The honor of being the richest and most powerful city is the Free City of Braavos.
It is A Song of Ice and Fire’s
equivalent to Venice as it is home to the Iron Bank, notorious for
being so affluent and wealthy, many nations and parties flock to them,
some of them even getting destroyed for being unable to pay back their
debts. They always get their due one way or another.
Tycho Nestoris, a representative of the Iron Bank who is sent to make a deal with King Stannis Baratheon.
Braavos
is also home to a league of assassins known as the Faceless Men. They
function like a cult, killing for the sake of their Many-Faced God, and
with the power of some form of blood magic, they can turn their faces
into that of another’s. They are also known to be costly to hire,
whether it’s actual currency or a belonging very valuable to the one
hiring them. Even killing a king would take something as valuable as a
dragon egg to get them to do the job.
Why
is Braavos the most powerful city in the World of Ice and Fire? There’s
an assassin guild with an expensive fee, and coincidentally there
happens to be an extremely influential and affluent bank that always has a way to get their due. Do the math.
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