Braavos

Greatest of the Free Cities, hidden in a fog-bound lagoon behind its Titan, ruled by the Sealord and famed for its water dancers.

The fuller tale

Braavos declines, as a matter of civic principle, to fight anyone else’s war — the secret city built by escaped slaves has never had much patience for the quarrels of kings, dragon-blooded or otherwise. What it does instead is lend, and the Iron Bank’s ledgers make it a quiet party to the Dance whichever way the fighting goes: coin flows to whichever claimant’s credit still looks good, and Braavosi shipwrights and merchants profit handsomely off a Seven Kingdoms too busy burning itself to notice how much of the rebuilding will eventually be owed to the lagoon.

The city’s deeper interest in the Dance is commercial rather than dynastic — a war this destructive is bad for trade in the short run and extremely good business in the long one, and the Sealord’s court watches the narrow sea’s chaos with the calm of men who have already worked out exactly which claimant will need Braavosi gold worst once the dragons are done dying.

In the first season

Never visited — but Syrio Forel, First Sword of Braavos, teaches Arya what a girl says to the god of death: not today.

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.