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* AerithAndBob: Dorne is the only kingdom to have a proper name that does not sound like a region (the Westerlands, the Reach, the North, etc.).
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* {{Troll}}: A chapter from ''The Winds of Winter'' tells the true story of the Toland sigil. Aegon the Conqueror laid siege to Ghost Hill so Lord Toland sent a champion to face him. Aegon killed the champion only to find the man was the Toland's fool and Lord Toland had escaped. House Toland replaced its former ghost sigil with one that depicts a dragon biting its own tail. The green and gold colors represent the fool's motley.

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* {{Troll}}: A chapter from ''The Winds of Winter'' tells the true story of the Toland sigil. Aegon the Conqueror laid siege to Ghost Hill so Lord Toland sent a champion to face him. Aegon killed the champion only to find the man was the Toland's fool and Lord Toland had escaped. House Toland replaced its former ghost sigil with one that depicts a dragon biting its own tail. The green and gold colors represent the fool's motley.

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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: To Moorish Spain, with some Wales (their ruler bearing the title of "Prince") thrown in. The Orphans's way of life is a little reminiscent of Roma people. The rivalry between House Yronwood and House Martell resembles the tensions between Northern Spain and Southern Spain.
** They are something of a HighFantasy version of {{Qurac}}, due to being a desert region populated by an relatively foreign people. Unusually, the Dornish worship the Faith of the Seven (the local Christianity analogue) just like the rest of Westeros instead of a version of Islam. T
** Dorne's position in the Seven Kingdoms resembles that of the medieval Kingdom of Bohemia within the UsefulNotes/HolyRomanEmpire. It is a component of a large, multicultural monarchy with a shared religion but distinct ethnic identity from the rest of the country, with a ruler counted among the highest elite of the country but holding a unique royal title superior to his peers and inferior to the monarch. The "rocky" north of the country, which is culturally and ethnically closer to the rest of the South, is a neat parallel to the Sudetenland.
* GenderIsNoObject: There's no StayInTheKitchen attitude in Dorne. Women are treated as equals, can become warriors and are not placed behind their brothers when it comes to the line of inheritances.

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To Moorish Spain, with some Wales (their ruler bearing the title of "Prince") thrown in. The Orphans's Orphans' way of life is a little reminiscent of Roma people. The rivalry between House Yronwood and House Martell resembles the tensions between Northern Spain and Southern Spain.
** They are something of a HighFantasy version of {{Qurac}}, due to being a desert region populated by an relatively foreign people. Unusually, the Dornish worship the Faith of the Seven (the local Christianity analogue) analog) just like the rest of Westeros instead of a version of Islam. T
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** Dorne's position in the Seven Kingdoms resembles that of the medieval Kingdom of Bohemia within the UsefulNotes/HolyRomanEmpire. It is a component of a large, multicultural monarchy with a shared religion but a distinct ethnic identity from the rest of the country, with a ruler counted among the highest elite of the country but holding a unique royal title superior to his peers and inferior to the monarch. The "rocky" north of the country, which is culturally and ethnically closer to the rest of the South, is a neat parallel to parallels the Sudetenland.
* GenderIsNoObject: There's no StayInTheKitchen attitude in Dorne. Women are treated as equals, can become warriors warriors, and are not placed behind their brothers when it comes to in the line of inheritances.
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* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: Dornish cuisine is made with mustard seeds, snake venom, and dragon peppers. Reportedly, it burns twice as bad coming out as it does going in.

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* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: Dornish cuisine is made with mustard Mustard seeds, snake venom, and dragon peppers.peppers are popular ingredients in Dornish food. Reportedly, it burns twice as bad coming out as it does going in.
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* BadassOnPaper: A literal-but-complicated example. Daeron I wrote an account of his conquest of Dorne that greatly emphasized the ferocity of the Dornish people, a depiction that Doran Martell considers to be a boon because it presented Dorne to the rest of the Seven Kingdoms as more capable and powerful then they actually are. The reality is that Dorne is the smallest and least-populous of the Seven Kingdoms and, while the Dornish people are fierce and capable fighters, the harshness of their homeland has been a major factor of thie resistance to the Targaryens. As Doran explains to his daughter Arianne, Dorne is not in a position to make war on the other Kingdoms, especially a war that would require them to go on the offensive.

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Head of House Fowler, Lord of Skyreach, and Warden of the Prince's Pass.

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Head of House Fowler, Lord of Skyreach, and Warden of the Prince's Pass. Father of Jeyne and Jennelyn Fowler.




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[[caption-width-right:350:Jeyne and Jennelyn]]


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* StatuesqueStunner: They're both described as tall (albeit not specifically how tall), and quite popular with the Martells.
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* MirrorCharacter: Collectively, to the North. Both are infamous for being impossible to conquer by outsiders, with only a few narrow land routes into the kingdom that are guarded by guerrilla warfare experts, and have retained a unique culture distinct from the rest of the continent as a result. The North is inhospitably cold, Dorne is inhospitably warm. Ever since its annexation, Dorne has been a loyal supporter of the Targaryen dynasty, the North under Ned Stark was a similarly close ally of the Baratheons. Northerners are stereotyped as [[HonorBeforeReason honorable to the point of self-destructiveness]], while the Dornish are stereotyped as [[CombatPragmatist having no honor at all,]] but both have long memories when it comes to injustices committed against their people, and have a habit of [[BestServedCold responding to them in kind.]]
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* DarkSkinnedRedhead: She has the olive skin of the salty dornish, but reddish hair.



* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Like her sister she has olive skin and reddish hair.
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The southernmost kingdom[[note]]technically a principality [[/note]] in Westeros, Dorne went through the same procession of First Man and Andal settlers as the rest of Westeros, but saw a third, localized migration when the Rhoynar, a river people displaced by the then-expanding Valyrian Freehold, fled across the Narrow Sea and alternatively displaced and intermarried with the local Andal houses, forming a hybrid culture that persists to the present day. The peninsula of Dorne was the only one that went unconquered by the Targaryen invasion, only becoming part of the realm after Baelor the Blessed tied the two nations together by marriage, allowing the ruling House Martell to continue to refer to its members as princes and princesses. Dorne is full of mountain ranges and desert areas which provide natural defensive barriers. It is the least populated region of Westeros, although House Martell has worked hard to hide that fact and exaggerate the size of their army. Dorne has fought several wars with the Reach and Stormlands over their borders, and there is much mistrust between these regions. Bastards in Dorne are given the surname "Sand".

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The southernmost kingdom[[note]]technically a principality [[/note]] in Westeros, Dorne went through the same procession of First Man and Andal settlers as the rest of Westeros, but saw a third, localized migration when the Rhoynar, a river people displaced by the then-expanding Valyrian Freehold, fled across the Narrow Sea and alternatively displaced and intermarried with the local Andal houses, forming a hybrid culture that persists to the present day. The peninsula of Dorne was the only one that went unconquered by the Targaryen invasion, only becoming part of the realm after Baelor the Blessed and Daeron the Good tied the two nations together by marriage, allowing the ruling House Martell to continue to refer to its members as princes and princesses. Dorne is full of mountain ranges and desert areas which provide natural defensive barriers. It is the least populated region of Westeros, although House Martell has worked hard to hide that fact and exaggerate the size of their army. Dorne has fought several wars with the Reach and Stormlands over their borders, and there is much mistrust between these regions. Bastards in Dorne are given the surname "Sand".
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The southernmost kingdom in Westeros, Dorne went through the same procession of First Man and Andal settlers as the rest of Westeros, but saw a third, localized migration when the Rhoynar, a river people displaced by the then-expanding Valyrian Freehold, fled across the Narrow Sea and alternatively displaced and intermarried with the local Andal houses, forming a hybrid culture that persists to the present day. The peninsula of Dorne was the only one that went unconquered by the Targaryen invasion, only becoming part of the realm after Baelor the Blessed tied the two nations together by marriage, allowing the ruling House Martell to continue to refer to its members as princes and princesses. Dorne is full of mountain ranges and desert areas which provide natural defensive barriers. It is the least populated region of Westeros, although House Martell has worked hard to hide that fact and exaggerate the size of their army. Dorne has fought several wars with the Reach and Stormlands over their borders, and there is much mistrust between these regions. Bastards in Dorne are given the surname "Sand".

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The southernmost kingdom kingdom[[note]]technically a principality [[/note]] in Westeros, Dorne went through the same procession of First Man and Andal settlers as the rest of Westeros, but saw a third, localized migration when the Rhoynar, a river people displaced by the then-expanding Valyrian Freehold, fled across the Narrow Sea and alternatively displaced and intermarried with the local Andal houses, forming a hybrid culture that persists to the present day. The peninsula of Dorne was the only one that went unconquered by the Targaryen invasion, only becoming part of the realm after Baelor the Blessed tied the two nations together by marriage, allowing the ruling House Martell to continue to refer to its members as princes and princesses. Dorne is full of mountain ranges and desert areas which provide natural defensive barriers. It is the least populated region of Westeros, although House Martell has worked hard to hide that fact and exaggerate the size of their army. Dorne has fought several wars with the Reach and Stormlands over their borders, and there is much mistrust between these regions. Bastards in Dorne are given the surname "Sand".
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-->''Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken''
-->--House Martell words

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-->''Unbowed, -->''"Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken''
-->--House
Unbroken"''
-->--'''House
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---> --'''Allyrion house words'''

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---> --'''Allyrion --->--'''Allyrion house words'''

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