Martin books the series is based on, there are eight Sand Snakes, but the show cuts it down to three. One distinctive location the show used was the Alcázar palace, so treasured for its Moorish architecture that it became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987. Our first glimpse of Dorne is along its wild sand dunes, but the production also ventured inland. And there are lots of Arabic and Middle Eastern touches.” “The color palette is orange, blue and red. Lavish and beautiful,” says Keisha Castle-Hughes, who joins the series as Obara Sand. What does Dorne look like? Cast and crew traveled to Seville, Spain, to film all those scenes.
They make their first appearance in this season’s fourth episode, gathered on the beach at Dorne under the watchful eye of Oberyn’s former lover, Ellaria Sand (Indira Varma). Now his daughters, Obara, Nymeria and Tyene - nicknamed the Sand Snakes after Oberyn’s nickname, the Red Viper - want to avenge their father’s gruesome death. In an attempt to clear the name of Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) - the one family member he liked - in Joffrey’s murder trial, Oberyn engaged in hand-to-hand combat with a giant and was pulverized. But things did not go well for him there. He traveled to King’s Landing ostensibly to attend the wedding of King Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) to Margaery Tyrell (Natalie Dormer) but really to get revenge against the Lannisters for the rape and murder of his sister, Elia. Oberyn Martell (Pedro Pascal) played a pivotal role in the series last season.
They are the daughters of the late Prince Oberyn Martell, and they live in a land we’ve yet to see on the show: Dorne, home to the Martells and the warmest and least-populated part of Westeros. In Season 5, they will be joined by three younger women who are just as mighty and eager to make their impact. His nickname was the Red Viper, and he was killed by a giant hired by the Lannisters. Daddy snake: The Sand Snake sisters are avenging the death of their father, Oberyn Martell (Pedro Pascal, above). Fearless in battle, strategic in their revenge, they have learned how to survive - and prosper - in the male-centric world of Westeros.
Some of the strongest characters on “Game of Thrones” are its women.
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