Editing Asshai (section)

===Trade===
Asshai is a popular trading destination for ships.{{Ref|TWOIAF|8|4|4}} According to a semi-canon source, it is not as important to traders as [[Yi Ti]] and [[Leng]], which are more easily reached from [[Qarth]].<ref>[[Not A Blog]]: Maps! Maps!! Maps!!!, [https://grrm.livejournal.com/297016.html?thread=16806456#t16806456 Comment Thread] (November 1, 2012).</ref> Asshai exports goods such as [[amber]] and [[dragonglass]].{{Ref|ACOK|40}} [[Gold]] and gems are also common exports, though some say the gold of the [[Shadow Lands]] is as unhealthy as the fruits that grow there.{{Ref|TWOIAF|8|4|4}} The city is usually traveled to by ship, but it can also be reached overland by caravans.{{Ref|AGOT|36}}

Trading ships from [[Westeros]] and the [[Free Cities]] bound for Asshai go east through the [[Summer Sea]] and the [[Jade Sea]], which are connected by the straits at Qarth, the [[Jade Gates]].{{Ref|SSM|1122}} Caravans from Asshai traverse the [[Bone Mountains]] to reach [[Vaes Dothrak]].{{Ref|AGOT|36}}

Aside from traders, few from Westeros visit Asshai and little is known about it. The famous scribe and traveler [[Lomas Longstrider]] never visited Asshai,{{Ref|TWOIAF|8|4|4}} though he apparently heard from merchants in Yi Ti who did trade with Asshai that the vast gold of [[Casterly Rock]] was famous even there.{{Ref|TWOIAF|7|6}}

All foodstuff and freshwater is brought in by ship, as animals brought into the city soon die, and the waters of the [[Ash (river)|Ash]] glisten black beneath the noonday sun and glimmer with green phosphorescence by night. The only fish that dwell in its water are blind and deformed, and only fools and [[shadowbinder]]s dare eat their flesh.{{Ref|TWOIAF|8|4|4}}