Gogossos

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Gogossos is a ruined city on the Isle of Tears, the largest of the Basilisk Isles. It lies on the southern coast of the island, facing the continent of Sothoryos.[1] The Ghiscari Empire founded the city under the name of Gorgai.[2]

History

The Ghiscari Gorgai for between two to four centuries until the Valyrian Freehold captured it during the Third Ghiscari War and renamed it "Gogossos". The dragonlords used it as a penal colony for the worst criminals. Maester Yandel reports that in its dungeons, torturers devised new torments while in its flesh pits, the darkest blood magic was practiced, as beasts were mated to slave women to bring forth twisted half-human children.[2]

Gogossos outlived the Doom of Valyria and waxed rich and powerful during the Century of Blood, some calling it the "Tenth Free City". Its wealth rested on slavery and sorcery. Its slave markets became as notorious as those of the cities of Slaver's Bay. However, seventy seven years after the Doom a terrible plague, the Red Death, emerged from the slave pens of the city and swept across the Isle of Tears and then the rest of the Basiliks. Nine of every ten men died screaming.[2]

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