Stygai

Stygai is a ruined city in the mountains of the Shadow Lands in Essos, northeast of Asshai. It is called the Night City, and what little is said of it tends to be secondhand — few outsiders know anything certain about the place.

Chapter 1

The city of night

Books only

Stygai stands in the Ashes, deep in the heart of the Valley of Shadow. There, it's said, light reaches the ground only at midday, and the rest of the hours the city stays in darkness.

It is also called a corpse city, a name that assumes something still dwells there, though no one can say what. Demons and dragons are said to lurk near its broken walls, and even the shadowbinders who live at the valley's edge are reluctant to venture in.

The physical world

La leyendas dicen que está embrujada y los extranjeros poco saben de ella.

What it is like · A World of Ice and Fire

Se dice que en sus proximidades habitan criaturas retorcidas, como demonios y dragones, y que incluso los domadores de sombras temen aventurarse en ella.

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

According to the Hielo y Fuego Wiki · Stygai · 2026-07-30

Where each datum comes from
Position
settlement symbol on the base map
English name
visual reading of the label
Spanish name
name that is not translated
Label on the base map
808
Symbol
ruin
What was read
Stygai
Base map
atlas-known-world-2019.png · Adam Whitehead, Atlas of Ice and Fire

Entry written on .