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“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.”
GOT meme | seven quotes (3/7) | excerpt from affc
Doran, Oberyn, and Elia of House Martell.
Game of Thrones meme ♕ Seven Quotes (1/7) ▶
“My father has been murdered.”
“He was slain in single combat during a trial by battle,” Prince Doran said. “By law, that is no murder.”
“He was your brother.”
“He was.”
“What do you mean to do about his death?”
The prince turned his chair laboriously to face her. Though he was but two-and-fifty, Doran Martell seemed much older. His body was soft and shapeless beneath his linen robes, and his legs were hard to look upon. The gout had swollen and reddened his joints grotesquely; his left knee was an apple, his right a melon, and his toes had turned to dark red grapes, so ripe it seemed as though a touch would burst them. Even the weight of a coverlet could make him shudder, though he bore the pain without complaint. Silence is a prince’s friend, the captain had heard him tell his daughter once. Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back.
“I have written to Lord Tywin—”
“Written? If you were half the man my father was—”
“I am not your father.”
“What is our heart’s desire?”
“Vengeance.” His voice was soft, as if he was afraid that someone might be listening. “Justice.” Prince Doran pressed the dragon onyx into her palm with his swollen, gouty fingers and whispered, “Fire and Blood.”
FANMIX MEME: Die With Our Arms Unbound, House Martell (req. by anon) (x)
01. BLOOD ON THE SCALES, bear mccreary (x) {instrumental}
02. ARMY OF ME, björk (x) {arianne} stand up / you’ve got to manage / i won’t sympathize anymore / and if you complain once more / you’ll meet an army of me / you’re on your own now / we won’t save you
03. TRISTAN, patrick wolf (x) {oberyn} i am the tragedy / and the heroine / i am lost and i am rescuing / the storm is come and I am following / i am trouble and i am troubled too / sorrow by name and sorrow by nature / working for joy on overtime
04. HALO, florence + the machine (x) {oberyn, elia} i found a way to let you in / but i never really had a doubt / standing in the light of your halo, i got my angel now / you’re everything i need and more / it’s written all over your face / standing in the light of your halo / pray it won’t fade away
05. LAST OF DAYS, a fine frenzy (x) {oberyn, elia} i watched you disappear into the clouds / swept away into another town / the world carries on without you / but nothing remains the same / i’ll be lost without you / until the last of days / through walls and harvest moons i will fight for you06. JOCASTA, noah and the whale (x) {doran} your future’s a machine with the mechanics of a dream / it’s your mind that spins the wheel / and your heart that makes you feel all the guilt for all your sins / the world still deceives as it turns / oh and in my lucid moments i can see that the heart may be the weakest part of me / the moon controls the movements of the tide but it has no weight on the movements of my mind
07. SEVEN DEVILS, florence + the machine (x) a thousand armies couldn’t keep me out / i don’t want your money / i don’t want your crown / See i’ve come to burn your kingdom down / and no rivers and no lakes can put the fire out / i’m gonna raise the stakes, i’m gonna smoke you out
08. THIS IS WHY WE FIGHT, the decemberists (x) come the war / come the avarice / come the war / come hell / this is why, why we fight / why we lie awake / when we die, we will die with our arms unbound
“Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back.”
No reason for this post except to say I WILL NEVER ACCEPT ANYBODY but Irrfan Khan as Doran Martell.
No, seriously, let us take a breath and remind ourselves of how great he was in ‘In Treatment’ (skip past previously on).
/creepy tries to draw characters that aren’t 13 whoops
Here’s Oberyn and Doran doing bamf-y things and generally being amazing characters.
ngl, I love the Martells and Dorne to death and probably more than is physically healthy. I just have so many emotions regarding these characters kjshcfryedljiaziyfhds
“Oberyn was ever the viper. Deadly, dangerous, unpredictable. No man dared tread on him. I was the grass. Pleasant, complaisant, sweet-smelling, swaying with every breeze. Who fears to walk upon the grass? But it is the grass that hides the viper from his enemies and shelters him until he strikes.”
Doran Martell.
