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Princess Aliandra Nymeros Martell is a supporting character in the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series. She was the ruling Princess of Dorne during the regency of King Aegon III Targaryen, and is the daughter of Prince Qoren Martell and the elder sister of Prince Qyle and Coryanne Martell. Aliandra is known for her fiery and flirtatious personality.
During her rule, Aliandra and Dorne (alongside the Archon of Tyrosh) became a great beneficiary in the aftermath of the Daughters' War. When Dorne took control over most of the Stepstones, its power waxed overtime. Aliandra had a role in Lord Alyn Velaryon's first great journey. Following the end of the Daughters' War, Aliandra married the Lysene noble Drazenko Rogare, from a noble house dedicated to banking.
Biography[]
Aliandra Martell was born in 115 AC to Prince Qoren Martell and his wife (whose name is not known). In 132 AC, at the age of seventeen, she became the ruling Princess of Dorne. She was implied to have greatly admired her ancestor Princess Nymeria of Ny Sar, a warrior princess/queen of the Rhoynar, who led her people in migrating to Dorne with ten thousand ships to escape the Valyrian Freehold and the destructive might of their dragons, following the death of Prince Garin the Great. Upon her arrival in Dorne, she would engage in a long conquest that would span for many years until she successfully unified Dorne under the rule and supremacy of House Nymeros Martell, thus merging Andal and Rhoynish cultures.
Because of this presumed admiration, Princess Aliandra became delusional by the belief that she herself was "the new Nymeria" and she went as far as to encourage her fellow Dornish lords and knights to raid and terrorize the Dornish Marches so they could prove themselves to her. In 132 AC, the Dornishmen kept raiding and plundering in the Dornish Marches, forcing Lord Royce Caron—a Marcher Lord, Stormlord, and one of King Aegon III's regents—to resign his post in the King's council of regents. By the the following year, 133 AC, after the death of the Hand Ser Tyland Lannister and the end of the winter fever epidemic, the Dornishmen were still raiding and terrorizing the Marches, always with Aliandra's approval and encouragement.
In 133 AC, Lord Alyn Velaryon was sent by Lord Unwin Peake on a campaign to defend the Westerlands against Lord Dalton Greyjoy and the ironborn, who continued their raids despite the orders of the Iron Throne. During his first great journey, Alyn arrived at Sunspear, where he met Princess Aliandra (by then eighteen). The book Bastard Born, a biography on Alyn written by a woman named Rue, claims that he had to perform intimate services for her before she would provide him with provisions for his fleet, though this was contradicted by Hard as Oak, another biography written by Ser Russel Stillman. Rue's version claims that Alyn accepted Aliandra's sexual advances, whilst Russel's version claims that Alyn refused the sexual advances. Archmaester Gyldayn considers Russell's account to be colorful, but unreliable, being possibly biased in Alyn's favor as well.
During the civil war known as the Daughters' War, which erupted in the wake of the murder of Sharako Lohar and the collapse of the Triarchy, Lys and Tyrosh gained the alliance and support of Aliandra and Dorne against former captain-general and then-King Racallio Ryndoon during their struggle for the Stepstones, sometime in 133 AC.
Aliandra met Alyn when he returned from the Sunset Sea and Lysene envoy Drazenko Rogare informed Alyn that Aegon III's brother, Prince Viserys, who was believed to have died during the Dance of the Dragons, was being held captive by Drazenko's brother, Lysandro. Whenever Lord Alyn would visit Dorne, he gained a lot of lavish attentions from Aliandra, who showed him great favor, though this earned her the anger of her younger brother Prince Qyle and their sister Coryanne. In addition, Aliandra was also disliked by Alyn's wife, Lady Baela Targaryen, who was displeased to hear anything about her, further implying she was being cheated on by her husband.
In the aftermath of the Daughters' War, Aliandra and Dorne, alongside the Archon of Tyrosh, are one of the greatest beneficiaries of the civil war, as they gained the greatest spoils of war, with Dorne taking control over most of the Stepstones, after Racallio Ryndoon abandoned his kingdom and fled to the Basilisk Isles. This allowed Dorne's power to grow powerful overtime.
During the Lysene Spring, Aliandra married Drazenko Rogare and named him her Prince Consort of Dorne and Lord of the Stepstones. The couple's marriage, along with Prince Viserys Targaryen's own marriage to Lady Larra Rogare and his return to King's Landing with her, marked the apex of House Rogare's power beyond Essos, having extended to Westeros during those times.
However, Prince Drazenko mysteriously choked to death upon a piece of bacon in 135 AC. Liandra's brother-in-law Lysandro drowned when his barge sank. As both Rogare brothers died within a day of each other, leading to the fall of House Rogare and their powerful bank in Lys, it was widely believed that their deaths were the act of hired Faceless Men of Braavos (with the Iron Bank being speculated by the fanbase to have hired them to get rid of the competition from the Rogare Bank, who was rising high in power).
It is unknown whether Aliandra and Drazenko had any offspring, and whether said offspring continued House Martell.
