Sothoryos, the continent south of Essos.The Shadow Lands, mysterious, dangerous wastes beyond Yi Ti, and Asshai, a mysterious city on the border, where Melissandre and Qaithe come from.Seems to be loosely based on medieval perceptions of China and is highly regarded - wine from here is talked about as a valuable luxury, and in Qarth when Xaro Xhoan Daxos tried to convince Dany to go with him, one of the desirables he promised was a honeymoon tour of Yi Ti on a pleasure barge. Yi Ti, an advanced, once-great empire to the far east with technology including telescopes.I suspect these are based on a mix of African trading kingdoms like the Ashanti, and early Pacific Islanders possibly with a little Carthage too. We meet a few summer islanders - extravagantly dressed, black skin, with a progressive and relaxed attitude to love, and the world's fastest, most technologically advanced ships. The premise is similar to Medieval Europe - people in Westeros are aware of other, exotic, distant lands, and occasionally encounter people from them, but don't know much about them. There's also plenty of interesting other lands south and east (no mention of anything to the west). That's everything north of the Wall, which is what the question seemed to be asking for. He looked deep into the heart of winter, and then he cried out, afraid. ![]() ![]() The curtain of light at the end of the world, and then beyond that curtain. The dead plains where nothing grew or livedīeyond that, off the top of the map, the only clue I'm aware of is from the same dream of Bran's:
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