Mudanças

Eles possuem uma única cidade permanente ([[Vaes Dothrak]]).

The ancestors of the Dothraki came from the lands beyond the [[Bone Mountains]] in the [[Further East]], leaving behind the bones that give the Bone Mountains their name.{{ref|TWOIAF| The Bones and Beyond}}

Ruined cities and regions ring the vast plains of the [[Dothraki sea]], including the [[Kingdom of Sarnor]], the [[Kingdom of the Ifequevron]], the upper [[Skahazadhan]], and the [[red waste]].{{ref|TLOIAF}} The godsway in [[Vaes Dothrak]] contains monuments the Dothraki have taken from conquered people.{{ref|AGOT|36}}

The Dothraki rely greatly on their horses as these beasts are an intrinsic part of their nomadic society. They use them for food, transportation, for clothing, and as a source of materials for crafts, and their deity is the [[horse god]], mirroring the importance of horses in Dothraki culture.

Dothraki have a contempt of cities, believing that anything of importance in a man's life must take place beneath the open sky.{{Ref|aGoT|11}} The Dothraki believe that the stars are horses made of fire and are a giant herd that gallops across the sky by night.{{Ref|aGoT|46}} However it is said by others that the Dothraki believe the stars are the spirits of valiant dead.{{Ref|aCoK|66}}

{{See also|Marriage}}

The Dothraki mate like animals in heat. There is no privacy in the ''khalasar'', and their sense of sin and shame is different from that of the [[Free Cities]] and the [[Seven Kingdoms]].{{Ref|aGoT|11}}

The Dothraki are a very superstitious group. Touching the corpse of a man you have not killed yourself is considered bad luck, as is the number thirteen.{{Ref|aDwD|17}} Witches, or ''[[maegi]]'', are reviled as evil and unnatural.

Traders are free to cross the Dothraki sea unmolested to Vaes Dothrak as long as they keep the peace, do not profane either the [[Mother of Mountains]] or the [[Womb of the World]] and give the traditional gifts of salt, silver and seed to the ''dosh khaleen''.

[[File:Jedruszek Dothraki Outriders.jpg|350px|thumb|right|Dothraki outriders gallop towards a disturbance with weapons drawn - by Tomasz Jedruszek. © Fantasy Flight Games]]

The Dothraki are nomadic warriors; they ride better than any Westerosi knight. Light cavalry forms the backbone of their power, with warriors wielding curved cavalry swords called ''[[arakh]]''s, curved bows, and whips. They eschew armor, considering it cowardly, and typically wear painted vests and horsehair breeches.

While the ''khalasar'' is on the move, their scouts range far ahead, looking for prey or enemies. Outriders guard the flanks.{{Ref|aGoT|23}} After battles, the ''[[jaqqa rhan]]'' or mercy men move among corpses and use heavy axes to take the heads of the dead and dying alike, while small girls with baskets go about pulling arrows from bodies to be re-used later.

*''[[Fire Upon the Grass]]'' - by [[Terrio Erastes]] who wrote about his time as a guest of ''[[Khal]]'' [[Dhako]].<ref name=Ib>''[[The World of Ice and Fire]]'', Ib</ref>

== Inspiration ==

[[George R.R. Martin]] stated that the Dothraki were fashioned as an amalgam of a number of steppe and plains cultures. [[w:Mongols|Mongols]] and [[w:Huns|Huns]], certainly, but also [[w:Alans|Alans]], [[w:Sioux|Sioux]], [[w:Cheyenne|Cheyenne]], and various other Amerindian tribes... seasoned with a dash of pure fantasy. Resemblance to Arabs or Turks is coincidental, extent that the Turks were also originally horsemen of the steppes.<ref>So Spake Martin: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/6040/ On Ethnicities], February 04, 2012</ref>

{{Quote|I shall fear the Dothraki the day they teach their horses to run on water.{{Ref|AGOT|33}}}} – [[Eddard Stark]], to [[Robert Baratheon]]