Yunkai's walls and stepped pyramids are raised in pale gold brick gone soft and crumbling with age, standing between Astapor and Meereen on the eastern curve of the bay. Where Astapor sells soldiers, Yunkai's Wise Masters deal chiefly in slaves schooled in what the city delicately calls the bedchamber arts, a trade the Yunkish regard as no less respectable a craft than Myrish lace-making, and defend with rather more soldiers than the comparison might suggest.
Slaver's Bay
Yunkai
The Yellow City, whose chief trade is the training of pleasure slaves
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A slaving city of crumbling yellow brick on Slaver's Bay's eastern shore, ruled by the Wise Masters and best known for training bed slaves.
Trade, faith, and rule
Lacking the standing forces of its neighbors, Yunkai leans heavily on hired swords — the Stormcrows, the Second Sons, and companies rougher still have all drawn Yunkish coin — and on alliances of convenience with Volantis and its sister slaving cities whenever its markets feel threatened from outside.
Yunkai 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 Yunkai?
A slaving city of crumbling yellow brick on Slaver's Bay's eastern shore, ruled by the Wise Masters and best known for training bed slaves.
Is Yunkai 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.