Doom of Valyria
The volcanic end of the dragonlords' Freehold.
The Doom of Valyria was the catastrophe, apparently a violent eruption of the volcanoes called the Fourteen Flames, that destroyed the Valyrian Freehold and turned the Valyrian peninsula in south-central Essos into an archipelago in the new Smoking Sea.
Quick Facts
- Location
- Valyria, south-central Essos
- Cause
- Eruption of the Fourteen Flames
Lore & Background
Before the Doom, Valyria was the seat of a Freehold thousands of years old, so called because every landowner could vote for its leaders. Valyrians had silver hair and violet eyes, and slaves mined the ore-rich Fourteen Flames.
Reader's Guide
The Targaryens descend from Old Valyria; they escaped the Doom after Daenys the Dreamer's dream foretold it.
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