Seat of House Nymeros Martell, raised in sandstone upon a spit of land where the deserts of Dorne meet the sea. Here Nymeria of the Rhoynar burned her ten thousand ships, and here the Princes of Dorne have ruled unbowed, unbent, unbroken ever since.
The Old Palace
At the heart of Sunspear stands the Old Palace, crowned by the slender Spear Tower, a hundred and a half feet of pale stone tipped in gilded steel, and the great dome of the Tower of the Sun, where the princes hold court beneath windows of colored glass.
The Shadow City
Beyond the Threefold Gate sprawls the shadow city, a winding warren of mud-brick shops and stalls that has grown against the castle's western walls like a bastard child pressed to its mother's skirts.