The Hero of Yi Ti

According to a legend from Yi Ti, the Long Night began when the Maiden-Made-of-Light hid her face for a lifetime, ashamed at something none could discover, and the Lion of Night was unleashed upon the world. Disaster was only averted by the deeds of a woman with a monkey's tail.

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The World of Ice and Fire GIF Sets → Free Cities: Norvos

The Free City of Norvos stands upon the eastern banks of the river Noyne, one of the greatest of the vassal streams of the Rhoyne. The high city, ringed about by mighty stone walls, looms above high, stony bluffs. Three hundred feet below, the lower city spreads along the muddy shores, defended by moats, ditches, and a timber palisade much overgrown with moss. The ancient nobility of Norvos lives in the upper city, dominated by the great fortress-temple of the bearded priests; the poor huddle below amongst the wharves, brothels, and beer halls that line the riverfront. The two parts of the city are joined only by a massive stone stair, called the Sinner’s Steps. Great Norvos, as the Norvoshi name their city, is surrounded by rugged limestone hills and dense, dark forests of oak and pine and beech, home to bears and boars and wolves, and game of all sorts. The city’s domains stretch as far as the western bank of the Darkwash to the east and the Upper Rhoyne to the west. Norvoshi river galleys rule the Noyne as far south as the ruins of Ny Sar, where she joins the Rhoyne. Great Norvos even claims dominion over the Axe upon the Shivering Sea, though this claim is disputed, often bloodily, by the Ibbenese.

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The World of Ice and Fire GIF Sets → Free Cities: Qohor

Even more mysterious than Norvos and Lorath is their sinister sister, the Free City of Qohor, easternmost of all the daughters of Valyria. Qohor stands on the river Qhoyne on the western edge of the vast, dark, primordial forest to which she gives her name, the greatest wood in all of Essos. … In folklore, even as far as Westeros, Qohor is sometimes known as the City of Sorcerers, for it is widely believed that the dark arts are practiced here even to this day. Divination, bloodmagic, and necromancy are whispered of, though such reports can seldom be proved. … The Forest of Qohor also yields up furs and pelts of all kinds, many rare and fine and highly prized, as well as silver, tin, and amber. The vast forest has never been fully explored, according to the maps and scrolls at the Citadel, and it likely conceals many mysteries and wonders at its heart.

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LEGENDS OF ESSOS: the lion of night and the maiden made of light

Light was restored, but the Great Empire was not reborn for the restored world was a broken place where every tribe of men went its own way, fearful of all the others, and war, lust, and murder had endured.

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[themaesters]

asoiaf meme - [6] locations: Yi Ti

A fabled land even in the Seven Kingdoms, Yi Ti is a large and diverse country, a realm of windswept plains and rolling hills, jungles and rain forests, deep lakes and rushing rivers and shrinking inland seas. Its legendary wealth is such as to allow its princes to live in houses of solid gold and dine on sweetmeats powdered with pearls and jade. Lomas Longstrider, awestruck by its marvels, called Yi Ti “the land of a thousand gods and a hundred princes, ruled by one god-emperor.“ 

[ivashkovadrian]

The God-on-Earth, the only begotten son of the Lion of Night and Maiden-Made-of-Light, ruled for ten thousand years over the Great Empire of the Dawn. His descendants ruled after him until the Blood Betrayal, as the usurpation of the Bloodstone Emperor is named. Despairing of the evil that had been unleashed on earth, the Maiden-Made-of-Light turned her back upon the world, and the Lion of Night came forth in all his wroth to punish the wickedness of men, thus ushering the Long Night.

[elaena]

a song of fashion | yi ti + leng

Ancient civilizations, some still extant and striving, others long fallen and lost to legend.

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Pre-canon Dorne Week: Day 1 - The Rhoynar

[elaena]

a song of fashion | yi ti + leng

Ancient civilizations, some still extant and striving, others long fallen and lost to legend.

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asoiaf aesthetics: leng, the island of the god-empresses

Leng was an isolated island for most of its history, as the Lengii did not welcome outsiders. Those who attempted to harvest the island’s resources met a foul end, and it thus was avoided by mariners. Leng became known as a haunt of demons and sorcerers, a closed island.

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asoiaf cultures: the dothraki

Dothraki were not accustomed to staying long in one place. They were a warrior people, not made for cities.

[preasoiafsource]

N O R V O S, called Great Norvos by its people, is one of the nine Free Cities. It lies in the interior of Essos, between Pentos and Qohor. Norvos’s three bells govern every aspect of the lives of those in the city. The bells tell the Norvoshi when to rise, sleep, work, rest, when to take arms, when to pray, and when they are permitted to have carnal relations. Each bell has its own distinctive ‘voice’ and name. While it has a council of magisters, its members are chosen by the bearded priests, who speak for their god and wield the true power in the Free City. Once a year, there is a festival in Norvos that features bears dancing down the Sinner’s Steps.

[izvozvi]

yet the oldest and greatest of the eastern civilizations endures to our present day: the ancient, glorious, golden empire of yi ti. lomas longstrider, awestruck by its marvels, called yi ti “the land of a thousand gods and a hundred princes, ruled by one god-emperor.” in ancient days, the god-emperors of yi ti were as powerful as any ruler on earth, with wealth that exceeded even that of valyria at its height and armies of almost unimaginable size.

— the world of ice and fire

asoiaf meme: cultures | the yitish

[izvozvi]

sheltered amidst the great volcanic mountains known as the fourteen flames, were the valyrians, who learned to tame dragons and make them the most fearsome weapon of war that the world ever saw. at its apex valyria was the greatest city in the known world, the center of civilization. within its shining walls, twoscore rival houses vied for power and glory in court and council, rising and falling in an endless, subtle, oft-savage struggle for dominance. the burning mountains of the fourteen flames were rich with ore, and the valyrians hungered for it: copper and tin for the bronze of their weapons and monuments; later iron for the steel of their legendary blades; and always gold and silver to pay for it all. none can say how many perished, toiling in the valyrian mines, but the number was so large as to surely defy comprehension. as valyria grew, its need for ore increased, which led to ever more conquests to keep the mines stocked with slaves. the valyrians expanded in all directions, stretching out east beyond the ghiscari cities and west to the very shores of essos, where even the ghiscari had not made inroads.

— the world of ice and fire

asoiaf meme: cultures | the valyrians

[izvozvi]

a proud and quarrelsome people, the sarnori were seldom ever united under a single ruler, but their kingdoms dominated the western grasslands, from the forest of qohor to the eastern shores of the vanished silver sea, and fifty leagues beyond. their gleaming cities were strewn across the grasslands like jewels across a green velvet mantle, shining beneath the light of sun and stars. the greatest of these cities was sarnath of the tall towers, where the high king dwelt in his fabled palace with a thousand rooms.

— the world of ice and fire

asoiaf meme: cultures | the sarnori

[izvozvi]

the mightiest river in the world, the rhoyne’s many tributaries stretched across much of western essos. along their banks had arisen a civilization and culture as storied and ancient as the old empire of ghis. the rhoynar had grown rich off the bounty of their river; mother rhoyne, they named her. for many centuries the rhoynar lived in peace. though many a savage people dwelt in the hills and forests around mother rhoyne, all knew better than to molest the river folk. and the rhoynar themselves showed little interest in expansion; the river was their home, their mother, and their god, and few of them wished to dwell beyond the sound of her eternal song.

— the world of ice and fire

asoiaf meme: cultures | the rhoynar

[niiych]

𝐘𝐢 𝐓𝐢 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐬, 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐐𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐚 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐘𝐢𝐓𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐜𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐘𝐢 𝐓𝐢, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐬, 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝, 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐰𝐧.

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ASOIAF meme: 1/6 legends

↳ K H I A R A  T H E  G R E A T

The Lengii are a tall, slender people known for their beauty and having skin the color of oiled teak. In the four centuries since Leng threw off the yoke of Yi Ti, the island has flourished under the rule of a long line of god-empresses. The first of the current dynasty, still revered in the east as Khiara the Great, was of pure Lengii descent.