euron had seduced them with his glib tongue and smiling eye and bound them to his cause with the plunder of half a hundred distant lands ; gold and silver , ornate armor , curved swords with gilded pommels , daggers of valyrian steel , striped tiger pelts and the skins of spotted cats , jade manticores and ancient valyrian sphinxes , chests of nutmeg , cloves , and saffron , ivory tusks and the horns of unicorns , green and orange and yellow feathers from the summer sea , bolts of fine silk and shimmering samite ... and yet all that was little and less , compared to this .