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The Beautiful Elite: The Valyrians were supernaturally beautiful, with purple eyes and Mystical White Hair.Asshole Victim: Not everyone feels bad about the demise of old Valyria, that empire of blood and fire built on the suffering of countless slaves.The few brave enough to venture to Valyria's ruins don't come home. Now the area is said to be haunted by demons. Valyrian magic, knowledge and recorded history was lost. The Doom, a cataclysm of an unspecified nature, which destroyed Valyria and formed the Smoking Sea. Apocalypse How: Class 0-Regional, Societal Collapse.Practicing it on a widespread, societal scale means that the statistical averages of such a thing should really start appearing. While it is possible in real life for incestuous unions to result in perfectly healthy children, the chances of something going wrong get steeper and steeper the more the inbreeding goes on. Much like the Targaryens, for this practice to be sustainable and widely used, the Valyrians must have had a supernatural resistance to genetic disorders and inbreeding too. The Targaryen practice of consanguineous incest was inherited from the Valyrian dragonlords, who practiced it for centuries.

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Artistic License – Biology: Played with.

Arch-Enemy: The Ghiscari Empire and later the Rhoynar.

Volantis is implied to store large volumes of information behind its black walls, but others are equally in the dark. Apparently all their archives, ideas and blueprints for their magic and technology were jealously guarded in Old Valyria and this didn't diffuse to their colonies.

Despite the Valyrians conquering half the known world, for some reason there are few credible surviving records about them or their history and culture.

In-universe, it is believed that the Valyrians either suffered some kind of forgotten tragedy that caused them to shun the continent or that their priests prophesied that the "Doom of Man" would emerge from the area. Even after the Doom, it took the Targaryens three generations to leave Dragonstone and begin their conquest of the Seven Kingdoms. When the Andals and Princess Nymeria both fled to Westeros to avoid enslavement by the Valyrians, the Freehold refused to follow and allowed the Seven Kingdoms to develop unhindered. During this time they learned something that caused them to wash their hands of the entire continent, never going further than building Dragonstone and few other island outposts.

Early in the Freehold's rise to power, they visited Westeros before the arrival of the First Men and traded with giants.

Out of all Valyrian families to survive the Doom, only the Targaryens had been one of the forty houses of dragonlords in Old Valyria, and only they have retained the ability to breed and ride dragons. Houses that have tangential ties to Valyria, though with otherwise unconfirmed descent (through their distinct appearance or by mere rumor) include the Daynes, the Baratheons and the Hightowers. Extinct Westerosi houses that claimed Valyrian descent included the Blackfyres and House Qoherys. Four remaining Westerosi noble houses are of Valyrian descent, namely the Targaryens, the Velaryons, the Celtigars and the Longwaters.

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Valyrians are known for their platinum-blond hair, violet eyes and extreme beauty their descendants are found scattered in the Free Cities, especially in Volantis (comprising the city's nobility) and Lys (occupying various berths in the city's social strata). Once the dominant cultural and military power in the world, their empire was mostly wiped out four centuries before the events of A Song of Ice and Fire in a cataclysm known as the Doom of Valyria. The Valyrians are a race of people who lived in south-central Essos and founded the greatest empire ever seen thanks to their dragons, beasts native to their mountainous homeland that the Valyrians learned to tame and harness as weapons of war.