Editing Red Keep (section)

===Secret Passages===
[[File:Red Keep tunnels.jpg|thumb|350px|Red Keep tunnels, by Jonny Klein © Fantasy Flight Games]]
The Red Keep and [[Aegon's High Hill]] have a network of secret passages and tunnels. King [[Maegor I Targaryen]] had them built to enable him to make a quick escape, should his enemies ever trap him.{{Ref|ASOS|12}} The tunnels are supposedly full of traps. Some tunnels are of stone, while others are earth supported by timbers. Some of them are so small that a grown man must crawl through them. Some pass close to other rooms in the Red Keep, allowing a hidden person to eavesdrop on conversations.{{Ref|ASOS|77}}

The bedchamber used by Lord [[Varys]] contains a mechanism that causes his stone slab of a bed to float up and reveal a hidden staircase.{{Ref|ASOS|12}} One secret passage leads from the bedchamber of the [[Tower of the Hand]] to the [[chamber of the dragon mosaic]] below.{{Ref|ASOS|77}}{{Ref|ADwD|1}} There is also a secret way to get out of the Red Keep onto the cliffs facing the sea. Narrow handholds, impossible to see from the ground, have been cut into the rock so one may climb down to a trail beside the [[Blackwater Rush]].{{Ref|AGOT|20}}{{Ref|ASOS|61}} Another passage out of the Red Keep passes by the cellar of the [[skulls of the Targaryen dragons]], and leads to a sewer that empties into the river.{{Ref|AGOT|32}}

Maegor's Holdfast is the only building in the Red Keep that has no secret passages, as Maegor "wanted no rats in his own walls". There is one escape door, but it does not connect to any other passage in the Red Keep.{{Ref|ASOS|12}} 

People familiar with the secret passages have included Maegor himself, [[Cheese (the rat-catcher)|Cheese]], Lord [[Larys Strong]], Varys and his [[little birds]], and Lord [[Petyr Baelish]].