Location from A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
The sun-baked desert palace of House Martell — a sprawl of sandstone towers and shaded water gardens where Dornish independence burns as hot as the climate.
Sunspear operates on a different rhythm than the rest of Westeros. The heat enforces a languid pace — business is conducted in the cool of morning and evening, and the midday hours belong to wine, shade, and the whispered plotting that Dornish lords have elevated to high art. The Martells were the only house to resist Aegon's Conquest, and that defiance runs through everything — their laws give women equal inheritance rights, their customs embrace pleasures that would scandalize a septon, and their patience for revenge is legendary. Oberyn Martell's death at the Mountain's hands sent tremors through these halls that are still being felt. The Water Gardens are where the princes go to think, and the thoughts they think there tend to reshape kingdoms.
Sandstone towers topped with golden domes rise above a walled compound, the tallest crowned by a spear piercing a sun — the Martell sigil. The shadow city clusters outside the walls in a maze of bazaars and alleys. Nearby, the Water Gardens offer cool pools shaded by blood orange trees where children of noble and common birth play together.
Also known as: Sunspear, the Martell seat, the Sand Palace