Lhazar

Lhazar sits on a dry strip of land between the Dothraki Sea and Slaver's Bay, with the Khyzai Pass as the only mountain road to Meereen. It isn't desert and it isn't plain: it's grassland and hill country, enough to keep herds alive.

Its people, the Lhazareen, neither ride nor conquer. They raise livestock and worship the Great Shepherd, and that stillness has made them easy prey for Dothraki riders crossing the northern border whenever it suits them.

Three cities hold the region together: Hesh, Lhazosh, and Kosrak. Further northeast there is only ruin, Vaes Mejhah among it, remnants of an age the Lhazareen themselves can no longer explain.

When Meereen finds itself cut off, the Lhazareen do something they hadn't done before: they reopen trade with the city, answering an appeal from Daenerys Targaryen. The choice makes them the queen's only allies anywhere in the bay.

The gesture isn't enough. Qarth's ships close the river route and the legions of New Ghis seal the road by land, leaving Lhazar an ally with no way to reach the one it's helping.