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My sister, Elia. She married Prince Rhaegar Targaryen and became the Princess she already was. In Dorne, she walked among vipers and none would bite her; in King’s Landing, she found herself surrounded by lions. When Robert Baratheon rebelled against his rightful king, his future father-in-law, Tywin Lannister, ordered his beast Gregor Clegane to rape and murder my sister along with her helpless children. And men call the Lannisters “heroes”. Now, Lannisters sit on the Iron Throne, surrounded by the blasted swords of Aegon’s broken foes. I wonder if they remember, as I do, that none of those swords are ours. I wonder if they see, as I do, my sister’s red blood soaking into the stones of their precious Red Keep. Maybe they need reminding. The lion may be a mighty beast, but pride always lifts his gaze to the horizon, never seeing — in the grass — the viper.
asoiaf meme: (5/9) great houses of westeros.
A promise to our enemies, and a challenge to our lovers.
“Justice is in short supply this side of the mountains. There has been none for Elia, Aegon or Rhaenys.”
women of robert’s rebellion elia martell
ASOIAF AU ♕ Elia and Lyanna flee to Essos and raise their children together. And have way better sex than either of them ever had with Rhaegar.
Golshifteh Farahani as Elia Martell + Mariya Andreeva as Lyanna Stark
the princess elia was a good woman, your grace.
Arianne: “For Lord Tywin you always had the forbearance of Baelor the Blessed, but for your own blood, none.” Doran: “You mistake patience for forbearance. I have worked at the downfall of Tywin Lannister since the day they told me of Elia and her children.”
Elia Martell and Lyanna Stark AU for the lovely @lyannamartells: In which both women survive Robert’s Rebellion and stay together for the rest of their lives in Dorne, blissfully in love.
Made using the ASOIAF Fancasting Resource. Sources: Go Home, Magnificent Century, Magnificent Century: Kösem, The Patience Stone, Viking Quest. Elia: Golshifteh Farahani. Lyanna: Jenny Boyd.
ASOIAF AU | Rhaegar, his wife and children live a well and happy life.
Princess Elia was a good woman, Your Grace. She was kind and clever, with a gentle heart and a sweet wit. I know the prince was very fond of her.
preasoiaf meme: 3 historical events/legends (1/3) » The Tourney of Harrenhal.
For seven days the finest knights and noblest lords of the Seven Kingdoms contended with lance and sword in the fields beneath the towering walls of Harrenhal. At night, victors and vanquished alike repaired to the castle’s cavernous Hall of a Hundred Hearths, for feasting and celebration.
a song of ice and fire meme : four events. ➝ Tourney at Lannisport (276 AC) ➝ Wedding of Rhaegar Targaryen and Elia Martell (280 AC) ➝ Tourney at Harrenhal (281 AC) ➝ Robert’s Rebellion (282 AC)
The 7 kingdoms of westeros: Dorne
THE RUIN OF ELIA MARTELL IN GOT AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE - PART II
Judging Elia: versus Lyanna. We have the eternal war between Lyanna x Elia. A war that wasn’t even started from both of them, or their families, but from the fandom. Let’s remember that when Eddard Stark found out about Elia and her children’s bodies he was the only one, between Starks, Baratheons and Arryns, to find that disgusting and even he cut ties for a time with Robert. When we know that Oberyn wanted to champion Viserys’ cause, and emerge a war against Robert, he never blamed Lyanna, never even he mentioned her at all. There is nothing known – yet - about Elia’s reaction to the events of the Tourney of Harrenhal, not we know also Lyanna’s thoughts on Rhaegar being married and a father of two. But we know that Elia had a “sweet wit” and that she knew that “the dragon must have 3 heads” we also know that one of the main problems of Lyanna being married to Robert, was the that he was an womanizer, he “wouldn’t be stick to their bed.” And she knew it, so I really believe that these two points speaks volumes about what really happened in the events later. So, no, I don’t believe in “love run” or much less in a marriage thing, like the series want us to accept. Especially because Rhaegar wasn’t the king, he had no real power to null any marriage and a second marriage was forbidden by the faith…but the HBO show wants to make Jon a legitimate king at any costs, even if logic is going to be out of the table.
So, Elia is judge by her “not so beauty”, by her feminine aspects and pitted against a teenager mostly by the fandom.
Judging Elia:The Frail, weak girl In a last aspect, let’s talk about Elia’s health, that seems to be one of the major aspects we know of her, that Elia was fragile, that she almost died giving birth to her children and she couldn’t give birth to a third child, the third head. Still, believe it or not, she gets judge because of that too. She get’s judge for not being healthy enough to have one more baby. And about that there is nothing I can say about it, I have no words at all to write about people who criticizes a character for not being healthy enough. So, why would you care? So, why should you care about Elia Martell being dismissed and getting bash from HBO show Got? Because Elia is a metaphor of what being a women in a sexist world means. You will be judge by your looks, the ones you date, your style, how you act and react and will be pitted against others, and gets bash if they think you are not better than them. Elia died a victim of her husband and father-in-law actions, Elia died, raped and murdered, so people could “ship” a couple, Elia watched her son being murdered, so Jon can be called “Aegon” and turn out to be the legitimate heir, and now Elia fans will have to see her marriage being null and children getting illegitimate, so Lyanna and Rhaegar can be a happy family with Jon, the king. Sorry, don’t ask me to support this and I’m sure that, if these kind of things happen in the books (which I highly doubt) I’m sure George Martin will give us in a logic and well written chain of events. Unlike is happening in the show. That is my vent and, Elia deserved better.
asoiaf au: Elia Martell coming back to Dorne after the Sack of King’s Landing. It happened about a year after her arrival to Dorne. For months she hasn’t been able to sleep nor to talk. Her eyes were wide opened, empty, and people started to say that her voice was still at King’s Landing, that the stones had swallowed it. In her dreams, Elia was strong enough to protect them. Rhaenys. Aegon. But how many times did she wake up, screaming, shaking, realizing that she hasn’t been enough? She is nothing like my sister, thought Oberyn from the moment he saw her. The Elia he used to know, a lifetime ago, was kind and gentle, despite her soft nature. She was gracious and smarter than they all thought. The Elia who came back from hell, childless, widowed, was too broken to be able to talk. And when she finally started to talk again, she was whispering from time to time senseless things from another life. ‘I’m looking for my husband, Prince Rhaegar. I haven’t seen him since the morning.’
The ghosts of Robert’s rebellion
…once she had drawn a picture of herself flying behind Rhaegar on a dragon, her arms wrapped tight about his chest.