MARTIN: As she's heading back west, trying to reach Westeros,
Dany diverts to Slaver's Bay
which is a large bay east of where Valyria used to be,
built on the ruins of the old empire of Ghis,
which was an ancient, ancient empire
that was essentially destroyed by the Valyrians and their dragons,
you know, hundreds of years before.
What remains are these three slaver cities,
Astapor, Yunkai, and Meereen.
All of these are cities where slaves are bred and trained
and then sold to the rest of the world. They're slave cities.
Astapor, the Red City as it's called, specializes in the Unsullied, warriors.
That's what they do.
And they're famous for creating these Unsullied,
taking small boys and making the Unsullied.
Yunkai, the Yellow City, specializes in bed slaves.
In teaching them, as they call, the way of the seven sighs.
Meereen, the third and largest of the three slaver cities,
makes bed slaves, makes warriors,
but they also make a lot of teachers.
They have slaves who can weave beautiful tapestries,
who are wonderful craftsmen. All of these are available in Meereen.
These are the great flesh marts of the known world
and a lynchpin in the slave trade,
which is a huge economic engine for, particularly, Essos,
the eastern continent.