Myr's streets were a maze, narrow and winding, paved with beautiful, colorful cobblestones. Tall, spired buildings lined both sides, their exquisite stained-glass windows proving that Myr's glassmaking and engraving deserved their worldwide fame.
Over the past few years, Danyla had used every means available to acquire top craftsmen from Myr, buying their services, recruiting them, and even kidnapping and carrying them off.
This had allowed Holy Flame Island's glassmaking techniques to undergo several rapid advances. With Great Dragons breathing Dragonfire to assist, the island's glassworks could now produce glassware as clear and sparkling as crystal.
Especially after Danyla occupied part of Dorne, the seemingly inexhaustible supply of sand suitable for glassmaking there had caused Holy Flame Island's glass production to soar.
Glass exports had now become as important to the Holy Flame Fleet's trade as its new ships, porcelain, high-quality refined salt and seasonings, and Dragonfire Wine.
The total volume of trade along the route between Holy Flame Island and the Stepstones had now become the highest in the Narrow Sea. Even distant Qarth and Slaver's Bay had increased the number of trading fleets sailing there more than tenfold.
Highly developed crafts and all manner of distinctive goods brought Holy Flame Island enormous wealth, but Danyla had not hoarded it in a treasury or spent it on her own pleasures like ordinary nobles.
Instead, she had invested almost all of that wealth in infrastructure within her lands and the development of trade routes.
With the canal near Oldstones open to navigation, the shortest trade route between the eastern and western coasts of central Westeros had finally taken shape. This greatly encouraged trade in the Three Rivers Basin and along both coasts of Westeros.
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