History Characters / ASongOfIceAndFireEssos

%%* ChildlessDystopia: No children live in Asshai. %%How is it a dystopia? I know the other tropes explain but elaborate?

* AlliterativeName: ''P''yat ''P''ree.

** WordOfGod [[http://grrm.livejournal.com/465247.html confirmed that Pree was still alive]], and a new TWOW chapter reveals [[spoiler:that Euron has been torturing him and holding him captive in the hold of the ''Silence'' alongside priests and sorcerors of other religions. Pree's legs have been chopped by Euron]].

* TheProphecy: They prophesize to Daenerys that "the dragon has three heads," that she must light three fires "one for life and one for death and one to love," that she will marry three times "one to bed and one to dread and one to love," and that she will be betrayed three times "once for blood and once for gold and once for love."

* VampiricDraining: [[spoiler: They attempt to drain Daenerys' life, only to be [[KillItWithFire stopped]] by Drogon.]]

* ChildlessDystopia: No children live in Asshai.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Daenerys notices how he pays no attention to her bare breast when she wears a typical Qartheen dress - unlike Ser Jorah who remains DistractedByTheSexy -- and how his servants are all pretty boys dressed in wisps of silk.

-->''"The Dothraki horselords call the Lhazarene the Lamb Men. When you shear them all they do is bleat. They are not a martial people."''
-->--'''Xaro Xhoan Daxos'''

-->''"These are strange times in Qarth. And strange times are bad for trade."''
-->--'''Xaro Xhoan Daxos'''

* BazaarOfTheBizarre: Has one.
* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The House of the Undying.

* MobileMaze: The House of the Undying.

-->''"The Pureborn see no farther than the walls of Qarth."''

-->''"A craven's knife can slay a queen as easily as a hero's."''

* AmbiguouslyGay: Daenerys notices how he pays no attention to her bare breast when she wears a typical Qartheen dress - unlike Ser Jorah who remains DistractedByTheSexy - and how his servants are all pretty boys dressed in wisps of silk.

-->''"Once they were mighty, but now they are as ludicrous as those feeble old soldiers who boast of their prowess long after strength and skill have left them. They read their crumbling scrolls, drink their shade-of-the-evening until their lips turn blue, and hint of dread powers, but they are hollow husks compared to those who went before."''

-->''"Come with me to the House of the Undying, and you shall drink of truth and wisdom."''

-->''"When you come to the chamber of the Undying, be patient. Our little lives are no more than a flicker of a moth's wing to them. Listen well, and write each word upon your heart."''

-->''"Crow's Eye, did you leave your wits at Asshai?"''

-->''"Hear me, Daenerys Targaryen. The glass candles are burning. Soon comes the pale mare, and after her the others. Kraken and dark flame, lion and griffin, the sun's son and the mummer's dragon. Trust none of them. Remember the Undying. Beware the perfumed seneschal."''

* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Genuinely believes that killing Rhaego and rendering Drogo helpless is for the greater good--and she may be right.]]
* BlackMagic: Uses this to treat Khal Drogo's wounds at Daenerys' request. [[spoiler:She is in fact making his wound worse, and kills Daenerys' unborn child and renders Drogo catatonic]].
* BurnTheWitch: [[spoiler:Though it's less because she's a witch and more because she betrayed Daenerys]].

* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:Vows to not scream when Daenerys orders her thrown onto Drogo's funeral pyre. Daenerys simply says that she will, but she only needs Duur's life. Duur fails to keep her vow.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: The loss of everyone she ever loved after Khal Drogo sacked Lhazareen made her feel dead inside. She even compares her living situation to Drogo's catatonic state, saying they are both alive but have lost everything that matters.]]
* FalseFriend: She's even listed as one of these in the appendixes.
* AFateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:She considers being raped several times and the destruction of her temple this.]]

* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler:She was a healer from Lhazareen until Khal Drogo razed her village which drove her to use blood magic against him and his child as revenge.]]

* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler:Her vengeance upon Khal Drogo.]]
* RapeAndRevenge: [[spoiler:She had already been raped several times by the time Daenerys "rescued" her, and she takes revenge by manipulating Daenerys, killing her unborn child, rendering Drogo catatonic, which breaks his huge Khalasar apart into several competing groups making the Dothraki much less of a threat to other cities]].

* TheProphecy: They prophesize to Daenerys that "the dragon has three heads," that she must light three fires "one for life and one for death and one to love," that she will marry three times "one to bed and one to dread and one to love," and she will be betrayed three times "once for blood and once for gold and once for love."

-->''"“When you come to the chamber of the Undying, be patient. Our little lives are no more than a flicker of a moth’s wing to them. Listen well, and write each word upon your heart.”"''

* TheBeautifulElite: [[spoiler:It is nothing more than a {{Glamour}}. In reality they are ancient and withered EvilOldFolks]].
%%ZCE * CreepyBlueEyes: ''Fully'' blue.

* NervousWreck: She is a very timid girl who is easily frightened and upset; when Mirri Maz Duur is preparing to treat Drogo's wound using BloodMagic, she runs out of the tent sobbing. It's [[JustifiedTrope not really all that surprising]], given she's been on the receiving end of RapePillageAndBurn and the only person standing between her and sadistic warriors like Mago is Daenerys...and she only really has power through being the dying khal's wife.

-->--'''Xaro Xoan Daxos'''

* MouthOfSauron: To the Undying Ones.

* CrypticConversation: Pretty much her shtick.

* MysteriousWoman: Her motives and why she is helping Daenerys are a complete mystery.

* CultureChopSuey: Qarth is based on many MerchantCity in fantasy and history, having such elements as BazaarOfTheBizarre and being an oligarchy of rival factions that echoes Constantinople and Renaissance Italy, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Sorel while the Qartheen dress]] is based on some of the weirder medieval European fashion trends.

* CreepyBlueEyes: [[UpToEleven ''Fully'' blue.]]

* AFateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:She considers being raped several times and the destruction of her temple this.]]

* BullyingADragon: He first tries to manipulate and betray Daenerys. [[spoiler: Then he does the same with Euron. [[WhatAnIdiot Frankly, he should have taken the hint after the first time it didn't work as expected for him]], because if anybody is going to be doing the deadly betraying in this Qarthi-Ironborn alliance, it likely ain't gonna to be him coming out on top.]]