Red waste

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Red, parched barren plains

The Red Waste is a region on the continent of Essos. A forbidding landscape of stunted trees, devil grass and ancient ruins, which stretches southwards for hundreds of miles.

Geography

The Red Waste located South of the Dothraki Sea and Lhazar, the land of the Lhazareen. West of slaver cities and their hinterlands and north ofthe fabled city of Qarth. It is a land of low hills, barren windswept plains, dry rivers[1] and red parched soil.[2] Where the necessities of living are hard to come by. There are few things in the red waste that will support life. There is little forage and shallow, bitter, stagnant pools of water. Wood is hard to find, with the best being gnarled and tough.[2]

Within the Red Waste are three abandoned cities, Vaes Tolorro, and two others, smaller than Vaes Tolorro. One of those is ringed with skulls on iron spears. To the south of Vaes Tolorro the waste continues to the sea. The two abandoned cities are to the southwest of Vaes Tolorro. To the southeast lies Qarth.[3]

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

Daenerys built a funeral pyre for her husband Drogo in the Red Waste and sacrificed Mirri Maz Duur to beget dragons.[2]

A Clash of Kings

Following the comet, Daenerys leads her much-reduced khalasar across the red waste, losing many of the weaker members of her group. They eventually stumble upon an abandoned city, which they name Vaes Tolorro and rest while Dany sends her bloodriders to scout and explore. Eventually, from the southeast, Jhogo returns with envoys from Qarth.[1]

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