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'''Shade of the evening''' is a thick, blue liquid made from the leaves of trees that sit outside the [[House of the Undying]] in [[Qarth]].{{Ref|aCoK|48}} The trees are black-barked with inky blue leaves. It is drunk by those who enter the [[House of the Undying]] and the [[warlocks]] of [[Qarth]], so that they may "hear and see the truths" that will be laid before them. It does not turn lips blue with just one dose; many must be taken. It smells like rotted flesh and has an oily texture and tastes like all the tastes a person has ever tasted, and some that a person hasn't.{{Ref|aFfC|29}}
 
'''Shade of the evening''' is a thick, blue liquid made from the leaves of trees that sit outside the [[House of the Undying]] in [[Qarth]].{{Ref|aCoK|48}} The trees are black-barked with inky blue leaves. It is drunk by those who enter the [[House of the Undying]] and the [[warlocks]] of [[Qarth]], so that they may "hear and see the truths" that will be laid before them. It does not turn lips blue with just one dose; many must be taken. It smells like rotted flesh and has an oily texture and tastes like all the tastes a person has ever tasted, and some that a person hasn't.{{Ref|aFfC|29}}
  

Revision as of 03:55, 17 February 2013

© Fantasy Flight Games

Shade of the evening is a thick, blue liquid made from the leaves of trees that sit outside the House of the Undying in Qarth.[1] The trees are black-barked with inky blue leaves. It is drunk by those who enter the House of the Undying and the warlocks of Qarth, so that they may "hear and see the truths" that will be laid before them. It does not turn lips blue with just one dose; many must be taken. It smells like rotted flesh and has an oily texture and tastes like all the tastes a person has ever tasted, and some that a person hasn't.[2]

Daenerys’s drink of shade of the evening

When Pyat Pree and Daenerys reach the door to the entrance of the House of the Undying the smallest dwarf Daenerys has ever seen is waiting on the threshold. He stands no higher than her knee, his face is pinched and pointed, snoutish, but he is dressed in delicate livery of purple and blue, and his tiny pink hands hold a silver tray. Upon it rests a slender crystal glass filled with thick blue liquid: shade of the evening, the wine of warlocks.[1] When Daenerys asks if the wine will turn her lips blue Pyat Pree answers:

One flute will serve only to unstop your ears and dissolve the caul from off your eyes, so that you may hear and see the truths that will be laid before you.[1]

The first sip tastes like ink and spoiled meat, foul, but when she swallows it seems to come to life within her. She can feel tendrils spreading through her chest, like fingers of fire coiling around her heart, and on her tongue is a taste like honey and anise and cream, like mother’s milk, and Drogo’s seed, like red meat and hot blood and molten gold. It is all the tastes she had ever known, and none of them … and then the glass is empty.[1]

Pyat Pree tells her she may now enter. Dany puts the glass back on the servitor’s tray and goes inside the House of the Undying.

Those known to drink shade of the evening

References and Notes