Slaver's Bay

Ghis was old long before Valyria ever reached its Golden Age, one of the oldest cities remembered among the nations of the world. Over the centuries it grew into an empire with its own army, trade and culture, and its legions were famous for never losing a battle. Its buildings were known for brick towers and pyramids raised by slave labor, and its emblem was the harpy: a woman with raven wings instead of arms, eagle legs and a scorpion's tail, a bolt of lightning caught in her claws.

The empire fell thousands of years ago, losing five wars in a row to the Valyria that had just risen in the world. Neither its accumulated wealth nor legions thought unbeatable could stand against the weapon that decided those wars: dragons.

When the empire collapsed, Ghis was left in ruins and most of its old bloodlines were lost with it. Even so, some survivors of the empire rebuilt the region out of that wreckage.

Three great cities rose from that rebuilding: Astapor, Yunkai and Meereen. All three became centers of the world slave trade and amassed enormous fortunes.

For a long time those three cities stayed locked in the same routine, with little changing from one year to the next.

That stillness broke when Daenerys Targaryen's military campaigns reached the bay: Astapor, Yunkai and Meereen fell, one after another, under her command.