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Prince Morion Nymeros Martell, also known as Morion the Mad, is a minor character in the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series.
He was the ruling Prince of Dorne and the head of House Martell during the reign of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen. Morion is infamously remembered as the instigator of the Fourth Dornish War when he and his fleet attempted to invade the Stormlands, which are ruled by House Baratheon, only to be met by King Jaehaerys and his two eldest sons, Princes Aemon and Baelon, with the three riding on their respective dragons. In the end, Morion paid for the war with his own life and all the Dornishmen in his fleet.
Personality[]
Prince Morion, as a young man, was described by Archmaester Gyldayn as rash and foolish. In addition, he is also hot-tempered, as he is strongly intolerant of any slights, or so he believes them to be. Consequently, this only led to his undoing and eventual death.
Biography[]
In 61 AC, during the Third Dornish War, as knights of Westeros marched into the Red Mountains to eliminate an outlaw called the Vulture King, Morion's father, the Prince of Dorne, whose name is not known, kept the Dornish forces and House Martell out of the conflict, leaving the Vulture King to his fate, and the outlaw was slain by Lord Rogar Baratheon. This angers Morion, as he regards his father's actions as cowardly and as an insult.
At an unknown point in time, after his aged father died, Morion became the new Prince of Dorne and Lord of Sunspear. Still angry over his late father's apparent cowardice during Lord Rogar's War, Morion attempted to wipe away the "slight" by invading the Stormlands by boat. While assembling his hosts at Ghost Hill and the Tor, he loaded his men onto ships that were owned by pirates living in the Stepstones, sellsails from Myr, and corsairs from the Pepper Coast.
Though he intended to land his armies at Cape Wrath in the hopes of launching a surprise attack on the stormlords and King Jaehaerys I Targaryen, the loading of his hosts onboard his fleet took nearly a year, causing Morion to waste large amounts of the time he needed for his invasion, allowing spies and friends of the crown to inform King Jaehaerys of his planned invasion.
Fourth Dornish War[]
Morion Martell during the Fourth Dornish War.
In 83 AC, while sailing north on the Sea of Dorne, before Prince Morion could even begin his invasion, he was met by the king and his two sons, who awaited his fleet on their dragons, with King Jaehaerys riding Vermithor, Prince Aemon on Caraxes, and Prince Baelon on Vhagar. On the shores of Cape Wrath, the Baratheon forces, under the leadership of Lord Boremund Baratheon, also awaited the Dornish fleet's arrival.
In a single battle, Prince Morion's fleet was ruthlessly destroyed by dragonflame. Though the Dornish tried to fight back with crossbow bolts and their war machines (which are scorpions), they failed to pierce any of the dragons' scales. Ultimately, in the end, all the Dornishmen in the fleet were killed alongside Morion, though his fate is currently unknown. When King Jaehaerys and his sons returned to King's Landing, the capital threw them a riotous welcome, as they had done something that not even Aegon I Targaryen could even boast of: winning a battle without losing a single man. Following his death, Morion was succeeded by his relative Princess Mara Martell, who became the ruling Princess of Dorne and the new head of House Martell.
External Link[]
- Morion Martell on the A Wiki of Ice and Fire.
