The Bleeding Sea

el mar Sangrante

The Bleeding Sea is an inland body of water in Essos, so remote from the well-travelled routes that it barely surfaces in the tales that reach Westeros. It takes its name from the deep red colour of its waters, tinted by an algae that grows nowhere else in the world.

Around its shores lie towns and cities — Nefer, K'Dath, the Five Forts — that most maps of the known world do not even bother to name.

The physical world

Su nombre se debe al color rojo sangre de sus profundas aguas, causada por la proliferación de algas que solamente crecen en ese lugar.

Geography · El Mundo de Hielo y Fuego, Más allá de los Reinos del Ocaso, Los Huesos y más allá.

En él desembocan varios ríos.

Geography · The Lands of Ice and Fire

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 · Mar Sangrante · 2026-07-30

Where each datum comes from
Position
centre of the label on the base map
English name
visual reading of the label
Spanish name
name from the published Spanish edition
Label on the base map
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What was read
THE BLEEDING SEA
Base map
atlas-known-world-2019.png · Adam Whitehead, Atlas of Ice and Fire

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