Singing Stones

Las Rocas Cantarinas

The Singing Stones are a small group of islands within the Summer Isles, lying in the Summer Sea west of Omboru and north of the Three Sisters.

They take their name from a natural phenomenon: wind passing through the holes of their weathered rocks produces a sound that the islands' people use to read the direction of the wind.

Chapter 1

The stones that sing to the wind

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The rocks of this archipelago have spent centuries being worn down by the wind. Their peaks, jagged and riddled with holes and channels, let the air pass through in a particular way: when the wind blows, they whistle and hum with a strange melody that gives the islands their name.

Those who live there have learned to read that sound. The song changes depending on where the wind comes from, and the islanders can tell direction apart by the pitch of the stones, using nothing more than their ears to find their bearings.

No one knows whether that shaping of the stone is the work of gods or of men. The wiki leaves the question open, and nothing here settles it either.

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 · Las Rocas Cantarinas · 2026-07-30

Where each datum comes from
Position
centroid of the islands the label covers
English name
visual reading of the label
Spanish name
name from the published Spanish edition
Label on the base map
791
What was read
SINGING STONES
Features averaged into the centroid
1
Base map
atlas-known-world-2019.png · Adam Whitehead, Atlas of Ice and Fire

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