Meereen dwarfs both of its sister cities combined, its walls and towers laid in brick of every hue rather than one, and at its center stands the Great Pyramid, eight hundred feet of stepped stone crowned by a bronze harpy — emblem of the old Ghiscari empire the city still claims as its inheritance. The Great Masters who rule from that pyramid and its lesser cousins have trained slaves for the fighting pits for generations, an entertainment as old to Meereen as the harpy itself.
Slaver's Bay
Meereen
The largest of the Ghiscari cities, and briefly a dragon queen's capital
- Region
- Slaver's Bay
- Kind
- city
The greatest city on Slaver's Bay, built of many-colored brick beneath an eight-hundred-foot pyramid, and for a time the seat of a foreign queen who abolished the slave trade that built it.
Trade, faith, and rule
Slavery is the marrow of Meereen's economy no less than Astapor's or Yunkai's, and the Great Masters' pyramids, one per ancient bloodline, function as much as fortresses as they do houses — a design that proves, in the chronicle's later chapters, rather more useful to its inhabitants than mere architecture usually is.
Meereen 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 Meereen?
The greatest city on Slaver's Bay, built of many-colored brick beneath an eight-hundred-foot pyramid, and for a time the seat of a foreign queen who abolished the slave trade that built it.
Is Meereen 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.