Tyene Sand
The sweetest-seeming of the Sand Snakes, daughter of Oberyn and Ellaria, who fights with daggers and poisons and a septa's pious smile.
A soul of House Martell, born at Dorne.
The fuller tale
Season Seven
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
On the screen. Lost in King's Landing (S7┬ÀE3)
Captured with her mother and marched through King's Landing, she was given the same poisoned kiss Ellaria gave Myrcella ÔÇö while Cersei made the mother watch, chained just out of reach, for as long as the light lasted.
The show gives her the story's most engineered death: a mirror held up to her mother's crime. Captured with Ellaria when Euron's fleet takes the Dornish party at sea, Tyene is marched through King's Landing and delivered to Cersei, whose daughter Myrcella died of Ellaria's poisoned farewell kiss. In the black cells, Cersei administers the sentence she has clearly rehearsed: the same poison, the Long Farewell, pressed to Tyene's lips with a kiss ÔÇö and the antidote drunk in front of them ÔÇö while mother and daughter are chained to opposite walls, close enough to see and never to touch. Ellaria's punishment is to watch it, and then to keep watching for as long as her own life is maintained; Tyene's death arrives on the poison's slow schedule, off camera, with the certainty of arithmetic. In the published books Tyene Sand is alive, en route to the Faith, her kisses so far entirely her own business.
Their chapters, book by book
Where the page and the screen part
The tellings share her surface ÔÇö the septa's daughter, the poison, the smile ÔÇö and split her purpose entirely. Book Tyene's infiltration of the Faith militant is unbegun on screen; show Tyene instead stabs Areo Hotah in the back during the coup and spends her last arc as a prisoner of the plot's consequences. The 'bad pussy' fight at the Water Gardens and the poisoned-blade flirtation with Bronn ÔÇö cut, cure and all ÔÇö are pure show invention, as is everything that follows from Euron's ambush. Her book self has never been captured, never touched her cousin's guard, and is last seen being fitted for a habit with murder in its hems.
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.