Ny Sar

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Ny Sar
City ruins
Ny Sar.jpg
© Fantasy Flight Games
Location Essos, on the Rhoyne river.
Destroyed Following the Second Spice War.
Ny Sar is located in Free Cities
Ny Sar
The Free Cities and the location of Ny Sar

Ny Sar is a ruined city in Essos at the confluence of the Rhoyne and the Noyne rivers.[1] It was destroyed by the Valyrians.

History

Ny Sar was the location of Princess Nymeria's palace and was one of the many Rhoynish cities left in ruins following the Second Spice War. Maester Yandel describes it as a "city of fountains, alive with song". After the defeat of Prince Garin's host by the Volantenes and their Valyrian kin at Volantis during the Second Spice War, Princess Nymeria, fearing the enslavement of the people of her own city, gathered every ship that remained upon the Rhoyne and filled them full of as many women and children as they could carry (for almost all the men of fighting age had marched with Garin, and died). Nymeria then led these ten thousand ships down the Rhoyne past Sarhoy and into the Summer Sea, whereafter they arrived at Dorne.[2] Today, the ruins of Nymeria's palace is all that remains; a colossal palace of pink and green marble, its collapsed domes and broken spires looming large above a row of covered archways.[3]

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

Griff, Young Griff, and their company pass Ny Sar on their way to Volantis. Tyrion Lannister sees the ruins on the eastern bank of the Rhoyne: "crooked walls and fallen towers, broken domes and rows of rotted wooden pillars, streets choked by mud and overgrown with purple moss." According to Tyrion, the city is ten times as large as Ghoyan Drohe. Tyrion notices big bonesnapper turtles basking in the sun. Shortly thereafter a horned turtle of enormous size appears not six yards from the Shy Maid. Ysilla exclaims they are blessed for having seen the creature, while Yandry says it is the Old Man of the River.[3]

Quotes

This is the Ny Sar, where the Mother gathers in her Wild Daughter, Noyne.

Yandry

References and Notes

  1. The Lands of Ice and Fire, The Free Cities.
  2. The World of Ice & Fire, Ten Thousand Ships.
  3. 3.0 3.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 14, Tyrion IV.