Chapter Summaries

Yulon Greyjoy reached Braavos and spent the night exploring the city to earn enough points for seven lottery draws. He gained a range of unusual items and mastered Two-Sword Style, then prepared to visit the Faceless Men the next day.

• Yulon sailed into the Shivering Sea and received exploration points for discovering it, the Titan of Braavos, and Braavos.
• Yulon explored several establishments around the Purple Harbor district, earning enough points to reach 700.
• Yulon spent all 700 points on seven lottery draws and obtained an Eternal Pointer, Das Qi's Glasses, a Sky Island Pumpkin, a Stand-in Scarecrow, storage space, Sea Pig Hormone Broth, and Two-Sword Style.
• Yulon absorbed the Two-Sword Style's techniques and gained confidence in his fighting abilities.
• Yulon, Lysa, and "Cracked Jaw" Daggmo settled in for the night before planning to visit the Faceless Men.

Euron visited the Hall of Black and White with Lysa and Daggmo to learn how the Faceless Men carried out killings and what their service cost. He left knowing that becoming one of them required surrendering his identity and ambitions, which he could not do.

• Euron entered the Hall of Black and White with Lysa and Daggmo and felt the deathly power gathered inside.
• A Faceless One appeared and told Euron that the Many-Faced God accepted sacrifices in exchange for a death, with the price determined by the target’s worth.
• Euron asked whether an enemy could pay to have him killed, and the Faceless One said the contract could be undone only at a much greater price.
• Euron asked to learn the Faceless Men’s art, but the Faceless One said he would have to abandon his name, identity, desires, loves, and hatreds.
• Euron recognized that the Faceless Men’s path of self-erasure conflicted with his ambition to control the world.

Euron Greyjoy asked whether he could gain the Many-Faced God's favor without hiring the Faceless Men or surrendering himself to their faith. After drinking the Hall of Black and White's water and resisting its call to death, he received an ancient Iron Coin marking him as watched by a higher power.

• Euron asked the Faceless Men whether friendship with the Many-Faced God could keep him off their assassination list.
• The Kind Man offered Euron black water, and Euron drank it.
• Euron relived his drowning and resurrection as the Many-Faced God's voice urged him to accept death.
• Euron defied the voice, awakening the Grey King's bloodline and causing lightning to coil around him.
• The Kind Man gave Euron an ancient Iron Coin and warned that his death was watched by powers above the Faceless Men.
• Euron put the coin away, understanding that the mark would keep the Faceless Men from targeting him.

Yulon Greyjoy met with Sea King Ferrego Antaryon and the Iron Bank to strengthen trade and financial ties for Platinum Sand, then explored Braavos and its Isle of Gods. He left with a clearer understanding of Braavos’s system and abandoned his idea of building a similar religious center in the Iron Islands.

• Yulon persuaded Sea King Ferrego Antaryon to treat him as a business partner and discussed stable port access and future trade between Braavos and the Iron Islands.
• Yulon presented Platinum Sand’s business prospects to the Iron Bank and exchanged his Gold Dragons for Braavosi Iron Coins.
• Yulon sampled local food and drink while gathering rumors and intelligence from Braavos’s streets and taverns.
• Yulon visited the Isle of Gods and concluded that Braavos’s strength came from managing many faiths within its secular system.
• Yulon asked Lysa about creating a similar religious center in the Iron Islands, but agreed with her that it would not suit the Ironborn; Daggmo affirmed their devotion to the Drowned God.

Oberyn Martell presented Yulon with a route through the Free Cities and onward to the Serpent Isles, and Yulon approved nearly all of it. Yulon assembled a diverse crew of fighters, guides, scholars, and practitioners of magic, leaving the expedition ready to begin.

• Oberyn Martell mapped a route from Braavos through the Free Cities, the Dothraki Grass Sea, and Qohor Forest, ending at the Serpent Isles.
• Yulon listened to Oberyn Martell's plan, suggested a few changes, and accepted almost all of the route.
• Yulon recruited Vittorio Grey, Areo Hotah, Bastian Fernandez, Lomas "Long Lomas," and Castor Daniels for their knowledge and skills.
• Yulon questioned Samur about his loyalty and welcomed him aboard after Oberyn Martell vouched for his reputation.
• Edwyn Ramirez joined to guide the expedition through the Summer Sea and the Serpent Isles while seeking revenge on the sailors who betrayed him.
• Yulon recruited Gwendoline and Evelyn to study and guard against the powers of R'hllor and the Shadow Lands.

Yulon toured Pentos and Norvos, assessing their trade, customs, and goods during his travels. He left Pentos after fourteen days with 2,600 points and continued on to Norvos, where he explored the divided city and its religious order.

• Yulon visited Pentos, observed its trade and wine merchants, and found the city's celebrated sweet wines disappointing.
• Yulon toured the vineyards and planned to use Pentos's grapes and his own methods to produce and sell a richer wine after returning to the Iron Islands.
• Yulon spent fourteen days in Pentos and earned 2,600 points before traveling onward.
• Yulon arrived in Norvos and met with the bearded monks, hoping to trade gold for sturdy textiles and fine oak.
• Yulon descended Sinner's Stair, sampled Winter Cake and Nasa, and heard the three great bells ring.

Yulon traveled through Qohor Forest, Qohor City, and Lorath, surviving the forest’s dangers while seeking skilled workers for the Iron Islands. He left Qohor with many smiths taken by the Ironborn and recorded Lorath’s mines, craftsmen, and feuding families for a future return.

• Yulon’s party passed a ruined temple and avoided pursuing bandits in Qohor Forest, then kept watch through the night as an unseen presence circled their camp.
• Yulon and his companions escaped the forest at dawn and entered Qohor City, where he offered smiths triple pay to move to the Iron Islands.
• After some smiths refused, Yulon reminded the Ironborn of their Old Way, and many smiths disappeared after the party left Qohor.
• Yulon traveled to Lorath and offered stonemasons more than the going rate while his Ironborn companions pressured those who hesitated.
• Yulon recorded Lorath’s mine locations, craftsmen, and family feuds in his journal for a future visit.

Yulon and his companions spent twenty days in Lys, where he trained several women in combat and bought madams to help establish brothels as information networks. In Tyrosh, a tavern clash with pirates killed thirteen of their companions, and the survivors cremated the dead before leaving.

• Yulon gave his companions three days to enjoy Lys while he trained Lysa, Gwendoline, and Evelyn, earning Pirate King System points for defeating them.
• Oberyn Martell returned from a night of revelry and mistook the women’s resentment toward Yulon for evidence of his exploits.
• After twenty days in Lys, Yulon bought several madams for his planned brothels and ordered the group to leave, leaving two Ironborn and one sellsword missing.
• In Tyrosh, a tavern clash between the Ironborn, sellswords, and pirates escalated into a massacre that killed three Ironborn and ten sellswords.
• Yulon’s group cremated their thirteen dead companions and departed Tyrosh.

Yulon described Valantis’s decline, then traveled through the Dothraki Sea and Slaver’s Bay, observing their customs and trading for people he needed. After defeating Jorah and securing a horse deal with Khal Drogo, he left the region intent on gathering talent for the Iron Islands.

• Yulon visited Valantis’s Black Wall, Temple of R'hllor, House of the Merchant, and Long Bridge during the magistrate election, and reflected on the city’s decline.
• Yulon and his companions joined a Dothraki khalasar as guests and followed it to Vaes Dothrak.
• Yulon defeated Jorah, son of Khal Drogo, with a Fish-Man Karate move, earning 40 points and Khal Drogo’s respect.
• Yulon traded salt, wine, and iron with Khal Drogo for Dothraki horses, while the Red Viper wondered why an Ironborn wanted them.
• Yulon toured Yunkai, Meereen, and Astapor, witnessing their slave trades and the Unsullied training process.
• Yulon traded with the slave masters of Slaver’s Bay to acquire useful people for the future of the Iron Islands.

Yulon traveled through the ruins of Valyria, where the Dragon Crystal Compass led him to a Dragon Egg and a rune-carved horn, then visited Qarth and considered helping Lysa take control of the city through its merchant guilds. After turning away from dangerous Sothoryos, the travelers sailed toward the Summer Isles.

• Yulon followed the Dragon Crystal Compass into Valyria and found a Dragon Egg and a black horn inscribed with Ancient Valyrian Runes.
• Yulon stored the egg and horn in the system space for possible future use.
• In Qarth, Yulon noticed Lysa's reaction to a member of the Thirteen Magnates and offered to help her pursue a grudge against them.
• Yulon asked Lysa to devise a way to take control of Qarth and offered to invest, while the Red Viper also agreed to contribute.
• Two mercenaries left the ship after seeing a girl on the shore of Sothoryos and disappeared into the rainforest.
• The travelers abandoned the dangerous approach to Sothoryos and sailed northwest toward the Summer Isles.