1.1. The Freehold of Valyria
- It is held that the ironsmiths worked with spells as well as hammer (I: 20)
- Valyria suffered a Doom (I: 20)
- The writing of Valyria was in glyphs (I: 27)
- Depictions of the Doom of Valyria exist (I: 29)
- Ayrmidon's Engines of War is quite rare, and written on scrolls (I: 72)
- The Free Cities speak a bastard version of Valyrian (I: 84)
- The Valyrians carved sphinxes with garnet eyes and black faces (I: 161)
- Valyria left many roads, as old as a thousand years, that run straight as arrows on the eastern continent (I: 193)
- Magic had died away when the Doom fell on Valyria and the Lands of the Long Summer (I: 197)
- The topless towers of Valyria were reputedly very beautiful (I: 313)
- Old Valyria is now old ruins (I: 374)
- High Valyrian is still used by some (I: 603)
- The Targaryens were on Dragonstone for about two centuries after the Doom before invading Westeros (I: 692. SSC: 86)
- Dragonstone was the westernmost outpost of the Freehold of Valyria (II: 3)
- The Valyrians had great skill in shaping stone, although much of their knowledge is now lost (II: 3)
- The idols of the Seven on Dragonstone were carved from the masts of the ships that had carried the first Targaryens from Valyria (II: 109)
- The maesters say that Valyria was the last ember of magic, and even that is now destroyed (II: 325)
- The Valyrians commonly wed brother to sister (II: 364)
- Valyria produced items known as glass candles, at least as of a thousand years before the Doom. They are said to burn with a light that does not flicker and casts strange shadows only under the influence of magic, or perhaps during portentous times. They are made of obsidian, twisted in shape with razor-sharp edges, and can be green or black in color (II: 638. IV: 9)
- Dracarys means dragonfire in High Valyrian (III: 94)
- North of Valyria the Smoking Sea is demon-haunted (III: 98)
- The cities of Slaver's Bay are descended from Old Ghis, which was destroyed by the might of young Valyria 5,000 years ago. Its legions were shattered, its brick walls were pulled down, its streets and buildings turned to ash and cinder by dragonflame, its fields sown with salt, sulfur, and skulls (III: 257)
- The gods of Ghis were destroyed with its fall, and so were its people. The inhabitants of the slaver cities are mongrels, and the Ghiscari tongue is largely forgotten; the slave cities speak the High Valyrian of their conquerors, or what they made of it (III: 257)
- Old Ghis ruled an empire while the Valyrians were still savage, or so it's said (III: 265)
- The Ghiscari lust for dragons. Five times had Old Ghis fought with Valyria when the world was young, and five times it lost because the Freehold of Valyria had dragons and the Empire had none (III: 307)
- Valar morghulis is a well-known phrase in High Valyrian, and means "All men must die" (III: 308, 748)
- Valyrian steel blades are scarce and costly, yet thousands of them remain in the world, perhaps some two hundred in the Seven Kingdoms alone (III: 359)
- It is often said that the old wizards of Valyria did not cut and chisel stone, but worked it with fire and magic as one might work clay (III: 603)
- There is a haunting ballad about two dying lovers amidst the Doom of Valyria, sung in High Valyrian (III: 676)
- Most people in Westeros, even among the nobility, do not know High Valyrian (III: 676)
- Obsidian was known as "frozen fire" in High Valyrian (III: 885)
- Valonqar is a world in High Valyrian (IV: 55)
- Braavos was discovered by the Moonsingers, who led refugees there to a place where the dragons of Valyria could not find them (IV: 89)
- Dragonlore was once accumulated in Valyria (SSC: 79)
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