Selaesori Qhoran

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The Selaesori Qhoran is a trading cog en route from Volantis to Qarth.[1] Her name means Fragrant Steward, but Tyrion Lannister nicknames her the Stinky Steward.[2]

About

The Selaesori Qhoran is a wallowing tub of 500 tons, with a deep hold, high castles fore and aft, and a single mast between. She has a big striped sail. At her forecastle stands a grotesque figurehead, a worm eaten wooden eminence with a constipated look and a scroll tucked up under one arm.

Tyrion has never seen an uglier ship and her crew is no prettier. Her captain is a mean mouthed, flinty, kettle-bellied man with close-set, greedy eyes; a bad cyvasse player and a worse loser. Under him serve four mates, freemen all, and fifty slaves bound to the ship, each with a crude version of the cog's figurehead tattooed upon one cheek. Three of the mates and more than three quarters of the crew are fervent worshippers of the Lord of Light. Tyrion is not sure about the captain's faith, as he always emerges for evening prayers but takes no other part in them.

The Selaesori Qhoran carries tin and iron, bales of wool and lace, fifty Myrish carpets, a corpse pickled in brine, twenty jars of dragon peppers, and a red priest, Moqorro.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

Benerro, the high priest of R'hllor in Volantis, sees in his fires that the Selaesori Qhoran will not reach her destination.[1] The red priest Moqorro travels on her to get to Meereen.[2] Due to this the widow of the waterfront tells Ser Jorah Mormont and his prisoner Tyrion Lannister to take passage on her too.[1]

The ship does not reach its destination, however, being damaged in a violent storm. She ends up floating low in the water and listing ten degrees to port, her hull sprung in half a hundred places and her hold awash with seawater. The mast is broken off,[3] gone into the sea with Moqorro holding on to it, leaving a splintered ruin no taller than a dwarf. The scroll-carrying arm of the figurehead is broken off.

The captain and some of the crew die or desert the ship in the next few days. Finally, after at least nineteen days drifting helpless,[3] it is boarded and its remaining crew and passengers captured by slavers in a galley.[3]

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