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tylands · 4 months ago

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ASOIAF LIVES SERIES

THE LIFE OF: PRINCESS MERIA MARTELL OF DORNE

"Meria Martell was eighty years of age, and had ruled Dorne for sixty of those. She was very fat, blind, and almost bald, her skin sallow and sagging. Argilac the Arrogant had named her 'The Yellow Toad of Dorne' but neither age nor blindness had dulled her wits." Fire & Blood, pg 23.

"They had hardly reached King's Landing before Dorne erupted behind them (...) After the Dornishmen swarmed in from the shadow city to retake the castle, he was bound hand and foot, dragged to the top of the spear tower, and thrown from a window by none other than the aged Princess Meria herself." Fire & Blood, pg 33.

"The Yellow Toad of Dorne had done what Harren the Black, the Two Kings, and Torrhen Stark, could not; she had defeated Aegon Targaryen and his dragons. Yet north of the Red Mountains, her tactics earned her only scorn." - Fire & Blood, pg 39.pre

#I feel like people don't appreciate Meria enough fr #we all know that dorne is OP for resisting the conquerors but Meria was their leader - if she'd given in or been less cunning #Dorne may have been lost.#Nymor's peace efforts only succeed in because 1 - whatever was in that letter & 2 - because Meria had set the precedent #for an independent and equal Dorne #meria martell #asoiafedit #asoiaflives #mine #twoiaf #fire and blood #oh and I forgot to add SHE DID ALL THAT WHILE OLD AND CRIPPLED AND BLIND #and no i'm not putting the yellow toad bit in the title becuase it's an insult and she doesn't deserve it #pre asoiaf

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