Bayasabhad

A far eastern city guarding a pass through the Bones.

The fuller tale

Bayasabhad stands at the western mouth of a pass through the Bones, the greatest mountain range in the known world, and lives by the oldest business in geography: everything crossing between east and west pays at the gate. With its sister cities it is a remnant of the Patrimony of Hyrkoon, an ancient realm the deserts ate, and travelersÔÇÖ accounts insist on its strangest inheritance ÔÇö the city is defended by warrior women, springing from the old Hyrkoon teaching that only those who give life should be permitted to take it. Its walls have turned back khalasars that never troubled to learn its name properly; the caravans pay, the passes hold, and the far east begins.

For the story, Bayasabhad is horizon. It appears in the tale the way it appears to the characters ÔÇö a name in a traderÔÇÖs mouth in the market of Vaes Dothrak, proof that the world keeps going long after the mapÔÇÖs ambitions stop. The sagaÔÇÖs wars never reach the Bones; the cityÔÇÖs role is to stand at the edge of the telling and suggest, quietly, how much world there is that no throne in the story has ever ruled.

The fallen of this place ÔÇö if any, they are named here. Spoilers.

No death the chronicle records has come to this ground ÔÇö or none the maesters have set down.