Moonsingers

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The Moonsingers is a religion found on the eastern continent. The Moonsingers found the site for the city that would become Braavos, the most powerful of the Free Cities. For that they have the largest temple in Braavos. [1] Mirri Maz Duur studied the birthing songs of the moonsingers of the Jogos Nhai.[2]

History

The Moonsingers were slaves who fled Valyria and found a place as far away from Valyria that they could get. What basically happened was that a Valyrian fleet, which was rowed by slaves, was taken over by the slaves after they mutinied. And they decided to get as far away to the north as they could, sailing through the narrow sea to find a refuge. [3]

They founded Braavos and kept the city secret for about a hundred years. For those first hundred years, practically no one knew of the city's existence. Because the city is founded by slaves, it's not a homogenous population, there were slaves from all sorts of different places with different ethnicities, different homelands, different customs, different religions. So they create a new religion, one with one god that can be applied to all the other faiths and is very tolerant and open.

Quotes

They were very important in the founding and early history of Braavos, but they still exist to this day. Beyond that, I don't expect they'll have much importance to the present story....[4]

- GRRM

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