Valyria is a long-dead city of wonderment, and was once the capital of a great empire called the Valyrian Freehold. It was destroyed by a cataclysmic event known as the Doom of Valyria 100 years before Aegon’s Landing.
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TARGARYEN NOVEMBER 2021:
↳ Day 1: Valyria
At its apex Valyria was the greatest city in the known world, the center of civilization. Within its shining walls, twoscore rival houses vied for power and glory in court and council, rising and falling in an endless, subtle, oft savage struggle for dominance. (writing by Yandel).
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asoiaf meme: [1] ▶ location: THE IRON ISLANDS.
These cold, wet, windswept islands were never well forested, and their thin soil did not support the growth of weirwoods. No giants ever made their homes here, nor did the children of the forest walk what woods there were. The old gods worshipped by these elder races were likewise absent. And though the Andals did reach the islands eventually, their Faith never took root here either, for another god had come before the Seven: the Drowned God, creator of the seas and father of the ironborn.
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TARGARYEN NOVEMBER 2021 ↳ Day 1: Valyria
At its apex Valyria was the greatest city in the known world, the center of civilization. Within its shining walls, twoscore rival houses vied for power and glory in court and council, rising and falling in an endless, subtle, oft savage struggle for dominance.
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TARGARYEN NOVEMBER » Day 1: Valyria
The proudest city in all the world was gone in an instant, the fabled empire vanished in a day. The Lands of the Long Summer — once the most fertile in all the world — were scorched and drowned and blighted, and the toll in blood would not be fully realized for a century to come.
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“To go north, you must go south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward you must go back, and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.”
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[ #GameOfThrones ] Dragonstone by Philip Straub
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Dragonstone is a volcanic island in the Narrow Sea that guards the entrance to Blackwater Bay and the sea approaches to King’s Landing, off the east coast of Westeros. It is the location of the eponymous castle of Dragonstone, the ancestral seat of House Targaryen.
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Volantis and Braavos are such an interesting contrast because they are diametrically opposed in everything (ideologies,way of life...) even the feels of the place are opposite.
As I said before, Braavos is a grey city but it's so full of people and movement and culture that it feels colorful and bright. It's a port city open to every religion and culture . Arya, when she actually live there, feels pretty good about being there and acclimatise very well because of that environment.
On the other hand, Volantis is a colorful city but it feels dry and grey and closed off inthis idea that they are the descendant of the most ancient blood, daughter of Valyria. Tyrion feels incredibly unwelcomed in that environment.
Also, going on a tangent a little bit, it's probably significant that Dany, an abolitionist who was raised in Braavos (a city against slavery), will be the one who will probably conquer Volantis and destroy its system of slavery in TWOW. And also, being first raised in Braavos, Dany is also very open to different religions and cultures.
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I know the city of Braavos is the grey city, but I can't help it, in my head, this city is incredibly colorful.
And I think part of that is the way Arya describe it as this multicultural city with people from everywhere in an environment where she is thriving (I do want to acknowledge the death-cult of it all that is putting somewhat of a downer on that)
This is why I really love Braavos, the dichotomy of it all. The city is gray and rainy and dreary, yet it’s a melting pot city with so many races, ethnicities, religions, cultures, and languages present. The city is a dreary backdrop but the people are so colorful! The gorgeous courtesans in their extravagant gowns and costumes and barges, the bravos peacocking around the city in their splendor, the feather cloaks of the Summer Islanders, etc. Even Arya as Mercy is extremely colorful in her purple cape with red silk lining. One of the things I’m most annoyed about when it comes to Michelle Clapton is how Braavos was depicted on GOT, which was extremely hideous. I think Braavos is one of the most richly described places in the books and yet we got that trash. :/
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And imagine how lovely all those places of worship and harbours and ships from all over the known world would look, the dockside places and all those different cats wandering around. You've got people like Night's Watch deserters and maesters in the making and old Targaryen princes and young Stark princesses in one single place.
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The great castle of Highgarden, the ancient seat of the Tyrell lords and the Gardener kings before them, sits atop a verdant hill overlooking the broad and tranquil waters of the Mander. Seen from afar, the castle “looks so much a part of the land one could think that it had grown there, rather than being built.” Many consider Highgarden to be the most beautiful castle in all the Seven Kingdoms, a claim that only the men of the Vale see fit to dispute. (They prefer their own Eyrie). The hill from which Highgarden rises is neither steep nor stony but broad in extent, with gentle slopes and a pleasing symmetry. From the castle’s walls and towers, a man can see for leagues in all directions, across orchards and meadows and fields of flowers, including the golden roses of the Reach that have long been the sigil of House Tyrell.
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Shall we begin?
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Countdown to Season 8 Day #5: Favorite Location → Old Valyria
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ASOIAF meme: 1/7 regions || The Shadow Lands
The waters of the Ash glisten black beneath the noonday sun and glimmer with a pale green phosphorescence by night, and such fish as swim in the river are blind and twisted, so deformed that only fools and shadowbinders will eat of their flesh.
The ships come nonetheless. For gold, for gems, and for other treasures, for certain things spoken of only in whispers, things that cannot be found anywhere upon the earth save in the black bazaars of Asshai.
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make me choose ↳ velutluna asked: pentos or braavos