“They held each other close and turned their backs upon the end.The hills that split asunder and the black that ate the skies;The flames that shot so high and hot that even dragons burned;Would never be the final sights that fell upon their eyes.A fly upon a wall, the waves the sea wind whipped and churned —The city of a thousand years, and all that men had learned;The Doom consumed it all alike, and neither of them turned” The Doom of Valryia Set in the world of Westeros in the year 58 AC (240 years before the Events of Game of Thrones), Doom From Old Valyria is the story of House Gildemark of the Westerlands. House Gildemark is ruled by Orric Gildemark, son of Osric, Master of Coin during the reign of King Aegon I. King Aegon was largely a solitary leader and was never close to calling Lord Osric 'friend'. The only lord held that honor was Orys Baratheon, his first 'Hand of the King'. Both men shared 'blood of the dragon' of course, but more than that they were brothers in arms. Paragon warriors who shaped history with their courage and strength. Lord Osric was neither so strong nor so renowned as a warrior, but neither was he a stranger to bloodshed. From the first day of his majority OSric had to fight to keep what was his by rights from jealous lesser branches of the family, hateful brigands and dissidants of common birth who sought to extinguish his bloodline. No less worrisome were greedy lords abroad who envied, coveted, plotted and maligned. If anything Lord Osric did his best to downplay his reputation as the last surviving grandson of the infamous Lord Osvold Gildemark, aka 'Lord Shackle' who brutalized his own subjects for decades with tyranny and cruelty. Before the conquest, lord Osric ruled Gildemark, 'by the numbers'. Never a passationate man, Lord Osric was neither reviled, nor loved. He kept emotion out of his judgements ans much as possible and this attitude changed little as Master of Coin. Lord Osrics most genius idea was convincing King Aegon to task House Gildemark's extensive gold working facility to mint Golden Dragons for the crown. The design and name of those coins was as much a reference to House Gildemark as it was the royal Targaryen Dynasty.