A Dornish guard stands in a sunlit courtyard beneath Sunspear’s red-gold towers.

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A Game of Thrones  ·  1996

House Martell words, A Game of Thrones

Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The three refusals turn endurance into a political identity. They insist that pressure and defeat are not the same as surrender.

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House Martell’s words appear in the appendix of A Game of Thrones. They recall Dorne’s history of resisting conquest and belong to the house collectively. This is a motto page, not a claim that one character speaks the three-part phrase in a particular scene.

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