Tyana Velaryon

Teora Sand (half sister, b. 120AC)

Sarella Martell (b. 126AC)

Lady Tyana Velaryon is the second born daughter of Lord Doran Martell and Lady Gwyneth Dayne. She is married to Maekar Velaryon, Heir to Driftmark and de facto Lord of the Tides while his father, Lord Vaemond Velaryon, sits the Small Council at Kings Landing.

## Appearance and Character

Tyana is tall and slender, standing just shy of five feet and nine inches, and moves with poise and grace. It has often been mentioned that Tyana is the spitting image of her grandmother, the former Princess Teora Martell, and holds a strong likeness to the matriarch. Tyana has the typical Salty Dornish coloring of her fathers family, and she stays true to her heritage with her attire, ignoring the more conservative garb worn by the northern Westeros regions and keeping to the loose - and often revealing - gowns favored by Dornish custom. She is partial to strong, bold colors - purple, black and red silks - understated but expensive jewelry, and wears her hair loose and flowing down her back, ending just below her waist.

Tyana is strong-willed and stubborn when it comes to her core beliefs, fierce and loyal as a wife and friend, and charismatic, flirtatious and easy-going among all other company, enjoys wine and ale, has friends in high and low places, entertains frequently, and is charming enough to put most people at ease. Because of this trait, she has a knack for learning secrets; people feel comfortable sharing with her, or passing on other people's secrets. What Tyana does with this information, very few people know.

## Background and History

Tyana was born at the end of 106AC to Lord Doran Martell, former Prince of Dorne, and Lady Gwyneth Dayne. Tyana is the second daughter of the couple, with Tyene being the first born just ten months before. Both girls were born in the same year. She has two other siblings, Lewyn, a brother now aged ten, and Sarella, the youngest Martell girl at age four.

Tyana had a somewhat turbulent upbringing, owing to her father's fall from his title as Princedom just a few short years before her birth. With the sacking of Sunspear, and the recovery of House Martell from the betrayal of House Toland and its followers, Tyana found an often tense atmosphere in the home she was born into, with her parents union being loveless, despite their united love for their children. Both of her parents had paramours elsewhere, no secret but still not spoken of, and a bastard sister was born to Lord Doran the same year that her brother Lewyn came into the world. Teora Sand joined the Martell children, and she was accepted by all of her half siblings with the nonchalant ease that comes with Dornish attitude toward children born out of wedlock.

Tyana's formative years were filled with structure and and she had for her whole life been prepared to eventually join House Velaryon through marriage. The War of the Setting Sun was ended in 103AC, and Lord Vaemond Velaryon wasted no time in joining his house to both sides of the conflict shortly afterward. When Tyana had been born in 106AC, it was agreed when she was a toddler that Tyana would be betrothed eventually to the Seahorse' firstborn son, Maekar, born the year before. Tyana spent many an hour with an army of septas and maesters, learning to read and to write in a neat script, how to manage ledgers and accounts, to dance and sing and sew and speak intelligently; all the skills needed to successfully hold her place as the future wife of Lord Velaryon. She spent little time learning combat skills; the only outdoor activities that were encouraged, were riding, swimming, and sailing.

Tyana spent several years in Driftmark as a ward, with the accompaniment of her septa, to acclimatize herself with her future home and ensure that House Martell stayed true to the promised alliance. She arrived on the island for the first time at the age of eight, and stayed there for long stints over the next decade, returning home to Sunspear for a few short weeks throughout the years to see her family before returning to the Velaryon's. There, Tyana spent time with the many Velaryon children at Driftmark, unaware - at least during her younger years - that she was basically a political prisoner, and grew surprisingly close to the Lady Velaryon, Myrcella, a sweet woman who treated her kindly, and earned Tyana's unwavering love and loyalty. This went a long way to quelling any lingering bitterness Tyana felt toward Lord Vaemond Velaryon, as a large factor in the downfall of Tyana's house.

While at Driftmark, Tyana spent large amounts of time with her husband to be, Maekor, a young boy just a year older than her. The two of them were aware from a young age that they were to be married one day, and accepted it with relative ease. Even as they approached their teens, and then adulthood, neither felt any affection toward the other aside from friendship, but agreed mutually that as far as marriage matches were concerned, it could have been worse.

Between Sunspear, Driftmark, and stints at court in Kings Landing, Tyana's easygoing charm and flirtatious charisma earned her many friends among servants and smallfolk, merchants and traders, and high lords and ladies of the realm. She is approachable and friendly with almost everyone, and has a way of getting people to open up to her. Her kindness is genuine enough, and she is always willing to do favors for others, though she knows that this is partly selfish in that others will be willing to do favors for her in return - mostly in the form of information. Tyana takes full advantage of this, and is not afraid to use her flirtatious smile and flattering charm to further her own machinations, be it man or woman that she is interacting with.

After almost 20 years of betrothal, in 129AC, Tyana finally wed Maekar in a lavish ceremony on the island of Driftmark, a place already so much like home to her. Since then, Tyana and Maekar have resided in Driftmark as de facto Lord and Lady of the Tides, as Lord Vaemond spends the vast majority of his time seated on the Small Council in Kings Landing. While it was never a love match, Tyana is very fond of Maekar, and is a staunch and loyal wife to him, supporting him in all he needs. She uses her connections to further their position, trading in secrets and rumors to ensure that many are beholden to the Seahorse.

Tyana secretly hopes her family will be restored to their former positions as the leading Great House in Dorne, and is turning her attention to this matter, and how to bring about the fall of the traitorous Toland family and their supporters.

## Family Tree

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## Stats

**Attribute:** Sly

**Social Status** Principal Bannerman

**Allotted Points:** 20

**Skills**: Espionage(INT) Infiltration(INT) Silver Tongue(CHA) Entertainment(CHA)

**Mastery**: Cloak and Dagger(INT)