Game of Thrones Wiki      The Free Cities (Histories & Lore)
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2013 by The Dragon Demands (Talk | contribs)       "The Free
Cities" is a short video in the "Histories & Lore" feature of
the Season 2 Blu-ray set. It features Iain Glen as Jorah
Mormont, who provides a description of the Free Cities of Essos.
Ser Jorah opens his narration noting that, at its height, the
Valyrian Freehold ruled over half of the Known World. Not bad
for former shepherds, he adds sarcastically, but the Doom fell
on them and sent their capital into the sea.      Now Volantis
is the ember of Old Valyria, ensuring its flame does not go out
of this world, as any Volantene will tell. He adds that Pentoshi
say the same about Pentos, Lysenes about Lys and so on. But
after enough time in the nine Free Cities, for Jorah it is hard
to see them as anything but ashes of glory.      Volantis is the
oldest, the first colony of Valyria. After the Doom, the
Volantenes tried to