If you watched this preceding Sunday ’s time of year premiere of Game of Thrones , you were treated with a abbreviated return to Dorne , that south - most neighborhood of Westeros where last time of year ’s most dull storyline took position . And then , after ensure one of the show ’s capital deviations from the books , you started wonder what the hell is chance here .
Spoilers ahead …
On a surface level , Ellaria Sand and the daughters of the late Oberyn Martell assassinated Prince Doran , shopworn of waiting for him to get around to postulate revenge on the Lannisters for the many , many Martells kill at their commands . It ’s almost as if the Sand Snakes had watched time of year five themselves , and bring forth drill waiting for something interesting to happen in Dorne . for sure now that Doran is all in , things are about to move a lot faster .
But where , on the dot , is this tale moving quicker towards ? There ’s no coup in George R.R. Martin ’s volume , and while the Sand Snakes are very much trying to foot a competitiveness with King ’s landing place , it seems extremely improbable that this is how events will unfold in the leger . How this new Dornish status quo affects the TV ’s show ’s endgame is anyone ’s guess .
Actually , what is the new Dornish condition quo ? Doran is dead , but that does not mean Ellaria Sand is on the spur of the moment in control of Dorne . We do n’t know exactly why Ellaria assassinated Doran — it could be because he was seemingly too weak to avenge his brother , but it also could be to get Doran out of her room so she can ordain her real plan .
But what is her plan ? Has Ellaria taken the throne of Dorne for herself ? Does she have enough keep from the people to do that ? Heck , does she have any support from the masses ? Are they going to be outraged their beloved Prince Doran has been murdered , or will they praise her courage in the street ? Or will Ellaria put one of the Sand Snakes in bursting charge , and then rule through her ? Has Ellaria account for the fact that the Sand Snakes are all homicidal nitwit ?
And if she has taken mogul , what the hell is she going to do with it ? Is she planning on leading the armies of Dorne to get retribution on everyone who ever shake hand with a Lannister ? Is Ellaria even apprehend enough to join forces with any of the other Lannister - hating Houses of Westeros , like the Starks , the Tullys , the Tyrells — and perhaps even a certain Khaleesi , if she ever manages to cross the Narrow Sea ?
And if Ellaria has no intention ( or possibility ) of check Dorne ’s power , what the hell is she doing ? Is she going to lead a mystical bang team of Sand Snake into King ’s landing place to take out the last of the Lannister tune ? Because that seems like a somewhat dumb idea , and one that really did n’t require her mutilate the Prince of Dorne to accomplish .
I know Dorne has n’t been everyone’s — or anyone’s — favourite Game of Thrones storyline , and I know many masses feel like Doran ’s murder makes time of year five ’s Dornish vacation seem like an even bigger waste of meter . But I like it . I like that Ellaria is about to get some major shit done , or seek to get some major son of a bitch done . I like that she ’s not going to wait around — and people comfortably get out of her way of life or get a dresser full of knife - blade .
And I care that I have no clue where the Dornish plot line is going . Is Ellaria ’s brutal coup part of Game of Thrones ’ endgame , the way of life that Dorne in truth gets pull into the final act ? Will they be the ones to take out the King Tommen and the Lannisters once and for all , plunging Westeros into total bedlam ? Will they be accidentally avail to swan out the welcome mat for the White Walkers , or will they actually contend alongside the people of the other kingdoms to lay aside all of the living ? ( Minus the Lannisters , of course . )
I do n’t know the response to any of these questions , but suddenly I ’m very interested in finding out . Ellaria Sand may have completely screwed Dorne as a country , but she may have saved Dorne as a storyline .
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