House Tarth's seat, Evenfall Hall, stood atop a great rock beside the sea, overlooking the broad expanse of Tarth Harbor below. Thanks to Danyla's secret investments over the past few years, the harbor's docks had expanded several times over and could now accommodate two or three hundred three-masted sailing ships coming and going at once.
At that moment, more than a hundred and twenty three-masted sailing ships and several hundred fishing boats of various sizes lay neatly arrayed at the docks. Eighty of them belonged to Danyla, though most flew the banners of House Tarth.
House Tarth's sigil was quartered, with yellow suns on rose fields and white moons on sky-blue fields. Their words were "Day and Night Interchanging."
House Tarth's banners always reminded Danyla of how its women flourished while its men dwindled. The yellow sun on the rose field plainly suggested women shining as brilliantly as the sun, while the white moon on blue seemed, however she looked at it, to foretell a scarcity of men.
Every generation of House Tarth had many daughters, but its male line often died out. Yet the women had kept the house alive by taking husbands who married into their family.
Triplet daughters were also common in House Tarth. During Aegon's reign, Queen Rhaenys had helped find good matches for three triplet daughters of the house. The current Earl of Tarth had also fathered triplet daughters, who were now nine years old.
Though House Tarth was not particularly illustrious among the Seven Kingdoms, it had intermarried with both House Hightower and House Velaryon, giving it a fairly noble bloodline.
The earls and heads of House Tarth throughout the generations were known as the "Evenstar." This was also the name of their Valyrian steel Ancestral Sword, which made quite a fitting pair with