Doom of Valyria: what destroyed Daenerys’ ancestors?

Get a two month free trial on Skillshare: https://skl.sh/altshiftx2 Who are Jon and Daenerys’ ancestors, the Valyrians? What caused the Doom of Valyria? Did the Faceless Men cause the Doom? How is Lannister gold involved? Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCveZqqGewoyPiacooywP5Ig?sub_confirmation=1 Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AltShiftX Twitter: https://twitter.com/altshiftx More Game of Thrones videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn6yDpEottdhisSEKJE3Sv5fpYQuej0Ju Check out History of Westeros: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHistoryofwesteros Created with Adobe After Effects and a Shure SM7B microphone: http://bit.ly/ASXAmazon Images and video from Game of Thrones used here under fair use. Images from The World of Ice and Fire used with permission from Random House. Young Griff art by elontirien: https://www.deviantart.com/elontirien/art/Aegon-VI-464448375 Gerion Lannister art by kethryn: https://www.deviantart.com/kethryn/art/Gerion-Lannister-320721457 Green dragon by Yotam ❤ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCu1G2rxj5c References / further reading: History of Westeros: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFyXGGTMeYQ In Deep Geek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY1CNiY_LL0 GrayArea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eEAv73a4dE Got Academy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnEP6XjAf0A Charlie In Westeros https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOoNWNYTyZ4 https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/2l64xt/spoilers_all_the_doom_of_valyria_explained/ https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/64ypnu/spoilers_extended_now_i_am_become_death_the_doom/ https://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?/topic/141314-the-cause-of-the-doom-of-valyria-twoiaf-spoilers/ Special thanks to Patrons Reverend Xandria, Cameron Weiss, Michael Appell, Jason Rattray, Ryan Steele, Eric Louis-Dreyfus, Fred Petty, Matthew Elisha Williams, Triangle Wine Company, Harry, Jake Burling, Chris Cole, Chris Amolsch, Alex Kirkendall, Paul Lesiak, Hank Lero, Zach Gordon, DscoDan, Jon Levin, Jesus Tagle Jr, Julien Marchand, Shane Veglia, Marc Pierre Louis, Cregg Riley, Joel Soucy, Kellie Maestri, Ali Almuhanna, I think a Faceless Man ran up and said 'Valar Morghulus' before running off? 0:00 Targaryens 0:57 Valyria 2:16 Doom 3:35 Magic 5:30 Faceless Men 6:44 Gold 7:43 Blood