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[sub][COLOR=darkgray][b]House Seat: Sunspear[/b][/COLOR]
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[color=#FFD700]K E Y    M E M B E R S[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/center][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup]
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[COLOR=darkgray][b]◼ Name:[/b] Prince Maron Martell, Lord of Sunspear
[b]◼ Age:[/b] Thirty and Eight
[b]◼ Appearance:[/b] Maron is every bit the visage of a Dornish Warrior Prince. His bold and dashing appearance would cause a young woman to swoon in his presence. The scars on display exhibit a man not shy to battle, but having thrived well in its embrace. 
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[b]◼ Biography:[/b] Bold and gregarious in his nature, Prince Maron is quick to make a friend to others if they are willing to get past the stereotypes of Dorne. He and his brother in law, the king hold a very close friendship having worked together diligently to come to a peaceful settlement between the two houses. After marrying each other’s sisters, the Targaryens and Martells were finally at a cross roads in their relationship that should have brought peace to Westeros if it wasn’t for the traitorous ideas of others in the lands.
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[COLOR=darkgray][b]◼ Name:[/b] Daenarys Targaryen
[b]◼ Age:[/b] Twenty and Four
[b]◼ Appearance:[/b] Daenarys is a very beautiful young woman with classic Valyrian features; long silver-gold hair, violet-purple eyes, and pale skin. Daenarys is slender, small-breasted and often described as too skinny. 
[b]◼ Biography:[/b] As a girl in her early teens it was believed she had a love affair with her half-brother Daemon. Regardless of her relationship with Daemon, neither her father or her brother Daeron would allow this to interfere with their attempts to improve relations with Tyrosh and Dorne. Her use as a political pawn was far more important. Daenarys eventually grew to understand this and acquired admiration for her husband Prince Maron. Daenarys is not to be distracted by an emotion like love. It is within her best interest to remain loyal to the family. For her, in her situation, she needs to remain loyal to Prince Maron. It is believed that whatever intimate feelings she may have once held for her half-brother have long disappeared.[/color][/sup][/indent]
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[color=#FFD700]CHILDREN[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/CENTER]
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[COLOR=darkgray][b]◼ Name:[/b] Prince Ronas Martell, 8
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Prince Dayron Martell, 7
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Prince Edam Martell, 5
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Princess Mariela Martell, 3
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Princess Tiyana Martell, 2[/color][/sup][/indent]
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[color=#FFD700]Members of Court in Sunspear[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/CENTER]
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[color=fff79a][b]◼ Name:[/b] Ser Jami Dayne, 26, Castellan of Sunspear[/color]
[COLOR=darkgray][b]◼ Name:[/b] Maester Dontin Blackmont, 63
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Ser Juron Santagar, 54 Lord Treasurer
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Septa Catryn[/color][/sup][/indent]
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[color=#FFD700]Prince Maron's Bannermen[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/CENTER]
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[COLOR=darkgray][b]◼ Name:[/b] Ser Trevas Yronwood, Lord of Yronwood, Warden of the Stone Way, 47
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Ser Russell "Rusty" Yronwood, brother to Trevas, 41 (Ysabel Dayne, wife)
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Ser Daltis Yronwood, son of Trevas, 19
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Ser Harrin Yronwood, son of Trevas, 17
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Ser Dorrin Uller, Lord of Hellholt, 50
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Ser Darris Uller, son of Dorrin, 24
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Lady Hayley Uller, daughter of Dorrin, 20
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Lady Eleana Allyrion, Lady of Godsgrace, 30
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Lady Glorina Manwoody, Lady of Kingsgrave, 44
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Squire Kingsgrave, 14 Ward to Ser Russell Yronwood
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Ser Rohar Blackmont, Lord of Blackmont, 59
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Ser Richard Blackmont, son of Rohar, 30
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Ser Branton Toland, Lord of Ghost Hill, 25
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Ser Lawsen Qorgyle, Lord of Sandstone, 35
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Ser Jaran Fowler, Lord of Skyreach, 33
[color=fff79a][b]◼ Name:[/b] Lady Ysabel Dayne, 32 Lady of Starfall & wife of Ser Russell Yronwood (3 children)
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Ser Ulrick Dayne of High Hermitage (SotM), 30
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Ser Dayne, 29
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Lady Dayne, 27
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Lady Dyanna Dayne, 24 (King's Landing)
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Ser Tavion Dayne, 22[/color]
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Ser Elden Jordayne, Lord of the Tor, 61
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Ser Eddard Jordayne, son of Elden, 39
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Ser Darick Jordayne, son of Elden, 35
[b]◼ Name:[/b] Lady Elna Vaith, Lady of the Red Dunes, 49[/color][/sup][/indent]
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[COLOR=DARKGRAY][center][i]“That is Nymeria’s star, burning bright, and that milky band behind her, those are the ten thousand ships. She burns bright as any man. And so shall I.”
--Arianne Martell’s thoughts[/i][/center]

[indent] The Martells of old used a spear as their emblem, while Nymeria and her Rhoynar used the sun as theirs. When Nymeria wed Lord Mors Martell around 700 BC, the symbols were combined into a golden spear piercing a red sun on an orange field. This joined symbol came to represent the now conjoined houses as Nymeria Martell. Many years later, the house would simply be referred to as House Martell.

Long before the wedding that joined the Martells with Nymeria, the Rhoynish battle queen from Essos, Morgan Martell arrived in Dorne. He and members of the Martell family attacked lands loosely held by House Wade and House Shell, descendants of the first men and the Andals who inhabited these lands for millennia. The Martells defeated the defenders in battle, seized their villages, burned their castles, and established dominion over a strip of coastland a hundred and fifty miles long by thirty miles wide.

When Nymeria led the Rhoynar refugees to Dorne in southern Westeros, the lands of the Martells paled in comparison to those of House Yronwood. The marriage of Lord Mors to Nymeria gave the Martells the manpower to conquer the rest of Dorne and gave the Rhoynar a new homeland. The Dornish rulers have since styled themselves "Prince" in the Rhoynish fashion rather than "King". 

At the time of Nymeria's arrival, Dorne was a poor land where a score of lords and petty kings quarreled over rivers, wells, and fertile water. Many viewed the Rhoynar as unwelcome invaders who should be driven back into the sea. However, Lord Mors Martell of the Sandship saw an opportunity in the Rhoynar, and singers claim that Lord Martell also lost his heart to the beautiful princess. With many trained in warfare, the Rhoynar added their strength to Lord Martell's own, increasing his host tenfold. Mors married Nymeria, and hundreds of his knights, squires, and bannermen wed Rhoynish women, uniting the two people by blood. The Rhoynar also brought considerable wealth with them, and their artisans and armorers' skills were far more advanced than those of their Westerosi counterparts.

To celebrate these unions and to ensure that her people could not retreat to the sea again, Nymeria burned her fleet, declaring her wanderings to be at an end, though some of her people mourned the loss of their ships. Nymeria named her husband Mors Martell "the Prince of Dorne", declaring his dominion over all of Dorne. However, such supremacy was not easy to achieve, and years of war followed, known as Nymeria's War. The Rhoynar and the Martells subdued one petty king after another, and no fewer than six kings were sent to the Wall to join the Night's Watch by Nymeria and her husband. Soon, only King Yorick V Yronwood remained, the greatest of the Dornish kings.

For nine years, Nymeria and the Martells battled against Yronwood and his bannermen. When Mors Martell fell to Yronwood's sword in the Third Battle of the Boneway, Nymeria assumed sole command of the Martell armies. Two more years of battle followed, but Nymeria eventually defeated Yorick V, and he bent the knee to her, ensuring Martell supremacy. Nymeria ruled thereafter from Sunspear, the new seat of House Martell, built around Sandship. 

As the Princess of Dorne, Nymeria remained the unquestioned ruler of Dorne for almost twenty-seven years. Dorne was established as a principality, not a kingdom, for Nymeria preferred the Rhoynish style of prince and princess. Though she remarried twice to Lord Uller of Hellholt and Ser Davos Dayne of Starfall, her husbands served only as counselors and consorts.
 
Over the course of her long reign, Nymeria survived a dozen assassination attempts, quelled two rebellions, and threw back two invasions by the Storm King, Durran the Third, and one by King Greydon Gardener of the Reach. As Nymeria grew aged and infirm, the armies of House Martell were commanded by her heirs. When she at last died, Nymeria was succeeded as Princess of Dorne by her eldest daughter with Lord Mors, not by her only son by Ser Davos, for Dorne had come to adopt many of the laws and customs of the Rhoynar.

During Aegon's Conquest, Queen Rhaenys Targaryen confronted the aged Princess of Dorne, Meria Martell, at Sunspear. When Meria refused to submit to the Targaryens, Rhaenys departed Dorne. The Targaryens returned in 4 AC, starting the First Dornish War. When their forces arrived at Sunspear, Meria had vanished. King Aegon I and Queen Rhaenys Targaryen declared themselves victorious and left Lord Jon Rosby as Castellan of Sunspear as they returned to King's Landing. However, the Dornishmen quickly came out of hiding, retaking Sunspear. Lord Rosby was captured and thrown from a window atop the Spear Tower by Princess Meria herself. In later phases of the war, the Targaryens burned every Dornish stronghold at least once, except Sunspear and its shadow city. According to the Dornishmen, the Targaryens did not dare to attack Sunspear as they feared that Princess Meria might have purchased a device from Lys to slay their dragons. In his Conjectures, Archmaester Timotty suggests that Aegon hoped to turn the Dornish against the Martells by leaving them the only ones unharmed, and letters have been discovered in which marcher lords claimed to the Dornish that the Martells had bought their safety. However, the tactics did not work.

After nine years, the First Dornish War came to an end in 13 AC. When the elderly Princess Meria died, her son Nymor assumed rule over Dorne. Desiring peace, he sent his daughter Deria to King's Landing with an escort as a peace envoy. She brought with her the skull of Rhaenys's dragon Meraxes and a letter from Prince Nymor. Although at first determined to refuse the peace offer, Aegon agreed to it after reading Nymor's letter. During the remainder of King Aegon I's reign, the Martells and Targaryens remained on good terms. In 23 AC, King Aegon I and his son Aenys visited Sunspear for a "feast of friendship" celebrating the tenth anniversary of the peace accord with Princess Deria, now the Princess of Dorne. In 37 AC, as the Vulture King troubled the lands surrounding the border between Dorne and the Iron Throne, Princess Deria insisted to King Aenys I Targaryen that she was doing what she could to end the rebellion; many suspected that she was secretly giving the rebels her support.

In 110 AC, Prince Qoren Martell gave his support to the Triarchy in the war against Prince Daemon Targaryen and Lord Corlys Velaryon in the Stepstones. Daemon's brother, King Viserys I Targaryen, spoke of wedding his daughter Rhaenyra to the Prince of Dorne as a way of finally uniting the Seven Kingdoms, though ultimately this did not occur. During the Dance of the Dragons, Prince Qoren was contacted by Hand of the King, Otto Hightower, but refused the alliance, claiming he'd "sooner sleep with scorpions". In 132 AC, the small council of King Aegon III Targaryen considered a younger brother of Princess Aliandra as a potential husband to Lady Baela Targaryen, but ultimately decided on another match.

King Daeron I Targaryen conquered Dorne in 158 AC when the Prince of Dorne bent the knee at the Submission of Sunspear. Rebellion continued until Daeron died in 161 AC, after which his brother, King Baelor I, travelled to Sunspear and agreed to a peace with House Martell. This included a betrothal between Myriah Martell and Prince Daeron Targaryen. Myriah's brother Maron was Daeron's most important supporter, and upon Daeron's ascension, he agreed to join Dorne under Targaryen rule. This became official in 187 AC, when Maron married Daeron's sister Daenerys.

During Daeron II's reign, Dornish influence at court increased, while Daeron's other lords began to grow dissatisfied with the concessions Maron had won during the negotiations. These complaints, among others, were reasons causing several lords to oppose Daeron II's rule during what would become known as [i]“the First Blackfyre Rebellion.”[/i]
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[COLOR=DARKGRAY][INDENT]Prince Maron Nymeros Martell was the younger child of the previous Prince of Dorne. Due to the conditions of a treaty signed by his father and King Baelor I Targaryen, Maron’s sister Myriah married Prince Daeron Targaryen in King’s Landing. With Myriah living in King’s Landing with her husband, crown prince of Westeros, this left Maron to succeed his father as Prince of Dorne.

When Aegon died in 184 AC, King Daeron II Targaryen replaced his father on the Iron Throne, and he immediately began negotiations with Prince Maron Martell. Since King Daeron had married Maron’s sister, Myriah, who was elevated to the pinnacle of politics in Westeros. Daeron II wanted to continue improving relations with Dorne through peaceful means. These discussions lasted two years and culminated with a treaty including a marriage proposal to Daeron’s sister Daenarys Targaryen once she was of age. With the two wed, the inclusion of Dorne under Targaryen rule was complete in 187 AC. Following the wedding, Prince Maron bent the knee to his brother-in-law and friend, King Daeron II at King’s Landing.

The treaty between the Targaryens and Martells gave significant rights and privileges that other houses in Westeros were not entitled to. The Martells retained the ability to use their royal title, which chafed many in the other houses of Westeros. The ability on the part of the Lord of Sunspear to levy taxes for the use by Dorne was another item that the great houses thought inappropriate. King Daeron brought many Dornishmen to court in King’s Landing which lead to many nobles thinking there was an excess of Dornish influences in King’s landing.

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