House Cuy, fiercely loyal to House Hightower, rushed to Oldtown, only to be wiped out by Danyla without even meeting Earl Hightower. All they left behind were a dozen or so charred corpses of knights and warhorses.
Before the Great Dragon, ordinary knights and soldiers truly had no means of resistance. Ordinary arrows could do the Great Dragon no harm at all; they could not even pierce its Dragon Wings.
Once the force sent to attack Sunhouse Castle had gone far enough, Danyla summoned the dragons and had them devour all the charred corpses and dead warhorses.
The metal armor on the knights and warhorses had fused with their bodies, and the Great Dragons swallowed it all together. Their digestive powers were formidable enough to break down metal ore with ease.
But after they swallowed melted armor like this, although some of it would be digested, most would still be excreted.
Lately, perhaps because Dreamfyre and the other dragons had devoured too many armed rioters, their droppings contained quite a bit of metal.
At the same time, Danyla discovered that the metal excreted by the Great Dragons was almost free of impurities and could be forged into steel of exceptionally high quality.
Danyla had Rouge gather over a hundred smiths from Oldtown, and a large smithy was being built east of Weirwood Square.
After the suppression of Oldtown's rioters, the blood sacrifice had caused a tremendous change in the melted steel, giving it a trace of the properties of Valyrian steel.
Danyla planned to forge a batch of equipment from this steel. For that purpose, she had even sent word asking Master Ohn in King's Landing to come in person.
After returning to the Hightower, Danyla immediately had a maester send a raven to King's Landing, reporting her judgment against