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[ASOIAF] Of the Valyrian descended people throughout Essos, who is the most powerful?
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The Freehold of Volantis is the most powerful Valyrian descendant Free-City by far. At one time they were on the verge of rebuilding the old Freehold and were only stopped by a coalition of nearly all of Western Essos, Aegon the Conqueror, and the Stormlands. They have only been held back by the fact 2/3 of their Triachy has always been composed of almost pacifistic merchants of the Elephant faction who refuse to try to conquer the other Free-Cities.

Interestingly enough they are possibly the most "democratic" nation in ASOIAF as their leaders are all elected on a yearly basis by all Freeholders, which if we go by the statistics of 1/10 is a freeman then that is still a rather large number of voters. Of course they still practice widespread chattel slavery but that may change soon if the Rhllorists and Daenerys have their way.