It thrived on the slave trade, an extension of the brutal arm of Slaver’s Bay. When Valyria fell, Gogossos was called the Tenth Free City, albeit ironically. All manner of atrocities were done in the pits of Gogossos. The Valyrians captured the city and renamed it “Gogossos.” It became a penal colony for the worst criminals in Valyria. One of those many battles brought down Gorgai. During the Third Ghiscari War, the Valyrans fought the Ghiscari across the seas, from the Summer Isles to the Basilisk Isles and beyond. TWOIAF gave us, in about a paragraph, a desperately bloody history of the island city.īriefly: Gogossos was once the Ghiscari city of Gorgai. But until The World of Ice and Fire, Gogossos was just a (really cool) name. At the bottom of the map, the Basilisk Isles peeped up like grotesque little children at the bottom of the Basilisk Isles, Gogossos grinned. When A Dance with Dragons was released, it included a brand-new map of the ruins of Valyria and the Summer Sea.
And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
