Editing Smoking Sea (section)

==Recent Events==
===''A Storm of Swords''===
While traveling on the ''[[Balerion (ship)|Balerion]]'' in the [[Summer Sea]] from [[Qarth]] to [[Pentos]], Ser [[Jorah Mormont]] convinces Queen [[Daenerys Targaryen]] to instead sail for [[Astapor]], buy an army of [[Unsullied]], and continue to Pentos overland. When she points out that there are dangers on such a long march, he tells her that there are dangers at sea as well, such as storms, [[kraken]]s, [[corsairs]] and [[pirates]] in the southern route, or the demon-haunted Smoking Sea in the northern route.{{Ref|ASOS|8}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
King [[Euron Greyjoy]] claims to have sailed the Smoking Sea and seen [[Valyria]], but Lord [[Rodrik Harlaw]] is skeptical.{{Ref|AFFC|29}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
In [[Meereen]], [[Daenerys Targaryen]] examines [[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]]'s old [[tapestry]], which was made before the Doom that took Valyria. Dany notices that there is no Smoking Sea depicted, and that [[Valyria]] is not yet an island.{{Ref|ADWD|16}} 

Aboard the ''[[Selaesori Qhoran]]'', [[Tyrion Lannister]] remembers his Uncle [[Gerion Lannister]]'s quest to Valyria, recalling that Gerion had bought slaves to crew his ship, as his intent to sail the Smoking Sea had caused half his original crew to desert him.{{Ref|ADWD|33}}  

[[Victarion Greyjoy]] remembers that, among other exploits, his brother Euron braved the Smoking Sea and lived to tell of it.{{Ref|ADWD|56}}