Cape Wrath appears as both a wild landscape in Rhaena Targaryen’s solitary travels and a coastal reference point for Greenstone, where she later sought the company of Lady Larissa Velaryon. The two references place the cape at the meeting point of Rhaena’s flight from human company and her brief return to an old friendship.

Landscape and setting

During the period when Rhaena and Dreamfyre avoided castles and cities, they were glimpsed flying over the misty green forests of Cape Wrath. The account places those forests among a wide range of remote country crossed by the pair, including moors, plains, swamps, cliffs, crags, and mountain glens. Cape Wrath is thus part of a landscape of wild places in which Rhaena sought solitude rather than the company of the realm’s inhabitants.

Rhaena’s passage

The reports of Dreamfyre extended from the barrowlands and the banks of the Fever River in the north to the Red Mountains of Dorne and the canyons of the Torrentine in the south. Cape Wrath is one of the places named along the course of these sightings, but the account does not describe Rhaena visiting a settlement there or seeking anyone out. Whether she continued to search for her missing daughter or wanted solitude is left unresolved.

Greenstone and the coast

Greenstone, the ancient seat of House Estermont on the island of the same name, lay off the shores of Cape Wrath. Rhaena chose to linger there after she was seen again, drawn by the presence of Lady Larissa, her cousin and one of her earliest favorites. Lady Larissa had settled on Greenstone with her daughter after her husband’s death; the daughter had recently married the elderly Lord Estermont. The account presents the island as damp, windswept, and poor, making personal attachment—not the place’s attractions—the reason for Rhaena’s stay.