Meet the newest badass beauties of ‘Game of Thrones’

Daenerys Targaryen. Cersei Lannister. Brien♍ne of🦂 Tarth.

Some of the strongest charac♓ters on “Game of Thrones” are its women. Fearless in battle, strategic in their revenౠge, they have learned how to survive — and prosper — in the male-centric world of Westeros.

In Season 5, they will be joined by three yo🍰u𒈔nger women who are just as mighty and eager to make their impact. 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.

Oberyn Martell (Pedro Pascal) played a pivotal role in the series last season. 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,ཧ Elia. ꧟But things did not go well for him there.

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-ha🀅nd combat with a ꦏgiant and was pulverized. 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.

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 Sa🔴nd (Indira Varm𒐪a).

What does Dorne look like? Cast and crew traveled to Seville, Spain, to film all those scenes. “It looks like Spain in the summertime. Bright and sunny. Lavish and beautiful,” says Keisha Castle-Hughes, who joins the series as Obara Sand. “The color palette is orange, blue and red. And there are l🌌ots of Arabic and Middle Eastern tou🀅ches.”

Our first glimpse of Dorne is along its wild sand dunes, b💞ut the production also ventured inland. One distinctive location the show used was the Alcázar palace, so treasured for its Moorish archit🍨ecture that it became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987.

In the books the series is based on, there are eight Sand Snakes,𓆏 but the show cuts it down to three.

In the fourth Martin novel, “A Feast for Crows,” Obara, Nymeria and Tyene pressure their uncle Doran (played in the series by Alexander Siddig) to declare war with the Lannisters, but devotees of the novels should know the TV series is drawing from both “A Feast for Crows” and the fifth bo𒊎ok in the series, “A Dance With Drago🧔ns,” for the scripts.

We spoke to the Sanܫd Snakes about their anticipated new roles.

Obara Sand (Keisha Castle-Hughes)

Weapon of choice: Spear

Obara is the most aggressive of the Sand sisters and the most like her father, Prince Oberyn Marte🌞ll, who taught her how to fight.

“When Oberyn asked Obara to choose between her mother’s tears and her father’s spears, she’s the person who made a very strong choice to go in the way of war,” says actress Keisha Castle-Hughes. “She doesn’t display much emotion besides aℱnger. She’s been taught to kill. If anything ha💜ppens to [her] family, [she waits] for the right moment to get revenge.”

New Zealand native Castle-Hughes comes to “Thrones” with an illustrious background. She was only 13 years old when she was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her performance in 2003’s “Whale Rider,” the youngest actress to ever have been honored☂ in that category at the time.

“The tide really turned for me in terms of opportunities,” says Castle-Hughes, 25, wh꧑o went on to a role in her first Hollywood movie as Queen Apailana in “Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith” (2005). “This stuff doesn’t happen to people where I’m from.”

The “Game of Thrones” role is her biggest in the last decade and💦, hav𝄹ing read all the “Thrones” novels, Castle-Hughes was prepared to play Obara.

“I read them well before the show was a thing,” says Castle-Hughes, who has watched the sho✨w devotedly since its de🥀but in 2011.

But when actor Pedro Pascal made his Season 4 debut as Oꦅberyn, devotio▨n gave way to ambition.

“When Pedro showed up, I said, ‘Who is this person?’ He was sexy and powerful and devilish,” Castle-Hughes says. “I went back to the books. I remembered the S♓and Snakes. I felt I could pass as Pedro’s daughter. And then I campaigned with the series’ London casting directors. I was definitely persistent.”

It paid off. Castle-Hughes, who lives in New💮 Zealand with husb🧔and of two years Jonathan Morrison and daughter Felicity-Amore, 7, began training in the Chinese martial art wushu.

Then sh🔥e set off for Seville, where she hit it off with the other two Sand Snakes right🥀 away.

“We were there in the summer. The three of us, having never ไmet before, fell into sisterly roles,” Castle-Hughes says. “We were very comfortably fighting with each other, like, ‘Why did you take the toast 🌱off my plate at breakfast?’”

Nymeria Sand (Jessica Henwick)

Weapon of choice: Bullwhip

Nymeria is the second-oldest Sand Sn🌠ake and the most elegant of the trio, with long, flowing hair and feminine attire.

“She’s the most observant and calculating of the sisters,” says Henwick, who read the first two installments of Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” novels. “Tyene’s about trying to prove herself. Obara charges in. Nymeria’s aware of the big picture𓂃.”

The sisters are all, however, out for vengeance. “We’ve grown up with [our father] Oberyn saying, ‘We will kill the 🔴Lannisters.’ They took away our father. How are we going to make them feel the same way?”

The role of Nymeria Sand is London-based Henwick’s first major US role. After getting word that she landed the gig last fall, the 22-year-old hopped on a plane to production headquarters in Belfast the next morning to begin training with an 8-foot bullwhip, her charact♚er’s weapon of choice.

“There’s nowhere in London where yoꦑu can use a whip without getting too much attention,” says 5-foot-7 Henwick. “I had to go to my parents’ house in the countryside. When you use the whip, it makes the loudest crack. It’s a very, very difficult weapon to use.”

In fact, during rehearsals in Spain, Henwick accident൩ally cut her Sand Snake sister, actress Rosabell Laurenti Sellers, with the whip.

“We were rehearsing, giving it 100 percent, and the sun was shining very bright,” H🐟enwick says. “We were shot quite close together. It just came down to a spacing issue. She got a cut on her shoulder. The whip can take your eye out if you’re not car🅺eful.”

Tyene Sand (Rosabell Laurenti Sellers)

Weapons of choice: Poison, daggers

Tyene is the youngest of Oberyn’s three daughters whom we meet in Season🍸 5 of “Game of Thron♛es.” Although she appears soft-spoken and childlike, she takes after her older sisters: She is dangerous.

Unlike Henwick and Castle-Hughes, 19-year-old Sellers hadn’t read any of the George R.R. Martin novels 🔯or seen any episodes of the series. She was living in Rome when she auditioned on tape for the role of Tyene.

“A few weeks later, I was in London for drama school auditions, and itꦗ happened to be when [executive pr🦹oducers] David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] were there, so [casting director] Nina Gold organized a second audition with them, and it went well,” says the acting novice, who is now attending the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London.

Sellers — who was born in New York but grew up in Rome — was thrilled to set off for sunny Seville last ▨Oc🦩tober for filming.

“We got to shoot in some amazing locations,” she says. “In Spain, we were working in the Alcázar pala𒉰ce, one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen in my life, with intricate and incredible Arabic architecture.”

She underwent the sꦐame rigorous training program as Castle-Hughes and Heꦯnwick.

“I didn’t have to learn about poison, but I did have to learn how to use the daggers,” says Sellers. “It was tiring and, yes, we🍒 did get hurt o🐻ccasionally, but altogether it was really fun.”

Long-lost Lannister

The protracted battle between the Martell and Lannister famil൲ies hinges on one single character: Myrcella Baratheon, the daughter of Cersei Lannister.

Cersei (Lena Headey) was married to King Robert Baratheon (Mark Addy) in the first season of “Game of Thrones,” but was sle🅠eping with her brother Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) in secret. Sಌo while Myrcella may, in fact, be a Lannister, she bears the Baratheon name.

Fair, young Myrcella was last seen in Season 2 when she waไs sent away from King’s Landing to Dorne for a marriage pact with the Martells (the family of Oberyn, the father of the Sand Snakes).

Cersei showed a rare soft spot when speaking about her༺ only daughter last season. She told Oberyn to pass along the message that “her mother miওsses her.”

In Season 5, we’ll see Jaime travꦉel to Dorne to bring Myrcella home to he✅r mother. Some of the Dorne natives are determined to prevent that from happening.

Originally played by Aimee Richardson, who barely had any lines, ဣthe role has been widened in scope and recast with 15-year-old British actress Nell Tiger Free.

This will be the teen’s first US role. ൲Her previou♐s credits include the British series “Endeavour” and TV movie “Mr. Stink.”