Livros
Os governantes de jure de Qarth são os Pureborn , não os Treze ou qualquer outra facção mercante.
Facções em Qarth
As facções seguintes disputam o domínio sobre o Qarth:
A verdadeira autoridade de jure de Qarth é o Pureborn. Eles são descendentes dos antigos reis e rainhas de Qarth.
Descendants of the ancient kings and queens of Qarth, the Pureborn commanded the Civic Guard and the fleet of ornate galleys that ruled the straits between the seas
ACOK- Daenerys III
Era o puríssimo que Daenerys havia recorrido, para pedir ajuda contra Robert Baratheon.
The Pureborn heard her pleas from the great wooden seats of their ancestors, rising in curved tiers from a marble floor to a high-domed ceiling painted with scenes of Qarth's vanished glory. The chairs were immense, fantastically carved, bright with goldwork and studded with amber, onyx, lapis, and jade, each one different from all the others, and each striving to be the most fabulous. Yet the men who sat in them seemed so listless and world-weary that they might have been asleep. They listened, but they did not hear, or care, she thought. They are Milk Men indeed. They never meant to help me. They came because they were curious. They came because they were bored, and the dragon on my shoulder interested them more than I did.
ACOK- Daenerys III
No entanto, sendo uma cidade mercantil, os mercadores exercem muita influência sobre a política da cidade.
The merchant princes, grown vastly rich off the trade between the seas, were divided into three jealous factions: the Ancient Guild of Spicers, the Tourmaline Brotherhood, and the Thirteen, to which Xaro belonged.
ACOK- Daenerys III
História do Qarth
A Qarth foi fundada por Qaathi pessoas que se originaram na região marítima de Dothraki nos primeiros dias da humanidade.
What can be said is that the Qaathi arose in the grasslands and established towns there, coming into contact and occasional conflict with the Sarnori. They would oft have the worse of these wars, and so began to drift farther south, creating new city-states. One such, Qarth, was founded on the coast of the Summer Sea. Yet the lands in the south of Essos proved more inhospitable than those the Qaathi had vacated, turning to desert even as they established their foothold there. The Qaathi people were already well on their way to collapse when the Doom struck, and any hopes of using the chaos in the Summer Sea to their advantage vanished when the Dothraki attacked, destroying all the remaining Qaathi cities save for Qarth itself.
TWOIAF- Beyond the Free Cities: The Grasslands
A maioria das cidades Qaathi foi destruída devido a invasões de Dothraki após a queda de Valyria e o século de sangue que se seguiu. para Qarth.
In the south, other khals led their hordes into the Red Waste, destroying the Qaathi towns and cities that once dotted that desert, until only the great city of Qarth remained, protected by its towering triple wall. Despite their long history, little can be said with any certainty of the Qaathi—a people now gone from the world save for a remnant in Qarth.
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.Most of these peoples are gone now, their cities burned and buried, their gods and heroes all but forgotten. Of the Qaathi cities, only Qarth remains, dreaming of past glories beside the jealously guarded Jade Gates, which link the Summer and Jade seas. The others were extinguished, driven into exile, or conquered and assimilated by the people who succeeded them.
TWOIAF- Beyond the Free Cities: The Grasslands
Devido à posição estratégica da cidade nas rotas marítimas orientais, logo se transformou em um centro comercial que expandiu quando o poder de escape valiriano desapareceu e Volantis ficou muito ocupado com suas próprias ambições durante séculos de era de sangue.
Yet in a way, the Dothraki destruction led to a resurgence for Qarth. Forced to look instead to the sea, the Pureborn who ruled Qarth swiftly constructed a fleet and took control of the Jade Gates—the strait between Qarth and Great Moraq, which joins the Summer Sea to the Jade Sea. With the Valyrian fleet destroyed, and Volantis's attention turned west, there were none to oppose them as they established control over the most direct route between east and west, and so gained immeasurably in both trade and levied tolls for safe passage.
TWOIAF- Beyond the Free Cities: The Grasslands
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No Show, no entanto, está implícito que os treze que governam a cidade e outras facções rivais e os puros não são mencionados como entidades separadas.
Parece ser uma das muitas mudanças que os corredores de programas fizeram para limitar o escopo dos eventos e as coisas que eles tiveram que filmar, pois deve ter parecido irrelevante para o eventual arco de histórias planejado que eles fizeram no programa. Os títulos Spice-King, Silk-King e Copper-King são também sua própria invenção, não adaptados dos livros. Embora os nobres de Westerosi usem "Spice Lords" ou "Cheese Kings" para se referirem à classe de mercadores-aristocratas Essosi de maneira depreciativa. "Merchant Prince" foi usado nos livros, um título que Xaro Xhoan Daxos se apresentou.
Em qualquer caso, não há menção da história política de Qarth no GoT, então não se sabe como eles chegaram a governar Qarth no programa.