The godsway is a road which runs through Vaes Dothrak.[1]
Layout
The godsway is a broad grassy road which begins at the bronze Horse Gate and ends at the Mother of Mountains.[1] It is lined with artifacts and monuments plundered by the Dothraki, including statues of gods, kings, heroes, maidens, and monsters.[2]
Those displayed include:[2]
- deities with broken thunderbolts
- stone kings on thrones
- maidens dancing on marble plinths
- maidens draped in flowers
- maidens pouring from empty jars
- dragons of black iron with jeweled eyes
- roaring griffins
- manticores ready to strike with barbed tails
- a moss-covered stone monolith fifty feet tall
- a woman with six breasts and the head of a ferret
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
The khalasar of Khal Drogo rides the godsway after arriving at Vaes Dothrak. Viserys Targaryen is dismissive of most of the statues. Daenerys Targaryen finds some beautiful and others ugly; Ser Jorah Mormont assumes the latter came from the Shadow Lands beyond Asshai.[2]
After Daenerys ceremonially eats a stallion heart, a procession takes the road to the Womb of the World so that she can cleanse herself in its waters. She and Khal Drogo have sex by the lakeside, and they then ride on their horses along the godsway to Drogo's hall in Vaes Dothrak.[1]
Daenerys takes the godsway when she visits the Western Market.[3]
Quotes
Some of the statues were so lovely they took her breath away, others so misshapen and terrible that Dany could scarcely bear to look at them. [2]
—thoughts of Daenerys Targaryen
Daenerys: So many, and from so many lands.
Viserys: The trash of dead cities. All these savages know how to do is steal the things better men have built ... and kill.[1]
—thoughts of Daenerys Targaryen
Dany swayed along, studying the faces of dead heroes and forgotten kings. She wondered if the gods of burned cities could still answer prayers.[3]
—thoughts of Daenerys Targaryen
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 46, Daenerys V.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 36, Daenerys IV.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 54, Daenerys VI.