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Hello my fellow Westoreans welcome back to another Sunday

Welcome back to another edition of Valar we read us for the world of ice and fire where we take small topics within

This book and blow them up to very large topics by

Using them as a springboard

searching all the other sources and the real world for

Other things that we can include other things we can imagine or the things we can base our

contextual understanding of and this is a particularly good spot for that

Because Valeria is ripe for exploring and understanding. It's so important to the story

It's so big that in fact we won't cover it entirely today that we're focused today on the rise of Valeria

the origins early civilization the look

Their native territory what it was like and how that supported or worked against them

Culture and government their gods and worship and things like that

As well the influence on a song of ice and fire which is very strong. It's and and perhaps prominent ways

You may not have realized though. I'm sure you noticed it was prominent

In any case we've got a lot to talk about what we probably won't talk about too much that we're saving for next time

We have a guest Jamie Redfern of the history of to talk to us about some of these topics

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