Forget the Iron Throne! Daenerys Targaryen has officially taken over Meereen and with a new conquered city comes a throne worthy of a queen.
[Warning: possible spoiler ahead]
Daenerys has come a long way since her days with the Dothraki. The Mother of Dragons is attempting to conquer the seven kingdoms of Westeros and now has an army of 10,000 at her command.
As Daenerys contemplates her next move, she will need a proper throne room atop an 800-foot pyramid, according to showrunner David Benioff. Beinoff gave Entertainment Weekly the inside scoop about Dany's new home.
"It was maybe the the biggest challenge [production designer] Deborah Riley faced and was probably the [set] we were most nervous about," says showrunner David Benioff of the pyramid and its interior sets. "It's really easy to go into a big sci-fi territory. It's really a testament to Deb. She designed both the audience chamber, where it's a grand room where Dany sits on her bench, and her personal quarters at top of the pyramid - they're just gorgeous. Incredibly experienced crew people were gasping."
Benioff added: "More and more things are CG. But we've done these lavish huge sets and there something old Hollywood about that that I love. As much as we have an incredible [special effects] team, the best in the world, and we rely on them for so many things, for the actors there's something different about walking into a real environment and being in a room that has the power you're trying to convey. It's almost like the way cathedrals were designed to create awe. If you were a peasant and been working in fields your whole life and never seen a city, you'd walk into a cathedral for the first time and you walk inside and that's a religious experience - because you've never seen anything like this."
Click here to see the Meereen throne room for yourself. "Game of Thrones" airs on HBO Sundays at 9 p.m. EST.
