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Originally Posted by ThaVirus
They call it the Doom. As far as I know, it was just some unexplained disaster. I've read that Valyria was situated near a volcano so perhaps that was it. They were also a pretty advanced society so maybe it was something to do with their magic/technology.
All of the people with greyscale in the ruins today were sent there from elsewhere.
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Yeah, I always assumed it did a Vasuvius, though that isn't explicitly stated.
In fact, you can easily think of Westeros as England, the rest of the known world as Europe, and note that Valyria (which once ruled most of the known world, and the Southern half of England up to the Wall (though not Hadrian's Wall, coughcough) is located roughly where Italy is, though it's an island just south of Italy, or somewhat more like Sicily.
That doesn't hold for everything, of course. The Dothraki aren't like anything that were in Europe, except when the Mongols crushed Hungary, but still, in general terms...