Chataya's brothel
Chataya's brothel is an upscale brothel located behind Rhaenys's Hill in King's Landing. It is owned and run by Chataya. [1] There is a secret passageway that runs from the brothel to a nearby stable.[2]
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History
This brothel was one of Robert I's favorites. [3] Stannis Baratheon and Jon Arryn visited this brothel when trying to identify bastards fathered by Robert I [4].
About
The brothel is a house two stories tall with a stone ground floor and a timber upper floor. A round turret rises from one corner of the structure. Many of the windows are leaded. Over the door swings an ornate lamp, a globe of gilded metal and scarlet glass.
Inside the entrance the air smells of some exotic spice and the floor beneath displays a mosaic of two women entwined in love. [5]
The common room is behind an ornate Myrish screen that has been carved with flowers and fancies and dreaming maidens. When looking into the common room Tyrion sees an old man playing a cheerful air on pipes. There is a cushioned alcove and a leaded coloured glass window where sunlight pours through.
The Turret Room & Secret Passageway
The turret room is up two flights of stairs from the ground floor, then down a long hall and up another stair to a lone door which opens to the turret room. Within the room is a great canopied bed, a tall wardrobe decorated with erotic carvings and a narrow window of leaded glass in a pattern of red and yellow diamonds. [5]
Inside the empty wardrobe there is a back panel concealing a secret passageway. Chataya has closely guarded the knowledge of its existence. When the back panel is pushed all the way aside it reveals a metal ladder, the rungs go well below street level, the shaft then opens onto a dark, slanting earthen tunnel.
The Tunnel
Having come perhaps a distance of three blocks under Rhaenys's Hill down the earthen tunnel a patron will then emerge through a trap door at the back of a nearby stable. [5] Tyrion uses the tunnel as an exit while pretending to be at Chataya’s when he is in fact concealing his visits to Shae - but it can also be the other way around. The earthen tunnel was dug for another King's Hand whose honor would not allow him to enter such a house openly. [5]
Chataya’s Girls
Chataya’s girls are costly. It is said the girls are fit for a king. They are all as sweet as they are beautiful and skilled in every art of love. They dress in flowing silks cinched at the waist with beaded belts.
Known Clients
- King Robert I.
- Unnamed King’s Hand, possibly Tywin Lannister
- Prince Oberyn Martell
- Bronn
- Anguy the archer
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
One of Chataya's whores has a bastard daughter of King Robert I.[6] During his search for the bastards of Robert, Lord Eddard Stark finds the child and her mother at Chataya's brothel.[6]
A Clash of Kings
Queen Cersei decided to erase any clue of her adultery and has the bastard daughter of Robert I killed (and the mother who tried to stop them) by men of the City Watch, under the command of Allar Deem.[7] Tyrion Lannister visits Chataya's as a front for his clandestine visitations with Shae at a manse nearby.[5]
A Storm of Swords
Anguy reveals he spent the small fortune he had won at the Tourney of the Hand on Jayde, Alayaya and Dancy, roast swan and arbor wine.[8]
Quotes
"You have a pleasant establishment." [9]
- Tyrion
References and Notes
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 15, Tyrion
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 15, Tyrion
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 15, Tyrion
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 27, Eddard VI.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 15, Tyrion III.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 35, Eddard IX.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 8, Tyrion II.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 39, Arya VII.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 15, Tyrion III, p 237.