But, if a crop should fail or a war be lost, the Magisters will slit the Prince's throat and choose another. I confess I don't know how each is chosen, or what becomes of them after serving their purpose. On the New Year, to bring good fortune to Pentos, this Prince must deflower the Maid of the Field and the Maid of the Seas. The Magisters make a great show of choosing the Prince of Pentos from the Great Families and granting him the powers of trade, justice, and war. When a man runs out of coin, the Lysenes may grant him their other specialty on the house: poison.
Many men lose themselves in Lys and are never found, at least alive. Lys is the easiest of the Free Cities, full of pleasure houses catering to every taste, no matter how peculiar. Or, if you're very rich or very desperate, anyone else's. Your own if one offends one of the swaggering swordsmen that pollute the city. After the Doom, the city emerged from the shadows to become one of the greatest banking centers in the world.Ī man can get anything in Braavos for a price. A labyrinth of illusion and deceit to hide the refugees from Valyrian slave lords. Or so they say.īraavos is the strangest, a city erected not by the Freehold but against it. Now Volantenes are content with dominating only the lower classes. Not least because the last Valyrian with dragons, Aegon Targaryen, entered the war against them. After the Doom, the Volantenes tried to rebuild the empire under their rule. Volantis is the oldest, the first colony of Valyria. But after enough time in the nine Free Cities, is hard to see them as anything but ashes of glory. Pentoshi say the same about Pentos, Lysenes about Lys, and so on. Now Volantis is the ember of Old Valyria, ensuring its flame does not go out of this world as any Volantene will tell you. Not bad for former shepherds.īut the Doom fell on them and sent their capital into the sea.
Jorah Mormont: At its height, the Valyrian Freehold ruled over half the known world. Jorah Mormont details the cultures and customs of each of the nine Free Cities of Essos.
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