Steel Road

el Camino del Acero

The Steel Road is one of the three great caravan routes crossing the Bones, guarded by the city of Kayakayanaya and running toward Vaes Dothrak.

Its name comes from the countless battles fought along its swaying bridges and underground passages, scars from centuries of clashes between the Jogos Nhai riders and the warrior women who hold the pass.

Chapter 1

A pass beneath the peaks

Books only

Of the three trade routes crossing the Bones toward the Further East, this is the one that runs beneath the range's highest peaks, over bridges that sway above the drop and through passages cut into the rock underground.

The road ends at Vaes Dothrak, and at its other end stands Kayakayanaya, the city that watches over it and forms its only safe crossing point.

Chapter 2

The enmity that will not end

Books only

For generations, various jhattars of the Jogos Nhai have marched their hosts along this road, and every one of those attempts has ended the same way: broken against Kayakayanaya's walls.

That string of failures bred a long-standing grudge between the horse-lords and the warrior women defending the city, a standoff that has never been settled either way.

The Moon Singers still sing of a day still to come when their people will finally cross the mountains and claim the fertile lands beyond.

The physical world

Es una de las tres principales rutas de caravanas del Oriente Más Lejano.

What it is like · The Lands of Ice and Fire

Discurre bajo los picos más altos de Los Huesos, por puentes balanceantes y pasajes subterráneos.

What it is like · El Mundo de Hielo y Fuego, Más allá de los Reinos del Ocaso, Los Huesos y más allá.

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 · Camino del Acero · 2026-07-30

Where each datum comes from
Position
point on the road nearest the label
English name
visual reading of the label
Spanish name
name from the published Spanish edition
Label on the base map
368
What was read
Steel Road
Features averaged into the centroid
4
Base map
atlas-known-world-2019.png · Adam Whitehead, Atlas of Ice and Fire

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