Teora Martell, nee Allyrion, is the second daughter of Lord Andrey Allyrion, and eldest child to his second wife, Desmera Blackmont. Her elder sister, Cassella, is the ruling lady of House Allyrion. Teora is currently the Princess of Dorne, widow of the late Prince Nymor Martell of Sunspear. She resides in Sunspear. They had three children together, and had been married twelve years.

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Appearance and Character Edit

Teora has dark hair and eyes, a slender and willowy figure, and is quick with a smile at all times. She dresses herself modestly enough for Dornish fashion, and ensures her gowns are flattering and appropriate. She is highly intelligent and perceptive, kind and compassionate, soft-spoken but charismatic nonetheless, and excels at dealing with people and encouraging them to achieve goals, whether for herself or for others. She enjoys social engagements and finds people fascinating, and will jump at the chance to entertain, especially in the company of her husband, Nymor. She believes that everyone has a story to tell, one way or another, and she finds it interesting to speak to people until she finds out what that story is.

History Edit

Teora was born in 67AC, after her father Lord Andrey Allyrion, a widower with an infant daughter, took a second wife in the form of Desmera Blackmont. The ceremony was a quiet one, and the feasting afterward modest, and the expected nine moons later Teora was born. Her mother was a natural maternal figure, and Teora quickly had more siblings - Anders, born in 71AC, and Mariah in 73AC. Teora was closer in age to her elder sister by her father, Cassella, and the two of them remained close for their whole lives. Desmera was distant, but not unkind, to the little girl who her new husband had brought with him to the marriage, and her fondness for Cassella would eventually grow over the years, when it became known that Cassella was not particularly gifted or intelligent, but was a beauty, and held a certain quiet magnetic calm about her.

Teora was more bubbly than Cassella, though both loved each other just as fiercely, and was more talkative when it came to social interactions. Teora proved from a young age to be very studious, with her lessons soon shooting far ahead of Cassella as linguistics, economics, and accounts came easier to Teora. Cassella more preferred the outdoors - swimming and climbing and riding - while Teora was more inclined to reading, painting, writing, and walking. Walking was something that they shared a mutual liking, and the sisters would explore the surrounding countryside for whole days, when they were younger, moving through the orchards and olive groves and across the vast tracts of farmland that are fed by the waters of the rivers near Godsgrace.

While always a pious girl, she began to delve into books she had otherwise left unexplored until now, including the practices and ancient language of the Rhoynish. A new religion was fascinating to her; Teora had no interest in worshipping the river gods of old, but she still found the traditions to be captivating, and she made sure to devour all she could on the subject. She began to traipse the docks in the traders port by Godsgrace, and speak to the Orphans of the Greenblood whenever they made their appearance to peddle their wares, the flat-bottomed, intricately carved pole boats a sight that made Teora smile. The people themselves were generous and kind, welcoming and informative, and Teora began to pick up the occasional word of Rhoynish, and ask them to teach her more. The syllables rolled off the tongue like music, and Teora wished to learn it for that reason, if none other.

One such of these miniature adventures would change Teora's life forever. In 85AC, the then eighteen year old Teora was in the midst of another casual meet with the Orphans who had arrived in port earlier in the day. The port itself was bustling; a royal visit from the Prince of Dorne had been announced to Godsgrace several weeks before, and in the wake of that news the port at the conjunction of the Vaith and Scourge rivers had begun to swell with population. With royal visits came retinues and camp followers, and profits. Merchants and traders and traveling bards and mummers descended on the small trading town, and word quickly spread that the royal retinue had been seen on the road several days away. Teora was not worried; her sister and her uncle were the ones who would have to worry about making a good first impression, and it was several days away besides, before Teora would be called upon to extend her charms as a scion of her house.

Among the rafts and pole boats of the Orphans, came one that bore a man she had not met before. Assuming he was a trader from the Planky Town, she found him charming, and they spent the evening walking the docks and sharing the wine and fare of the Orphans, discussing beliefs and sharing dreams, in a rare night of connection that ended with them sharing a bed, and each other, in a tavern on the dock. It was only the next day, when the Prince of Dorne was announced at Godsgrace, that he realized who she was, and she him. Wisely, he did not share that he knew her carnally, to save her dignity, and it took just one more encounter - several hours seated beside one another at the feast held in his honor, when she barely found the time to socialize with anyone else but him, so captivating was he - to seal her affections entirely. It would seem that Prince Nymor felt the same, as by the time he left nearly a moon later, he had secured the hand of Teora and his future princess drifted back down the Greenblood with him. They were wed in Sunspear a moon after they arrived in the capital, and Lady Teora Allyrion became the Princess Consort of Dorne.

The prince and princess of Dorne bore three children over the next twelve years of their marriage - Doran, Andrey, and Ysilla - and Teora has so far excelled in her position as the consort of the Prince. She uses her wit and charms to further her husband however she can, and they have had a relatively happy marriage.

Recent Events Edit

In the start of 99AC, Princess Teora received a dagger with a dragonbone hilt, delivered by a messenger who drank poison immediately upon delivering this anonymous threat. The next day, her sick husband, Prince Nymor, died of an unknown illness. Princess Teora immediately moved her children under heavy guard to the Water Gardens, and took up the mantle as Princess Regent, until their twelve year old son Doran comes of age to take his father's throne. Teora immediately began investigations into the perpetrator of her husband's death, and called the banners to swear fealty to her as regent. They now look to all suspects within their borders and without.

Family Edit

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