Timeline for What exactly was the 'Doom of Valyria'?
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| Oct 7, 2015 at 7:33 | comment | added | Parrotmaster | @bon Would that also enable all 14 volcanos to go off at the same time? | |
| Oct 1, 2015 at 11:59 | comment | added | bon | @Parrotmaster Volcanoes can cause tsunamis if a large mass of rock falls into the sea, usually as a result of part of the mountain collapsing. There are many recorded instances of this in history such as here. | |
| Jul 7, 2014 at 19:49 | history | edited | Kevin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 15, 2014 at 9:20 | comment | added | Royal Canadian Bandit | @Parrotmaster: Fair enough, I suppose it could happen in nature. In terms of storytelling, I still think there's likely to be more to it than a totally natural event that was really bad luck for the Valyrians. | |
| May 15, 2014 at 6:45 | comment | added | Parrotmaster | @RoyalCanadianBandit But it also mentions Tsunami's, which makes me believe it was actually an earthquake that set off the 14 volcanoes (14 volcanoes tell us that it was an area with a lot of tectonic activity.) We have places like this on earth and events like this, but in our case it's mostly underwater. | |
| May 14, 2014 at 8:11 | comment | added | Danieloplata | @RoyalCanadianBandit Good comment | |
| May 13, 2014 at 21:26 | comment | added | ctzdev | Is this analogous to Pompeii? | |
| May 13, 2014 at 15:24 | comment | added | Royal Canadian Bandit | @Parrotmaster: The Doom is clearly volcanic in nature, but I'd question whether it was entirely natural. Having a chain of 14 volcanoes all erupt at once with that degree of violence is pretty much unknown on the real Earth. Also, we have the fact that this disaster just happened to strike the greatest centre of magical power in the world. It is likely that the magic of Valyria and the Doom are connected in some way, but we won't find out until the later books (if at all). | |
| May 13, 2014 at 13:18 | comment | added | Parrotmaster | The quote is not from the books directly, but it's a 100% accurate description of the area. If you look at the map of the world you can see it has a heavily fragmented landmass in the south, which is Valyria. Tyrion describes it the best in the books, saying fire spewed from the ground and boulders came flying from the sky, which points directly to a volcano erupting (or in this case, multiple (14)). | |
| May 13, 2014 at 12:52 | comment | added | Kevin | Do they cite that? I don't recall reading it in the books. | |
| May 13, 2014 at 12:28 | history | answered | Parrotmaster | CC BY-SA 3.0 |