Ellaria Sand

Ellaria Sand
A Song of Ice and Fire character Game of Thrones character
Indira Varma as Ellaria Sand
First appearance	Novel: A Storm of Swords (2000) Television: "Two Swords" (2014)
Created by	George R. R. Martin
Portrayed by	Indira Varma (Game of Thrones)
Information
Gender	Female
Significant other(s)	Oberyn Martell
Children	Elia Sand Obella Sand Dorea Sand Loreza Sand Tyene Sand (TV series only)

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).

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.

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.

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 rebellion. Oberyn wants Ellaria to sit with him at Joffrey Baratheon's wedding, causing trouble when Olenna Tyrell calls her "the serpent's whore". Later, when Tyrion is condemned for poisoning Joffrey Baratheon, Oberyn acts as his champion in a Trial by Combat against Ser Gregor Clegane, who had raped and murdered Oberyn's sister Elia Martell, during the Sack of King's Landing. Oberyn wounds Gregor with a poisoned spear but is killed by Gregor. Afterwards, Ellaria returns to Dorne.