The northern two-thirds of Leng is dominated by the descendants of YiTish colonists the southern third is dominated by the original Lengii. The YiTish collapsed most of these caves and banned any further worship of the Old Ones, but the tradition of following their teachings remains. The Great Empire of the Dawn collapsed in the Long Night and Yi Ti emerged as its successor state, suggesting that the Golden Empire may have approached eight thousand years in age, predating Valyria and maybe even Old Ghis, thus making its collapse even more baffling and quite frankly sad.įor the ease of comprehension in this work please consider the name “Yi Ti” to mean the whole geographical region rather than the political entity.Īccording to Lengii tradition, great caves lead to fathomless depths, from where a race known only as the “Old Ones” ruled the island and commanded the native inhabitants. It is smaller still than the Great Empire of the Dawn, a vast nation which stretched from the Bones to the furthest east beyond the Shadow Lands and Grey Waste and from the Jade Sea to the Shivering Sea. The Dothraki claim more territory, although it is still debatable if their rule is to be considered as a coherent nation-state.ĭespite its name, even it was still intact the Golden Empire was far reduced in size compared to its glorious heyday of several centuries ago, when its borders stretched much further north into the Plains of the Jogos Nhai and south to encompass the island of Leng and several other isles of the Jade Sea, including the east coast of Great Moraq. Yi Ti was the second-largest nation-state in the known world, outstripped in size only by the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. Its last unified borders were generally held to be the Dry Bones and the Great Sand Sea in the far north-west, the Shrinking Sea and Bleeding Sea in the far north, the Mountains of the Morn in the north-east and the Shadow Mountains and their ghost grass-swathed foothills in the far east. However, these measurements are inexact, given that the borders of Yi Ti were constantly shifting even before the divide, depending on who makes the maps and which emperor is sitting on the throne at any time. Before its collapse the Golden Empire expanded across a colossal area, measuring some 1,800 miles from east to west and 1,700 miles from north to south.
Separating fact from fiction is hard, but it is known that Yi Ti lies on the northern shores of the Jade Sea, east of Qarth and the Jade Gates.
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