The Dry Deep

Abismo Árido

The Dry Deep is a deep depression cut into the land at the far eastern edge of Essos, wedged among other remote reaches of that stretch of the world. Almost nothing is known of it beyond where it lies and what its own name promises.

Chapter 1

A canyon with no water

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The Dry Deep sits boxed in among already-known landmarks of eastern Essos. Ciudad de los Huesos marks its northwestern edge; further west lie los Cinco Fuertes and la Tierra de los Shrykes, with K'Dath also to the northwest. To the north lie the Desierto Gris and las Arenas de los Caníbales, and to the south, las Ciudades de los Hombres Sin Sangre.

Almost nothing else is known of its interior beyond what its own name already says: a deep canyon with no water running through it and nothing living in it.

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.

  2. Spanish nameWe worked it out

    The Spanish name is the atlas’s own reviewed translation, not the one in the published Gigamesh edition, which does not fix it.

According to the Hielo y Fuego Wiki · Abismo Árido · 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
the atlas’s own translation, reviewed
Label on the base map
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What was read
THE DRY DEEP
Base map
atlas-known-world-2019.png · Adam Whitehead, Atlas of Ice and Fire

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