Pyramids are triangular buildings similar to the real-life structure. Brick pyramids are common in the Slaver Cities of Slaver's Bay, and are used as palaces and fortifications by the slave-owning nobility of the cities.[1][2]
Culture
The Good Masters of Astapor light silk lanterns on the terraces of their pyramids at night.[3]
The coins of Yunkai are stamped with a stepped pyramid on one side and the harpy of Ghis on the other.[4]
Tree, vines, and flowers can be grown on the terraces of pyramids,[3] including figs, dates, and olives on the terraces of Meereen's buildings.[5]
History
The Great Pyramid of Ghis was destroyed by the Valyrian Freehold during the Ghiscari wars.[6]
The stepped pyramids of Ghozai were drowned by the Doom of Valyria.[7]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
Daenerys Targaryen sees stepped pyramids among the buildings of Vaes Dothrak.[8]
A Storm of Swords
Daenerys takes the Great Pyramid as her abode after the successful siege of Meereen. The master of the Indigo Star informs her that each pyramid in Astapor hosts an armed camp in the aftermath of that city's fall.[9]
A Dance with Dragons
The Sons of the Harpy plot against Daenerys from within Meereen's pyramids in response to her abolition of slavery.[2] Daenerys, now Queen of Meereen, imposes a tax of a hundred pieces of gold from every pyramid for every freedman killed in the city, and she demands that each pyramid send her a boy and a girl to serve as her cupbearers.[10]
Many pyramids in Astapor are despoiled amid the city's capture by Yunkai'i.[11][12]
Quotes
Even through the thickness of her sandals, she could feel the warmth of the red bricks underfoot. Waves of heat rose off them shimmering to make the stepped pyramids of Astapor around the plaza seem half a dream.[3]
—thoughts of Daenerys Targaryen
Closer to the bay, the city presented a fairer face. The great brick pyramids lined the shore, the largest four hundred feet high. All manner of trees and vines and flowers grew on their broad terraces, and the winds that swirled around them smelled green and fragrant.[3]
—thoughts of Daenerys Targaryen
Dany broke her fast under the persimmon tree that grew in the terrace garden, watching her dragons chase each other about the apex of the Great Pyramid where the huge bronze harpy once stood. Meereen had a score of lesser pyramids, but none stood even half as tall.[9]
—thoughts of Daenerys Targaryen
He could close his eyes and see them still: flames whirling from brick pyramids larger than any castle he had ever seen, plumes of greasy smoke coiling upward like great black snakes.[11]
—thoughts of Quentyn Martell
References
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 27, Daenerys III.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 2, Daenerys I.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 23, Daenerys II.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 42, Daenerys IV.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 57, Daenerys V.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 67, The Kingbreaker.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 56, The Iron Suitor.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 36, Daenerys IV.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 71, Daenerys VI.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 11, Daenerys II.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 25, The Windblown.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 30, Daenerys V.