böcker
De äldsta linjalerna i Qarth är Pureborn , inte tretton eller någon annan handelsaffär.
Factions i Qarth
Följande fraktioner vie för dominans över Qarth:
Qarths egentliga äkta myndighet är Pureborn. De är efterkommande av de gamla kungarna och Queens of Qarth.
Descendants of the ancient kings and queens of Qarth, the Pureborn commanded the Civic Guard and the fleet of ornate galleys that ruled the straits between the seas
ACOK- Daenerys III
Det var den renfödda som Daenerys hade vänt sig till för att begära stöd mot Robert Baratheon.
The Pureborn heard her pleas from the great wooden seats of their ancestors, rising in curved tiers from a marble floor to a high-domed ceiling painted with scenes of Qarth's vanished glory. The chairs were immense, fantastically carved, bright with goldwork and studded with amber, onyx, lapis, and jade, each one different from all the others, and each striving to be the most fabulous. Yet the men who sat in them seemed so listless and world-weary that they might have been asleep. They listened, but they did not hear, or care, she thought. They are Milk Men indeed. They never meant to help me. They came because they were curious. They came because they were bored, and the dragon on my shoulder interested them more than I did.
ACOK- Daenerys III
Men som en handelsstad har köpmännen mycket inflytande på stadens politik.
The merchant princes, grown vastly rich off the trade between the seas, were divided into three jealous factions: the Ancient Guild of Spicers, the Tourmaline Brotherhood, and the Thirteen, to which Xaro belonged.
ACOK- Daenerys III
Historia om Qarth
Qarth grundades av Qaathi personer som har sitt ursprung i Dothrakis havsregion under de tidigaste dagarna av mänskligheten.
What can be said is that the Qaathi arose in the grasslands and established towns there, coming into contact and occasional conflict with the Sarnori. They would oft have the worse of these wars, and so began to drift farther south, creating new city-states. One such, Qarth, was founded on the coast of the Summer Sea. Yet the lands in the south of Essos proved more inhospitable than those the Qaathi had vacated, turning to desert even as they established their foothold there. The Qaathi people were already well on their way to collapse when the Doom struck, and any hopes of using the chaos in the Summer Sea to their advantage vanished when the Dothraki attacked, destroying all the remaining Qaathi cities save for Qarth itself.
TWOIAF- Beyond the Free Cities: The Grasslands
De flesta av Qaathi-städerna förstördes på grund av Dothraki-invasioner efter fallet i Valyria och efterföljande århundradet blod spara för Qarth.
In the south, other khals led their hordes into the Red Waste, destroying the Qaathi towns and cities that once dotted that desert, until only the great city of Qarth remained, protected by its towering triple wall. Despite their long history, little can be said with any certainty of the Qaathi—a people now gone from the world save for a remnant in Qarth.
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.Most of these peoples are gone now, their cities burned and buried, their gods and heroes all but forgotten. Of the Qaathi cities, only Qarth remains, dreaming of past glories beside the jealously guarded Jade Gates, which link the Summer and Jade seas. The others were extinguished, driven into exile, or conquered and assimilated by the people who succeeded them.
TWOIAF- Beyond the Free Cities: The Grasslands
På grund av stadens strategiska läge på de östra sjöningsbanorna blev det snart ett handelscentrum som utvidgades när Valyrian-seapoweren försvann och Volantis blev alltför upptagen med sina egna ambitioner västerut under århundraden av blodåra.
Yet in a way, the Dothraki destruction led to a resurgence for Qarth. Forced to look instead to the sea, the Pureborn who ruled Qarth swiftly constructed a fleet and took control of the Jade Gates—the strait between Qarth and Great Moraq, which joins the Summer Sea to the Jade Sea. With the Valyrian fleet destroyed, and Volantis's attention turned west, there were none to oppose them as they established control over the most direct route between east and west, and so gained immeasurably in both trade and levied tolls for safe passage.
TWOIAF- Beyond the Free Cities: The Grasslands
Visa
I showen menas det att de tretton som styr staden och andra rivaliserande fraktioner och renfödda inte nämns som separata enheter.
Det verkar vara en av de många förändringsvisare som gjorts för att begränsa omfattningen av händelser och saker som de måste filma, eftersom det måste ha verkade oavsiktligt för den eventuella planerade historia-båg som de tog i showen. Titlarna Spice-King, Silk-King och Copper-King är också deras egen uppfinning, inte anpassad från böckerna. Även Westerosi-adelsmän använder "Spice Lords" eller "Cheese Kings" för att hänvisa till Essosi-handelskvasi-aristokratsklassen på ett nedsättande sätt. "Merchant Prince" har dock använts i böckerna, en titel som Xaro Xhoan Daxos presenterade sig med.
I vilket fall som helst nämns inte Qarths Gots politiska historia så det är okänt hur kom de för att styra Qarth i showen.