Selhorys

A walled river town on the Rhoyne, tributary to Volantis.

The fuller tale

Selhorys is a “town” only by the arithmetic of Volantis, which owns it: a walled river port on the east bank of the Rhoyne, garrisoned against Dothraki raiders, its stone quays busy with the barge trade — larger, the books note with some amusement, than most cities of Westeros, and still ranked beneath the notice of the Black Walls. It is the first place the story’s travelers feel the east tilting toward Daenerys: in Tyrion’s voyage downriver, a red priest preaches to rapt crowds on the riverfront that a savior queen has come to remake the world, and soldiers bound for the slave wars fill the wine sinks with rumor of dragons.

It is in Selhorys that the dwarf’s luck turns. Slipping ashore against orders, Tyrion drinks, gambles and talks his way through a brothel — and walks out over the shoulder of Ser Jorah Mormont, an exile hunting a pardon with a Lannister for a gift. The abduction bends both men’s roads toward Volantis, the slavers and, eventually, the queen herself; the town goes back to its barges, unaware it has hosted a hinge of the story.

The chronicle here

• In Selhorys Tyrion buys an hour with a sad-eyed whore and walks out into Ser Jorah Mormont's fist: “I'm taking you to the queen.” (ADWD 19)

Souls the story brings here

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

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