Inside Old Valyria Before the Doom | Game of Thrones Lore to Sleep To
Stone and Song
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The greatest city in the known world is described, in the entire surviving record, in one sentence.
Nobody who stood in Valyria ever wrote down what it looked like — and every account of the morning it ended begins with the same four words: it was written that.
Three and a half hours of calm, unhurried narration on the complete history of the Valyrian Freehold. The people who lived under the fourteen volcanoes, and everything they built out of what came up from under them. The mines that paid for all of it. Five wars against Old Ghis and the fields sown afterwards. The sixty-six words that were the entire constitution of a state that stood for thousands of years. Two and a half centuries of war on the Rhoyne, and the afternoon when archers standing in a river brought down two dragons. The Doom itself, with all six explanations set out side by side and nobody willing to stand behind any of them. And what is left now — a road with no ruts in it, and a count of blades that only ever gets shorter.
Told from the books. Where the accounts disagree, both are given. Where the record runs out, it says so.
The voice does not rise and the story does not thin. Set it going and let it run.
CHAPTERS
0:00 — The Road That Has Never Been Mended
10:40 — What the Mountains Were For
21:13 — The Argument About Where They Came From
32:50 — Five Wars, and the Language That Went Quietly
45:24 — Sixty-Six Words
58:45 — The Manifest and the Shopping List
1:12:45 — A Thousand Gods, and None of Them Feared
1:24:45 — Arts We Do Not Know
1:39:20 — Where It Stopped
1:51:43 — The Afternoon on the River
2:01:13 — The Cage at Chroyane
2:14:12 — The Continent They Did Not Take
2:29:04 — It Was Written That
2:42:00 — Six Answers and Nobody Behind Them
2:54:11 — Two Blades, Not Three
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Inside Old Valyria Before the Doom | Game of Thrones Lore to Sleep To
Stone and Song
9,929 views
The greatest city in the known world is described, in the entire surviving record, in one sentence.
Nobody who stood in Valyria ever wrote down what it looked like — and every account of the morning it ended begins with the same four words: it was written that.
Three and a half hours of calm, unhurried narration on the complete history of the Valyrian Freehold. The people who lived under the fourteen volcanoes, and everything they built out of what came up from under them. The mines that paid for all of it. Five wars against Old Ghis and the fields sown afterwards. The sixty-six words that were the entire constitution of a state that stood for thousands of years. Two and a half centuries of war on the Rhoyne, and the afternoon when archers standing in a river brought down two dragons. The Doom itself, with all six explanations set out side by side and nobody willing to stand behind any of them. And what is left now — a road with no ruts in it, and a count of blades that only ever gets shorter.
Told from the books. Where the accounts disagree, both are given. Where the record runs out, it says so.
The voice does not rise and the story does not thin. Set it going and let it run.
CHAPTERS
0:00 — The Road That Has Never Been Mended
10:40 — What the Mountains Were For
21:13 — The Argument About Where They Came From
32:50 — Five Wars, and the Language That Went Quietly
45:24 — Sixty-Six Words
58:45 — The Manifest and the Shopping List
1:12:45 — A Thousand Gods, and None of Them Feared
1:24:45 — Arts We Do Not Know
1:39:20 — Where It Stopped
1:51:43 — The Afternoon on the River
2:01:13 — The Cage at Chroyane
2:14:12 — The Continent They Did Not Take
2:29:04 — It Was Written That
2:42:00 — Six Answers and Nobody Behind Them
2:54:11 — Two Blades, Not Three
#GameOfThrones #GameOfThronesLore #Valyria #ASOIAF #LoreToSleepTo