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House Nymeros Martell: Nymor&Deria

In 13 AC, Nymor’s mother, Princess Meria Martell, died, and Nymor inherited the rule of Dorne. Already old and failing, Nymor wanted peace, so he send a delegation, led by his daughter and heir, Princess Deria Martell, to King’s Landing, to negotiate a peace with King Aegon I - a peace between two Kingdoms, two equals, not a peace between a vassal and its overlord, with the skull of the death dragon Meraxes as a peace offer. Many at court took this act ill, including Queen Visenya and Lord Orys Baratheon. Lord Oakheart suggested that Deria should be sent to “the meanest of brothels to service any man who would have her”.

Deria assured King Aegon that Dorne wanted peace, but would not swear fealthy to the Iron Throne. King Aegon’s counselors argued against this, claiming Aegon would look weak if he agreed. In addition, they believed the lords of the Reach and stormlands would feel offended by such a peace. It is said that King Aegon was about to refuse, when she handed him a letter from Nymor. King Aegon read the letter (and clenched it so hard his hands started to bleed), burned it once finished, and flew to Dragonstone on Balerion without a word. When he returned the next morning, he agreed to the peace and signed a treaty.

The content of the letter is unknown, but the peace that Nymor and Aegon agreed on in 13 AC would last throughout Aegon’s entire reign.

In 37 AC, Aenys succeeded his father as king, and was almost immediately opposed by four rebels. The largest and most threatening of these rebels was the so-called “Vulture King” in the Red Mountains. Princess Deria, at this point Lady of Sunspear, publicly issued denouncements against the Vulture King from Sunspear, but many believed that she supported him in secret, though there was no proof.

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.ೃ࿐ ELIA MARTELL; but, rare for a woman of our land, her flower came with no thorns. She was kind and clever, with a gentle heart.