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How do you think Myriah's personality will be in I will fire an blood?

This is such a late response, my apologies! This is also purely speculatory based on the little canonical information we have.

But god do I hope she is bold, unflinching, confident, arrogant, kind, clever and regal.

If I remember correctly Myriah was the eldest. She was meant to rule, and likely had that expectation. She gives up her right to Dorne to become the Queen of all the Seven Kingdoms and that must have stung a bit right? While also being a huge undertaking.

There have been many Queens in Westeros but Myriah is the true First Queen of The Seven Kingdoms. However becoming this Queen also involves marrying into the family that has attempted to subjugate your people since the first Aegon! How appalling must that be marrying to a family that felt superior to you and entitled to your land. This bizarre inbred family that is no longer the powerhouse they once were on the heels of the war that cost them their dragons and yet they've learned nothing. Myriah joins their ranks at such an interesting political time. She's meant to usher peace and prosperity but how do you do that when everything is working against you? The grandson of Rhaenyra Targaryen just died attempting to subjugate her country once more and was killed under a peace banner. A loss that demands blood and causes outrage - despite the fact Daeron the Young Dragon lost over 10,000 lives trying to control a land that didn't belong to him.

Baelor the Blessed is instrumental in creating peace arranging her very own marriage alliance her own son who was meant to be one of the greatest kings is named after him but Myriah is also from a land where women have always ruled and Baelor's three sisters are imprisoned against their will. I think this would have caused a great deal of distress for Myriah and I think she would have held a great deal of pity for Daena, Naerys and even Daenerys. I think she would have tried to bring more women into the fold at court and into positions of power. Something we do know is canonical in the fact that Daeron's court was disliked for being progressive/intelligent, pro women and pro dornish. Elaena Targaryen was an unofficial master of coin for Daeron II and Myriah and famously sided with them and not her sister's son. Myriah was also a Princess & Queen to be under a father-in-law who attempted to take her country again even after her marriage to his son. I honestly can't begin to imagine the amount of strife this would have caused Myriah and I can't imagine she didn't have to swallow insult after insult from Aegon VI. I almost wonder if some of the Targaryens after the Dance, Aegon VI, Daeron The Young Dragon, Daena the Defiant - were desperate to get back some sense of superiority after their house lost the source of their power. What better way to do so then by enslaving the land that Aegon and his sisters couldn't with even dragons. What better way to prove themselves real dragons? To prove their superiority? When they've been reduced to normality - It must have ached them. Mind you this is the court Myriah would have had to contend with. This is all without even going into the fact that she and her children were considered unworthy for not being white pale blonds. Her husband is reported to have treated his half siblings well and yet they still go to war against her Queenship and the right's of her children. I think she would have had to be a spectacular woman to survive and thrive under the circumstances she did. I am extremely excited to learn more about her and I truly hope she and Daeron have a healthy marriage despite so many things working against them - Which going off what we know it appears they did.

It's ironic how they accuse the faith of the 7 of being misogynistic compared to the Targaryen house. when we just see that the only king after the Dance who takes into account his queen and her court is Daeron II, who was raised by Naerys faithfully devoted and admirer of the peace of Baelor.

Queen Myriah Martell, wife of King Daeron Targaryen II. She was betrothed to him when she was young in order to bring Dorne into the Seven Kingdoms.

Day 04 Martell Week: Song/Lyrics that remind you House Martell

Will this always be just an arrangement We'll find out in time if we don't break it Can mine become yours Combining our dreams Without keeping score Always together, but never bored No choice in the matter but This will never work without each other

Can we become we (can we become we) Start a new line On this family tree Two hearts connected by one beat Your hand in mine and

Something simple and romantic, I chose a song that sounds like something Myriah and Daeron II would think at their wedding. I feel like Dorne would throw everything out the window with decorations for Myriah, Daeron tries but finances are adjusted, and he also wants to please his uncle Baelor.

I think that Myriah's appearance is close to some Dornish stereotypes that people later have, such as being small, smaller than Daeron, a characteristic that she would share with Elia, then with Arianne they would share the curls, which her son Baelor inherited that is why he cut his hair. short

The dance is also an adaptation of the dance from the song's original video.

Baby Rhaenys announcing the week. The song is We Become We

I present to you the funniest asoiaf related graph ever, counting the number of Targaryens alive per year.

Obviously everyone knows how george comes up with tragedies over the years to whittle down the amount of Targaryen branches hanging around, but it's kind of funny to see it in a visual form. I think the funniest bit of info, aside from the sheer cliff drop due to everyone killing each other over the Dance, has to be how the number of Targs skyrockets after Aegon the Unworthy starts siring bastards. Even after the Great Spring Sickness decimated Westeros, there's still more Targaryens around than there ever was before.

Honorable shout out for the sharp drop once all of Jaehaerys's children start dying like lemmings, though.

The direct line of Daenerys’s female ancestors from before the Conquest to her.

I had so much fun drawing this :’)

After the failed conquest of Dorne during the short reign of Daeron the Young Dragon, King Baelor the Blessed ascended the Iron Throne and arranged the marriage of his cousin, Prince Daeron, to Princess Myriah Martell of Dorne as part of a dual marriage pact between the two kingdoms to make peace.

preasoiaf appreciation week: day four • couples 

The marriges that brought Dorne into the Seven Kingdoms.

His [Daeron] marriage to Myriah of Dorne — now Queen of the Seven Kingdoms — had been happy and fruitful, and one of his earliest significant acts after assuming the throne was to begin negotiations with his good-brother, Prince Maron, to unify Dorne under Targaryen rule

CANON DAENERYS CHALLENGE || Targaryen legacy: Dany’s Targaryen Line of Descent Since the Conquest

TARGARYEN WEEK • day 3: favorite monarch “Too many dragons are as dangerous as too few.” - Daeron II

Naerys Targaryen meeting Myriah Martell, commissioned by the really kind @ Exxact on Ao3!

"My evening star. If the sun burned out tomorrow, your flame would light the world." — Samantha Shannon

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The direct line of Daenerys’s female ancestors from before the Conquest to her.

I had so much fun drawing this :’)