Hello and welcome to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!\n\xa0\n\nIn this episode, Dany descends into hell, aka Astapor, our first city in Slaver's Bay.\n\xa0\nThis week, we:\xa0\n\xa0\n\n- Introduce Slaver's Bay as the major new setting in ASOS\n- Dig into the hellish imagery of Astapor specifically\n- Explore the cultural context of the history and language used here\n- Take stock of the horrors involved in the training of the Unsullied\n- Analyze Barristan's role in Dany's decision-making process\n\n\n\xa0\nNext week: we finish up Dany's introduction to Astapor in ASOS, Daenerys II!\n\xa0\nOur patreon:\xa0www.patreon.com/NotACastASOIAF\n\xa0\nOur merch store:\xa0https://notacastasoiaf.threadless.com\xa0\xa0\n\n\n\xa0\nOur twitter:\xa0twitter.com/NotACastASOIAF\n\n\n\xa0\nOur facebook:\xa0www.facebook.com/groups/289889118235797/\n\n\n\xa0\nOur youtube page:\xa0www.youtube.com/channel/UCmmDfPdG\u2026iew_as=subscriber\n\n\n\xa0\nEmmett's twitter:\xa0twitter.com/PoorQuentyn