Editing World of A Song of Ice and Fire (section)

====Astapor====
The oldest city in Slaver's Bay. Astapor lies on the banks of the Worm River, a wide, slow, and crooked stream with wooded islands.{{sfn|''A Storm of Swords''|loc=Daenerys III, p. 377}} Entering Astapor at the beginning of ''A Storm of Swords'', Daenerys experiences it as an ancient and dilapidated city that has long passed its glory days.{{sfn|''A Storm of Swords''|loc=Daenerys II, pp. 322–323}} The city is dominated by its red brick architecture, and Arstan Whitebeard explains to Daenerys that the saying "Brick and blood built Astapor, ... and brick and blood her people" refers to the slaves who make the bricks.{{sfn|''A Storm of Swords''|loc=Daenerys II, pp. 322–323}} Astapor's stepped pyramids, its fighting pits, streets, the surrounding walls and the Plaza of Pride are all made of red bricks.{{sfn|''A Storm of Swords''|loc=Daenerys II, pp. 322–323}} The so-called Plaza of Punishment at Astapor's main gates is even larger than the Plaza of Pride.{{sfn|''A Storm of Swords''|loc=Daenerys III, p. 377}}

The Plaza of Pride, which has a red-brick fountain and a huge bronze harpy statue in its center, serves as an open air slave market and a marshaling area for the Unsullied, elite eunuch spearmen known for discipline and effectiveness.{{sfn|''A Storm of Swords''|loc=Daenerys II, pp. 311–320}} Astapor is the only city to sell Unsullied,{{sfn|''A Storm of Swords''|loc=Daenerys II, p. 117}} but also sells bed slaves, fieldhands, scribes, craftsmen, and tutors.{{sfn|''A Storm of Swords''|loc=Daenerys III, pp. 368–369}} The Unsullied require a huge investment in both time and money by the Astapori who raise and train them,{{sfn|''A Storm of Swords''|loc=Daenerys II, pp. 311–320}} but they earn the most profitable of returns for the Good Masters of Astapor. The Unsullied wear spiked bronze hats,{{sfn|''A Storm of Swords''|loc=Daenerys II, p. 117}} and they obey at all costs, even if it demands their death.{{sfn|''A Storm of Swords''|loc=Daenerys III, pp. 371–373}} They are given new slave names each day to be reminded of their worthlessness.{{sfn|''A Storm of Swords''|loc=Daenerys II, pp. 311–320}} In times of attack, unsold Unsullied are deployed to the massive, crumbling red-brick walls that the Astapori no longer man.{{sfn|''A Storm of Swords''|loc=Daenerys II, pp. 329–330}}

Daenerys decides to buy all of Astapor's trained and untrained Unsullied, over 8600 in number,{{sfn|''A Storm of Swords''|loc=Daenerys III, pp. 368–369}} and tells them to kill all adult Astapori slavers and soldiers when she leaves the city.{{sfn|''A Storm of Swords''|loc=Daenerys III, p. 381}} She gives the power over Astapor to a council of former slaves led by a healer, a scholar and a priest, and tens of thousands of former slaves join her on her travels to Yunkai.{{sfn|''A Storm of Swords''|loc=Daenerys IV, pp. 573–574}} A former butcher named Cleon fends off a scheme to have the Good Masters re-established, and was crowned as the King of Astapor in reward.{{sfn|''A Storm of Swords''|loc=Daenerys VI, pp. 982}}

The TV show used the coastal town of [[Essaouira]], [[Morocco]] to film scenes in Astapor.<ref group="S" name="Skyscanner"/>