top 20 favourite book-only asoiaf characters (as voted by our followers) ⤷ #4. sarella sand

"If only it worked that way with apples, no one would ever need go hungry," said Alleras with one of his soft smiles. The Sphinx was always smiling, as if he knew some secret jape. It gave him a wicked look that went well with his pointed chin, widow's peak, and dense mat of close-cropped jet-black curls.

Martell Week 2024: Day 6 - Favorite Quote

Martell Week 2024:

Day 6 - Favorite quotes

dornish characters posters › spotted sylva santagar

For my freckles, Your Grace, though they all pretend it is because I am the heir to Spottswood.

Even so, she had been winning more oft than not of late. Trystane did not seem to mind. [...] He prayed Myrcella would find more joy in her Dornish boy than her mother had found with her storm lord.

No. Now it ends.

the maid with laughing purple eyes

MARTELL WEEK - day O2

⤻ favorite quote

“I was the oldest,” the prince said, “and yet I am the last. After Mors and Olyvar died in their cradles, I gave up hope of brothers. I was nine when Elia came, a squire in service at Salt Shore. When the raven arrived with word that my mother had been brought to bed a month too soon, I was old enough to understand that meant the child would not live. Even when Lord Gargalen told me that I had a sister, I assured him that she must shortly die. Yet she lived, by the Mother’s mercy. And a year later Oberyn arrived, squalling and kicking. I was a man grown when they were playing in these pools. Yet here I sit, and they are gone.”

a feast for crows, george r. r. martin

the way this quote affect me during my first read and still provokes the same feeling each time i read it.... i couldn't have chosen another one. also, doran is such an overlooked character

Alyn Velaryon and Aliandra Nymeros Martell in The Rise of the Dragon

The Dornishmen were understandably alarmed with the sudden appearance of the large Velaryon fleet in the waters off Sunspear. Lacking any strength at sea themselves, however, they chose to regard Lord Alyn’s coming as a visit rather than an attack. Aliandra Martell, Princess of Dorne, came out to meet with him, accompanied by a dozen of her current favorites and suitors. The “new Nymeria” had just celebrated her eighteenth nameday, and was reportedly much taken with the young, handsome, dashing “Hero of the Stepstones,” the bold admiral who had humbled the Braavosi. Lord Alyn required fresh water and provisions for his ships, whilst Princess Aliandra required services of a more intimate nature. Bastard Born would have us believe that he provided them, Hard as Oak that he did not. We do know that the attentions the flirtatious Dornish princess lavished upon him much displeased her own lords, and angered her younger siblings, Qyle and Coryanne. -- Fire and Blood

Lady Dyanna Dayne was noblewoman of House Dayne of Starfall. She became the wife of Maekar I Targaryen, and was Princess of Summerhall through marriage to Maekar. She is the mother of Daeron, Aerion, Aemon, Aegon, Daella, and Rhae Targaryen. Unfortunately Dyanna died well before 209 AC, before Maekar’s accession to the throne. Thus, she was never able to be Queen Consort. She was Maekar I Targaryen’s only wife.

(some) locations from the South of Westeros

Martell Week 2024: Day 2 - Favorite Couple

Clementina Suárez, tr. by Janet N. Gold, from These Are Not Sweet Girls

Martell Week 2024:

Day 5: Quote

That was many years ago, to be sure. The boy of sixteen was a man past forty now, and [Prince Oberyn]’s legend had grown a deal darker. (for @elaena)

A Martell sun, but ten years too young, (...) too fit as well, and far too fierce.

An old septon once claimed I was living proof of the goodness of the gods. (...) Why, if the gods were cruel, they would have made me my mother’s firstborn, and Doran her third. I am a bloodthirsty man, you see. And it is me you must contend with now, not my patient, prudent and gouty brother.

I wish you good fortune in the wars to come.