Norvos was founded by dissidents who found even Valyria's tolerance of every god too permissive for their liking, and built instead a city where one true faith, secret in its rites and its very god's name, would brook no rival. High Norvos crowns a hill above the river; Low Norvos huddles in the valley beneath it, and between them the city's three great bells toll out the hours for waking, labor, rest, prayer, and — the bearded priests being no gentler than their theology suggests — for war.
The Free Cities
Norvos
Where three bells rule better than any prince
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A theocratic Free City where bearded priests hold the true power, and three great bells decide when the rest of Norvos may work, pray, fight, or sleep.
Trade, faith, and rule
Only the bearded priests may wear beards at all in Norvos; every other man goes shaven, and unwanted sons of poorer families are sold to the priesthood to be raised as a temple guard trained to the longaxe. Norvos otherwise trades in the unglamorous staples of cheese, wool, and goats, and a maester finds it a city more often described in passing than examined closely.
Norvos 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 Norvos?
A theocratic Free City where bearded priests hold the true power, and three great bells decide when the rest of Norvos may work, pray, fight, or sleep.
Is Norvos 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.