Timeline for What exactly was the 'Doom of Valyria'?
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| Dec 12, 2017 at 16:25 | comment | added | PoloHoleSet | Let us continue this discussion in chat. | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 15:23 | comment | added | TheLethalCarrot♦ | @PoloHoleSet Well Valyria is quite a way from Westeros on the southern side of Essos. Also the season's have been like that a since before the Doom and change frequently around the Doom too (I believe). | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 15:17 | comment | added | PoloHoleSet | Thanks. I appreciate the effort. It just seems that this would be an easy out for the randomness of length and severity of winters. | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 15:14 | comment | added | TheLethalCarrot♦ | @PoloHoleSet I've had a look and can't find any reference to what happened to Valyria immediately afterwards. Some people survived but they would have left to Essos anyway so I doubt anyone was in the area after the event. If you're more interested in real world reasoning to the event it looks like it could have been caused by two tectonic plates moving apart, though the result is obviously much bigger than anything we've seen. | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 15:09 | comment | added | PoloHoleSet | I just thought it would make sense if that were the case. It's a pretty widely known and understood phenomenon (who hasn't heard of "nuclear winter," which is based on the same concept?), so no scientific expertise is necessary, really. I'm not a meteorologist or geologist, either. | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 9:05 | comment | added | TheLethalCarrot♦ | @PoloHoleSet Not that I'm aware of but note this is fantasy and I don't think GRRM is a geologist/meteorologist so things like that might not hold true to our world anyway. | |
| Dec 11, 2017 at 22:34 | comment | added | PoloHoleSet | Did an especially long, brutal winter follow very soon after? That would seem to be the natural follow-up of volcanic activity of that magnitude, because of all the particulate matter that would be thrown into that atmosphere. newscientist.com/article/… | |
| Dec 11, 2017 at 19:29 | history | edited | lfurini | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 11, 2017 at 17:07 | history | edited | TheLethalCarrot♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 11, 2017 at 10:38 | history | answered | TheLethalCarrot♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |