History Characters / GameOfThronesHouseMartell

* WidowsWeeds: She technically isn't a widow, but she and Oberyn were married in all but name and she begins wearing much darker clothes after his death.
* WidowWoman: Except she and Oberyn weren't married. But since Dornish culture considers the paramours of highborn men to be almost-wives, Ellaria is essentially treated as Oberyn's widow once she goes home to Dorne after his death. She even wears black as a sign that she's grieving for him.

* WidowWoman: For a few weeks, after Rhaegar was killed in the Battle of the Trident. Or not, seeing as it's revealed that before his death, Rhaegar secretly had their marriage annulled.

* CrusadingWidow: Seeking revenge for Oberyn's death in Season 5.

* VengefulWidow: Her quest for revenge begins with the death of her lover. She even recruits her daughter and stepdaughters to help her and racks up quite a body count by Season 7 which includes her daughter, stepdaughter, while she herself is subjected to a FateWorseThanDeath.

** To Lord Rickard Karstark, who's also driven by grief after his son was killed by Jaime Lannister and due to Robb’s inaction particularly for not punishing Catelyn for freeing Jaime, [[WouldHurtAChild he murdered two Lannister boys]]. Unlike Ellaria, Rickard was beheaded and prior to his execution, he called out to Robb that "You are no king of mine", which is eerily similar to how Ellaria told the dying Doran that "You are not their prince". The difference is that Rickard had valid reasons against Jaime for killing his son while attempting to escape and Ellaria just kills people who had nothing to do with her lover’s death.

* IllGirl: He apparently suffers from such severe gout that he couldn't personally attend the Royal wedding of Joffrey and Margaery (at least, that's what he tells people). His gout is bad enough that he usually gets around in a wheelchair.

* ObnoxiousInLaws: Inverted. He does all he can to make Mycrella welcome and by the time Jaime sees her again, she now thinks of Doran as a second father.

* SiblingYinYang: With Oberyn. Oberyn was fiery, theatrical, charismatic, an exceptional warrior and a hedonist who loved his sex and booze and obsessed with revenge towards the Lannisters. Doran is reserved, quiet, incapable of fighting or even basic physical activity due to his illness and is far more serious minded with little interest in such pleasures and is quite willing to let all that's gone down between the Martells and Lannisters go if it means avoiding war.

* BareYourMidriff: A few of her dresses are [[AbsoluteCleavage open all the way to her stomach]], with a bikini top underneath.

* FatalFlaw: He's too trusting and willing to give second chances.

* FatalFlaw: He's too trusting.

* NiceGuy: Doran's a very friendly man.

** He's also one for Ned Stark. A man who comes from an isolated region of Westeros into the capital and dislikes most customs of Middle Westeros and especially the Lannisters. He's a warrior and family man who has a strong sense of justice and invited to serve in the King's Small Council. Also like Ned, he's mourning the loss of his sister whose death was partially, the result of Rhaegar Targaryen's dubious judgment. And despite disliking the Lannisters for their atrocities and the impunity and entitlement with which they walk around, he does not extend it to the younger children and he states that he WouldNotHurtAChild. His sudden death is just as tragic and shocking as Ned's even if it is under vastly different circumstances.

* YourHeadASplode: After gouging his eyes out, Gregor squeezes his head so hard that it pops clean open.

* ScreamingWoman: [[http://redrobin.co.vu/post/87558472324 She reacts about as well as you'd expect]] to Oberyn's [[YourHeadASplode extremely gruesome death.]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Even by the standards of the series, her death was [[UpToEleven horrific and appalling]]. The Mountain murdered her children in front of her, raped her while still covered in her children's blood and then, depending on conflicting stories, either cut her in two or bashed her skull in. It's made even nastier given that Elia, by all accounts, was a sweet and kind woman who was the last person to deserve such a fate.

* AdaptationalHeroism: His apparent desire to let bygones be bygones and not go to war over the deaths of Elia and Oberyn turns out to be a ruse in the novels; he has in fact secretly been planning revenge against the Lannisters for nearly twenty years via supporting a Targeryen restoration where one of his children will be married to either Viserys or Daenerys, and actually gets the Sand Snakes on his side after revealing this (and the book Snakes are nowhere near as [[AdaptationalVillainy horrible as their show counterparts.)]] In the series, he's completely sincere in his desire for peace and forgiveness even though most of Dorne hates the idea.

* AdultFear: Doran dies knowing his son will soon follow him.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Even by the standards of the series, her death was [[UpToEleven horrific and appalling]]. The Mountain [[AdultFear murdered her children in front of her]], raped her while still covered in her children's blood and then, depending on conflicting stories, either cut her in two or bashed her skull in. It's made even nastier given that Elia, by all accounts, was a sweet and kind woman who was the last person to deserve such a fate.

* AdaptationalDumbass: In the books, part of what makes Areo so effective as the captain of Doran's guard is his incredible talent for observation, as well as his distrust of the Sand Snakes - he would have ''never'' left Tyene an opportunity to stab him in the back.

The new prince who rules Dorne after the demise of Ellaria Sand.

* RememberTheNewGuy: He's never been mentioned in the show prior to Season 8, specially not in the Dorne storyline, where it seemed all Martells were dead (it is not known if he's a Martell at all). However, Varys does mention him in Season 8 before his appearance in the last episode.

'''Only spoilers from the current season will be hidden, so beware spoilers if you're not up to date on the episodes.'''

---> '''Oberyn''': We didn't try to hide our disappointment. 'That's not [[DepravedDwarf a monster]],' I told [[AlphaBitch Cersei]], 'It's just a baby.'

** He is one of the two characters that Tywin Lannister did not manage [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to chew out in a conversation]], the other being Lady Olenna Tyrell. But unlike Olenna who [[DeadpanSnarker seemed to]] [[WorthyOpponent enjoy the talks]], Oberyn's hate for Tywin oozes from his body.

--->'''Ellaria''': Vengeance. Justice.\\
'''Varys''': Fire and blood.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Her desire to take revenge on the Lannisters pushes her to become just as bad as them, culminating in her murdering her own family members to seize power and killing the innocent Myrcella, crossing lines that Oberyn and Doran abhorred.

--> '''Cersei:''' Can't say I've ever met a Sand before.
--> '''Ellaria:''' We are everywhere in Dorne. I have ten thousand brothers and sisters.

* TheManBehindTheMan: Gender-flipped. With Doran and Trystane dead, Ellaria is the de facto leader of Dorne instead of the Sand Snakes, particularly Obara, who are supposed to be the heads of House Martell. But after Olenna Tyrell's disparage on Obara and Nym in "The Winds of Winter", it's probably best for Ellaria to be in charge since the Sand Snakes seemed to lack the charisma and diplomacy skills that Oberyn had.

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* BaldOfAwesome: It adds to his HeroicBuild.

* BadassMustache: He has one.

* AdaptedOut: Here, Arianne and Quentyn do not exist and Trystane is Doran's only child. Also, the only three Sand Snakes to appear are Obara, Nymeria and Tyene, though the others must still exist offscreen since Oberyn is still said to have eight daughters. In the books, Sarella Sand (disguised as Alleras) is part of Sam Tarly's plotline in Oldtown and Elia Sand appears in sample chapters for the upcoming ''The Winds of Winter''.

One of the Great Houses of Westeros. It rules the peninsula of Dorne in the far south of the continent from the castle at Sunspear. Dorne is the only kingdom where primogeniture isn't male-biased and it has a somewhat more permissive culture relative to the rest of Westeros, especially when it comes to sexual mores and bastard children. Though ostensibly loyal to the Iron Throne, it was on the Targaryen side during Robert's Rebellion and has pursued a more isolated role in events since then, given that Prince Rhaegar Targaryen's wife was Prince Doran's sister Elia, and she and her children were murdered by Ser Gregor Clegane.

* AdaptedOut: Here, Arianne and Quentyn do not exist and Trystane is Doran's only child. Also, the only three Sand Snakes to appear are Obara, Nymeria and Tyene, though the others must still exist offscreen since Oberyn is still said to have eight daughters.

* AmazonBrigade: Obara, Nymeria, and Tyene are all warriors who plot with Ellaria to start a war with the Lannisters.

One of the Great Houses of Westeros. It rules the peninsula of Dorne in the far south of the continent from the castle at Sunspear and has a somewhat idiosyncratic culture relative to the rest of Westeros, especially when it comes to sexual mores and bastard children. Though ostensibly loyal to the Iron Throne, it has pursued a more isolated role in events since Robert's Rebellion.

* AdaptationalHeroism: His apparent desire to let bygones be bygones and not go to war over the death of Elia and Oberyn turns out to be a ruse in the novels; he has in fact secretly been planning revenge against the Lannisters for nearly twenty years via supporting a Targeryen restoration and actually gets the Sand Snakes on his side after revealing this (to be fair, the Book Snakes are nowhere near as [[AdaptationalVillainy horrible as their show counterparts.)]] In the series, he's completely sincere in his desire for peace and forgiveness.

* AdaptationalWimp: In the books, everyone ''thinks'' he's a DirtyCoward lickspittle who doesn't care at all about his siblings' deaths, when in fact he's TheChessmaster who's been patiently arranging the Lannisters' downfall ever since Robert's Rebellion and Tywin Lannister himself respects him for being a player of the game. In the show, he really does just want to put the past behind him and stay allies with them, and he is also a blind ruler with no talent for palatial intrigue who fails to see that his subjects do despise him after all and would support the suicidally risky Ellaria, who manages to take control of Dorne without repercussions after murdering the members of the ruling house.

* BadassBeard: To match his brother's Montoya mustache.

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