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{{Template:Quote|Ancient and glorious is Yunkai. Our [[Ghiscari Empire|empire]] was old before [[dragons]] stirred in [[Old Valyria]].|Razdal mo Eraz|The Bear and the Maiden Fair (episode)}}
 
{{Template:Quote|Ancient and glorious is Yunkai. Our [[Ghiscari Empire|empire]] was old before [[dragons]] stirred in [[Old Valyria]].|Razdal mo Eraz|The Bear and the Maiden Fair (episode)}}
 
[[Image:Yunkai map.png|thumb|right|200px|A map showing the location of Yunkai on the continent of Essos.]]
 
[[Image:Yunkai map.png|thumb|right|200px|A map showing the location of Yunkai on the continent of Essos.]]
'''Yunkai''', known also as the '''Yellow City''', is one of the three great Ghiscari city-states of [[Slaver's Bay]], located south-west of [[Meereen]] and north of [[Astapor]]. Pleasure-slaves are Yunkai's chief export.<ref>[http://viewers-guide.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/season2/#!/locations/yunkai/ HBO viewers guide, season 2 map, Yunkai entry]</ref>
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'''Yunkai''', known also as the '''Yellow City''', is one of the three great Ghiscari city-states of [[Slaver's Bay]], located south-west of [[Meereen]] and north of [[Astapor]]. Bedslaves, trained in the "Way of the Seven Sighs", are Yunkai's chief export.<ref>[http://viewers-guide.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/season2/#!/locations/yunkai/ HBO viewers guide, season 2 map, Yunkai entry]</ref>
   
 
Yunkai is ruled by an oligarchy of slave merchants calling themselves the [[Wise Masters]]. Its people are known both as '''Yunkish''' and '''Yunkai'i'''.<ref>"[[The Bear and the Maiden Fair (episode)|The Bear and the Maiden Fair]]"</ref>
 
Yunkai is ruled by an oligarchy of slave merchants calling themselves the [[Wise Masters]]. Its people are known both as '''Yunkish''' and '''Yunkai'i'''.<ref>"[[The Bear and the Maiden Fair (episode)|The Bear and the Maiden Fair]]"</ref>

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"Ancient and glorious is Yunkai. Our empire was old before dragons stirred in Old Valyria."
―Razdal mo Eraz[src]
Yunkai map

A map showing the location of Yunkai on the continent of Essos.

Yunkai, known also as the Yellow City, is one of the three great Ghiscari city-states of Slaver's Bay, located south-west of Meereen and north of Astapor. Bedslaves, trained in the "Way of the Seven Sighs", are Yunkai's chief export.[1]

Yunkai is ruled by an oligarchy of slave merchants calling themselves the Wise Masters. Its people are known both as Yunkish and Yunkai'i.[2]

Notable Yunkai'i

History

Season 3

When Daenerys Targaryen arrives and camps near the Yellow City with the army of Unsullied she acquired in Astapor, the Wise Masters send one of their own, Razdal mo Eraz, to offer her gold and ships so that she goes to Westeros and leaves them alone in their business. Daenerys spurns the offer, but she keeps their gold.[3] Yunkai also employs a mercenary company called the Second Sons to stand against Daenerys and her Unsullied, but one of their leaders, Daario Naharis, betrays their contract, kills his colleagues and pledges his company to Daenerys.[4] With Daario's insider knowledge, a small party of supporters, composed of the Queen's close adviser Jorah Mormont, the Unsullied commander Grey Worm and himself, enter Yunkai through a back-gate and open the front-gates for her army. With the numerical advantage on their side, Yunkai falls within hours.[5] The city then surrenders her slaves to Daenerys, who praise her as their 'Mother'.[6]

Season 4

On a council meeting atop the Great Pyramid in Meereen, Jorah Mormont reports to Daenerys that the Wise Masters have re-enslaved every free man in Yunkai.[7] This convinces Daenerys not to march on King's Landing and remain in Meereen to rule over Slaver's Bay and enforce her abolition of slavery.[8] In order to accomplish this, she sends Hizdahr zo Loraq, a Great Master at her service, and the Second Sons to Yunkai in order to negotiate with the Wise Masters: if they do not comply with her demands of abandoning slavery once and for all, the mercenaries will execute them all.[9]

Season 5

Hizdahr zo Loraq and Daario Naharis return successful from their diplomatic mission: the Wise Masters will comply with Daenerys Targaryen's abolition of slavery and set up a ruling council of former slaveholders and freedman as long as she allows the fighting pits to be reopened (with free and willing combatants, of course). Daenerys refuses to tolerate this condition, despite Hizdahr and Daario's repeated appeals on the matter.[10]

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In the books

In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Yunkai is located at least 163 miles from Meereen. The island of Yaros lies just off the Yunkish coast. It is sometimes called the Yellow City, for its buildings are made from yellow bricks. The city contains large, stepped pyramids - though not as large as Meereen's - and can field an army of 5,000 at short notice, though these are mostly slave-warriors of uncertain reliability. The Meereenese do not have a high opinion of the quality of Yunkai's soldiers or generals. Yunkai is ruled by an aristocracy of slavers and merchants known as the Wise Masters.

See also

References

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