Trystane Martell

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Trystane Martell
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Alias Trys[1]
Title Prince
Allegiance House Martell
Culture Dornishmen
Born In 287 AC[2]Sunspear[3]
Father Doran Martell
Mother Mellario
Books

Played by Toby Sebastian
TV series Game of Thrones:
Season 5 | 6

Prince Trystane Nymeros Martell, better known simply as Trystane Martell, is the youngest child of the ruling Prince of Dorne, Doran Martell, and his wife, Lady Mellario of Norvos. He is affectionately called Trys by his older sister Arianne.[1]

Appearance

Trystane has olive skin and straight black hair.[1]

History

Born in 287 AC,[2] Trystane was the youngest child of his father, Prince Doran Martell, and mother, Lady Mellario of Norvos.[4] At the age of four, Trystane suffered from redspots.[5] While he was still young, his mother left Dorne and returned to Norvos, the city of her birth.[6]

Recent Events

Trystane playing cyvasse, by Tiziano Baracchi © Fantasy Flight Games

A Game of Thrones

When King Joffrey I Baratheon is crowned, Trystane is summoned to court, along with his father and brother Quentyn, to swear fealty to the new King.[7]

A Clash of Kings

The acting Hand of the King, Tyrion Lannister concocts a plan to prevent the Dornish from supporting Lannister enemies by suggesting a betrothal between his niece, princess Myrcella Baratheon, and Trystane. Trystane's father, Prince Doran Martell, accepts the betrothal offer, and Myrcella departs King's Landing for Sunspear together with Ser Arys Oakheart, a member of the Kingsguard.[8][9]

A Storm of Swords

Lord Tywin Lannister informs to his son Tyrion that he has received a letter from Ser Arys, in which the latter writes that Trystane is enchanted with Myrcella.[10]

A Feast for Crows

Trystane has becomes fond of the game cyvasse, and Myrcella has learned the rules so they can play together. Myrcella wins more often than Trystane, but as Ser Arys Oakheart notes, Trystane does not mind.[1] When Trystane's older sister, Arianne, conspires to have Myrcella crowned as ruling Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, she spirits Myrcella out of Sunspear with the help of Ser Arys. Myrcella's bedmaid, Rosamund Lannister, is left to impersonate the princess. In order to keep anyone from discovering that Myrcella is gone, Ser Arys has told the maester that Myrcella suffers from redspots. However, this does not prevent Trystane from wanting to visit her, as he already had his own redspots years before.[5]

A Dance with Dragons

Queen Cersei Lannister sends Ser Balon Swann to Sunspear to deliver the skull of Ser Gregor Clegane. At the welcoming feast, he presents Prince Doran Martell with a letter by Queen Cersei, in which she requests Myrcella to return home, for Prince Doran to travel to King's Landing to take up his seat on the small council, and for Trystane to come visit King's Landing. Prince Doran agrees with Ser Balon that Trystane will go to King's Landing, but later that evening, during a private meeting with his daughter Arianne, nieces Obara, Nymeria and Tyene Sand, and captain of guards Areo Hotah, Doran reveals that Queen Cersei's invitation is a ruse; Trystane is supposed to die on the way to King's Landing during an attack in the Kingswood, which will be blamed on Tyrion Lannister, and Doran is only invited so he can witness the attack personally, absolving Cersei of any blame.[11]

Family

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Princess
of Dorne
 
Prince
Consort
 
 
 
 
 
Lewyn
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Doran
 
Mellario
of Norvos
 
Mors
 
Olyvar
 
Elia
 
Rhaegar
Targaryen
 
 
 
 
Various
women
 
Oberyn
 
Ellaria
Sand
 
 
Manfrey
 
Unknown
wife
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Arianne
 
Quentyn
 
Trystane
 
 
 
 
 
Rhaenys
Targaryen
 
Aegon
Targaryen
 
Obara
Sand
 
 
Tyene
Sand
 
 
Elia
Sand
 
 
Dorea
Sand
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Nymeria
Sand
 
Sarella
Sand
 
Obella
Sand
 
Loreza
Sand
 


Quotes about Trystane

The two children could not have looked more different, him with his olive skin and straight black hair, her pale as milk with a mop of golden curls; light and dark, like Queen Cersei and King Robert. He prayed Myrcella would find more joy in her Dornish boy than her mother had found with her storm lord.[1]

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