Cannibal Sands
Not to be confused with Cannibal Sands (to the east).
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Far in eastern Essos, well beyond the lands Westerosi maps dare to name, two stretches of desert share the same grim name: the Cannibal Sands. No reliable account has ever come out of them, only the rumor that is enough to make merchants and caravan drivers go around rather than through.
Geography
Western Sands
The more westerly of the two sands opens up northeast of the Bleeding Sea. N'ghai lies to its northwest, Mossovy further north, and to the east the sands themselves blur into the Grey Waste with no clear border.
The only fixed points to navigate by are two cities: Nefer to the northwest, and K'Dath to the south. Between them, nothing but dunes.
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Eastern Sands
The second stretch of sand lies much further off, northeast of the Barren Chasm. It too merges into the Grey Waste, to the west and to the north, and keeps spreading past everything that has ever been mapped.
Its known neighbors are the Bone Town and K'Dath, both to the west of its dunes. Beyond that, no one has come back to say what lies there.
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Inhabitants
Of the people who live in these sands only one reputation travels: that they feed on human flesh. There is no firsthand account, no tribal name, nothing beyond that same rumor passed from mouth to mouth by those who have never set foot inside.
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The physical world
Se dice que los habitantes de las arenas son unos bárbaros que se alimentan de carne humana.
Population · A World of Ice and Fire
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What we are not sure about
PositionWe worked it out
The position was inferred from the label on the base map rather than from a symbol of its own: it marks the area, not the point.
Spanish nameWe worked it out
The Spanish name is the atlas’s own reviewed translation, not the one in the published Gigamesh edition, which does not fix it.
Books and show
Where it appears
In the books (2)
- The Lands of Ice and Fire
- A World of Ice and Fire