Location from A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
A red-brick slaver city on Slaver's Bay — where the Unsullied are trained through systematic brutality and where Daenerys Targaryen first revealed herself as a conqueror rather than a beggar queen.
Astapor exists to produce the finest slave soldiers in the world through a process of dehumanization so thorough it makes hardened warriors flinch. The Unsullied are castrated as boys, trained to ignore pain, and given new names each day to strip them of identity. Daenerys's purchase of the Unsullied — and her subsequent revelation that she spoke Valyrian all along, understood every insult the masters had hurled at her, and was about to burn them alive — remains one of the most consequential moments in Essos's history. She left the city in the hands of a council that immediately collapsed into tyranny, proving that liberation without governance is just chaos with better intentions.
Walls and buildings of distinctive red brick rise above a dusty harbor. The Plaza of Pride features a bronze harpy statue and the training grounds where Unsullied soldiers drill in perfect formation. The architecture is old, crumbling at the edges, and the red dust coats everything.
Also known as: Astapor, the Red City