Asshai by the Shadow, Stygai and the End of the Known World | Essos
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- Visit Asshai, ancient port city that lies beneath the Shadow, city of all sorts of practitioners of the "higher mysteries", where no knowledge is forbidden. City, where legend of Azor Ahai originates.
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The far east of Essos is where shit gets downright lovecraftian.
Literally actually, the World of Ice and Fire is jam packed with Lovecraft references
There's a little bit of Conan The Barbarians universe in there too, which is also cosmic horror.
Sothoryos is cool too
And the north, and Sothoryos
@@johnnymcblaze The author of the Conan lore and Lovecraft were friends IRL. They loved to be racist together. not /s
I want a game of thrones spinoff that takes place entirely in this eastern part of essos and maybe even ulthos. they're definitely some of the most intriguing places in this world... probably won't happen though
What even is Ulthos? Is it apart of Sothoroyos or is it an Independent continent?
I FEEL THE SAME! I would LOVE to see that. I'll write it myself if necessary
@@meatymcbeaty238 it is it's own continent
Funnily enough, we'd be saying the same thing about Westeros if it took place in places like Asshai. A land where dragons still live, dead men walk in the north using ice magic, people who use warging, targaryens still live, and one of the richest cities in the world.
@@kingvince7328 Yes! And men made from Iron! The Iron Born!
So Asshai is hell basically. I'd love a spin off serie of the life of Melisandre and her life in Asshai I bet it'd be a scary one
I really hope we see Asshai by the end of GoT or in the spin offs. It's the most interesting city to me
RyunaAustuna for me is Stygai
+João Luiz beyond the 5 forts , thousand islands , sothoryos , ulthos and yi it
Yeen is the most mysterious one
i want to see ulthos so bad
Ulthos is. @@Dantefrost
Exploring these forbidding places is the next series that needs to come after Game of Thrones.
Nah, all the people who believe that all the stories are 100% true don't really get it. In ancient Europe maps were notoriously unreliable as traders and travelers only heard and saw a tiny bit of places, their imagination and the stories they told when they returned to Europe were inflated and changed to be more astounding and interesting.
A lot of the people commenting here are missing that, hell even GRRM has gone on record as saying the stories of these places are not reliable or accurate. The point of a ton of these places is also basically to be nothing more then a reference to other works GRRM likes anyways.
Beyond the fact these places are probably not as crazy as described, imagine if you lived say in Yiti, and heard stories of Westeros? You would hear of a continent of a giant ice wall, undead walkers from the north, castles built on top of mines of endless gold, other castles made so high on mountains they hang in the air. a massive tower in a town dominated by it within which contains ancient knowledge.
Sure maybe these places do have a bit of crazy stuff, maybe Asshai and Stygai really are the radioactive remnants of a pre apocalypse civilization? Maybe they are filled with crazy wizz bizz, or maybe they are nothing more then the dark toxic ruins of a megalopolis that crazy people live in. The mystery would be ruined in actually going there.
@@fucktardickis But that is exactly what westeros is actually like.
@@mfb5642 My point is that in Essos maybe they say the people of the Eyre can fly? That the people of the Iron Islands can revive the long dead (lol cpr), that there are a 1000 dragons etc
The point is that they are merely stories made grander and grander everytime they move to a new port.
@@fucktardickis"they say the people of the Eyre can fly" but they did. Through the moon door they can fly. But only once for the rest of their lifetime...
Can you imagine....Asshai, a city as large as Qarth, Kings Landing and Oldtown combined?
and Volantis.
With no more than 100,000 people living in it? That place would be creepy AF at night.
@@josh420masterB i was thinking more like 10,000
@@josh420masterB night is dark and full of terrors, right?
that could also be only a rumour, having that we no next to nothing of that place, or maybe even an illusion set to trick outsiders.
It only makes sense for Ulthos to have a super volcano 🌋 that projects a smoke shadow over Assahi which would leave it in the dark constantly.
Nuclear fallout- not a volcano....
@@roddo1955 Magical nuke equivalent
Though that would not make any sense
@@sadiqahmed4143 It could be an actual nuke. Plenty of media has nuclear war spawning new lands both magical and non. From The Death gate Cycle to Adventure Time, it proves it can be done, and done well.
Yay, finally Asshai! And for all of you hoping to see more of Essos in GoT... it won't happen. In a spinoff? Meh, we know so little about it, but still, I'd rather have it as a mystery*.
Anghel Florin mystery*
I really want a game like Skyrim with this map!
Binoy J S too large and too much.
Binoy J S
An MMORPG based on this world would have my money
Stephen Grant I just want it in the scale of Tamriel.
Binoy J S that would be massive. Tamriel is the entire continent in Elder scrolls, picture the map of skyrim with the map in oblivion and morrowind, then even more, all densely populated and not empty. Thats asking for too much.
Elder Scrolls Online has the entire Tamriel. It's huge. And there are huge maps that are filled like the Crew, Just Cause 3 etc. A game with the map of GOT, in the size of ESO with Witcher 3's graphics and Shadow of Mordor's combat would be great! I know it would be huge. But you can scale down to the current limitations of Hardware. It's still be a beautiful world!
all the far most interesting thing from G.R.R. Martin world, aside of Sothoryos, are in Far Eastern Essos (+ Ulthos) in all those uncanny eerie unsettling old places and cities: Asshai, Stygai, Carcossa, K´Dath, Bonetown, City of Winged Men, Cities of Bloodless Men, and so on. There must be some dark ancient connection between all of them, far more than the already known Lovecraftian lore influence, and even some further importance on the future. They can´t be just random oddities as that!
you could make Westeros seem just as interesting. Here, imagine I'm a Yi-Tish scholar who has never visited Westeros saying all this: "For many centuries all the peoples of Westeros were ruled over by demon kings who took the form of men with silver hair. It is said that fire ran through their veins instead of blood, and they sat on a throne made of molten iron. But most fearsome were their dragons-great winged beasts the demons had bred deep in the bowels of hell itself, long before they emerged into our world.
Their reign of terror was ended, though, when Baratheon-a demigod who was half man and half stag-united the brave men of Westeros and led them to a glorious victory over the silver-haired demon king.
In the far north, past the direwolf den known as Winterfell lies the Great Ice Wall, an enormous barrier made long ago with the help of giants and forgotten magic. It is said that angels who take the form of children live in the forests beyond the Wall, sent by ancient gods as protection against their eternal enemy, the demons of ice. These ice demons lurk within the Lands of Always Winter, an evil place the Northmen believe is a gateway to the Underworld itself.
Westerosi legends say that when the End Time comes, the sun will vanish, winter will reign, and the ice demons will throw open the gates of the Underworld and lead the dead in a final war against the living. Traders and explorers who have allegedly visited the far west of the world say that some Westerosi claim the End Time is already upon us.
But all of this is surely nothing more than silly superstition-rumors and myths spread by the ignorant masses that have grown wilder and wilder each time a new person shares the story. The true facts about mysterious Westeros are, unfortunately, lost among the ridiculous fairy tales"
@@pIayingwithmahwii of course that there is ways to make Westeros as much like it´s interesting to introduce Essos and/or Sothoryos (though this latter it´s actually interesting for Essos too), but as it´s mostly done with lore coming from Western civilization-history it´s kinda more relatable considering the large influence of it on the real world than other different civilizations matching on with the Eastern world or furtherly unknown Southern environments. Cleverly Martin made his world greater for allowing a bit of it, whereas Tolkien totally avoided it, thus being a more complex and realistic broader-lore world than other far more ethnocentric world-buildings.
Five fort is the wall of essos
And the cannibals of the Cannibal Sands are the wildlings of Essos.
the only video that exists on youtube without any dislikes
Oh, but they always appear when you least expect them.
no video is without dislike.
dor now it has 9.
You jinxed it man
You had to say it, didn't you?
The Shadow sounds like a beautiful place to visit for a holiday!
The Dornish would love the shade for once!
isnt it ironic that the Citadel and Asshai lie almost at opposite ends of the map.
Almost like how further you travel East the higher the higher mysteries are in reputation and the further you go West the more knowledge and wisdom is valued
timpyrules well it's kinda like how Asia was viewed in Europe, where not a lot was known and there were plenty of rumors. Since much of ASOIAF is based off history.
So my country is assai it self if its true. Omg, my country really misterious that day.
That's interesting, not ironic at all.
you know this shit is serious when even the dothraki fear them
The yellow king of Carcosa, sounds familiar.
Nyarlothotep
So does the city of K'Dath. Both are featured in tales of the Cthulhu Mythos.
These are so great and informational. And please don't let xenophobic assholes tell you there's anything wrong with your accent, it's perfectly understandable and they just want something to complain about
Thank you for the support!
Great video really enjoyed learning about these places.
Love your videos.
Scriva my man, been loving your vids this vid was soooo informative to me tysm
Thanks mate! Enjoy!
Great tourism video for Eastern Essos!😁
Very creepy stuff. But I wonder how much of it is reliable? Are the maesters who wrote of the places going off rumours, or second-hand accounts, or have they seen those places?
thot rumors and accounts of merchants who have survived a voyage there and back
Great video!
I love all the familiar themes throughout the world history
Great work!
I appreciate the mystery of Asshai!
I think the demons and monsters that were attacking Essos during the Long Night, maybe are connected to the The Others God of the White Walkers. Maybe these monsters and demons had shadowry forms like what Melisandre gave birth to? And zombie likes wights, only more closer to typical slower-walking zombies.
Thank u so much for these vids, they're so insightful
Enjoy!
Wait, so there are pale seemingly dead people in the far east, in a land full of cannibals? Also there is a deep gorge and a mountain range? Sounds like they are talking about the farthest northwest parts of Westeros. I know that's a common theory, but it seems like the map actually wraps back around on the edge
Could be. Quite a common theory, but worth talking about, I think.
@@uboatfreak4390 the map of the known world is based on how far people in a medieval setting got to travel. Planetos might be bigger than the measters can know at this point of history.
There is an Asshai'i ethnic group with a distinct appearance from other Humans, and there are no babies in Asshai... How does that add up? Or are they literally spawned from the Shadows?
Marcus Arques there are no kids in the city itself but in the lands around there probably are.
Ah, of course... That probably makes sense :)
@@stephengrant4841 Probably mostly expats living there to study magic
Do you know how they call the long winter in Asshai?
Autumn
It is a great volcano which darkens the lands and covers all in ash
Kadath is interstingly also the name of a city in H.P. Lovecraft's mythos.
And Stygai is inspired by Stygia - the country from the world of "Conan the Barbarian".
And maybe Samyriana is somehow connected with Cimmeria, but I base these "connection" only on similar pronunciation, and fact that City/town Samyriana is located in high mountains and Cimmeria was described as a mountainous region.
I hope George gives us more information about Yi Ti, Sothoryos, and The Shadow in The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring; you can’t just create these vast, mysterious, end exotic locations within your own eon spanning history and only have them referenced in a single companion book and not in the main series. Even if the main character’s never see them in person I believe that Martin intends to at least have them referenced more directly in the coming books.
I think Asshai is the old capital of the Great Empire of the Dawn or at least the hypothesized pre-valyrian dragonlord civilization. The ones who the valyrians got there knowledge from.
This is great!
Yup. Thanks!
Does anyone only come to learn as much as possible about Ulthos?
But the only city left unmaped is the city of dreaming poets where poets drink wine from cups made of skulls coated in Gold-it must be just off the map in Ulthos or most east Essos, Easteros
Easteros sounds good
ok great I got a response..Ok I've got a question for you ScrivaTV. Have you ever seen the game of thrones 360 opening...well if you pause it and look across the sunset sea there is a Whole Extra Continent West Of Westeros, that I've never seen in any expaned world map ,and there is also the game of thrones title card/pic from the first season that has a coast line across the sunset sea that can't really be matched(without ALOT work-and that would be the one north of east essos-and that would be what-Poletos?) to any other continent in the expanded world map that can be found on the internet...so what is across the sunset sea may have been hiding in Plain Sight since season One....if there is a Continent west of westeros between essos and westeros theoretically it should be called Turtos/Turtleos... from the Native American name for North America-Turtle Continent(Americos just doesn't work on Planetos) so theoretically since South America's native Name is Abba Yala Planetos's South America analog would be Yalatos, and since Ulthos is probably like India and south east Asia, then if you took every other Earth analog on Planetos left over collectively together- Australia, Poly/Mela/Micronesia and Antartica, Just Optimize them and call them all together Optimos - ok that covers everthing that would be left on Planetos; Please if you can tell me what you think of my theories
Strange that half of Azor Ahais other names are almost(very similar too) the names of The Eternal Champion ..Elric,Hyrkoon etc..
Obviously Martin is a Moorcock fan..
wildfire160 I think he's states that Moorcock was an inspiration for him.
can you please speak into the mike or turn the volume up?
Theodosius
You can just turn up your volume.
A friendly Spazmoid I have my volume set to max and I can barely hear him
Hmmm... Well, these vids are literally screaming on my laptop, set on 50% volume. I intentionally turned the volume down a bit in this vid to make it more comfortable to watch, but seems that I just got some powerful sound on my device. Ok, I shall make them louder in the future.
Well, at least, If I'll make vids louder - there will be an option to quiet them down. Some viewers are facing issues with the volume limitations. Devices, that people are watching vids from are very different.
No. This is already very sensual.
Scriva where are you from. It sounds like a German accent but it's very strange. Not being insulting by the way.
Russian from Baltics region. One of the languages I speak is Latvian... not German, but it has some phonetic similarities to it, I think. There could be some influence in my accent from Latvian thus.
Very cool. I'm disappointed in myself. I usually have a good ear for accents. Keep up the good work✌
Ha! I asked the same a few hours ago on a different scrivia video. I guessed it right! I asked if his accent was nordic-slavic. I thought maybe Estonian? I know a few moscovite russians but although, very similar, their accented english sounded less 'melodic'.The pronunciation of the 'V' and the 'k' sound in words ending with -ng gave it away.
You could make a nice spin off, about a westeros group looking for treasures aboard, they go to asshai and other distant places.
quiathe isnt from asshai she is from the shadow by asshai as opposed to melisandra who said she was from asshai
so she might knew some more information than Melissandre?! o.o
if she was from the Shadow Land near to Asshai, but not Asshai itself, she might have knew even something from Stygai!! o.o
How did they get building materials to asshai?
it would be awesome if they make a assassin creed cross over with the lands of essos and westeroes
So it's like Mordor but without the Orcs and the volcanic activity of Mount Doom, correct?
Daenerys's dragon eggs came from Asshai
That's what Ilyrio claimed. But GRR Martin is known for his less than honest characters and their unreliable memories. I wouldn't be surprised if those eggs came from a secret passage in the crypts of Winterfell, unknown to the Starks. The lower you go in the crypts; the warmer it gets. And the theory is that a Targaryen-gene carrying individual(Jon) has the ability to revive a seemingly petrified egg but it takes a full blooded female Targaryen(Daenerys) to hatch one
@@roddo1955 winterfell is build on a geothermal spring, so it makes sense that it gets warmer, doesn't mean dragons
Your pacing and pauses seem much much better now.
Thanks!
gives me netherealm Mortal Kombat vibes
So the lands north of Yi-Ti and the Shadowlands is just, Kenshi?
i hope we get to see eastern essos in the spin-offs ;/
I like the new into.
I am so glad that for how cruel and disgusting
G. R. R. made Gregor Clegane to be, in his twisted mind he wrote him a truly equally horendous "death".
"Asshaeeeeeeee" LMAO.
Never noticed that Ulos has a settlement. Or that someone has traveled up river into Ulthos and made it back to put it on a map. Hmmm
imagine a AAA GOT rpg or mmorpg.... one can only dream
In which of the books is this information? About Asshai and also about how the Dothraki think the world is going to end... thx
I really hope one of these places is in the spin offs!!
I can't believe there's all this crazy stuff going on in ASOIAF and we got Game of Thrones lol
Great content as always. I wonder if light bringer is a person just like with the title sword of the morning and the part about Nissa Nissa heart and blood and Azor ahai sword seems like a sexual metaphor. What if the important part is who is light bringer not Azor ahai
Yes, it really sounds like a sexual metaphor, kind of like many myths about world creation. This one sounds though as a recreation myth, with the coming of the Darkness (Asshai Shadow?), the slaying of the lion (references to Lion of Night?). And if it is really a sexual metaphor, I fear for that lion that got stabbed.
ScrivaTV poor lion
where did you get all these information?
I just read the Wikipedia on the city yesterday, and everything set in this video is Word for Word what's in the Wikipedia article
It is. But this is way more fun
I have a question... If the Azor ahai was chosen during the long night when sun didn't show up for a generation then how can he labor for 100 days and 100 nights??
Hahaa!!! Revelations..!
This guy is just reciting the articule from a Wiki of Ice and Fire... Like copy paste
I wonder if Ulos has some meaning caus its out in finnish
Probably not😕
The black stone is that stone that dragon fire forges.
There are two kinds of black stone: the oily one and that which is touched by dragon's breath.
What map are you using that shows all this stuff?
It is from an app called World of a song of ice and fire:-)
How would a dothrakki ever even get to Asshai?
ha! k'dath lovecrast reference
Anyone know when GRRM is gonna release the next ASOIAF book?
I read that he won't release it in 2018 : (
He is going to finish another book about Targaryens first. In an interview GRRM said that he is gonna release it in early 2018. I think in late 2018 or early 2019 we will have the next ASOIF book
Sources?
Ulthos=Northernmost westeros
Batman: *"Hmmm. . . ."*
myths, i wonder what tales the good people of caracosa is telling about westeros
Hear me out! Open world game of thrones RPG Video Game!!!
ghost grass cannot be both native to and invasive in the shadow lands
"Ghost grass grows throughout the Shadow Lands, being a native plant. It is an invasive plant that overwhelms other grass, is not edible, and is taller than a human on horseback and has stalks as pale as milkglass. The Dothraki believe that ghost grass glows with the spirits of the damned and will one day cover the entire world, and that is how the world will end."
Native to Shadow Lands, but invasive in the Dothraki sea.
That's an odd accent, I assume English is not your primary language.
A A Yup.
A A he's from the Baltic states I think
Dude, get someone else to narrate the vids. I'll do it if you want a northern English accent.
Been considering. Send a demo of your speech as an example if You're serious.
ScrivaTV anything in particular you'd like me to read? crumpsalliamatgmaildotcom
Parnell07 The usual native speaker elitist crap. Personally, I enjoyed the narration just as fine.
Reducetoqsh Great content but as someone who has English as a first language at times it can be a bit distracting. Untwist your knickers sweet heart. Just offering a propoh Northern accent. Alt Shift X is my favourite Game of Thrones channel and that's partly down to the narration.
Parnell07 Not all of us have the "privilege" to be born with English as native tongue. Give a chance foreign youtubers to master the pronunciation, don't be so strict. Afterall, his content is pretty good.
first hahaha