None of the Lords in Aegon's army survived the Second Field of Fire, and only those men-at-arms and knights on his camp's edge managed to run away and flee into the snowy hills. Nobody could say how many of them survived the harsh onset of the winter for long enough to return to their homes. Dorne sent fifteen thousand spears to aid Aegon, and a few hundred barely managed to return, half frozen and nearly starved to death. While some witnesses argued that the King of Winter used fire sorcery to decimate the Targaryen army, at the time, maesters generally agreed that any fires were the work of Winter, the Northern Fury, who was already approaching a size similar to that of Seasmoke before his death.