Editing Magic (section)

===Valyria===
[[File:Fourteen Flames.jpg|thumb|[[Valyria]] and its [[dragon]]s, by Ted Nasmith ©]]
:{{See also|Valyrian Freehold}}

All [[Valyrian Freehold|Valyrian]] magic was rooted in [[bloodmagic|blood]] and [[Fire magic|fire]]. It is said that they could set [[Glass candle|dragonglass candles]] to burning with strange, unpleasantly-bright light. With the obsidian candles, they could see across vast distances, look into a man's mind, and speak with one another though they were half the world apart.{{Ref|AFFC|45}} It is often said that the old wizards of Valyria did not cut and chisel stone, but worked it with fire and magic as one might work clay.{{Ref|ASOS|54}} The people of Valyria were strong in magic, and they used their powerful wizards and their [[dragons]] in conjunction with their armies to conquer most of western Essos. Dragons were controlled by whips, [[dragon horn]]s, and sorcery.

In the flesh pits of [[Gogossos]], Valyrian [[bloodmage]]s mated animals to slave women to bring forth half-human creatures.{{ref|TWOIAF|Beyond the Free Cities: The Basilisk Isles}}

Wizards of the [[Rhoynar]] used [[water magic]] against the [[Valyrian Freehold]] during the [[Rhoynish Wars]].{{ref|TWOIAF|Ancient History: Ten Thousand Ships}}

It is believed that magic died out in the west and the [[Lands of the Long Summer]] after the [[Doom of Valyria]], despite attempts to restore it through spell-forged steel, stormsingers, or dragons.{{ref|AGOT|23}}