A Song of Ice and Fire: Free Cities | Volantis, Norvos, Lorath | Part 1 of 3

A brief history for the Free Cities of Western Essos. Part 1 will explore the older settlements of Volantis, Norvos and Lorath. Based on the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin.
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[@Charlie_the_Robot-01]

Since you’re back to ASOIAF you should do a video series on Maegor the Cruel and his wars against the Faith in the Faith Militant Uprising. There is so many interesting battles and events that transpired during his reign. And not many KZbinrs adequately cover that part of Westerosi history.

[@lego_dane7619]

But is there enough about it to make a full video?

[@Grandtemplar305]

@@lego_dane7619yes

[@PedroHenrique-lm7gv]

Glad to see you back on ASOIAF, these are my favorites.

[@pakman15]

Welcome back!!!

[@aamirrazak3467]

Great to return to ASOIAF, such an interesting universe! It’s cool how the free cities outlived their original progenitors, the Valyrian Freehold, and didn’t contain slavery like it did

[@CivilizationEx]

The Free Cities are very interesting but some did have slavery. Mostly Lorath, Braavos and Pentos outlawed slavery :)

[@aamirrazak3467]

ah, i see thanks, it's been a while since I've read the books so I had forgotten. I recall Braavos outlawing slavery but not the others. I guess i assumed from the title "Free cities" they all outlawed slavery@@CivilizationEx

[@CivilizationEx]

@@aamirrazak3467 lol yeah the Free Cities name is a bit misleading. I will talk about it more in the other parts but Pentos lost a war to Braavos and was forced to end slavery. The ancient Lorathi religion was all about equality so they never had it from the beginning.

[@carlpetersen3147]

​@aamirrazak3467 the free cities part refers to thier independent rule not being directly governed by the Valirian Freehold Government witch itself is named after the Prctice of Democracy Limited to land owning free citizens.

[@aamirrazak3467]

@@carlpetersen3147ah I see that makes sense thanks for clarifying. I haven’t read the books in some time so I forgot

[@isaac5154]

Great video

[@LaurenceGill2000]

This is just absolutely great stuff as per usual

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Hell yeah the homie back with any other ASOIAF lore vid ::.. love your Winds Of Winter audio chapters !!!

[@Hellsing7747]

Thanks man ! I love your videos

[@CivilizationEx]

Free Cities: Part 1 - kzbin.info/www/bejne/eoDKqIaqaZpkn9k&ab_channel=CivilizationEx Part 2 - kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3OUZomjpqaCnJo&ab_channel=CivilizationEx Part 3 - kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3fXaaqMp86Ld68&ab_channel=CivilizationEx Complete - kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5KcimtjpquLo8U&ab_channel=CivilizationEx

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Love the videos brother. Valar Dohaeris.

[@hi-am-pat2k176]

I really want you to continue the erreg the kinslayer stories

[@Peizxcv]

The lore of Middle Earth is a lot more enticing

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[@pendr1825]

Awesome work! What program do you use to make/animate your videos?

[@CivilizationEx]

Adobe Animate :)

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@@CivilizationEx Oh cool. Thanks for replying!

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First to take the Black 🖤

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[@nicbahtin4774]

This universe needs games not unlike witcher style ones

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ASOIAF is BACK!!!!!!!!!

[@melkhiordarkfell4354]

Not to sound weird, but the voice sounds a bit off. It's not the same calm and matter of fact tone in other videos. It almost like you are whisper shouting while reading a sensational news story.

[@Ryfael]

Agreed. It's off and not comforting

[@CivilizationEx]

Sorry about that, this video grew a lot longer than I originally planned so maybe I rushed through the recording a bit. I'll try to ease off a bit in the future.

[@lincolnlog5977]

I didn’t get that vibe at all lol

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I would say your crazy but apparently theres others who agree😂

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[@nicbahtin4774]

Don't understand why the freehold fell only cause the capital was destroyed. It's like the US would be destroyed if east coast was

[@lincolnlog5977]

It’s because the Freehold was a slave driven empire that was only really held together by Dragon Riding Aristocracy.

[@aamirrazak3467]

It was a combination of Valyria being the main seat of the dragonlords power, and as most of them were there, they mostly perished in the doom. The surviving dragonlords besides the Targaryens were eliminated as well in the following century. Plus all the knowledge and resources of Valyria were lost in the Doom