Bloodmage

Bloodmages are practitioners of bloodmagic. The shadowbinders and bloodmages of the Further East are said to work their terrible sorceries at night.[1] They are welcome in Asshai, where they can practice their arts and rituals with impunity.[2]

History

Bloodmages were prominent in the Valyrian Freehold.[3][4] Septon Barth, in his Dragons, Wyrms, and Wyverns: Their Unnatural History, speculated that the bloodmages of Valyria employed wyvern stock to create dragons.[4] In the flesh pits of Gogossos, bloodmages mated beast to slave-women to bring forth twisted half-human children.[3] Magic is said to have died out in the west after the Doom of Valyria, however.[1]

Mirri Maz Duur, a maegi, was taught by a bloodmage from the Shadow Lands.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 23, Daenerys III.
  2. ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Bones and Beyond: Asshai-by-the-Shadow.
  3. 1 2 The World of Ice & Fire, Beyond the Free Cities: The Basilisk Isles.
  4. 1 2 The World of Ice & Fire, Beyond the Free Cities: Sothoryos.
  5. ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 64, Daenerys VIII.
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