Ellaria Sand
Oberyn's paramour, a bastard of House Uller and mother to several of his Sand Snakes ÔÇö in the show, as ready for vengeance as any of them.
A soul of House Martell, born at Hellholt.
The fuller tale
Season Five
Dorne mourns Oberyn; Ellaria wants war on children; Doran wants proof and patience. In Sons of the Harpy ÔÇö Wants a war Doran won't give her; recruits Oberyn's daughters.
Where they stand. Sunspear.
Season Six
In The Red Woman ÔÇö "Weak men will never rule Dorne again." In Dorne, Ellaria and the Sand Snakes murder Prince Doran, Areo Hotah, and Trystane: Dorne goes to war.
Season Seven
Euron's fleet ambushes Yara's in the night: two Sand Snakes die, Ellaria and Yara are taken, Theon jumps. Euron parades Ellaria and Tyene through the capital; Cersei repays a poisoned kiss in kind.
Where they stand. King's Landing.
How it ends for them
The chronicle records no death for this soul ÔÇö they are living when the tale leaves them, or their ending is a page the maesters have yet to turn.
Their chapters, book by book
Oberyn's paramour, a bastard of House Uller and mother to four of his Sand Snakes ÔÇö who, in the books, is the one voice begging Dorne AGAINST the war of vengeance: she has seen where it ends.
Where the page and the screen part
No character was more completely inverted by adaptation. Book Ellaria is the voice against the war of vengeance ÔÇö her 'where does it end' speech to Doran is the books' moral summary of the entire revenge theme ÔÇö while show Ellaria murders a princess, a prince and Dorne's line of succession to start that very war, a rewrite so total that the two versions share only a name, a lover and a birthplace. The show also compresses the family tree: its Ellaria is mother-figure to all three Sand Snakes, where the books give her only the four youngest of eight, none of the three the show kept. Her show fate ÔÇö chained in the Red Keep's black cells, condemned to watch her poisoned daughter's fate at close, permanent range ÔÇö is Cersei's mirror-justice for Myrcella and has, like everything else in the arc, no book counterpart at all.
Their journey
Where the two tellings send them to the same place the road runs whole; where they part, the screen keeps the left and the books the right.