A
warrior-
queen who brought 10,000 ships across the narrow sea to the shores of Dorne in southern Westeros.
Nymeria is remembered as a warrior-
queen, though she actually was not a warrior herself, in the sense of carrying and wielding weapons. She was considered a warrior for being a cunning military strategist and commander of armies (comparable to how in his later years Tywin Lannister was considered a dangerous war-leader, without actually wielding his own sword anymore). That being
said, many of the Rhoynar refugees in her
army were female, because Rhoynar women were taught to fight alongside their men (and most of the men had died fighting the Valyrians). "Nymeria" became a
popular name in Dorne in later generations.
She is an ancestor of House Martell and House Dayne, and is
seen as the founder of Dorne as a unified realm under Martell rule. As the founder of one of the Seven Kingdoms, Nymeria is revered in Dorne much as Brandon Stark the Builder is revered in the North, Lann the Clever in the Westerlands, or Garth Greenhand in the Reach.
