Tyria

Biodata

Geography and Landmarks

• Surroundings: Tyria stands amid fog-shrouded Valyrian ruins. Liu Qian’s party approaches through the Withered Woods, passing ruined towers decorated with dragon sculptures 14.
• City layout: A broad white-marble avenue runs from the entrance toward the Warlock High Tower. Repaired buildings line its outer stretches, while ruined temples occupy the approach to the city center 14.
• Harbor: Located four or five li from the city, the harbor forms a large inlet extending deep into the land 25.

Warlock High Tower

• Historical murals: Four surviving murals depict worship, flight from a black building, Valyrian ancestry, and the rise of Valyrian civilization. Osarion identifies a missing scene between two murals as the Long Night 14.
• Laboratories and stores: The tower contains stockpiled Ghost Grass, Blood Magic experiments, a locked study, and Osarion’s records of human sacrifices 23.
• Dragon Egg cache: Nine reserved Dragon Egg fossils are hidden in a chest on the 315th floor, guarded by a Scorpion-Tailed Beast 23.
• Black Stone chamber: A mysterious, blood-carved black stone lies beneath the tower. It heals Osarion’s Chimera and begins transforming it into a more powerful creature 17 22.

Underground Library

• Janice describes Tyria’s original library as the most renowned in Valyria. The Doom destroyed its aboveground buildings and most of the books kept there 22.
• The underground collection preserves records concerning magic, minerals, and ancient rituals 22.
• Blood Warlocks moved the most important texts into the Wizard Tower long before Liu Qian’s visit 22.

Society and Rule

The Valyrian Curse

• Tyria’s residents are born with scales that spread as they age, eventually threatening to turn them into mindless monsters. Janice attributes the mutations to Blood Magic released during the Doom 8 13.
• Using magical weapons can accelerate the corruption. Jelena’s extensive use of her enchanted sword and armor during the city’s fall causes her condition to deteriorate rapidly 20 22.
• According to Jelena, residents who leave the Blood Magic-contaminated ruins suffer bodily decay and die in agony. This prevents ordinary escape from the region 24.
• Jelena says the walls protect against creatures but not parasites; already-infected natives are immune to the parasitic worms that kill outsiders 13.
• Liu Qian’s Dragonblood Pact removes Jelena and Janice’s curse, but requires permanent loyalty and binds their lives to his 21.

Osarion’s Authority

• Osarion rules Tyria from the High Tower and orders warriors to bring outsiders into the city, ostensibly to supply unpaid labor for its dwindling population 13 15.
• Outsiders are assigned work such as clearing fortifications. Their disappearances are explained as deaths from Fire Dragon Worm infestations 14 23.
• His diary reveals that outsiders, residents, and apprentices were instead sacrificed in attempts to awaken Dragon Egg fossils. Teres knowingly assists in concealing these sacrifices 23 27.
• Warriors gather Ghost Grass for what they believe is a potion that slows scale growth. Janice later questions whether the grass actually served that purpose; Osarion’s surviving notes describe collection, but not cultivation 13 42.

Religion and Cultural Hopes

• The former temples accommodated Valyrian gods and foreign faiths, including the Lord of Light, the Seven, the Weaver of Fate, the Three-Headed God, and the Night Lion 14.
• Tyria’s surviving Valyrians hope to revive Great Dragons and rebuild their civilization. Janice describes this hope as a reason her people continue living after the Doom 20.
• Valyria has no knightly tradition familiar to Jelena and Janice; Liu Qian must explain the oath when making them Flame Knights 21.

History

Survival After the Doom

The Doom shattered Tyria’s buildings and fortifications, but native survivors rebuilt portions of the city. Its underground library preserved knowledge lost aboveground, while the remaining walls provided shelter from the surrounding Blood Magic creatures 13 14 22.

After proclaiming himself Emperor of Valyria, Aurion sent a detachment demanding Tyria’s allegiance. The city refused. He threatened retaliation, but his army disappeared on the road to Valyria City before carrying out the threat 19.

Tommen Lannister II’s expedition also reached Tyria’s harbor. His fleet remained there for centuries, though the fate of the king and his followers is unknown 25.

Liu Qian’s Arrival

Liu Qian first learns that Tyria still has inhabitants through Janice. He subsequently joins Jelena’s warriors, choosing the city as a place to seek information, Dragon Eggs, and Valyrian weapons despite his concerns about its Blood Warlock 8 13.

Upon arrival, Osarion summons him alone into the High Tower. The warlock claims to have foreseen Liu Qian’s visit through the Black Stone and attempts to seize his body for rebirth, attacking him with Scaleclaws and a Chimera 14 15. Liu Qian later tells the sisters that the Chimera devoured Osarion 20.

Fall of Tyria

While Liu Qian fights inside the tower, a vast Scaleclaw army advances through the fog. Jelena and Teres join the defense, but the gate falls and the monsters overrun the city 15 24.

Returning from his battle with the Chimera, Liu Qian rescues Jelena and Janice from the tower steps. He kills the army’s commander, whom Jelena identifies as the transformed Aurion, then burns the remaining Scaleclaws throughout Tyria 18 19 20.

The reason for the attack remains unresolved. Liu Qian suspects an unseen power is watching him; Teres later blames his arrival for attracting the army, but this accusation is not established as fact 19 27.

Evacuation

After curing the sisters, Liu Qian has them raise approximately eight hundred fallen warriors as Dragon Spirit Guardians. The guardians search for survivors, recover supplies, and gather usable weapons and magical artifacts 21 22.

The search finds 317 survivors. With Tyria no longer able to shelter them, Liu Qian organizes their departure aboard sixteen repaired ships from the ancient harbor fleet. The survivors are subsequently delivered to Oros 24 25 26.

Notable Associated Figures

• Osarion — Tyria’s Blood Warlock and ruler; secretly sacrifices people in Dragon Egg experiments 15 23.
• Jelena — Commander of Tyria’s warriors and self-described Guardian of Tyria; helps defend the city and organize the evacuation 13 21 25.
• Janice — Native resident whose knowledge guides Liu Qian to Tyria’s preserved records; coordinates the recovery of books and supplies 8 22 24.
• Teres — Armed associate of the Blood Warlock who conceals sacrifices and abandons the city during its destruction 14 24 27.
• Liu Qian — Defeats the invading army, cures the sisters, and leads the survivors to refuge 18 20 21 26.
• Aurion — Former claimant to Valyrian imperial authority who returns centuries later as the Scaleclaw army’s commander 19.
• Tommen Lannister II — King whose lost fleet supplies the evacuation ships; Bright-Roar is recovered aboard its flagship 25.

Salvaged Resources and Legacy

• Nine Dragon Egg fossils — Recovered from the tower; several are later awakened using Liu Qian’s magic 23 42.
• Mysterious Black Stone — Removed from its underground chamber and loaded aboard the evacuation fleet 25.
• Ghost Grass — Nearly a thousand bundles are carried away, providing a reserve of magic outside Valyria 40.
• Books and manuscripts — Salvaged records support later research into Ghost Grass and explain how Great Dragons grow by feeding 24 40 42.
• Valyrian weapons and magical objects — Recovered from the ruined city and transported to the harbor 22 24.
• Treasure — Wealth recovered from Tyria and the Lannister fleet later finances Liu Qian’s purchase of thirty merchant ships in Volantis 33.