Old Ghis

The mother city of the old empire the dragons of Valyria burned five thousand years ago.

The fuller tale

The mother city of the Ghiscari empire has been a ruin for five thousand years by the time the Dance is fought — burned by Valyria’s own dragons long before Aegon’s line ever existed to fight each other, Old Ghis’s ruin belongs to a much older story than this one.

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.