myrcellathemarred:

ALRIGHT

Well, I’ll go over it with bulletpoints???

• FIRST OF ALL, Valyrian smiths didn’t work with just hammers and such but also with magic. This is why people don’t know how to work Valyrian steel now, it did not only require forging-knowledge but magic as well. It could not be done with raw material either.
• Smithing was not the only non-dragon thing the Valyrians used magic for. They say that they used magic with architecture as well and they had special ways of working with stone that didn’t include cutting or chiseling. Valyrian magicians were said to have known ways of shaping stone, like one might shape clay, using fire and magic.
• It is said that the “topless towers” of Valyria were really beautiful. I have no idea what they mean by that but tbh I think they are actually topless towers so that dragons can enter and exit.
• THEY WROTE IN GLYPHS!
• Another architecture of note: They had carved sphinxes which apparently had black faces with garnets for eyes. The green sphinxes on the entrance of Citadel are also from Valyria!
• GLASS CANDLES. DON’T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT!
• “The candle was unpleasantly bright. There was something queer about it. The flame did not flicker, even when Archmaester Marwyn closed the door so hard that papers blew off a nearby table. The light did something strange to colors too. Whites were bright as fresh-fallen snow, yellow shone like gold, reds turned to flame, but the shadows were so black they looked like holes in the world. Sam found himself staring. The candle itself was three feet tall and slender as a sword, ridged and twisted, glittering black. “Is that… ?”

  “… obsidian,” said the other man in the room, a pale, fleshy, pasty-faced young fellow with round shoulders, soft hands, close-set eyes, and food stains on his robes.

  “Call it dragonglass.” Archmaester Marwyn glanced at the candle for a moment. “It burns but is not consumed.”

  “What feeds the flame?” asked Sam.

  “What feeds a dragon’s fire?” Marwyn seated himself upon a stool. “All Valyrian sorcery was rooted in blood or fire. The sorcerers of the Freehold could see across mountains, seas, and deserts with one of these glass candles. They could enter a man’s dreams and give him visions, and speak to one another half a world apart, seated before their candles.”

• ALSO OF COURSE, there are the horns they used to tame dragons which Euron reportedly owns.
• Valyria had accumulated Dragonlore from all over the world, but it was all lost in the Doom.