The Smoking Sea
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The Smoking Sea is what remains of the Valyrian peninsula after the land sank and the sea swallowed it whole. Its waters, dotted with volcanoes and smoking rock, have a reputation for killing any ship that dares cross them.
Very few claim to have sailed into it and come back alive, so every story about what lies within gets told more as legend than as established fact.
History
Sinking of Valyria
Where the Valyrian peninsula once stood, only a smoking sea remains, born the day the land sank and the water swallowed it whole. Volcanoes still burn beneath the surface, and in some stretches the water is said to boil.
No sensible sailor sails into it: it is said to be infested with krakens and haunted by demons. Gerion Lannister vanished there while searching for Brightroar, his House's ancestral sword, and nothing more was ever heard of him or his crew.
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Voyages
Euron's Voyage
By his own account in A Feast for Crows, Euron Greyjoy sailed across the Smoking Sea and glimpsed Valyria with his own eyes. He boasts of being the only sailor to have entered those waters and come back alive to tell of it.
Lord Rodrik Harlaw hears the tale and doesn't buy it: to him it sounds more like boasting than a real feat.
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Daenerys's Tapestry
In A Dance with Dragons, in Meereen, Daenerys Targaryen studies an old tapestry given to her by Xaro Xhoan Daxos, woven before the Doom of Valyria. It shows no sea where the water now boils: Valyria still sits joined to the mainland, not yet an island.
Aboard the Selaesori Qhoran, Tyrion Lannister recalls that his uncle Gerion bought slaves to fill out the crew of the ship with which he meant to cross the Smoking Sea, after half the original crew deserted before it ever set sail.
Victarion Greyjoy, for his part, counts among his brother Euron's feats having sailed those waters and come back alive to boast of it.
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The physical world
Se dice que está habitado por demonios..
What it is like · Tormenta de Espadas, Capítulo 8, Daenerys.
Está lleno de volcanes y pilas humeantes de rocas y se dice que en algunos lugares sus aguas hierven, y que están infestadas de krakens.
What it is like · A World of Ice and Fire
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Gallery
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The Smoking Sea, image 2Valyria 5x05 (4).png · gameofthrones.fandom.com · this wiki publishes under CC-BY-SA 
The Smoking Sea, image 3Smoking Sea and Ruins of Valyria.png · gameofthrones.fandom.com · this wiki publishes under CC-BY-SA
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On the map
On the map
What we are not sure about
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.
Books and show
Where it appears
In the books (4)
- A Dance with Dragons
- A Storm of Swords
- A Feast for Crows
- A World of Ice and Fire
By work
| Work | Format | Where it is told |
|---|---|---|
| A Feast for Crows | Book | Euron's Voyage |
| A Dance with Dragons | Book | Daenerys's Tapestry |