É semeado no vento, na cachoeira e no eclipse.

Jaime Lannister

You fool, it's exactly BECAUSE the marriage was 'political' that Elia would 100% mind it.

A political union is by definition for the benefits of ALL parties involved.

Rhaegar got a pretty fertile wife. He got a woman who was already a born princess in her own right. From her he got a male heir and a female spare in TWO years of marriage, his two heads of the dragon. He got her uncle serving House Targaryen loyally as a Kingsguard until Lewyn died fighting in Rhaegar's war. He got the Dornish army fighting to the death with him at the Trident.

What did Elia/Dorne get in return from this "political marriage"?

They were supposed to get a Dornish woman as Queen Consort -

Instead they found out she was rap*d and split in half and her skull was crushed through her eye sockets.

They were supposed to get a future half Dornish King of the Seven Kingdoms -

Instead, they found out their baby prince was bashed into a pulp against a wall, and then his murderer rap*d his mother with Aegon's blod and brains on him.

They were supposed to one day get the half Dornish princess Rhaenys with a beneficial match that would have her dubbed "The Envy of Westeros" -

Instead, Dorne learned Rhaenys was stabbed half a hundred times to death at the age of three, while she hid under her uncaring father's bed, hoping he would come save her. He didn't. He couldn't even save himself.

Dorne was supposed to get influence at court, increased power. House Martell was supposed to be able to strengthen their power in their region through this dynastic union -

Instead, Dorne got a rap*d and murdered daughter and her murdered children whose corpses were never even returned to them, whose murders, r*pe, and mutilation became a badge of honor on Tywin Lannister's endless list of crimes against humanity.

Tywin The Sexual Sadist got a crown for his psycho daughter. Dorne got told to shut up and suck it up.

Dorne kept it's end of the bargain.

Rhaegar made sure to pay them back with incomparable humiliation on a national stage, by crowning another woman his queen of love and beauty when his pregnant wife was right there, and so was his infant daughter, and all of Westerosi nobility.

Then he again taught them just what their place in his mind was, by running off with his side piece when Elia was post partum, struggling to stay alive.

Rhaegar's no. 1 fanboy, Jon Con, himself told us that the birth of Aegon nearly killed Elia. What perfect timing Rhaegar kept choosing.

Elia kept her end of the bargain.

Rhaegar decided, while using and discarding Elia for all she was worth, till his last breath, repeatedly, that clearly he was above such politics.

(Follow up to this)

I was expecting this message. Fandom did not disappoint.

This is a blatantly false equivalence that I’m more than happy to debunk. The Princess of Dorne and Rhaegar do not remotely exist in the same position on the simple basis that Princess of Dorne had absolutely nothing to do with the sequences of events that ended in Elia’s murder. Rhaegar, on the other hand, was not only a proactive party, he wasthe person who started that sequence of events when he crowned Lyanna Stark as queen of love and beauty at Harrenhal. It’s Rhaegar’s decisions, both in his action and inaction, that spurred the whole tragedy. He instigated the events and literally created the conflict that put his wife and kids in jeopardy. That is why Rhaegar is culpable. Elia’s confinement in King’s Landing did not happen in a vacuum. You can not separate it from the events at Harrenhal and how Rhaegar chose to conduct his “affair” with Lyanna. Harrenhal was a turning point in the story not only because it marked the tension in Rhaegar’s relationship with the Starks and Robert Baratheon or because it was the beginning of the Rhaegar/Lyanna narrative. It’s also significant because it had quite a lot to do with ramping up Aerys’ paranoia which probably contributed to his overt reaction to the Starks and to Elia and her children.

Aerys had been long suspicious of Rhaegar by the time of the tourney of Harrenhal but the tourney still marks a significant development in his reaction towards Rhaegar and Tywin, the two parties he suspected of conspiring against him. In one fell swoop, Aerys foiled whatever plans Rhaegar had for the tourney (assuming that the reports about the true purpose of the tourney is correct) and procured a valuable hostage in Jaime Lannister. That makes it clear that Aerys’ suspicions towards Rhaegar had taken a more tangible form if he’d left the Red Keep for the first time in years specifically to block Rhaegar’s plans. And that he’d moved to taking hostages against those he suspected. These are hard facts that Rhaegar should have taken into account when deciding the next step. Instead, Rhaegar inexplicably crowned Lyanna in front of everyone, which was then painted by Aerys’ lackeys as the crown prince trying to win the allegiance of Winterfell as a prelude to Aerys’ own usurpation. For Rhaegar to then vanish with Lyanna was the absolute worst thing to do and certainly more than enough to rile Aerys up after the fiasco at Harrenhal and make his suspicion of his wayward heir skyrocket.

These are not future events that no one could have predicted. This is information that Rhaegar knew and a conflict that he created. With this kind of information, one needn’t be a psychic to understand that leaving Elia and the children vulnerable on Dragonstone when Rhaegar had done his damnest to make Aerys suspicious of him (including taking Arthur freaking Dayne of all people with him . A pro-Rhaegar Dornishman whose sister was Elia’s lady-in-waiting and who had a connection to the Starks that could be traced back to Harrenhal? That would not look suspicious at all in the eyes of a paranoid king.) Rhaegar had every piece of information needed to at the very damn least make him wary of his father’s reaction and careful to put safeguards for Elia and the children. He didn’t. That’s strike one.

Strike two is far more damning. It’s one thing to fail to act on information you have to plan accordingly, and a whole other thing to return to your wife and kids being held hostage by your own father and do nothing about it. Rhaegar knew Elia and his children were hostages and he still rode out with almost all of the remaining Kingsguard, including his wife’s uncle, and left them behind with his father. Actually no, let’s go back further because Rhaegar probably knew that Elia and the children were hostages while still in Dorne and still chose to leave three Kingsguard (whose allegiance clearly belonged to him) behind. And let me preemptively block the argument that Elia was only a hostage after the trident because I’m not impressed with that argument at all. Why the hell would Aerys make Elia go to King’s Landing if not to make a hostage out of her? Elia was not in any danger on Dragonstone. Aerys recalled her to King’s Landing specifically so that he could hold her and the children against Rhaegar (and Doran of course). And if Rhaegar understood that Aerys kept Jaime Lannister by his side as a hostage against Tywin, then he unquestionably knew that Elia and the children were also hostages against him. He just chose to do nothing about it. All because he put so much stock into the prophecy he failed to take the possibility of defeat into account. Magic had his back, what could possibly go wrong?

Then suddenly it's crickets.

Here's what Rhaegar got:

1. A kind, clever, gentle hearted, gracious and witty wife who was so beautiful GRRM describes her as one of the "fairest flowers of the realm"

2. A healthy female child and a healthy male child within two years of marriage

3. Elia's own uncle Lewyn Martell serving the Targaryen dynasty to the point that he died fighting for Rhaegar's useless ass at the Trident

4. 10,000 Dornishmen fighting and dying brutally at The Trident, because Aerys literally blackmailed them by holding Rhaegar's wife and kids hostage, and Rhaegar let him, cause, well, it benefited him, so what else do you peeps expect him to do 🤷‍♂️

5. The dowry Elia's family must have given to Rhaegar's useless dynasty when the wedding happened.

What did Elia get?

1. She got SA and got robbed by Ulmer of the Kingswood Brotherhood while travelling through Targaryen lands with Targaryen kingsguard to marry the Targaryen crown prince

2. Her father in law turned out to be racist, evidenced by his refusing to even hold his granddaughter (his firstborn grandchild) because, in his words, "she smelled Dornish" like her mother

3. Rhaegar crawling into her bed to impregnate her while she's still on half a year's bedrest from her first difficult delivery

4. Utter humiliation on a national stage when her husband passed her over to crown a 14 year old his Queen Of Love And Beauty in front of thousands upon thousands from all over the continent

5. Then her husband abandons her and her infant daughter and newborn son when Elia is half dead from the very difficult labor of her second baby

6. Then her father in law took her and her babies hostage to make them answer for her husband's whoring

7. Her husband honeymooned in her homeland for a year with his mistress while Elia was held hostage by his insane father

8. Husband came back from his honeymoon to finally fight in only one battle of the war, and he still didn't do anything to send his wife and kids away from his racist madman of a father, or make any arrangements to even remotely ensure Elia's safety

9. Her racist father in law threatened and sent away her uncle, her only protector at court, to join her husband in this battle, and her husband still did not put up any protest that maybe Elia's uncle should be left at court to keep her and her kids safe. Their safety was never a concern for their husband/father

10. Her useless husband died in the only battle of his wasted life with the name of his mistress on his lips, not a care in that empty head for his wife and children being doomed by his complete failure at being a decent husband, a father, a son, a prince, and now a warrior

11. Racist evil father in law sent his own wife and remaining son away so they would be safe, while leaving Elia just as Rhaegar preferred her, and her children as Rhaegar preferred them: sitting ducks in the eye (King's Landing) of the storm (the war)

12. The city was subsequently sacked, cause her racist madman father in law opened the doors to the large army of a man he hated and who hated him even more in turn, in fashion of true racist madmen who are fond of catastrophic stupidity

13. The psychotic man her useless husband knighted dashed her son's head into gore against a wall in front of a screaming Elia, and then r*ped Elia with the blood and brains of her infant on his hands

14. Her daughter was stabbed half a hundred times to death hoping her father would save her

14. Her and her children's mangled ruins were presented wrapped in the cloaks of the House of the man who ordered her r*pe and murder like a badge of honor to the new unjust king who had replaced her unjust father in law

15. Their corpses were never even returned to Elia's family

16. Elia's family never got justice

17. The r*pist only admitted his crimes against her and her children when her brother sacrificed himself to get him to confess, her brother was killed in the same gruesome manner she was, by the same r*pist murderer she was

18. Her racist brother in law went around loudly and proudly exclaiming for years that Elia was clearly not enough to keep his brother happy, so basically, he blamed her for his brother's whoring and their family's subsequent downfall. Fantastic

19. Due to this, Elia's sister in law thinks Elia must have mistreated her special snowflake brother, to have him shamelessly insult her the way he did publicly by crowning Lyanna Stark. Don't you know, it's always in the end the r*pe victim's fault?

19. Still not one person outside her kingdom has raised their voice for justice for her.

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