In the meantime the Valyrians founded or conquered the cities of Myr, Lys, Lorath, Tyrosh, Pentos, Qohor and Norvos in addition to Volantis. Here they founded the Secret City of Braavos, and endured in secret for four centuries. Two centuries after the flight of the Roynar, a religious sect, the Moonsingers, led several thousand refugees northwards, seeking sanctuary, until they found a lagoon sealed off from the outside world by mists and reefs. The Valyrians continued to colonise the western coastal regions of the continent. Nymeria, warrior-queen of the Rhoynar, led an evacuation by ship to Westeros, where they invaded and subjugated Dorne. The people of the region, the Rhoynar, went to war against the Valyrians but were defeated. The Valyrians forged a massive empire stretching across much of southern Essos over the next several millennia.Д«y approximately one thousand years ago, the Valyrians had expanded into the western coastal regions of Essos, the area bordering the Narrow Sea, and founded the city of Volantis as a colony-state at the mouth of the great River Rhoyne. Ghis launched five separate invasions, wars and rebellions against the Valyrians before they were finally cowed. They discovered a means of harnessing and controlling these creatures, and using them in battle were able to repel Ghiscari invasions and then embark on a campaign of conquest.

The Ghiscari claim that their empire was at its height when the Valyrians were still sheep-herders.ДЄt an unknown time, the Valyrians discovered dragons lairing in the Fourteen Fires, a circle of volcanoes extending across the neck of the Valyrian Peninsula. The Valyrians appear to have been shepherds and pastoral folk, not worth the bother of conquest. Five thousand years ago, the Valyrians were a people of Essos, living on a vast peninsula extending southwards into the Summer Sea, west of Slaver's Bay and the great Ghiscari Empire which dominated the eastern side of the bay.

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