History Characters / ASongOfIceAndFireEssosTheFreeCitiesBraavos

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* TheMistress: The fourth mistress of Aegon IV, with their affair with then-Prince Aegon lasting ten years.
* {{Pirate}}: Had a rep for not always being entirely above-board about where her cargo came from if anybody cared to enquire too much...

The Sealord of Braavos responsible for revealing the existence and location of Braavos to the entire world on the 111th aniversary of its founding, an event that came to be known as "The Uncloaking of Uthero".

* AllThereInTheManual: Even though the event is mentioned in the main series, the specifics about the Uncloaking are only revealed in ''[[Literature/TheWorldOfIceAndFire The World of Ice & Fire]]''.

* CrazyPrepared: Before revealing Braavos' existence to the world but he made sure to lay the groundwork years in advance and made sure that any possible person who might object had be properly paid off.

!!!The Iron Bank of Braavos

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!!The Iron Bank of Braavos
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The richest and most powerful bank in the known world, richer than all the other banks of the Free Cities combined.

* CultureChopSuey: It's an idealized republican state -- with the general layout and topography and Naval strength of Venice, the banking organizations of Medici-Era Florence and the Dutch and the anti-slavery policies of the British (who went on a crusade to end slavery in the early 19th Century).

* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: During one performance of ''The Anguish of the Archon'', he stumbled onto stage drunk and opened with the with the grumpkin's speech from ''The Merchant's Lusty Lady.'' Izembaro nearly flayed him for that.

* VocalDissonance: He has a big, booming voice for such a little man, and puts it to good use as "Tyrion" while making a deal with "the Stranger."

* CultureChopSuey: It's an idealized republican state -- with the general layout and topography and Naval strength of Venice, the banking organizations of Medici-Era Florence and the Dutch and the anti-slavery policies of the British (who on a crusade to end slavery in the early 19th Century).

* CultureChopSuey: It's an idealized republican state -- with the general layout and topography of Venice, the banking organizations of Medici-Era Florence and the Dutch and the Fleet of the British Empire (whose Navy went on a crusade to end slavery in the early 19th Century) with its wall of ships protecting it from invasion.

** The culture of Braavos, with its assassins and sword-fighting culture further associate it with Florence. "Bravo" is an Italian word meaning "skilled", but also referred to mercenary swordsmen who served as bodyguards, security and/or street gangs, in whose case it was instead derived interdependently from the Latin ''pravus'', meaning "wicked". The theatre scene of Braavos is suggestive of the Renaissance era Florence (famous for comedies by Pietro Aretino and later, Machiavelli, who achieved popular success as a playwright rather than as a political theorist) and Elizabethan England. Littlefinger, a figure directly inspired by Niccolò Machiavelli, has Braavosi ancestry.

** The culture of Braavos, with its assassins and sword-fighting culture further associate it with Florence. Bravo is an Italian word meaning "brave one" and originally referred to mercenary swordsmen who served as bodyguards, security and/or street gangs. The theatre scene of Braavos is suggestive of the Renaissance era Florence (famous for comedies by Pietro Aretino and later, Machiavelli, who achieved popular success as a playwright rather than as a political theorist) and Elizabethan England. Littlefinger, a figure directly inspired by Niccholo Macchiavelli, has Braavosi ancestry.

* ButNotTooBlack: Her skin colour is actually light brown. A Braavosi girl named Mercy [[spoiler:(actually Arya Stark)]], considers she should be called the Brown Pearl.
** She is a Targaryen descendant from King Aegon IV, the Targaryens being ostensibly and almost otherworldy white.

* GoodRepublicEvilEmpire: Braavos is an abolitionist, ethnically diverse republic that has social mobility and national feeling that cuts across class lines. It also goes to wars with other nations to curb slavery. Though it's not perfect or ideal in any sense, since much of its power comes from the very ruthless and amoral MegaCorp-- The Iron Bank of Braavos-- and its band of assassins-- the Faceless Men.

--> '''The Kindly Man''': The Nine Free Cities are the daughters of Valyria that was, but Braavos is the bastard child who ran away from home.

* CultureChopSuey: It's an idealized republican state - with the general layout and topography of Venice, the banking organizations of Medici-Era Florence and the Dutch and the Fleet of the British Empire (whose Navy went on a crusade to end slavery in the early 19th Century) with its wall of ships protecting it from invasion.

* BadassBaritone: His voice is described as booming.

-->''"The courtesans of Braavos were famed across the world. Singers sang of them, goldsmiths and jewelers showered them with gifts, craftsmen begged for the honour of their custom, merchant princes paid royal ransoms to have them on their arms at balls and feasts and mummers shows, and bravos slew each other in their names."''

-->''"We Braavosi are descended from those who fled Valyria and the wroth of its dragonlords. We do not jape of dragons."''

* NoNameGiven: They are only known by their titles.

* RagsToRiches: It is implied that there are ways for a common girl to become a courtesan. One of the Merling Queen's mermaids is the daughter of a serving maid, and the Kindly Man asks Arya if she would like to train as a courtesan under the Black Pearl or the Daughter of the Dusk.