Sometimes I forget none of these places really exist and I should stop wishing someone would explore them.

Still can't believe Daenerys never even tried to seek out the guy who gave her the eggs. "Thanks for giving me the most valuable and rare items in the world, and like, changing my life and stuff."

I wish we could get a spin-off about those places, especially Shadow Lands and Sothoryos.

Asshai and the Shadowlands, in my opinion, are some of the most interesting places in the A Song of Ice & Fire world. They're so steeped in history and mystery.

So this is the place where Dark Souls was created

Asshai seems like a wonderful place to live. No children, dark, weird people. I’m for it.

I get the feeling the Shadowlands is the result of an ancient magic/science project gone wrong.

Imagine a GoT spin-off where we're given a group of characters that explore all these places 😮

One thing I would especially like is a full, global map of Planetos, just to see what it looks like from space. Circumstantial evidence suggests the Saffron Strait cuts from the Jade Sea to the Sunset Sea, with the Shadow Lands area being the eastern end of the continent, but pretty much everything we see except maybe Sothoryos is in the northern hemisphere, there's enough room for multiple continents in the completely blank space, and I'd really like to know what's there.

The Golden Empire of Yi Ti next!

this all sounds post apocalyptic like there once lived a far more technologically advanced civilization and something happened

Finally the Sahdow Lands!!! I just want a full tour of this area! It seems so much more "dark and creepy" than our westeros hahaha Keep up the good stuff bro 💙

Carcosa is a reference to the "King in Yellow" written by Robert W. Chambers and published in 1895.

The Shadow lands are the only place in ASoI&F that I can't associate with a real world country. I personally believe Asshai is actually based of the Greek Underworld.

Man I really appreciate you and your work, I wish there were more people like you. Wish you the best, you work so hard.

7:44 he activated eminem mode for a sec

Stygai feels a bit like Minas Morgul from Lotr, so I would definitely be interested in visiting. Also, Tolkien does mention fields of poisonous, pale flowers growing in the valley below that city, which sounds a bit like ghost grass in the Shadow Lands. Just nice little connections all around :D

Asshai sounds like my neighbor, a big mansion style building, never saw anyone leave or enter the building. Even at night, the lights are off but there are cars parked inside. 😨

what´s interesting about Asshai is that the title about a very ancient city before anything in the world also applies to K´Dath at northeastern Essos and Yeen at Sothoryos, but also could be linked with the ruins at inner Leng jungles, the ruins at Ullos nearby to Ulthos, the ruins at the Toad Island nearby Sothoryos, the forbidden dead city of Stygai, the mazes of Lorath, the foundations of the tower of Ancient City, and the unknown cities of the farthest east closer to the Inner Sea as Carcossa, the Winged Men city, and the cities of Bloddless Men, all of them very linked with some eerie common background.

I think Asshai is sort of like what Asia was to the Medieval Europeans. They knew about it and traded with it sometimes but it was so far away that hardly anyone ever went and so what they thought about it was more legend than fact

It's worth noting that the descriptions of these lands are from the perspective of Westerosi travellers/scholars, and aren't meant by GRRM to be the real lore. Just like in our real world timeline, the further away from 'Western' civilisation, the less people knew about the far away lands and thus wild interpretations were made. This is why the further from Westeros you go, the descriptions become less accurate and more fantastical

It's ironic that theres a place called the mountains of the morn in the lore when the game of thrones show was filmed around the Mourne mountains in northern Ireland.

I always forget that Danys dragons come from old stock out of the shadowlands, and not relics from valyria.

It would be cool if Drogon brought Dany to the shaddow lands to revive her. And they both come back with a from there to westeros. This time Drogon fully grown. And capture westeros from Bran "the broken"

Euron Greyjoy probably been there. I seem to remember him saying that while venturing into the unknown, he saw things he couldn't explain.

Asshai to me sounds like another Lovecraft nod, like the drowned god. An ancient city so massive and old no one knows anything about it's origins. Love this kind of stuff I am sad he doesn't want to explore these areas further in a story but also glad the mystery will remain.

I always thought Dany would definitely go to Asshai, just to be presented with a choice that would shape the rest of her arc. Like, that's literally what Quaithe tells her to do over and over. I think that was the point of getting her away from Mereen. She might team up with the Dothraki and fly past the Moon mountains on Drogon's back.

The one who was whispering in the mad king's ear was cthulu. The WW are on the good side. The Asshai, dragons, faceless man, god of death, rhllor, 3eyed raven are on the evil side. GJ, Arya. You just destroyed the last hope of light.

Considering that magic is allegedly strong there. There must be a small population of dragons. Since animals and plant life can't thrive there. It's kind of hard to tell tho.

Ok I go through these phases where I’m super into the lore of GOT so Thank you for all of this content, your doing an awesome job

I have a theory as to why the world seemingly ends at the Shadowlands, and why it's so dark and inhospitable there. This also explains the horrible winter Westeros experiences with decades between summer and true winter. I believe the planet is rotating on its side (like uranus) BUT it is not orbitally locked (unlike uranus), meaning the planet wobbles on its axis, with Westeros being near its sun-facing pole, but just south of it enough that it experiences micro seasons (think greenland). The shadowlands reside just south of the planet's rotational equator, meaning the sun bearly rises above the horizon save for a few brief periods during the "year". Now this means that over one orbit around its star, which I believe takes decades instead of a mere year, the axis fluctuates. Also this setup means that for 95% of the planets travel around the sun westerose is experiencing a relatively normal sunrise/ sunset reality, but at those two critical points where the pole westerose is either directly facing the sun (imagine greenland or antartica at the height of their summers) or facing away from its star, is when the joyous life giving summer happens with a few years of boundless sun, good crops, warmth and short nights and the opposite the dark long night. The wobbling axis would explain the variations in how long the winters last and why some are darker and longer then others. Past the shadow lands I imagine the exact same reality would befall whatever land is hugging the opposite pole of the planet.

Great video, and very thorough. I especially like that you noted the difference between the Shadow Men and Asshai'i. Most people ignore that, and think the people who taught the Valyrians were Asshai'i.

Another fantastic episode. Thank you.

Sounds like a parrellel with the wall. The wall=The Five Forts. The lands of always winter=The shadow lands. Its like there are flame monsters and they are trying go to war against the whitewalkers and all humanity is caught inbetween.

I want a spin off so badly. Would be amazing if Maisie williams were willing to do a spin off of arya exploring the world

Thank you so much for this video, please do more unexplored areas like this in your videos!

I love these videos ! Thanks for making them!

I love stuff like this! Keep it up man! I’m definitely subscribing!

A global empire that preceded the valyrians originating from asshai?

Love your videos Man keep up the amazing work 👍👍

This is just me but I believe that all of the blackstone structures, such as the throne in the iron isles and asshai, were made by a long lost empire that was mostly situated to the east, maybe one of their main cities, or possibly even capital being asshai, but seeing as the meteors that these black stone things were in were almost definitely powerful in their own right, most likely containing large amounts of dark magic seeing as asshai is one of the most magical places in the world and the fact that the bloodstone emperor of Yi Ti often practiced with them. Anyway, they might’ve gotten too egotistical or whatnot and got a bit more risky with their experimenting and had some giant magical disaster take place, destroying their empire in one blow and causing the shadowlands to form, the only place being safe being Asshai, the city made out of black-stone. One thing I like to think is true is that this cataclysm caused the wildlife to become mutated wherever the black-stone was and make the local wildlife into hideous monsters such as dragons and whatnot, maybe this even made Sothoryos what it is today. I know this is a commonly believed theory but I just wanted to lay it out for people.

Can you detail Middle-Earth after finishing ASOIAF?

I think that this is the most intresting video in the series map detailed

Love how you used an Ayleïd Ruin from ESO for Stygai 😂 Keep the videos coming

Ha fella love all the details from your Videos on GoT give a great insight thanks!!! Keep making then.

A book/show/movie about the Shawdowlands would be epic. I wonder since GRRM doesn't seem to want to write about this, if he would be will to sign the rights to someone who would? Great work, thanks for the post.

The less known about the shadow land the better so exciting to think about all the mysteries

I always wondering that further north of land of always winter is somehow connected with grey waste in further east of essos. Is it coincidence both of place had been through long night in same period, one was caused by bloodstone emperor & the rest was caused by war between first men and children of forest

Is the sorcerer lord named the Yellow King? Cause that would tops! A true detective/Carcosa literary tie in would be so cool.

Omg could you imagine if they made a show of the shadow lands it would be amazing

5:18 I guess the last episode was filmed in Stygi then

Thank you for the video and the time that take you

Could you imagine if we got spin-offs of places like Ib, The Summer Isles, Sothoryos, Ulthos, The Shadow Lands, YiTi, etc. So much potential being wasted :(

Would love a series on this

Carcosa? King in Yellow, is that you? I’d really like the Shadowlands and the Mountains of the Morn to be expanded upon. Lots of mystery to them.

Everyone: dragons are extinct! SoFaI: they still live in Aschai.

the Maker, GRRMartin should flesh them out in separate stories =) man, good video. keep it up

I like your channel it's dope

The thumbnail of this video is literally one of my computer backgrounds!

Eastern Essos gives me goosebumps. It’s such a strange and creepy place

Great video keep it up!!

"Beyond the veil, lies the shadow lands where every soul has its place"

Awesome video like always. It's killing me though, where'd you get that picture you used for Stygai? It's the exterior of an Elder Scrolls dungeon, right?

I'mma throw out the possibility that the black stone was possibly mined in the shadow lands, since it seems to basically be one of the world's few places that is akin to death incarnate. Near a colossal titan of a city in Asshai, which is a port for trade, and also close enough to Yi Ti for them to have mined somewhere in there under their first ruler's reign to build the five fortresses.

Thank you for this. I love the part of the world. If I may just point out one point o correction: it's true that Mellisandra is from Asshai, but not Quaithe. She is "of The Shadow". GRRM has made the very clear distinction in he books between "Asshai BY the Shadow" and "The Shadow" itself. Not the same place, though they are near and associated.

I really do want to see this place in the prequel show

The birthplace of dragons

awesome video good sir!

Feels like GRRM wanted to do a tribute to the lovecraftian saga by naming a city Carcosa, specially a city standing by a huge lake (hidden sea). I know that Carcosa and the King in Yellow aren't originally from Lovecraft, but I think now they are part of the compendium

Man after hearing about Sothyros and The Shadow Lands I really don't care about the events in Westeros, Jon, Dany, etc.. Hope 1 day a series is made about them, probably 100years from now :(

Is there anything east of the shadow lands? There is like a line where the map ends at Essos where it just cuts off the land and doesn’t stop atthe sea like everything else with the exception of Sothyros and the Far North

corlys velaryon was in shadow lands and we getting a spin off series of him ,since house of dragon was a hit it will probably open gats for jon snow sequel, etc

Pretty sure that Stygai photo example at 5:23 is from the Elder Scrolls Online video game! :D

Nice video man

Hi just wondering what the font you use in your videos for titles like "Asshai" is Love your videos! You, bridge4, and Alt Shift X are pretty much the only GoT/asoif video creators that I watch lol

I believe that the reason because westeros feels so lame compared to the far east is because the story is being told from the point of view of westeros/western essos. So, since almost no one has seen the far east and because of the lack of documented history, the stories become exaggerated. This is similar to hundreds of years ago when tales became exaggerated because of how isolated places were compared to present day.

Hopefully future GOT can cover the entire world.

The stygai picture is from TES IV ;) I would recognize it anywhere

Bro. Did you ever make the map of Carcosa and the city of winged man??? Such interesting locations. Thanks.

i wish we knew more about ulthos

I need to see a series that explores the shadow lands

We need A sequel where Arya go an explore these lands😭♥️

Sounds like The Shadow was hit by nuclear radiation

Will you do a updated video on all the new information over the past 4 years?

I think is very european and thoughtful, the way george describes the world. Its always from some westerosi perspective, being westeros a land imagined as some medieval lands from our own world. These descriptions of wild things and animal people are a direct reference to many western europe scholars on the middle ages that discribed the same kind of wild things on the far east and beyond the sahara. Marco Polo describes cyclopes, some others reference dog-headed men in the andaman islands, yare yare daze...

Man, that would be great if someone make serial about expedition to the shadow lands.

Great video. Wanted to point out a spelling error though starting at 1:47 "randon plaes"

Do you think further north than the lands of always winter there are ice dragons because George RR Martin wrote a story called the ice dragon also love your vids

In Martin's lore, the planet is flat? Also it would be funny for him to like: Fan: "What lies in the far eastern? Or far south?" Martin: "That's what is for next expansion's story."

Thanks the vid was fun

So you tell me Arya forgot about sothoryos, ultos , the shadowlands , the north of the lands of always winter , the east of essos , and all these fantastic places and unexplored lands , and chose to go to the west where she is going to get killed by some sea dragons without even reaching it ????

I’d love to see a serise or a comic where we have a character from the town of Ashai and has to go beyond the mountains of it and seek out the lands bro that would be epic

great video

Anyone else realise carcosa is a H.P lovecraft place? It's mentioned in the king in yellow, one of his short stories.

Nice wee H.P Lovecraft reference at the end the.

I wish I could know more about Asshai and the Shadowlands. Westeros is mostly just Europe and I get that every day as I live in a region that's similar to the Riverlands.

Danaerys could have captured the free cities including Braavos, Shadowlands, Asshai, Yi Ti and Qarth before moving west to raise a large army and fatten her wallet. If she flew dragons over Braavos, the Iron Bank would have surrendered their wealth easily and she could have their navy as well. That's what I would have done if I were in place of D&D

Shout out to the ayleid ruin pic from eso for stygai

Using ESO dungeon picture to portray Stygai, nice touch.

I think this black stone is important. the tower in oldtown is made of it, but it isnt oily. maybe its good to build with, but becomes oily when it gets corrupted (or causes corruption)? may or may not have anything to do with dragons.