![]() After three years she returned to the Freehold to report the continent was as large as Essos. Jaenara Belaerys flew her dragon Terrax farther south than any person ever and found only jungle, deserts, and mountains. The first was destroyed by Brindled Men, the second was lost to plague, and the third was abandoned when the dragonlords took Zamettar during the Fourth Ghiscari War. The Valyrian Freehold established three colonies on Basilisk Point. ![]() The Old Empire of Ghis established outposts on the northern shores of the continent, raising the walled city of Zamettar at the mouth of the Zamoyos and the grim penal colony of Gorosh on Wyvern Point. The origins of the city of Yeen are an enigma, though it is built of the same black stone as the idol in the Isle of Toads. įarther south, in the Green Hell there are reports of white vampire bats that can drain the blood of a man in minutes, tattooed lizards that run down their preys and rip them apart with long curved claws on their hind legs, snakes fifty feet long, spotted spiders, and terrible wyverns. Sothoryos contains hairy apes in its jungles, and the forests south of Yeen are said to be the home of apes that dwarf the largest giants, capable of killing elephants with a single blow. Basilisk Point is full of the eponymous animals, some of which are twice the size of lions. The continent swarms with stinging flies, venomous snakes, wasps and worms that lay their eggs beneath the skins of horses, hogs, and men alike. The Zamoyos and other streams are home to crocodiles and swarms of carnivorous fish capable of stripping a man's flesh in minutes. White vampire bats are said to dwell in the Green Hell, by Kevin Catalan ©īesides the savage Brindled Men, particularly the ghouls and cannibals from the deep jungles, Sothoryos is home to many fatal diseases, including blood boils, green fever, dancing plague, sweetrot, bronze pate, the Red Death, greyscale, brownleg, wormbone, sailor's bane, pus-eye, and yellowgum. There are also unproven reports of other races and forgotten peoples that were driven out, destroyed, or devoured by the Brindled Men, as well as lizard men and eyeless cave-dwellers. Farther south, the Sothoryi are more savage, known for cannibalism and worshiping dark gods with obscene rites. The Ghiscari consider them to be slow of wit but fierce fighters that make good slaves. The Sothoryi mostly known to the corsairs of the neighboring Basilisk Isles are those who dwell closest to the sea on the northern shore, who have learned the Trade Talk. Sothoryi women are said to be unable to breed with men from Essos or Westeros, only bringing forth stillbirths or malformed offspring. They are big-boned and massively muscled, with long arms, sloped foreheads, huge square teeth, heavy jaws and coarse black hair. Their brindled skin is thick, often in patterns of brown and white. Sothoryos men are described as brindle-skinned half-men by Daenerys Targaryen. Corsairs prey on these settlements, carrying off captives to their holding pens on Talon and the Isle of Tears before selling them to the flesh markets of Slaver's Bay or the pleasure houses of Lys. On the northern coast of the continent lie a score of small trade towns of mud, described as wet, humid, and full of misery, where adventurers, rogues, and whores from the Free Cities and the Seven Kingdoms go seeking fortune. The Valyrian Jaenara Belaerys flew her dragon to explore Sothoryos from the air, but after two years turned back, saying that it was at least as large as Essos, possibly "a land without end". Qartheen maps showed the continent as an island twice the size of Great Moraq, but their ships never managed to find the bottom of the continent. Ghiscari believed the continent to be as large as Westeros. Naath also lies off the coast of the continent, to the northwest in the Summer Sea. The northern coast has many islands along its length such the Basilisk Isles. If so, they keep these maps a close guarded secret. ![]() Explorers of the Summer Isles may have mapped southern Sothoryos. Wyvern Point is in northeastern Sothoryos near Lesser Moraq. ![]() The northern coast has been mapped, with the ruined cities of Zamettar, Yeen, Gogossos and Gorosh noted, but little else is known of them. Sothoryos is a large continent, covered in jungles, plague-ridden, and largely unexplored.
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