I just wanna get to next season of Game of Thrones so we can talk about my homeboys and homegirls in House Martell WHAT UP DOOOORNE
Forgot to sign off my Game of Thrones season 3 finale review by expressing my excitement about the arrival of Oberyn Martell next year.
Houses Sworn to House Martell ➻
fakebook of the houses
A collection of A Song of Ice and Fire images at io9., including this one by Altramina, featuring the amazing women of Westeros.
Door detail at the tower of the Sun at Sunspear, Dorne
(by mhobl)
Day Four - favorite house motto ;; Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken
There’s so many awesome new renditions of the logo popping up every few days!
I kind of want this as a tattoo. One thing, though: where is the spear?
House Tully, House Arryn, & House Martell Posters
Awesome posters are apparently in right now.
Throne of Dorne
Arianne Martell by ~Lauren-Oh
Wow! I love that palmy outline.
“House Martell Tee”
T-Shirt option of the Martell Sigil
T-Shirts & Hoodies by liquidsouldes | RedBubble
Love this. Really can’t wait for the Martells to show up and get cool labels as well… I’m such a nerd.
#ok this whole thing is great but I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS ABOUT SANSA AS THE RESTORATION OF HOUSE ARRYN #the house of nobility and ‘honor’ that like the things it stands for has degraded into nothing #and sansa who had her eyes opened to the dishonor of the world marching out of the vale with an army #and restoring heroes to the world by being her own #words are wind #sansa dahling
I found this too funny not to reblog. This provides a good list of reasons why I like the Martells so much.
reasons house martell is better than you:
- we have the red viper
- we have doran martell
- we have arianne martell
- we have no issue sticking a woman on the fucking throne because we understand that women can do the goddamn job just fucking fine
- we’re not so caught up with hilarious things like “honor” when it comes to the fight because you see, we look at what’s important: winning
- following on that, we appear to be the only ones badass enough to use poison, because the rest of you are caught up on that “honor” thing which is just cute really
- monogamy and marriage is for people with no libido
- what’s that? political marriage is necessary? that’s why here, we have our spouses, and we have our paramours
- our sandsnakes are more badass than your kingsguard
- did i mention how fucking badass our illegitimate female children are?
- i’m sorry but we have arianne martell
- that’s actually the only thing i needed to say to prove my point
- we are unbowed unbent and unbroken and we will not take your shit
- and while you’re busy chasing dragons, we’re going to take your balls
- we’re very good at that whole ‘take advantage of the situation’ thing
- just very adaptable really, by which i mean when the tides start to change, we’ll find a way to make sure we’re still motherfucking on top no matter who sits that iron throne you’re all so busy squabbling about
- because we have sunspear
- you can keep your iron throne
- house martell ftw
- i don’t actually remember the point of this post so i’ll end this here
SOOOO true.
io9.’s Daily 10 compares themes present in both historical and science fiction. It’s a very cool list, and it makes points about both genres that you might not have thought of before. My favorite point is the first, about world-building. I love reading about the vastness and diversity of well-developed fictional worlds. (Part of why I liked A Feast for Crows more than some is because it spent a lot of time showing us places we’d never seen before, particularly Dorne and Sunspear, home of the Martells.)
Like House Baelish, I am including this one and the next couple in part because of the fact that I like the sigils. I love celestial imagery, which is part of why I gravitated towards House Martell (the fact that the family is full of people who are intelligent and strong sealed the deal), so I’m including Karstark. Their actions certainly did not help them into this post. Also, there is no House Umber sigil in LiquidSoulDesign’s gallery, a fact I hope is changed soon.
In my post of the Tyrell banner, I stated that they were my least favorite house and also asked readers to submit responses stating their favorite Westerosi houses. I enjoyed reading the two I have received so far, one of which stated that the reader’s favorite house was Tyrell. Reading her (I’m assuming) response made me rethink why I dislike this family so much and I realized that most of my dislike is focused on one person rather than the family.
As I already said, from everything we have heard about Willas, he seems like a good guy and someone who will lead the Reach well when he takes over for his father. Also, I really enjoy reading Olenna Tyrell, nee Redwyne. I joked to the reader that I justify my enjoyment of her by regarding her as a Redwyne rather than a Tyrell, but that’s cheating. And Margaery is not a bad person either. Standing up to Cersei definitely helped raise her esteem in my eyes. I’m not a huge Loras fan, but he genuinely cares for his sister (and did for Renly).
Really, my biggest argument as to why I dislike this family (aside from the irrational feelings created by my love of the Martells) is the current head of the family and lord of Highgarden and the Reach, Mace Tyrell. Mace sees himself as a great leader and strategist, when he is anything but. He takes credit for the victories of his harsh bannermen, like Randyll Tarly,* and is willing to side with his enemies if it means raising his daughter to the position of queen. He first sided with Renly under the belief that Joffrey was not the true king. This position required a basis in the laws of succession, but his choice ignored the fact that Renly was still second in line. After Renly died, instead of continuing to hold the belief that Joffrey was not the rightful king, he went over to the Lannisters, as Stannis still had the worst chances of coming out the victor. Mace’s combination of opportunism, inflated ego, and incompetence have tended to sour me on his entire house. I realize that it is him I dislike more than his family, but because it is him who rules the Reach, for now, the Tyrell remain low on my list of great houses.
*All of the great houses have some less than honorable bannermen, but unlike the Starks, who disapprove of the travesties of Ramsay Snow, or the Tullys, who use the Freys because they have to (not exactly a good reason), from what I can remember, Mace Tyrell seems to encourage some of Tarly’s harsh actions. Although, Tyrell doesn’t even come close to Tywin Lannister in terms of sanctioned brutality.
Damn Tyrells. I hate these people. Though I’m sure it’s partly because they are the rivals of the Martells. It probably says a lot about this family that the only one I fully like is Willas, who we have never met. Based on what people say about him, including the fact that he and Oberyn Martell supposedly get along, I’m willing to believe he’s a pretty stand-up guy.
Strangely enough, my least favorite great house is the only one with green (favorite color) in its sigil.
House Tyrell by *LiquidSoulDesign
So that’s all of the great houses. Which one is your favorite?
