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Originally Posted by GloucesterChief
Considering the amount of fire, those lamps would weigh quite a bit. Oil is fairly heavy and hard to transport without ceramics which are also heavy. Particularly in those quantities. Not to mention the best flammable material the Dothraki would probably have access to would be dried animal dung.
Braziers make a lot more sense and that is what they looked like considering they were full of flame instead of a single wick.
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Isn't that lodge a permanent fixture in the capital of their entire civilization, surrounded by the largest and best markets available to them? The cost, or difficulty in transport, or rarity of an oil wouldn't be a factor. It's a center of wealth and trade. It's the look of the things that make an oil fire less likely. There were multiple flames coming from multiple sources out of that crown-like top of each one. It looked like burning hunks of something. But that look can also be done with wicking devices. Or it could just be "fire magic" that she realized that she had inside of Drogo's funeral pyre and didn't tell anyone.