A timeline of the ruling princes and princesses of Dorne from Meria Martell’s death to the formal union of Dorne and the rest of the Seven Kingdoms in 187 AC.
Anything marked with a * means it’s a canon date. The rest are speculation and a lot of math on my part. I also made up the names for a few characters as well! Also rip the quality on this but when you click it, it looks better.
More explanation under the cut.
Where I ran into most trouble in trying to figure out this timeline when we have not nearly as much information as we do about literally every other major Great House of Westeros, is the line from Morion the Mad to Qoren Martell. There’s several quick changes in princes during that time and we don’t even know what their relation is to one another in several instances. So I tried working out the timeline in a few different ways - I tried it with Mara Martell, Morion’s heir, as his very young daughter, as a twin sister, as a younger sister, and I finally settled on her being his much older aunt as making the most sense.
I think it makes the most sense because Morion is considered young and yet his father was Prince for a very long time; it doesn’t make sense that a ruling prince would wait so long to have an heir unless in a parallel to Jaehaerys’ later issue, several of his heirs die and leave the line of succession a bit uncertain. So I concluded that Morion’s father, who I named Voren, had several older children that died, likely during the Vulture King’s first war (we know it’s suspected Deria was funding him) so when Voren died, the throne went to his reckless, dumb ass youngest son, Morion. With Morion dying without any children, the throne passes next to Deria’s second child, Mara, and the Nymeros Martell line descends from them. This also makes sense because in canon, Morion was angry that his father didn’t send soldiers to kick the Iron Throne out of the Dornish Marches during Lord Rogar’s War; if Voren had children that had died in a previous conflict, it would make sense that he’d hesitate to get involved again.
Qoren was also a bit tricky. He had to be old enough to fight in the Stepstones War against Daemon, but young enough to not be married yet and be considered a potential match for Rhaenyra two years later. After a lot of wondering how in the hell I make that work, I finally figured - again, similar to Cregan Stark and Jaeherys, that there was a surplus of heirs at this time. Mara would have come into her throne already old with children and grandchildren, and her heir would come into the throne also already old, same as Meria/Nymor/Deria. Makes sense that the prince before Qoren was therefore a grandfather or great-grandfather, and that Qoren’s father never took the Sunspear Throne.
I stopped at the unification of the Seven Kingdoms simply because we get absolutely no information on what was going on in Dorne until Doran’s mother. Apparently, Dorne was real quiet during the Blackfyre Rebellions, hah.
And as for names...
Voren - we have several instances of Dornishmen with names that end in the -en sound. Doran, Oberyn, Llewyn, Yoren, etc. It seems like a common naming quirk, similar to the Northerners being really fond of -on and -ard endings. I thought Voren sounded the most like a real name.
Ellario - We have Elia and Ellaria so I figured there should be a male version of the name. I didn’t want to use Elio, so Ellario was born.
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WHAT THE FUCK MY BIRTHDAY IS IN 6 DAYS?????
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IM THE ARRANGED MARRIAGE ANON HIIII 😍😍😍 wait should I be known as that from now on?? LMFAOO
-Arrange Marriage anon
HII!! :]
GHDGJFH if you want to be! I had an HP laserjet printer anon at one point so the possibilities are endless for names!
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i rember being young and askign my cousin who his first crush was cuh we were talkn bout mine and he said "you" and i thignk i wanfed 2 kms
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The Ruling Princes and Princesses of Dorne
Leaders of Dorne During the Dornish Wars
Meria Nymeros Martell - Teresita Reyes
She’s Chilean and Palestinian, and I thought “casting” a few Latino Palestinians would be a fun little nod to Pedro Pascal, hah.
Nymor Nymeros Martell - Sami Bouajila
Deria Nymeros Martell - Iman el Deeb
she looks so much like the Deria art to me!
Voren Nymeros Martell - Motaz Malhees
We have several instances of Dornishmen with names that end in the -en sound. Doran, Oberyn, Llewyn, Yoren, etc. It seems like a common naming quirk in Dorne.
I thought Voren sounded the most like a real name, hah.
Morian the Mad - Mena Massoud
Mara Nymeros Martell - Salwa Nakkara
Explanation on her age is here in my Dornish Rulers Timeline.
Ellario Nymeros Martell - Hani Al Naimi
We have Elia and Ellaria so I figured there should be a male version of the name.
I didn’t want to use Elio, so Ellario was born.
Qoren Nymeros Martell - Mahesh Jadu
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