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Widow of the Waterfront
Alias Vogarro's Whore
Culture Volantene
Spouse Vogarro
Book A Dance with Dragons

The Widow of the Waterfront, also known as Vogorro's Whore, is a former slave. She is a very old woman and runs several docks, piers and shipping lanes in a section of Volantis.

History

The Widow of the Waterfront was once a former pleasure slave taught in Yunkai the ways of the seven sighs. She was purchased by a Triarch of Volantis named Vogarro. Vogarro fell in love with her and freed her, raising a great scandal by marrying her. Vogarro owned piers, storehouses, brokered cargoes, changed money and insured shipowners against the hazards of the sea. When he died 32 years ago she took over his business. She had to sell his manse because no freeman may live within the Black Wall. She took up residence at the Merchant's House.

She is called (though never to her face) Vogarro's Whore.[1]

Appearance

The years had bent her spine and put a crone's hump upon her back, her white hair is so thin that the pink of her scalp shows through and scar tissue covers her cheeks, where she had the slave tattoos cut off upon being freed but the widow's eyes are bright and black. There is something reptilian about her eyes and vulpine about the way she sits.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

She met and later assisted Jorah Mormont in finding a ship to take him and Tyrion Lannister to Meereen to meet Daenerys Targaryen. She gives the ship's name (Selaesori Qhoran) and mentions that Benerro had a fire vision that revealed that it will not make it to Qarth.

She also asks them to give her a message on behalf of all the slaves in Volantis...

"Tell her we are waiting, tell her to come soon"[2]

References and Notes