Gradually as the other Free Cities began to coalesce they were able to build up enough strength to challenge Dothraki attacks. This marked a major turning point, ending the terrible years when the Dothraki raided completely at will. Due to the last-minute arrival of the elite Unsullied legions, the Dothraki were repulsed in the resulting Battle of Qohor, leaving 12,000 Dothraki dead including Khal Temmo. The Dothraki raided and pillaged unchecked, until Khal Temmo decided to mount an attack on Qohor. The Dothraki devastated large swaths of Essos, and left numerous cities ruined in their wake, never to be rebuilt. Meanwhile, without the Valyrian dragons to hold them in check anymore, the Dothraki mounted hordes spilled out of the Dothraki Sea to the east, entering into their first great wave of expansion. The power of Volantis was shattered, and no further grand attempts were made to unite all of the Free Cities into a new Valyrian empire. However, the deciding factor was that the young Aegon I Targaryen, possessor of the last three Valyrian dragons in the world, entered the conflict on the side of Volantis's enemies. The only thing that could unite all of the other Free Cities was their determination not to be forcefully united under the rule of the Volantenes. Volantis failed when all of the other Free Cities united against them. Įventually, the oldest and most populous of the colonies, Volantis, attempted to conquer all of the other colonies in order to rebuild the Freehold under their rule. The waves of Dothraki expansion were finally stopped by legions of Unsullied at the Battle of Qohor.ĭuring the Century of Blood, each of the eight former colonies that would become the Free Cities initially fought each other in a chaotic series of shifting alliances (the ninth Free City, Braavos, was not a colony of the Valyrian Freehold, but a refuge founded by slaves who escaped from it).
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