Myr rises from marshy ground on Essos's western coast, its guildhalls turning out goods so fine that a Myrish provenance has become its own mark of quality — lenses ground thin enough to be worn as spectacles, lace delicate enough to pass through a ring, crossbows a Myrish bowyer will boast can outrange anything a Westerosi armory produces. The city trades on craft rather than conquest, and its magisters seem content to let sharper cities fight over the Disputed Lands while Myr sells to whichever side wins.
The Free Cities
Myr
Lace, lenses, and crossbows no armorer elsewhere can quite match
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A merchant city famed for the finest glasswork, lace, and crossbows in the known world, and for exporting rather more of its sons abroad than it keeps at home.
Trade, faith, and rule
Myrish carpets and Myrish glass turn up in noble halls from Pentos to King's Landing, carried by merchant houses that keep a foot in every port; the city's red priests maintain a modest temple of their own, though never one to rival Volantis's. A maester's chief complaint about Myr is how little it complains about anything — a city too busy selling to bother with the region's endless small wars, except as a market for them.
Myr in the novels
This carries the place's part in the published novels. Read on only if you do not fear to know.
These partings name deaths, endings, and roads not yet ridden in the books. Unveil them only if both roads are known to you — or if you do not fear to know.
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Where is Myr?
A merchant city famed for the finest glasswork, lace, and crossbows in the known world, and for exporting rather more of its sons abroad than it keeps at home.
Is Myr from the books or the show?
Book canon. This entry follows George R. R. Martin's novels and histories, and notes where the television series diverges rather than following it.