Bloodfly
Bloodflies are bloodsucking glistening purple insects found in Essos. So named by the Dothraki, they can grow as large as bees, live in marshes and stagnant pools, and lay their eggs in the dead and dying.[1]
The wine of courage has bloodfly larvae among its ingredients.[2]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
Bloodflies pester Khal Drogo as he suffers from an infected wound in the Dothraki sea.[1]
A Clash of Kings
Bloodlfies cover a man who dies as the khalasar of Daenerys Targaryen ventures into the red waste.[3]
Quotes
They were as large as bees, gross, purplish, glistening. The Dothraki called them bloodflies. They lived in marshes and stagnant pools, sucked blood from man and horse alike, and laid their eggs in the dead and dying. Drogo hated them.[1]
—thoughts of Daenerys Targaryen
Three days into the march, the first man died. A toothless oldster with cloudy blue eyes, he fell exhausted from his saddle and could not rise again. An hour later he was done. Blood flies swarmed about his corpse and carried his ill luck to the living.[3]
—thoughts of Daenerys Targaryen
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 64, Daenerys VIII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 23, Daenerys II.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 12, Daenerys I.
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