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[ASoIaF] Exactly how powerful was Valyria at its height?
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It controlled most of known Essos, but wasn't a really centralized state. The Freehold stretched from the Dragonstone of Westeros to the Bone Mountains in the east. There were many opposing houses so strife was fairly common. They definitely had powerful magics, many, many slaves, and devastating dragons, but the constant warfare and rivalry really prevented anything we would recognize as a single, powerful entity.


The Valyrian Freehold is more like a bunch of city states that happened to span much of the known world, who held their territory by might of their dragons.