Isle of Tears

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A map showing the location of the Isle of Tears in red.

The Isle of Tears is the largest of the Basilisk Isles, which are located off the northwestern coast of Sothoryos. To the west of the isle is Basilisk Point, to the north is the island of Talon, and to the northeast is the Isle of Toads. Steep-sided valleys and black bogs hide amongst the rugged flint hills and twisted, windswept rocks of this southern island.

The ruins of an ancient city can be found on its southern coasts. Founded by the Old Empire of Ghis, this city was known as Gorgai for close on two centuries, until the dragonlords of Valyria captured it during the Third Ghiscari War and renamed it Gogossos.

The Valyrian dragonlords sent their worst criminals to the Isle of Tears to live out their lives in hard labor. Gogossos became infamous, as criminals and slaves were tortured there in terrible ways. During the Century of Blood, this dark city waxed rich and powerful. Some even called it the Tenth Free City, and its slave markets were as notorious as those of the old Ghiscari cities on Slaver's Bay. However, seventy-seven years after the Doom of Valyria, a plague known as the Red Death emerged from the slave pens of Gogossos. This plague swept across the Isle of Tears, then the reast of the Basilisk Isles. Nine men of every ten died horrible, bloody deaths.[1]

References and Notes

  1. The World of Ice & Fire, The Basilisk Isles.