Location from A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
The sacred city of the Dothraki — a vast open settlement beneath the Mother of Mountains where no blood may be shed and every khalasar eventually returns to honor the stallion god.
Vaes Dothrak breaks every rule of Dothraki culture by existing at all — a permanent city for a nomadic people. It is sacred ground where the dosh khaleen — widows of dead khals — prophesy and hold the only authority the Dothraki recognize beyond strength. No weapons may be drawn and no blood shed within the city, a prohibition enforced not by guards but by religious terror. The penalty for violation is creative and fatal. Daenerys burned the Temple of the Dosh Khaleen with every khal inside it, emerging from the flames unburnt and claiming every Dothraki alive as her own. The city is strange, haunting, and vast — designed for the gatherings of an entire civilization, but usually home only to the crones, the merchants who trade with them, and the ghosts of stolen cultures.
An enormous city built for ten times its permanent population, entered through a gateway of two rearing bronze stallions. The buildings are a museum of stolen architecture — columns from Valyria, statues from Ghis, fountains from Qarth — trophies carried back by a hundred khalasars. The Mother of Mountains rises behind, and the Womb of the World — a still lake — sits at its base.
Also known as: Vaes Dothrak, the sacred city, the Dothraki city