Vaes Mejhah

Vaes Mejhah is a ruined city in Essos, south of the Dothraki sea and northeast of Lhazar, on the banks of the river Skahazadhan. Its Dothraki name betrays its past: it was once a Ghiscari city, razed by the horselords during the Century of Blood.

Chapter 1

A Ghiscari city on Dothraki ground

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Vaes Mejhah was once a Ghiscari city, standing in lands the khalasars would come to rule. Nothing remains of it now but ruins, and its position explains its fate: the Dothraki sea lies to its south, and the river Skahazadhan once ran through it, the same waters that also touch the nearby ruins of Vaes Efe.

The city's own name carries the mark of those who ended it. It is Dothraki, not Ghiscari, and its second half comes from a word meaning whore: the horselords renamed it their own way once they had taken it.

Chapter 2

The Century of Blood

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Vaes Mejhah's destruction came during the Century of Blood, when the Dothraki khalasars tore down one Ghiscari city after another across the region. What survived was not the name its founders gave it, but the one its destroyers chose instead.

The physical world

El nombre de la ciudad es de origen Dothraki. Vaes significa ciudad y Mejhah, que deriva de Mezhah, que significa puta, por lo que se podría traducir como "ciudad de las putas".

Where the name comes from · El Diccionario no oficial de Dothraki (en inglés)

According to the Hielo y Fuego Wiki · Vaes Mejhah · 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
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Symbol
ruin
What was read
Vaes Mejhah
Base map
atlas-known-world-2019.png · Adam Whitehead, Atlas of Ice and Fire

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