Cities of the Bloodless Men

las Ciudades de los Hombres Sin Sangre

The Cities of the Bloodless Men are a group of settlements in Essos whose exact location no one has ever pinned down, said to lie somewhere between the Womb of the World and the Shivering Sea. What little is told of them arrives as travelers' rumor, not confirmed report.

Chapter 1

The cities no one has seen

Books only

These cities are said to sit somewhere on the plains northeast of the Grey Mountains, but no account fixes a real position: they lie between the Womb of the World and the Shivering Sea, and that is as far as anything verifiable goes.

The stories told about their people belong to the kind traded around a campfire and denied the next morning: men and women pale as corpses. Some versions push further and claim it isn't a figure of speech at all — that they are actual corpses, drained of blood and raised again by some rite no one bothers to describe.

The physical world

También se dice que en realidad son cadáveres, drenados de sangre y devueltos a la vida mediante ritos oscuros.

Population · A World of Ice and Fire

What we are not sure about

  1. 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.

According to the Hielo y Fuego Wiki · Ciudades de los Hombres Sin Sangre · 2026-07-30

Where each datum comes from
Position
centre of the label on the base map
English name
visual reading of the label
Spanish name
name from the published Spanish edition
Label on the base map
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What was read
CITIES OF THE BLOODLESS MEN
Base map
atlas-known-world-2019.png · Adam Whitehead, Atlas of Ice and Fire

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