![]() The air was moist and warm and dead calm, and the Cinnamon Wind was adrift upon a deep blue sea far beyond the sight of land. We then get some info on the ships travel from Braavos to Oldtown: And Xhondo hears." A broad white smile spread across his face. Inside Xhondo laughs, to see you punch the singer. ![]() Fat men should float." He grabbed Sam's doublet with a huge black fist and hauled him to his feet. The feathered cloak clung to the black man's huge shoulders, sodden and soiled. The second time we see the Cinammond Wind is in Braavos when Xhondo saves Sam and mentions the dragons: You have brought me a precious gift." -ACOK, Daenerys II ![]() "I wish you fair winds and good trading, then. From here the Cinnamon Wind sails east, to make the trader's circle round the Jade Sea." " When does your ship return to Westeros, Captain?" When his mouth opened, his teeth gleamed like black needles. Map of the world so you can see the Jade Sea/Qarthīeneath Dany's gentle fingers, green Rhaegal stared at the stranger with eyes of molten gold. He has been seized for treason."Īfter leaving Qarth, the ship will head east to complete the trader's circle And the Hand has fallen, Lord Stark who was King Robert's friend. The talk is, they mean to claim the crown. Robert's brothers have fled King's Landing. "King Joffrey reigns," Quhuru Mo agreed, "but the Lannisters rule. "The boy sits the Iron Throne now," Ser Jorah said. In her lap, black Drogon hissed, and pale smoke rose before her face like a veil. Outside her walls, dusk was settling over Qarth, but a sun had risen in Dany's heart. Dragonmother, Stormborn, I tell you true, Robert Baratheon is dead." "This is so, Your Grace, but before, not half a year past, we called at Oldtown. "The honor is mine, Quhuru Mo," said Dany in the same language. "I am greatly honored, my queen," he said not in the tongue of the Summer Isles, which Dany did not know, but in the liquid Valyrian of the Nine Free Cities.īefore reaching Qarth it passed through Oldtown and then the Summer Islands (and probably another couple stops after): "Your Grace," the knight said, "I bring you Quhuru Mo, captain of the Cinnamon Wind out of Tall Trees Town." The man he brought with him wore a cloak of green and yellow feathers and had skin as black as polished jet. When they entered, she was seated on a mound of cushions, her dragons all about her. We first see the Cinnamon Wind in ACOK, Daenerys II when they bring news to Daenerys in Qarth: With a good brisk wind behind them, the Cinnamon Wind could outrun any galley, though she was helpless when becalmed. Large as they were, they rode the waves with a grace that was all their own. "Swan ships," the great vessels from the Summer Isles were called in the Seven Kingdoms, for their billowing white sails and for their figureheads, most of which depicted birds. Aboard the Blackbird Gilly could have run him down in hardly any time at all. He was fortunate that the Cinnamon Wind was so big. Kojja Mo (Quhuro's daughter) commands the archersĪs a large ship with massive sails, it can outrun any galley with the wind behind her, but is helpless when becalmed. We know of the following members of the crew: The Cinnamon Wind is a swan ship out of Tall Trees Town in the Summer Islands. The Journeys of the Cinammon Wind and its crew The Cinnamon Wind was a swan ship out of Tall Trees Town on the Summer Isles, where men were black, women were wanton, and even the gods were strange. The ship and its captain/crew has appeared twice (and will likely appear again). One good example of that is the Cinammon Wind and its travels. I think it is so cool when I recognize a smaller or lesser known character in a chapter a recognize them previously. One (of many) little things I love about the ASOIAF is how different characters interact with different storylines.
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