Location from A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
The royal castle atop Aegon's Hill — a labyrinth of throne rooms, council chambers, and secret passages where the Iron Throne sits and the game of thrones is played at its most lethal.
The Red Keep is where power lives in Westeros, and it has a way of consuming everyone who enters it. The throne room is cavernous, designed to make supplicants feel small as they approach the Iron Throne on its raised dais. The Small Council chamber is intimate by comparison — a round table where the true decisions are made by whoever has the sharpest mind and the fewest scruples. Varys's network of tunnels honeycomb the walls, and the servants have learned that hearing too much is fatal. The castle's history is written in blood. Mad King Aerys burned men alive in the throne room. Jaime killed him there. Robert drank himself to death in the royal apartments. Joffrey tormented prisoners on the parapets. Cersei watched the Sept of Baelor burn from the window. Every stone in the Red Keep has witnessed something terrible, and the ghosts are not metaphorical — the castle genuinely feels haunted by the accumulated weight of three centuries of Targaryen and Baratheon cruelty, ambition, and madness.
Massive walls of pale red stone crown Aegon's Hill, the highest point in King's Landing. Seven drum towers ring the castle, and Maegor's Holdfast — a castle-within-a-castle surrounded by a dry moat lined with iron spikes — sits at its heart. The towers are connected by covered bridges and the whole complex overlooks the Blackwater Rush.
Also known as: the Red Keep, the royal castle, Aegon's castle