The Kingdom of Sarnor

The Tall Men of the northern grass, with chariots and a dozen cities, erased inside a single century.

The fuller tale

Sarnor was old — it fought Ghis when Ghis was the world's only empire — and it was rich, a confederation of city-kingdoms strung along the rivers of the northern grasslands, famous for scythed chariots and for quarrelling with itself. It never once managed to be one country for longer than a war took.

That was fatal. When the Dothraki came out of the east united and the Sarnori did not, the cities fell one at a time over the course of the Century of Blood: Sathar, Sarys, Gornath, Kasath, Sallosh, and at the last Sarnath the Tall Town. The maps still print the names, followed by the word ruins.

It is the clearest case in this history of a civilisation that was destroyed not because the enemy was stronger but because it could not agree to face it together — a lesson Westeros would have several occasions to relearn.

The ground they held

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What became of it — if an ending is written, it is here. Spoilers.

The chronicle records no ending here — or none the maesters have set down.