Zahrina

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Zahrina
Culture Ghiscari
Born Yunkai
Book A Dance with Dragons (Appears)

Zahrina is a slave trader from Yunkai. She purchases cheap slaves for fighting, meat for heroes according to a slave Tyrion talked to. She is either the owner or proprietor of the Purple Lotus winesink in Meereen.

Tyrion spots her in the crowd when he is on the auction block outside of Meereen. During the auction she bids (unsuccessfully) on Lot ninety-seven: Tyrion, Penny, Pretty Pig and Crunch and later on Lot ninety nine: Ser Jorah Mormont (also unsuccessfully).


Appearance

Tyrion refers to her as a crone or a hag. She is old and shriveled. Her face is wrinkled, when she is displeased it puckers. Zahrina’s skin is maggot white and her hair so thin that her scalp can be seen beneath it. At the slave auction she is wearing a violet tokar. At the Purple Lotus she wears a dark red tokar fringed with tiny golden skulls. Tyrion thinks she looks like a prune gone to mold.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

She is present at the Yunkai slave market auction set up outside Meereen. She bids by usually adding "and one" to the last bidders price which annoys the slave auctioneers but they allow the bids. She attempts to purchase Tyrion, Penny and later Ser Jorah Mormont when they are on the auction block.

She bids thirteen hundred and one for Tyrion, Penny, Pretty Pig and Crunch. She comes up for a closer look at Tyrion and Penny and she complains that half Tyrion’s nose is gone and remarked that his eyes don’t match neither – an ill favored thing according to her. She hisses in outrage when Tyrion tells her she hasn’t seen his best part yet, grabbing his crotch. She loses them to Yezzan zo Qaggaz’s higher bid of five thousand silvers for the lot.

When Tyrion Lannister discovered that Zahrina specializes in purchasing cheap fighters which are "meat" for her heroes in the fighting pits he lies and told his new overseer Nurse that Ser Jorah Mormont was part of the dwarfs show, as the bear in The Bear and the Maiden Fair. Nurse informed his master who then bought Jorah, Zahrina turned away when Yezzan bids three hundred.

Later she reappears in the Purple Lotus winesink when Quentyn Martell and his three companions arrive for the clandestine meeting between Prince Quentyn Martell and the Tattered Prince she meets them at the door and directs them to the cellar. The winesink’s cellars far below ground and secluded indicating that Zahrina must be reasonably acquainted with the Tattered Prince to have permitted him time and space for such a private meeting.

Zahrina offers patrons food, but according to the Tattered Prince the bread is stale and her stew is unspeakable, grease and salt with a morsel or two of meat, supposedly dog but it is more likely rat, it will not kill you though.

Quotes

And one.

References and Notes