Sarnor remained a trading partner with Valyria, and perhaps a useful buffer against raids by the nascent Dothraki mounted raiders from the northeast of Essos's central grasslands. Īfter the fifth and final Ghiscari War some 5,000 years ago, the Valyrians did not move on to conquer the Sarnori - just as they were in no hurry to conquer the still-independent Rhoynar city-states to the west, and the dragon-lords were always busy with internal rivalries in Valyria itself. The Sarnori allied with Valyria during the Second and Third Ghiscari Wars, though during the Fourth, the rival Sarnori kings supported both sides. Įventually, the Sarnori became involved in the wars between the ancient Ghiscari Empire and the rising Valyrian Freehold.
They also sailed the Shivering Sea to Ib, the Thousand Islands, and Mossovy warred against the Qaathi and the Ghiscari Empire and led forays against bands of Dothraki, nomadic horsemen who roamed the steppes to their east. Later, Dothraki expansion and desertification destroyed the Qaathi cities one by one, until only one outpost remained: Qarth, which ironically then flourished as a major passageway for sea trade into the Jade Sea.Īt their height, the Sarnori traded with Valyria, Yi Ti, Leng, and Asshai. The Qaathi lost these wars more than they won them, until they were driven past Lhazar to the southern end of the Bone Mountains. Always a proud and quarrelsome people, they were seldom unified, but engaged in long wars against the Qaathi for domination of central Essos.
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īy the time recorded history began, the Sarnori had established a series of city-states along the Sarne River and its tributaries, and became well-known for using chariot teams in battle. However, it is uncertain whether Huzhor Amai ever actually existed the heroic figure may be a mythological retelling of how the ancient Sarnori conquered and assimilated the Cymmeri, Zoqora, and Gipps, merging into one people. He took as wives the daughters of the greatest lords and kings of neighboring peoples: the Cymmeri, Zoqora, and Gipps. The Sarnori, who call themselves the Tall Men ( Tagaez Fen in their language) trace their lineage to the king Huzhor Amai, descended from the last of the Fisher Queens. Over the eons the sea dried out into lakes and their realm collapsed. According to distant legend, the Silver Sea was once truly a large inland body of water, its coasts ruled by the Fisher Queens. Sarnor was an ancient kingdom centered around the great river Sarne and its tributaries and some of the lake remnants of the Silver Sea. The fall of the kingdom to the Dothraki is chronicled in works such as Bello's The End of the Tall Men, Maester Illister's Horse Tribes, Being a Study of the Nomads of the Eastern Plains of Essos, the eastern chapters and appendices of Maester Joseth's Battles and Sieges of the Century of Blood, and Vaggoro's definitive Ruined Cities, Stolen Gods.
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Most histories regarding the Kingdom of Sarnor come from the Summer and Winter Annals and records of them from Qarth, Slaver's Bay, and the Free Cities. The only surviving Sarnori settlement is Saath. Most of the grassland kingdom was destroyed by the Dothraki in the Century of Blood after the Doom of Valyria, with the cities Gornath, Kasath, Sallosh, Sarnath, Sarys, and Sathar left in ruins. Omber is a peninsula to the northeast of Sarnor, while the Kingdom of the Ifequevron is farther to the east. The Forest of Qohor and Vaes Khadokh are to the west, while the Dothraki sea extends along the south.
The Kingdom of Sarnor is a region of northern Essos along the shores of the Shivering Sea.