Volantis, the First Daughter of Valyria | Essos

First Valyrian Outpost. Prominent slaver city. City, who's two shores are connected by the long Bridge. City of Valyrian nobles. Volantis - the First Daughter of Valyria and successor of its ideology.

[SuperGreatSphinx]

Volantis is a port on the southern coast of Essos, and is the oldest and proudest of the Free Cities.

A fortification known as the Black Wall protects the oldest parts of the city.

The city is ruled by three triarchs, who are elected every year by free landholders of Volantis, and defended by slave soldiers called the "Tiger Cloaks".

Volantis is incredibly important to the slave market, and in the city there are five slaves to every free man.

All Volantene slaves have facial tattoos denoting their profession: for instance, sex slaves have tears tattooed on their faces, and the Tiger Cloaks have tiger stripes.

The worship of R'hllor is the most influential religion of Volantis, especially among slaves.

The TV adaptation used locations in Córdoba, Spain.

[emiliocamachoerice]

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[stefans]

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[aleks]

These videos are realt great but am I the only one that get dizzy from the frame rate/lag.?

[petrosarvanitis]

It would be so cool if the GoT spin-off follows that greyjoy explorer (I can't remember his name) or that Targaryen that flew with her dragon in Sothoryos and came back (Her name starts with a D)

[fatherireland]

So Volantis is the largest city in the Known World, after Asshai of corse

[vins]

Nice job. Where do you get those illustrations ?

[nunobarros]

8:50 - Photo from AGE OF EMPIRES 3 - Asian Dinasties. Look out, friend....copyrights are serious stuff.

[romanrepublic]

He just reads the wiki of ice and fire articles.

[kevoncox]

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[ScienceManViktor]

the shire amount of slaves in the story seems a bit overbearing to me. Yes you had examples of such lop sided societies in our world as well but they were rare and unstable (and many of those generally treated slaves better then how there treated in the story. ). It just seems like there are far to many slaves, there far to loyal as well and not to mention fill jobs like soldiers which historically was a bad idea for more then 2 generations. realistically the world should be long collapsed under its own weight.

[knightshade]

I Googled volantis it says it's a free city then how does it have slaves

[lisastanton]

oh smells like HOARDS?! Im sorry I need help I cannot handle this. Forgive me.