Princess Tamina

“	The secret guardian temple outside Alamut is a sanctuary, the one place the dagger can be hidden safely, the only way to stop this Armageddon. That's the truth, Dastan. Give me back the dagger, so that I can take it there.	„
	~ Tamina to Dastan.

Princess Tamina is the deuteragonist in the 2010 live action Disney film, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. She is the Princess of the Holy City of Alamut, and is the presumed love interest of Prince Dastan.

She was portrayed by Gemma Arterton.

Biography[]

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time[]

Tamina is the Princess of the Holy City of Alamut, which was built over the Hour Glass housing the Sands of Time. After the Persian battle, she is captured, and Dastan takes a strange dagger as spoils from a rider who was taking it out of the city. Tamina was about to kill herself when she sees the dagger in Dastan's hands. She agrees to marry Tus if the people of Alamut are treated with mercy. He instructs Dastan to present the prayer robe of Alamut's regent to the King as a gift. Tus also tells Dastan to kill Tamina if Sharaman does not approve of Tus's marriage to her.

At the banquet, the King approves of Tamina's marriage to Dastan, as Tus already has enough wives. Dastan is framed for the murder of Sharaman (as the prayer robe were poisoned from the inside and killed the King when they are put on him by Dastan) by his adoptive uncle Nizam and forced to go on the run from the king's sons, Garsiv and Tus. Bis is killed, and Tamina helps Dastan escape.

After being attacked by an escaped Tamina, Dastan finds that the sands within the dagger's hilt allow him to rewind time by a minute and retain knowledge of what happened before. But in the experiment, Dastan uses up all the sand inside the dagger. Tamina had an extra vial of the sand in the necklace around her neck. He speculates that more sand is buried in Alamut, which is what Tus, and his armies are searching for. Dastan believes Tus attacked Alamut for the dagger and believes that the Nizam is the only one he can trust. Tus gave Dastan the robe and is now the King after Sharaman's death. While going to Avrat for Sharaman's funeral, the two encounter a shady merchant called Sheik Amar Sheik captures Dastan for the reward that Tus has offered for him. Dastan and Tamina are able to escape.

As they are on the run, Tamina tells Dastan about the dagger's origins: the gods had decided to sweep mankind from the earth with a great sandstorm because of their sin. But a young girl pleaded with the gods and convinced them to withhold their wrath. The sands from the storms were stored in a great hollow crystal called the Sandglass, with the dagger, called the Dagger of Time, being the only thing that could break the crystal. The Sandglass was hidden beneath Alamut with Tamina's family, descended from the young girl who saved mankind, as its guardians. It is shown that Nizam orchestrated the siege of Alamut so he could hunt for the Sandglass and use the sands to change an event in his youth where he saved Sharaman from a lion, thereby ensuring Nizam would become king.

Seeing that the sands' release would destroy the world, Tamina is willing to return the dagger to the place where it was given, giving her life in the process. They reach the dagger's resting place, after being captured by Sheik Amar, but are attacked by Hassansins. Dastan uses the dagger to defeat the Hassassins. Tamina convinces Amar to take them to the sacred place where the dagger can be returned to the mountain, never to be in human hands again.

Eventually, after retaking the dagger, at the cost of Susu's life, Dastan uses it on himself in front of Tus, showing him the power of the dagger and his own innocence. But Nizam arrives, kills Tus and takes the dagger, leaving Dastan to die. Tamina saves him and they go down into the catacombs of Alamut.

After confronting and defeating the Hassansin leader, Dastan and Tamina arrive in the chamber of the Sandglass as Nizam stabs it, starting the release of the sands. When they reach him, Nizam attacks them, and Tamina, who has grown to love the prince, sacrifices herself to give Dastan his chance. Dastan manages to remove the dagger from the Sandglass, preventing the apocalypse, then time is rewound to just after the siege of Alamut, undoing all the events he has lived through. Dastan manages to find his brothers and expose Nizam, who attacks Dastan in a rage and is soon killed by Tus.

As an apology for the ransacking of her city, Tus suggests that Dastan and Tamina are married as a goodwill pact. As they converse afterwords, Dastan hints at his knowledge of the dagger's power and says he looks forward to their future together.