The Old Empire of Ghis rose from Ghiscar, a central southern region of Essos west of the Red Wastes. It sits on the eastern banks of the Gulf of Grief and due north from the Summer Sea.

The old Ghiscari Empire saw the Brindled Men as mentally unfit but physically capable. Old Ghis consisted mainly of monsters, so they frequently abducted and enslaved the Brindled Men. The ...