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JORAH MORMONT:
The Doom took Valyria in minutes.

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But the rest of Essos wasn't so lucky.

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Out of the east swarmed the Dothraki.

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And there were no dragons
to push them back.

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The Dothraki tide slammed first
into the Sarnori,

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who called themselves the Tall Men,

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and whose ancient kingdom dominated
the grasslands of Essos.

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The Tall Men at first scorned the Horselords
as uncivilized barbarians.

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Which they were.

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But Khal Mengo had united all of them

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into one khalasar with one aim.

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To trample the world beneath their hooves

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and take other peoples as their herd.

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One by one, the cities of the Tall Men
were overwhelmed.

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Still, they wouldn't unite
against the Dothraki.

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Many didn't believe the tales
of the rare survivors.

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No army could move so fast
or strike so quickly.

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They didn't know
that the Dothraki live in the saddle

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and have such command over their horses

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that they seem to have four legs, not two.

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Where most archers fire from foot,

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the Dothraki fire from horseback.

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Charging or retreating, it makes no matter,

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they are just as deadly.

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But the Dothraki prefer close combat,

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howling for blood as they ride down
their enemies with their arakhs.

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And there were so many of them.

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When Khal Mengo's son, Khal Moro,

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laid waste to the Waterfall City of Sathar,

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renaming it "The Place of Wailing Children,"

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the Tall Men finally realized their peril.

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Led by a High King,

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they assembled a great army
to break the khals once and for all

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and met the Dothraki on what would ever after

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be known as the Field of Crows.

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The four khals commanded
almost 80,000 horsemen between them.

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The Tall Men had 100,000 foot soldiers,

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10,000 armored riders,

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10,000 light horsemen

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and 6,000 scythed chariots.

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As battle was joined,

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the earth-shattering advance
of the Tall Men's chariots

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smashed through the center
of the Dothraki horde,

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the spinning blades on their wheels
slicing through the legs

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of the Dothraki horses.

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When one khal went down before them,

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cut to pieces and trampled,

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his khalasar broke and fled.

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The chariots thundered after
the fleeing horsemen

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and the High King and his armored riders
plunged in after them,

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followed by their foot soldiers,
waving their spears and screaming in victory.

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But it was a trap.

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The Dothraki were not fleeing,

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as the Tall Men realized when the Horselords
suddenly turned their horses

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and unleashed a storm of arrows.

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Two more khalasars swept down
on the Tall Men's flanks

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while another attacked them from the rear,
cutting off their retreat.

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Completely encircled, the High King
and his mighty host were destroyed.

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The Tall Men had stood
for thousands of years.

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Now the crows feasted on their corpses,

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as the Dothraki squabbled
over their valuables.

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The common wisdom is that the Dothraki tide

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finally broke upon the spears
of the Unsullied at Qohor,

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saving Essos from the Horselords.

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ln truth,

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the days when the Dothraki
could threaten the entire world

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had already passed.

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The great khalasar forged by Khal Mengo

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had splintered into a dozen hordes,

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after the death of the last great khal,

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and the riders had resumed their petty feuds.

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The grasslands of Essos
are now called the Dothraki Sea

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but no more nations drown in it.

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Still, the Dothraki priestesses,

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the Dosh Khaleen,

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prophesy that one day the Dothraki
will gather at Vaes Dothrak,

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their holy capital,

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and unite once more

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under the greatest khal of them all:

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the Stallion Who Mounts the World.

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He will lead their people
to the ends of the earth

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and grind all nations to dust beneath them.

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l knew a khaleesi who the priestesses said

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would give birth to this Stallion.

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She didn't.

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No doubt the Dosh Khaleen have
made the same prophecy before

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and will again.

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World conquest is an alluring dream,

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but few who dream it ever wake to its reality.

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Yet could the Dothraki,

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united behind one great leader,

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conquer the world?

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When l first came to Essos,

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l laughed at the idea.

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But now. . .

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Most armies are either sellswords,

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paid to fight, who often refuse to die,

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or peasants called up
from the fields and hovels.

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How long would those armies stand against
the charge of 100,000 screamers

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howling for blood?

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How well would boiled-leather jerkins

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and mailed shirts protect them,

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when the arrows fall like rain?