Sex is believed to be a gift from the gods for humanity to enjoy, and is regarded as a joyous and life-affirming act. Although many gods are worshiped on the islands, the god and goddess of love and beauty are held in particularly high esteem. Summer Islander culture is very much what might be called " sex-positive" in real life. Many crews also make the long trade route around the Jade Sea far to the east, visiting Qarth and distant Asshai. Swift and well-crewed, Summer Islander merchant ships can be found in most major ports across both Westeros and the Free Cities, from Oldtown to King's Landing, and from Braavos to Volantis. Many Summer Islanders re-applied these skills to take part in international shipping: the islands are rich in natural resources- spices, gemstones, hardwood timber, and exotic animals- and possess a large merchant fleet which operates across much of the known world. They are famed seafarers, as they have to rely on extensive maritime transport due to the archipelago nature of their homeland. ![]() People from the Summer Islands are dark-skinned and tend to wear colorful clothes, including cloaks made of interwoven tropical bird feathers. An ancient and advanced civilization, Summer Islanders are quite distinct- ethnically and in many ways culturally- from the peoples of both Westeros and Essos. In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the Summer Islands are among the southern-most explored parts of the known world. Game of Thrones: Season 8ĭuring her speech after the Battle of King's Landing, Daenerys promises her army that they will free the world from tyrants from the Summer Isles to the Jade Sea. In order to craft the poison known as the strangler, the base plant must be aged and soaked in a wash containing, among other things, a number of rare spices from the Summer Islands. He does not even remember when the slavers castrated him at the beginning of his forced training to be one of the Unsullied. Missandei, who is from the neighboring island of Naath, asks if he remembers anything of the Summer Islands or his life before becoming an Unsullied, but he says that "Unsullied" is all he remembers. The Unsullied commander Grey Worm says that he was taken from the Summer Islands by slavers as a baby. Tyrion jokes that they should sail there immediately. Xaro Xhoan Daxos was born in the Summer Islands, but has since become resident in the eastern city of Qarth." Īccording to Varys, the Summer Islanders worship a fertility goddess with sixteen teats. As a free man, he was chosen as the commander of the Unsullied. ![]() Purchased and liberated by Daenerys along with eight thousand Unsullied. Grey Worm, birth name unknown, captured by slavers as an infant and forcibly trained as an Unsullied by the Great Masters of Astapor.Moved to the Free City of Lys many years ago, and generally considers himself to be a Lysene, by geography if not ethnicity. Salladhor Saan, a pirate-lord and mercenary sailor.Locked inside his own vault for betraying Daenerys Targaryen. , established in Qarth, where he rose to become a member of the Thirteen.Jalabhar Xho, Prince of the Red Flower Vale, was exiled and became a member of King Robert I Baratheon's court. Xanda Qo, Princess of Sweet Lotus Vale, united the Summer Isles under her rule and started to put an end to slavery on the isles. The beaches have green and black sand and there are crocodiles in the rivers. Prized goldenheart trees grow in the vast forests of Jhala and there are apes called silver pelts in the mountains of the island. To the north of Golden Head is a group of small islands called Lizard Head. The Golden Head is a peninsula in southeast Jhala. To the south is Parrot Bay and the three islands called The Bones, as well as the islands Xon and Doquu. To its north are the Indigo Straits and the island of Omboru. Ebonhead is a town on its southern coast at the mouth of the Sweet Lotus Vale. The Red Flower Vale is a river valley in eastern Jhala and the Sweet Lotus Vale is a river valley in western Jhala. As with the other two large islands in the chain, Jhala is large enough to support multiple rival princedoms. Walano and Omboru are each less than half the size of Jhala, though either of them is still larger than all the landmass of the Stepstones combined and together the three of them are home to more than nine-tenths of the people of the isles. Jhala is the southernmost of the three largest of the Summer Islands, and the largest overall - two hundred leagues from tip to tip - though not the most populated. The Summer Isles and the location of Jhala
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