Asshai is a mysterious port city in the far southeast of the known part of Essos, where the Ash river meets the Jade Sea at its eastern exit, the Saffron Straits.[1] Asshai is on the southernmost edge of a mountainous peninsula known as the Shadow Lands, thus the city is often called Asshai by the Shadow[2][3][4] or Asshai-by-the-Shadow.[5] To go to Asshai can be described as to "pass beneath the shadow",[6] and the area of the Shadow Lands and Asshai are sometimes referred to simply as the Shadow.