Eldest of Princess Loreza's three children and ruling Prince of Dorne since her death, a grave grey-bearded man whose gout has gone into his joints so cruelly he can no longer walk and must be wheeled where he is needed. He keeps the Water Gardens in the summer and Sunspear in the winter, watches the slow turning of the year through eyes that miss nothing, and is reckoned by his enemies and by his own brother in equal measure to be too patient to be dangerous.
He is not. Behind the half-closed lids and the carefully tended silence is a man who has been planning since Elia died, and what he has planned is the marriage of his daughter Arianne to the last of Rhaegar's children, hidden across the Narrow Sea in the keeping of Lord Connington and the Golden Company. When the false Aegon lands at last in the stormlands, the spears of Dorne are to come down on King's Landing from the south. By the events of A Dance with Dragons the design has slipped from his hands: his brother is dead in the trial-pit, his daughter has tried to steal his other daughter and crown her queen, his middle son lies burned to char in the streets of Meereen, and the boy he meant for Aegon may be no son of Rhaegar's at all.