Editing Night lands

The '''night lands'''{{Ref|AGOT|36}} or '''nightlands'''{{Ref|ADWD|52}} are the afterlife of the [[Dothraki]] religion.

==Culture==
Tradition dictates that when a rider of the [[Dothraki]] dies, his [[horse]] is slain and the two bodies are burned on a funeral pyre so they can ride together to the night lands,{{ref|AGOT|64}} which are said to have  endless black grasses.{{ref|ACOK|12}} The Dothraki believe that the night lands are visible in the night sky, and the [[astronomy|stars]] are the honored dead riding fiery steeds.{{Ref|AGOT|72}} When a ''[[khal]]'' dies, his [[bloodrider]]s must die with him as well so they can ride at his side in the night lands.{{Ref|AGOT|36}} 

Dothraki who have not learned to ride, such as young children, must be born again instead of going to the night lands.{{ref|ACOK|12}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Khal Drogo funeral Pyre by Kim Pope.jpg|thumb|350px|[[Drogo]]'s funeral pyre, by Kim Pope]]
After Khal [[Drogo]] dies, [[Daenerys Targaryen]] cleans his body in preparation for the night lands. Daenerys then burns the ''[[khal]]'s'' body and that of a [[stallion]] in a funeral pyre.{{ref|AGOT|72}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
Daenerys's ''[[khalasar]]'' struggles in the [[red waste]]. When an old man collapses and dies, Daenerys has the weakest horse in her herd killed so that the fallen man can ride to the night lands. When an infant girl dies, Daenerys thinks the babe cannot yet go to the night lands.{{ref|ACOK|12}} 

==Quotes==
{{quote|When a horselord dies, his [[horse]] is slain with him, so he might ride proud into the night lands. The bodies are burned beneath the open sky, and the ''[[khal]]'' rises on his fiery steed to take his place among the [[astronomy|stars]]. The more fiercely the man burned in life, the brighter his star will shine in the darkness.{{ref|AGOT|72}}|thoughts of [[Daenerys Targaryen]]}}

{{quote|The child had been too young to ride, poor thing. Not for her the endless black grasses of the night lands; she must be born again.{{ref|ACOK|12}}|thoughts of [[Daenerys Targaryen]]}}

{{quote|And what man could hope to rival [[Drogo]], who had died with his hair uncut and rode now through the night lands, the [[astronomy|stars]] his ''[[khalasar]]''?{{ref|ACOK|12}}|thoughts of [[Daenerys Targaryen]]}}

==References==
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