
Valyrian steel blades are scarce and costly, especially since the Doom, yet thousands of them remain in the world, perhaps some two hundred in the Seven Kingdoms alone (III: 359. Valar morghulis is a well-known phrase in High Valyrian, and means "All men must die" (III: 308, 748). 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) Old Ghis ruled an empire while the Valyrians were still savage, or so it's said (III: 265). 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) The gods of Ghis were destroyed with its fall, and so were its people. 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 cities of Slaver's Bay are descended from Old Ghis, which was destroyed by the might of young Valyria 5,000 years ago. North of Valyria the Smoking Sea is demon-haunted (III: 98).
Dracarys means dragonfire in High Valyrian (III: 94).They are made of obsidian, twisted in shape with razor-sharp edges, and can be green or black in color (II: 638. 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. Valyria produced items known as glass candles, at least as of a thousand years before the Doom.
The Valyrians commonly wed brother to sister (II: 364). The maesters say that Valyria was the last ember of magic, and even that is now destroyed (II: 325). 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 Valyrians had great skill in shaping stone, although much of their knowledge is now lost (II: 3). Dragonstone was the westernmost outpost of the Freehold of Valyria (II: 3. The Targaryens were on Dragonstone for about two centuries after the Doom before invading Westeros (I: 692.
High Valyrian is still used by some (I: 603).The topless towers of Valyria were reputedly very beautiful (I: 313).Some claim to still know the spells that must be used to rework Valyrian steel (I: 235.Magic had died away when the Doom fell on Valyria and the Lands of the Long Summer (I: 197).Made of magically fused stone and raised half a foot off the ground to allow rain and snow to melt off their shoulders, the roads are broad enough to allow three wagons to pass abreast. These roads show no sign of wear or tear despite their age. Valyria left many roads, as old as a thousand years, that run straight as arrows on the eastern continent.The Valyrians carved sphinxes with garnet eyes and black faces (I: 161).
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The Free Cities speak a bastard version of Valyrian, as most have their origins as colonies of Valyria (I: 84.Ayrmidon's Engines of War is quite rare, and written on scrolls (I: 72).Depictions of the Doom of Valyria exist (I: 29).The writing of Valyria was in glyphs (I: 27).
It is held that the ironsmiths worked with spells as well as hammer (I: 20).