History Characters / ASongOfIceAndFireSandSnakes

* WeAreEverywhere: [[spoiler: After being involved in Doran's plotting against the Lannisters, they are sent one in incognito to the Faith (Tyene), one along with a Kingsguard (Obara), one to King's Landing (Nymeria), not to mention that one of them is already implied to be investigating at the Citadel [[SweetPollyOliver disguised as a man]] (Sarella). Save for the North, there's a Sand Snake in almost every major plot of the later books.]]

* WomanInWhite: She is rather pleased when [[spoiler:Doran dispatches her to infiltrate the Great Sept of Baelor as a Septa because of the outfit.]]

* CoolBigSis: Arianne seems to see her this way, when Areo searches her he finds a knife tucked in her boot that Arianne remembers as being a gift from Lady Nym.

* CoolBigSis: Arianne seems to see her this way, when Areo searches her he finds a knife tucked in her boot that Arianne remembers as being a gift from Lady Nym

* WarHawk: The three elder Sand Snakes, Obara, Nymeria, and Tyene, are eager to wage war against the Lannisters for the deaths of their aunt, nephew, niece, [[spoiler:and father]].

Oberyn's eight bastard children by various women, who are all female. They have yet to play much of a role in the story, other than agitating for war against the Lannisters after [[spoiler: Oberyn's death]] and being imprisoned by Doran for it.

* BornInTheSaddle: She loves to ride horses. Ellaria comments she smells like a horse half the time.

* BadassPrincess: Despite being bastard children, Dorne holds illegitimate children in higher regard than the rest of Westeros, and they are treated almost as if they were Prince Oberyn's trueborn children.

* AnimalMotif: Their father was known as the Red Viper, and very fittingly their called the Sand Snakes. Despite the fact that they mostly don't look like each other, they all have in common their father's "viper" eyes. Their personality is also not to be underestimate, since they are HotBlooded and vengeful. [[spoiler: Also, snakes are sneaky by nature, and they are literally sneaking around Westeros to gain useful information for their uncle Doran.]]

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Played with. On the one hand, there is plenty of precedent for her overly precocious forwardness in both candoodling in corners and adventuring when she's supposed to be doing other things. On the other, seeing actions not unlike her own at that age both from the outside ''and'' from an older perspective is a truly troubling experience for poor Arianne, on a number of levels.

* LadyInWaiting: She is meant to serve as one to Arianne. She would rather try challenging the knights accompanying them to a joust.

!! The Sand Snakes

* BadassPrincess: Despite being bastards, Dorne holds illegitimate children in higher regard than the rest of Westeros, and they are treated almost as if they were Prince Oberyn's trueborn children.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Sand" is the Dornish surname given to bastards, and "Snakes" is because they are the daughters of Oberyn Martell, "The Red Viper".

* BladeOnAStick: Her father asked her to choose a weapon, a spear or her tears. She chose the spear, which she pairs with a round steel and copper shield.

* {{Foil}}: Like Jon Snow, Nym is a bastard with a noble honorific.

* NotSoDifferent: From Arianne herself. She's a bold RebelliousPrincess who is a thorn in the side of an older relative and when Arianne caughts her kissing a servant, she doesn't miss that she lost her virginity at her very same age. All of this is the exact reason her father sent Elia with Arianne.

* SpannerInTheWorks: To Doran Martell, though he brought it on himself due to his passivity. Their main purpose in the story is to agitate the population of Dorne into a war with the Lannisters, a war that the Dornish are actually grossly unprepared to fight due to Doran and Oberyn's boastful exaggerations of manpower and resources.

* TheMole: In ''A Dance With Dragons'', Doran sends her to King's Landing to infiltrate the Great Sept of Baelor as a Septa and learn about the new High Septon and how he may affect their plans.

* PreachersKid: She is a septa's daughter. This is the reason for why Doran sends her to spy on the new High Septon.

* WomanInWhite: She is rather pleased when Doran dispatches her to infiltrate the Great Sept of Baelor as a Septa because of the outfit.

* DistaffCounterpart: Like Jon Snow, Nym is a bastard with a noble honorific.

* ChildhoodFriends: With Arianne, Andrey Dalt, Sylva Santagar, and Garin. Arianne notes that she and Tyene were best friends doing everything together; they learned to ride together, to fight together, got drunk for the first time and [[NoodleIncident would have lost their virginity together had their willing partner Drey not gotten too excited and climaxed the moment Tyene pulled his pants down]].

* ThemeNaming: The "Ty" in her name indicates she is from the Westerlands. She might even be a Lannister.

* TheGhost: She has yet to appear, although she has been referred to as "playing a game" in Oldtown. Interestingly, there is an effeminate, Dornish student of the Citadel in Oldtown named Alleras, which is [[SdrawkcabAlias Sarella backwards]], he has a widow's peak like Oberyn, and his father was from Dorne and his mother was from the Summer Isles. Guess what the fandom's assuming.
* MixedAncestry: Oberyn has Andal, Rhoynar and Valyrian ancestry while Sarella's mother is from the Summer Isles.

-->'''Nymera:''' I could wish that he died at my hand. … If he had, his dying would not have been so easy.

%%* SweetPollyOliver:

%%* BraidsOfAction

''"It would gladden my heart if I could assure you that the Sand Snakes were alone in wanting war, but I will not tell you lies, ser."''

* FemmeFatale: Like most of the others.
* InSeriesNickname: "Lady Nym".