Lhazareen

The Lhazareen (also spelled Lhazarene) are a people of peaceful farmers and shepherds from Lhazar in the continent of Essos.

Appearance

The Lhazareen have copper skin and almond-shaped eyes, similar to the Dothraki, but they are more squat and flat-faced and have black hair cropped short. Their language has a sing-song quality.

Culture and Customs

Primarily settled in Lhazar but with at least one town in the southern Dothraki sea, Lhazareen are a peaceful people who herd sheep and eat vegetables.

Mirroring the importance of sheep herding in Lhazareen culture, their deity is known as the Great Shepherd. The priestess of a Lhazareen temple is called a godswife.

The more warlike Dothraki refer to the Lhazareen as haesh rakhi or Lamb Men. The Dothraki believe the Lhazareen lay with sheep.

Recent Events

A Game of Thones

Mirri Maz Duur, by Amok ©

An unnnamed Lhazareen town in the southern Dothraki sea is attacked by the khalasar of Khal Ogo and then by the khalasar of Khal Drogo. The town is sacked by Drogo, and its people are taken as slaves. Daenerys Targaryen takes the enslaved Mirri Maz Duur as one of her servants. Drogo claims the the Lhazareen of the settlement belong south of the river bend instead of in the grasslands of the Dothraki sea.

A Clash of Kings

Daenerys avoids Lhazar after Drogo's death, leading her small khalasar instead into the red waste.

A Dance with Dragons

Daenerys, now Queen of Meereen, makes an alliance with the Lhazareen. Fighters from Lhazar are among those who come to Meereen to battle in Daznak's Pit.

A former Lhazarene slave, the Red Lamb, goes into training in the Great Pyramid to become a knight, and is a squire to Ser Barristan Selmy. The Red Lamb becomes a newly-made knight.

Quotes

Once Dany might have taken them for Dothraki, for they had the same copper skin and almond-shaped eyes. Now they looked alien to her, squat and flat-faced, their black hair cropped unnaturally short. They were herders of sheep and eaters of vegetables, and Khal Drogo said they belonged south of the river bend. The grass of the Dothraki sea was not meant for sheep.

—thoughts of Daenerys Targaryen

The Lamb Men, as your Dothraki call them, a notably unwarlike people.

—Jorah Mormont to Daenerys Targaryen

The Dothraki horselords call the Lhazarene the Lamb Men. When you shear them all they do is bleat. They are not a martial people.

—Xaro Xhoan Daxos to Daenerys Targaryen

Daenerys: The Lamb Men. Would that lambs had teeth.
Barristan: That would make the wolves more cautious, no doubt.

—Daenerys Targaryen and Barristan Selmy