A TOUR THROUGH VALYRIA.
valyria ( or, as some call, ‘old valyria’ ) is the ancestral home of the house targaryen. it is a ruined city located in essos, more precisely in the valyrian peninsula, and it was destroyed on 114 BC — a century prior to aegon’s landing —, during a cataclysmic event called ‘ the doom of valyria ‘. the city had prospered by five thousand years, before the occurred.
the doom of valyria transformed the peninsula and destroyed every living thing, including the dragons. all hills exploded ( and filled the air with smoke and ashes ), earthquakes made palaces / cities fall into the ground, and the lakes boiled. the event made the valyrian peninsula break into small pieces, turning it into petite islands and creating the smoking sea. before such cataclysm, valyria had 3 main regions, apparently disconnected from each other, but tied together by its people.
IMPORTANT : as i have stated multiple times before, this blog is heavily inspired by brazil and its people. i tried my best to disintegrate valyria into 3 pieces, keeping in mind its geographic locations ( and the locations nearest to them, since the city’s book description is quite scarce — mostly because george r. r. martin tend to focus on post - doom rather than on the idea of how the targaryens, the celtigars and the velaryons lived ). with that said, i’ll be developing more and more this canon divergence taking into consideration the brazilian cities and regions.
apart from that, it is important to keep in mind that the smaller cities surrounding valyria ( and that, later on, turned into little ruined islands ) are not taken into consideration on my canon, since no information about them or their population is given by canon. instead of that, most of the valyrian peninsula is occupied by the city of old valyria.
WEST —— FOREST.
inspired by : amazon rainforest ( only the brazilian amazon, or the legal amazon ), taking into consideration the amazon biome, an area of tropical rainforest.
the least likely area to find the dragons, the west of valyria was surrounded by the humidity of the summer sea and the heat of valyrian's centre; which occasionally, over the years, provided a conducive environment and a rainforest was formed.
NORTH / CENTRE — LAVA & RUINS.
inspired by : the state of sao paulo. the ruins representing the big buildings of avenues like paulista and the volcanos as a mirror / result of society’s paved streets and urban heat islands.
surrounded by the cities of tyria and oros, this is the main region where the targaryens were originated. they had big castles, made with forged rocks and liquefied stones much like the ones found at dragonstone. many volcanos were found here and, because of that, the water near this region ( mostly from lakes ) was warmer than normal. like moqorro correctly stated once, the sky was red upon this region ( but only sometimes ).
SOUTH / EAST — BEACHES.
inspired by : the brazilian coast. i’m not gonna limit myself into saying that i’ll be only trying to show certain states / cities on this one, because i wish i could bring them all together and represent all particularities ( starting on states like maranhão and going all the way down to rio grande do sul ) since representation is hella important. either way, this is going to be highly influenced by the brazilian’s northeast and south regions.
bathed by the summer sea at south, this area is where the houses celtigar and velaryon were originated once : while they conquered the seas with their gigantic ships, the targaryens ruled the skies. it had the most beautiful beaches; the water was translucent and the weather was always clear and windy.
