The act of lovemaking is considered an important and even holy skill, with all islanders expected to serve for a time in temples of love. The Summer Islanders worship a score of deities, with the god and goddess of love, beauty, and fertility being the most favored. Temple of Love, as depicted by Marc Simonetti in The World of Ice & Fire Nine out of every ten islanders lives on Jhala, Omboru, or Walano, with the latter being the most populous. Their consists primarily of fruits and fish. The Common Tongue can have an amber, liquid accent when spoken by an islander. They speak the Summer Tongue and often wear capes of brightly-colored feathers when ashore. Their skin color includes nut brown, teak, ebony, and polished jet. The Summer Islanders are strong and tall, a handsome people eager to learn. The isles are also known for their beautiful birds and flowers. Apes include the "old red men" on Omboru, silver pelts on Jhala, and night stalkers on Walano. The rain forests, sandy beaches, and towering mountains of the isles are inhabited by spotted panthers, packs of lean red wolves, tribes of monkeys, and crocodiles. Near the eastern coast of Khala is Lizard Head. South of Jhala are Parrot Bay, Xon, Doquu, and the Bones. West of those two large islands are the Singing Stones, the Three Exiles, the Isle of Love, and Moluu. Between the Isle of Birds and Omboru is the Smiling Sea, and the Indigo Straits are between Omboru and Jhala. North of Walano are Stone Head and the Isle of Women, while Koj and the Isle of Birds are to the south. Jhala contains the settled valleys of Red Flower Vale and Sweet Lotus Vale, the latter of which contains the port city of Ebonhead. The cultural or religious heart of the islands seems to be Tall Trees Town, where priestesses carve histories and laws into the Talking Trees. Walano contains the settlements of Lotus Port, Last Lament, and Tall Trees Town. The Smiling Sea divides Walano and Omboru, and the Indigo Straits divide Omboru from Jhala. The three largest islands by far are (from north to south) Walano, Omboru, and Jhala, all of which are larger than the Stepstones. Jalabhar Xho, Prince of the Red Flower Vale, was exiled and became a member of King Robert I Baratheon's court.The islands, which number more than fifty, separate the Sunset Sea to the west from the Summer Sea to the east. Xanda Qo, Princess of Sweet Lotus Vale, united the Summer Isles under her rule and started to put an end to slavery on the isles. The beaches have green and black sand and there are crocodiles in the rivers. Prized goldenheart trees grow in the vast forests of Jhala and there are apes called silver pelts in the mountains of the island. To the north of Golden Head is a group of small islands called Lizard Head. The Golden Head is a peninsula in southeast Jhala. To the south is Parrot Bay and the three islands called The Bones, as well as the islands Xon and Doquu. To its north are the Indigo Straits and the island of Omboru. Ebonhead is a town on its southern coast at the mouth of the Sweet Lotus Vale. The Red Flower Vale is a river valley in eastern Jhala and the Sweet Lotus Vale is a river valley in western Jhala. As with the other two large islands in the chain, Jhala is large enough to support multiple rival princedoms. Walano and Omboru are each less than half the size of Jhala, though either of them is still larger than all the landmass of the Stepstones combined and together the three of them are home to more than nine-tenths of the people of the isles. Jhala is the southernmost of the three largest of the Summer Islands, and the largest overall - two hundred leagues from tip to tip - though not the most populated. The Summer Isles and the location of Jhala
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