyrosh's infamous sea-snails.
Most notably, however, is the Archon's nose or lack of therefor. Mutilated in a political coup by Tyrosh's merchant families who feared and despised the dragonlord, Daemios boasts a silver gilt prosthetic, ornamented with dark rubies and streaked with Valyrian gylphs that could be mistaken for Valyrian steel at an distance. Far from remiss over the loss, the mystique of the deformity is yet another tool in the Archon's arsenal alongside his sorcery, dragonflame and ample treasury utilized in cajoling and bribing his subjects and troublesome merchant princes into submission.
History[]
According to Maester Duncan's True History of the Tetrarchy: Dragonlords, Courtesans and Cheesemongers
Daemios Sunwyrm was born in 410 AC, to Aelor Sand and Sahana Sadaris of Tyrosh. Groomed by his grandfather to be his political successor, Daemios proved himself to a quarrelsome and licentious youth. Though deemed clever and swift-tongued by his tutors, Daemios neglected his studies and eschewed responsibility in lieu of the willowy limbs of courtesans by day and the imperious patrol of Tyrosh's streets at night in emulation of Bravos. Moreo is said to have despaired greatly of the youth and begun to greatly restrict his freedoms and stipends. Daemios soon chafed, and in 425 A.C set out as a captain of a Free Company dubbed the Bold Brethern, largely compromised of an coterie of young heirlings and miscreants he had befriended in his misadventures. After an initial bout of unfruitful contracts with Myr and Lys, Daemios sold his sword to the Triarchs and spent the mainstay of the following six years in Volantis, consorting with all manner of witch and warlock, suppressing the intermittent slave revolts that erupted along the Rhoyne and fending off Dothraki incursions. The First Daughter of Valyria, with it's power, slaves, spices and ancient edifices had enthralled Daemios, his companions are recorded to have said, and seeded within him an admiration for the Freehold of old. Daemios' participation in the Volantene campaign against Norvos bought him an invitation from the Triarchs to sup with them behind the enigmatic Black Wall. It is not known what splendor he was exposed to by the secretive Old Blood of Volantis, only that Daemios would emerge from the Black Wall changed, with his aspirations to the status of Dragonlord cemented. He would renew his studies into the occult studies of magic before returning to Tyrosh in mid 431 A.C.
Daemios succeeded in taming Sunburst, the mount of the fallen Balerion Otherys. Moreo exulted in this, for an dragonriding heir would solidify his legacy for generations to come, and hastily arranged for his grandson to begin to consort with the Tyroshi magistrates to gain support as his successor. Daemios, however, said to be intoxicated upon the power which he now wielded, dismissed Moreos' implorations and instead took flight to travel the length and breadth of Essos. Upon news of his grandfather's death in 436 A.C, Daemios returned to Tyrosh, expecting to be bequeathed the Free City by virtue of his gravitas and mount. The great merchant princes and magisters of Tyroshi held contempt for Daemios and envied the hoarded wealth of the Sadaris. 'More Targaryen than Tyroshi, did our ancestors toil so valiantly in the Century of Blood only for us to be ruled by a boy who speaks with a Volantene accent?' Lyazo Ferish, a prominent spicemonger, is alleged to have beseeched to a council of conspirators. Feigning acquiescence to his ambitions, the princes swiftly shackled Daemios and severed his nose in order to minimize his political viability. The dragonlord was condemned to a oubliette whilst his opponents debated whether his fate would be execution or further mutilations.
In captivity, Daemios is said to have brooded upon the dire circumstances he found himself steeped in. Here our sources differ, for Ashara of Andalos, a prominent courtesan whom Daemios was rumored to entertain the company of, said that Daemios confided in her that he had given up hope, consumed by regret for forsaking his father's attempts to ingrate him with the prominent families of Tyrosh in favor of pleasures of the flesh and prayed for the Gods to show mercy. A gaoler alleged that he witnessed the chained Daemios bite into a rat and smear it's blood with his tongue as apart of a dark ritual to bewitch men to come to his rescue, while a prisoner several cells apart claims that the same gaoler took the promise of a bribe from the imprisoned dragonlord to deliver an message to his allies.
Whatever the case, salvation came with the intervention of his grandfather's loyalists, who surreptitiously slipped into the dungeons and freed the would-be Archon from his fetters. Reunited with Sunburst, Daemios burst from Tyrosh and escaped to Lys. After two years in exile, the itinerant Daemios returned, possessing not only an ornate gilded and jeweled prosthesis for his nose, but the monetary support of the Rogares and a large host of Sellswords, which licentious sources with little credence have alleged was plied with sexual favors to the First Magister. Given the choice of gold or dragonfire, Daemios cowed and bribed his opponents into submission and ascended to Archon of Tyrosh.
Bereft of any support from the begrudging mercantile families and magisters, Daemios found a springboard of support among the neglected commons of Tyrosh. Wooing the militias, sellswords, lesser merchants and artisans of Tyrosh with plentiful, cheap grain and lavish fairs, Daemios swiftly won the love of the smallfolk and mobilized them as a counter balance to the influence of the Magisters who he knew to resent his rule. With his grasp over the city consolidated, his coffers full and his sellswords baying for blood and spoils, Daemios turned his gaze across the Narrow Sea and bega-.. [ink blots out the remainder of the page]
Family[]
- Maegor Waters
- Sylvenna Dayne
- Aelor Sand
- M. Sahana Sadaris
- Daemios Sunwyrm
- Lybella of Tyrosh
- Morgon of Tyrosh