So aight, thoughts on the Deeper Dorne recent installments? He makes a pretty good case that Doran set up Qentyn to fail. I think I may have caught Preston in a reach. He complains that they didn't provide Quentyn ravens although he did provide them to Arianna. Is there any instance in the books of ravens that travel between Westeros and Essos?
So I can buy that Qeyntn's mission had to be so super secret so that Doran wouldn't want him interacting with Essos intel contacts that might potentially let something slip. And Preston's arguments that the Yronwoods are not strictly loyal to the Martells are pretty compelling. It's really suspicious that, if this absolutely had to be a small, self-contained and elite unit to accomplish this super secret objective, it should have been at least two groups of five with an advance group to screen for and sometimes shadow Quentyn's group. With no help in Essos, Doran is 100% relying on too small a group of knights to pull off such a massive objective.
So it really does look like Doran sent his own son off to die or be enslaved or be imprisoned and tortured in Essos. And it also looks like, despite astronomical odds, Quentyn -- THE FUCKING BADDASS OF ASOIAF -- almost pulled that shit off. Because fuck you, Doran. Your boy put lash to fucking dragon. And fuck all you other Quentyn haters too. It took shiny brass balls to even walk into that cave.
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