The Red Keep was the tallest and largest fortress in King's Landing, and the best defended. Its construction dated back to Aegon I, to the very first year of his reign.
The castle occupied the highest, most commanding ground in King's Landing. Built against a hillside where the Blackwater Rush flowed into Blackwater Bay, with the sea at its back, it was easy to defend and hard to attack. It covered more than eight hundred thousand square feet and contained a vast complex of beautiful buildings, with nearly two thousand rooms of all sizes serving every purpose. The whole structure was built from hard dressed stone... It was the grandest construction project in King's Landing, perhaps in all of Westeros. Nothing else came close!
That was only natural!
After all, King's Landing was the capital of the Seven Kingdoms, and the Red Keep was both the king's castle and his palace. It housed the royal family and the seat of the realm: the Iron Throne!
King's Landing stood on the eastern coast of Westeros, beside the sea. From the window of this military command room—a courtyard-like chamber whose smooth floor bore an exquisitely detailed map of Westeros and the Free Cities along Essos's western coast—Cersei could look out over distant Blackwater Bay. To the south, the lush trees of the kingswood had begun to shed their leaves and take on a mantle of white snow...
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"No. There isn't enough time, and we don't have enough troops... Moving south, we only need to take Highgarden and Greengrove. We can leave Longtable, Cider Hall, and Whitegrove alone..."
"But, sir! If Dorn's army marches north from here and threatens King's Landing, our entire plan will be disrupted!"
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"Dorn's main force is in the North. They wouldn't dare, and they have no