The Spear Tower is one of the two towers of the Old Palace in Sunspear.
Layout
Rising from the Old Palace in Sunspear is the Spear Tower, a tall and slender tower of stone. It thrusts up from the surrounding community, stretching one hundred and fifty feet tall, with a spear of gilded steel atop that adds a further thirty feet. Highborn prisoners can be confined in cells at the top of the Spear Tower.[1][2]
The Spear Tower and the Tower of the Sun are the first things visitors see when they arrive at Sunspear, whether by land or by sea.[3]
History
The Old Palace was built after the union of the Rhoynar with the Dornishmen, as the Sandship had been the seat of House Martell prior to Nymeria's War. The Old Palace's towers are built in the Rhoynish fashion.[3]
In the Defenestration of Sunspear during the First Dornish War, Lord Jon Rosby was thrown from the top of the Spear Tower.[4]
Recent Events
A Feast for Crows
The three eldest Sand Snakes try to stir Doran Martell, the Prince of Dorne, into declaring war against the Iron Throne in revenge for the death of their father, Oberyn Martell, so Doran tasks Areo Hotah, the captain of the guards, with taking them into custody,[1] being confined to the cells atop the Spear Tower.[5]
Following her failed attempt to crown Princess Myrcella Baratheon, Arianne Martell is walked into a pleasantly appointed cell atop the Spear Tower, where she spends several weeks in confinement, condemned to solitude and silence.[2]
A Dance with Dragons
The older Sand Snakes, and their cousin, Arianne, are released from captivity and are present at the feast in which the Mountain's skull is presented to the Dornish court.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 2, The Captain Of Guards.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 40, Princess In The Tower.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The World of Ice & Fire, Dorne: Sunspear.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, Dorne: Dorne Against the Dragons.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 13, The Soiled Knight.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 38, The Watcher.