Chapter 8: World Map Update: Free City of Braavos

The Free City of Braavos, sometimes called Braavos of the Hundred Isles, is the most powerful of the free cities. The city is built in a large lagoon where the shivering and narrow seas meet, the city's architecture built on well over a hundred islands. The city is most known for the Titan of Braavos, a giant statue at the lagoons entrance, the Iron Bank, the richest bank in the world as well as its famed bravos and ''water dancers'' who fight with thin but deadly blades. The city's location means it is constantly in need of timber which it imports in huge quantities, and its main trade goods include fish and its famous dyes. The city also boasts temples to half a hundred gods, numerous ports and is famed for its courtesans. Braavos boasts one of the largest fleets in the known world and their dockyards are said to be able to produce a warship in a day, though this fleet comes at the cost of constantly importing timber.