Tyene Sand
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 Tyene Sand by Bella Bergolts | |
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| Allegiance | House Martell |
| Culture | Dornishmen |
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276 AC or 277 AC (age 23)[1] Westeros[2] |
| Father | Oberyn Martell |
| Mother | A septa from the Reach |
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| Played by | Rosabell Laurenti Sellers |
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Game of Thrones: Season 5 | 6 | 7 |
Tyene Sand is the bastard daughter of Prince Oberyn Martell and an unnamed septa. She is one of the infamous Sand Snakes.
In the television adaptation Game of Thrones, Tyene is portrayed by Rosabell Laurenti Sellers.
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Appearance and Character
Tyene is fair, with golden hair and deep blue eyes.[3] Dimples bloom in her cheeks, and she has a gentle, sweet voice.[3][4] According to a semi-canon source, Tyenne has a widow's peak like her sisters,[2] and they all have the viper eyes of their father, Oberyn Martell.[3]
Princess Arianne Martell is especially close with Tyene, considering her cousin to be the sister she never had.[5][6] Tyene is also close with her sisters Obara and Nymeria.[6]
Despite her innocent and pious persona, Tyene is regarded as treacherous. Her soft pale hands are as deadly as Obara's callused ones.[4] She shares her father Oberyn's knowledge of poisons, her chosen weapon.[3] Tyene disapproves of the cautious nature of her uncle, Doran Martell, Prince of Dorne.[3][4]
Tyene owns a clinging gown of pale blue samite with sleeves of Myrish lace,[3] as well as a modest cream and green gown with long lace sleeves.[4] Tyene is envious of Princess Myrcella Baratheon's curls.[3]
History
When Tyene was in the cradle her mother, a septa, read to her from The Seven-Pointed Star.[4]
Tyene spent her youth at the Water Gardens with her cousin, Princess Arianne Martell, as well as with Sylva Santagar, Andrey Dalt, and Garin. Tyene and Arianne grew as close as sisters, learning to read, ride, and dance together. They have shared meals, jewelry, beds, and onetime a flagon of wine stolen by Arianne. The two would have lost their virginity together to Andrey as well, but he was premature in Tyene's hands during the encounter.[6]
Arianne once crossed the Mander with three of the Sand Snakes to visit Tyene's mother.[7] Tyene and Arianne once fled Sunspear to try to marry Arianne to Willas Tyrell at Highgarden, but they were caught by Tyene's father, Oberyn Martell, at Vaith.[6] Oberyn also once brought Tyene with Arianne and Sarella Sand to Shandystone, where he showed Tyene how to milk vipers for their venom.[7]
Doran Martell, Prince of Dorne, kept a marriage pact hidden from Arianne because he feared his daughter would not have kept it a secret from Tyene, who would then have informed her sisters, Obara and Nymeria Sand.[6]
Recent Events
A Feast for Crows
Tyene waits for Doran Martell, Prince of Dorne, in the throne room of Sunspear to demand vengeance for her father, Oberyn Martell, who was slain by Ser Gregor Clegane in King's Landing. She works on an embroidery of a smiling Oberyn armored in red atop a sand steed.[3]
Nymeria Sand wants Tyene to aid her in assassinating Lord Tywin Lannister, Queen Regent Cersei Lannister, Ser Jaime Lannister, and King Tommen I Baratheon. Tyene instead wants to crown Tommen's older sister, Princess Myrcella Baratheon, as queen, offering to arrange the wedding between Mycella and Doran's youngest son, Prince Trystane Martell. If the Lannisters and Tyrells invade Dorne in response to Myrcella's crowning, they would then be slain in the Dornish mountains and sands. After Doran states that he will think about her proposal, Tyene asks for his blessing. Since Doran laid his hand on Tyene's head before she departed, Maester Caleotte searches for scratches and puncture marks, demonstrating a fear of her knowledge of poisons.[3]
Doran has his captain, Areo Hotah, detain Tyene and her sisters in the Spear Tower as a gesture of good will towards Tommen's court, with Areo tasked with securing Tyene, Nymeria and Obara before their younger siblings.[3]
Princess Arianne Martell is also retained the Spear Tower after her own plot to crown Myrcella is foiled by Areo.[6]
A Dance with Dragons
Doran has Arianne, Obara, Nymeria, and Tyene released from their cells in the Spear Tower. All are present when Ser Balon Swann presents the Mountain's skull to the Prince of Dorne. Tyene is pleased to learn that Ser Gregor Clegane had died screaming for days from poison. When Ricasso raises a toast to King Tommen during the feast, Tyene declines with a murmur.[4]
After the feast, Arianne and her elder cousins meet with Doran in his solar. Ellaria Sand, Oberyn's paramour and the mother of his youngest daughters, disapproves of the vengeful plans of Obara, Nym, and Tyene. After Ellaria departs, Doran has the sisters swear their allegiance so he can confide in them his plans. Doran tasks Nymeria with returning Myrcella to King's Landing and joining the small council. Tyene is to accompany her sister to the capital and, disguised as a septa, gain the confidence of the High Sparrow at the Great Sept of Baelor.[4]
Quotes by Tyene
Doran: Obara cries to me for war. Nym will be content with murder. And you?
Tyene: War, though not my sister's war. Dornishmen fight best at home, so I say let us hone our spears and wait. When the Lannisters and the Tyrells come down on us, we shall bleed them in the passes and bury them beneath the blowing sands, as we have a hundred times before.[3]—Doran Martell and Tyene
Tyene: You think too much, Uncle.
Doran: Do I?
Doran: Always.[3]
Tyene: Father said so.
Doran: Oberyn thought too little.
Tyene: Some men think because they are afraid to do.
Doran: There is a difference between fear and caution.
Tyene: Oh, I must pray that I never see you frightened, Uncle. You might forget to breathe.
Areo: My lady, you presume. Step from the dais, if it please you.
Tyene: I meant no harm, Captain. I love my uncle, as I know he loved my father. I have said all I came to say, Uncle. Forgive me if I gave offense; my heart is broken all to pieces. Do I still have your love?
—Tyene, Doran Martell, and Areo Hotah
Sisters, truly, I know the poison Father used. If his spear so much as broke the Mountain's skin, Clegane is dead, I do not care how big he was. Doubt your little sister if you like, but never doubt our sire.[4]
—Tyene to Obara Sand and Nymeria Sand
Obara: If Ser Balon is allowed to carry tales back to King's Landing, drums will sound and blood will flow. He should not be allowed to leave.
Tyene: We could kill him, to be sure, but then we would need to kill the rest of his party too, even those sweet young squires. That would be ... oh, so messy.[4]—Obara Sand and Tyene
Doran: The Swords and the Stars have been re-formed, and this new High Septon is not the puppet that the others were. Try and get close to him.
Tyene: Why not? White suits my coloring. I look so ... pure.[4]—Doran Martell and Tyene
Quotes about Tyene
Lady Tyene's voice was gentle, and she looked as sweet as summer strawberries. Her mother had been a septa, and Tyene had an air of almost otherworldy innocence about her.[3]
—thoughts of Areo Hotah
I have never been as fearless as my cousins, for I was made with weaker seed, but Tyene and I are of an age and have been close as sisters since we were little girls. We have no secrets between us. If she can be imprisoned, so can I, and for the same cause ... this of Myrcella.[5]
Her hands are dangerous.[6]
—thoughts of Arianne Martell
Hotah studied each of them in turn. Obara, rusted nails and boiled leather, with her angry, close-set eyes and rat-brown hair. Nymeria, languid, elegant, olive-skinned, her long black braid bound up in red-gold wire. Tyene, blue-eyed and blond, a child-woman with her soft hands and little giggles.[4]
—thoughts of Areo Hotah
Family
| Princess of Dorne | Prince Consort | Lewyn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Doran | Mellario of Norvos | Mors | Olyvar | Elia | Rhaegar Targaryen | Various women | Oberyn | Ellaria Sand | Manfrey | Unknown wife | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Arianne | Quentyn | Trystane | Rhaenys Targaryen | Aegon Targaryen | Obara Sand | Tyene Sand | Elia Sand | Dorea Sand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nymeria Sand | Sarella Sand | Obella Sand | Loreza Sand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References
- ↑ See the Tyene Sand calculation.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Tyene Sand.
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 2, The Captain Of Guards.
- ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 38, The Watcher.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 13, The Soiled Knight.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 40, Princess In The Tower.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 21, The Queenmaker.