Qohor stands at the western fringe of its own vast forest, the largest woodland left standing in Essos, and was raised as a temple-city to the Black Goat, a god other Free Cities — Norvos's own priests loudest among them — consider outright demonic. The Black Goat's altars take blood daily, beast on ordinary days and condemned criminals on the high holy ones, and a maester records the custom without troubling to defend it.
The Free Cities
Qohor
The City of Sorcerers, on the edge of the last great forest
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The easternmost Free City, founded as a shrine to a demanding god and famed for smiths who alone still know how to work Valyrian steel.
Trade, faith, and rule
Qohor's true renown among Westerosi lords rests with its blacksmiths, who preserve, alone in the known world, the lost art of reforging Valyrian steel — a secret so jealously kept that one visiting maester who asked too many questions of the guild was exiled from the city three times, losing a hand on the last occasion. By his account, the reforging itself is not done without blood of its own, though what exactly that entails he was never permitted to learn.
Qohor 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 Qohor?
The easternmost Free City, founded as a shrine to a demanding god and famed for smiths who alone still know how to work Valyrian steel.
Is Qohor 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.