The apex of the Great Pyramid[1] is the highest level of the Great Pyramid in Meereen. A huge harpy made of bronze,[1] visible from outside the city, stands atop the pyramid.[2] After her successful siege of Meereen, Daenerys Targaryen keeps her private chambers in the lofty apex of the pyramid on the highest step.[1][3]
Layout
[edit]Queen's apartments
[edit]Daenerys's private chambers,[3] also called the queen's apartments[4][5] and the royal apartments,[6] are surrounded by greenery and fragrant pools.[7] There are low brick parapets. Irri occasionally shares the main bed with Daenerys. Jhiqui and Missandei appear to have their own beds within the chamber.[1]
Barristan Selmy's bedchamber
[edit]Ser Barristan Selmy's bedchamber (originally slave quarters) is a small cell adjoining the queen's apartments. His furnishings consist of a bed, a chamber pot, a wardrobe for his clothing and a chair to sit on. On his bedside table he keeps a beeswax candle and a small carving of the Warrior. Though he is not a pious man, the carving makes Barristan feel less alone in the strange city.[4]
Terrace Garden
[edit]Recent Events
[edit]A Storm of Swords
[edit]After her successful siege of Meereen, Daenerys Targaryen has the bronze statue of the harpy pulled down from atop the Great Pyramid, and she begins residing at the apex of the building.[1]
A Dance with Dragons
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Daenerys's dragons know where she is living in Meereen. She finds Viserion on the terrace coiled around a pear tree with his head resting on his tail.[3] Rhaegal is captured on the terrace when he is basking in the sun.[8] Drogon liked to bask in the sun at the apex of the Great Pyramid when he was sated.[8]
While bathing, Daenerys has a vision of Quaithe standing below the persimmon tree.[8]
Daenerys takes Daario Naharis as her paramour and shares her bed when he is in the city.[9]
After Daenerys's disappearance from Daznak's Pit on Drogon, Irri and Jhiqui continue inhabiting the royal apartments until they leave Meereen with most of Daenerys's Dothraki. The khalasar sets out to search the Dothraki sea for their missing queen.[6]
The cupbearers of Daenerys live in the queen's apartments until they are moved to the apartments of Hizdahr zo Loraq in the heart of the Great Pyramid.[6]
For a while Ser Barristan Selmy, now the Queen's Hand, and Missandei remain the only occupants of the apex, with Missandei in the private chambers and Barristan in his small cell. Barristan thinks of Missandei as a forlorn little ghost haunting the royal chambers.[6] The scribe occupies herself with reading piles of scrolls and books.[5]
At Barristan's command the burned and dying Prince Quentyn Martell is laid out in the queen's own bed. Only Missandei can bear to remain by Quentyn's side; his burns are horrific and the sight of him is too disturbing for the cupbearers. She tends to such needs as Quentyn can express, giving him water and milk of the poppy. When Quentyn's corpse is removed, the queen’s cupbearers return to dwell in the royal apartments.[10]
References and Notes
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 71, Daenerys VI.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 57, Daenerys V.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 2, Daenerys I.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 59, The Discarded Knight.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 67, The Kingbreaker.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 55, The Queensguard.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 36, Daenerys VI.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 11, Daenerys II.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 43, Daenerys VII.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 70, The Queen's Hand.