Astapor rises in uniform dull red — walls, streets, and the stepped pyramids of its slaving families all raised from the same brick — on the southern shore of Slaver's Bay, an inheritance of the older Ghiscari empire that Valyria's dragons burned to embers five separate times. From the terraces of those pyramids the Good Masters, as Astapor's slaving houses style themselves, look down on training grounds where boys are bought young, gelded, and drilled for years into the discipline the city sells as its finest export.
Slaver's Bay
Astapor
The Red City, and the breeding ground of the Unsullied
- Region
- Slaver's Bay
- Kind
- city
The southernmost of the Ghiscari slave cities, built entirely of the same red brick as the eunuch soldiers it is famous for training.
Trade, faith, and rule
That export is the Unsullied, eunuch infantry famed and feared across the known world for an obedience that no army of freeborn men can match, sold in matched companies to any buyer with sufficient gold — or, on one notable occasion this chronicle records, sufficient else to trade instead. Astapor's economy otherwise runs entirely on the slave markets its walls exist to serve, a fact the Good Masters see no more reason to soften than a Lysene perfumer sees reason to apologize for scent.
Astapor in the novels
This carries the place's part in the published novels. Read on only if you do not fear to know.
These partings name deaths, endings, and roads not yet ridden in the books. Unveil them only if both roads are known to you — or if you do not fear to know.
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Where is Astapor?
The southernmost of the Ghiscari slave cities, built entirely of the same red brick as the eunuch soldiers it is famous for training.
Is Astapor from the books or the show?
Book canon. This entry follows George R. R. Martin's novels and histories, and notes where the television series diverges rather than following it.