Tyria

A sister city of old Valyria, lost in the Doom.

The fuller tale

Tyria was Oros’s sister in glory and is its sister in ruin — a city of the Valyrian heartland, lost in the hours of the Doom when the peninsula’s fourteen volcanoes opened at once and the proudest civilization the world has known was subtracted from it. The books name Tyria among the cities the catastrophe took, and the naming is nearly all that survives: its walls are under the Smoking Sea’s hazards now, its arts and archives ash, its people a statistic four centuries old. The tale keeps such names deliberately. Valyria the idea — the steel, the roads, the dragon blood — lives all through the story; Tyria is the reminder of the price on the other side of the ledger, a whole city reduced to an entry in the world’s memory of one bad day.

The fallen of this place — if any, they are named here. Spoilers.

No death the chronicle records has come to this ground — or none the maesters have set down.