Vaes Shirosi
On this tab
Vaes Shirosi is today a scatter of ruins in Essos, south of the Red Waste, once neighbour to other Qaathi cities such as Vaes Orvik and Qarkash.
Its name, of Dothraki root, recalls the scorpion, and that is nearly all that remains certain about a place erased long before anyone wrote its history down.
Name Origin
The Dothraki gave the place a name built from two of their own words: vaes, city, and shirosi, drawn from shiro, scorpion. Together they read as something like 'city of scorpions', a name that outlasted the people who used it.
It stood on the southern edge of the Red Waste, with Qarkash to the east and, further west, Yhos and the fallen stones of Vaes Orvik. Before it fell to ruin, it had been a Qaathi city-state, one among several scattered across that stretch of Essos.
Suggest an edit
Destruction
Vaes Shirosi's end came at Dothraki hands, during the wars and pillaging Essos remembers as the Century of Blood. Like so many other Qaathi cities, it did not survive the riders' passage.
Nothing was left of its government or its people, only the name and the stones that still stand as evidence of a city that existed before it became a ruin.
Suggest an edit
The physical world
El nombre de la ciudad es de origen Dothraki. Vaes significa ciudad y Shirosi, palabra que deriva de Shiro, que significa escorpión, por lo que se podría traducir como "ciudad de los escorpiones".
Where the name comes from · El Diccionario no oficial de Dothraki (en inglés)
Suggest an edit
On the map
On the map
Books and show
Where it appears
In the books (2)
- The Lands of Ice and Fire
- A World of Ice and Fire