Ellaria Sand

Ellaria Sand is a fictional character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of high fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin and its television adaptation, Game of Thrones. The character is portrayed by Indira Varma in the TV show. Ellaria first appears in A Storm of Swords (2000), and while she is only mentioned in A Feast for Crows (2005), she returns in A Dance with Dragons (2011). 2Character descriptionEdit Ellaria Sand is a bastard from Dorne but is not discriminated against for this, as Dorne's views and customs towards children born out of wedlock differ from those of the rest of Westeros, where bastards are often discriminated against. She is the paramour of Oberyn Martell's, as even in Dorne a Prince cannot marry a bastard, and mother of the four youngest Sand Snakes, Oberyn's bastard daughters. She is vengeful, and like Oberyn, bisexual. 2OverviewEdit In the novels, Ellaria Sand is mostly a background character. She is not a point of view character; rather, her actions are witnessed and interpreted through the eyes of other people. 2StorylinesEdit 3NovelsEdit 4A Storm of SwordsEdit Ellaria comes with Oberyn to King's Landing, as part of Tyrion Lannister's efforts to win them to the Iron Throne. Oberyn, however, clearly wants revenge for his relatives' deaths, apparently on the orders of Tywin Lannister, during King Robert's rebellio