Kayakayanaya

The city endures as one of the last remnants of the Hyrkoon Patrimony, a nation barely remembered outside its walls. Along with that legacy it inherited a duty: guarding the Steel Road, the route linking it to Vaes Dothrak.

Its defenses speak of the same past. The wall combines black basalt, dark iron and yellow bone, and the city shares close ties, both cultural and geographic, with Bayasabhad.

As Daenerys Targaryen walks through the Eastern Market of Vaes Dothrak, among the stalls and goods she watches the warrior maidens from Bayasabhad, Shamyriana and Kayakayanaya pass by. It is the only moment the city steps into the story — not through anything it does, but through who happens to be watching.

Kayakayanaya is known above all for its warrior maidens, who wear iron rings through their nipples and rubies set into their cheeks. Maester Naylin devoted pages to puzzling out where that custom came from in a text titled Iron and Rubies, though nothing here records what he concluded.

Es famoso por sus doncellas guerreras con anillos de hierro en los pezones y rubíes en las mejillas. En Hierro y rubíes el maestre Naylin sopesa las circunstancias que dieron lugar a tales costumbres.

Culture · Juego de Tronos, Capítulo 54, Daenerys.