BlueNightzx

seems legit. thanks for sharing

yes, i agree its a possible explanation

but i don't think we had any knowledge that valyrian steel armor even existed prior to this chapter, in essos we have all kinds of weapons of valyrian steel as an arakh and all, but never an armor if that was the case we would had heard before, of some rich triarch, cheesemonger or whatever having one even the forging of normal steel plate armor was expensive and reserved for knights and nobility, its very different having a steel weapon to a steel set of armor, i think this reasons stands for valyrian steel, which, to begin with, is rare and expensive. but i agree that maybe the HotU in quarth could had one as part of their magic artifacts, given that euron had made several contacts with them, its a possibility and explains why we never heard before.

given that we now know that indeed euron has powers, its not so impossible to him having indeed gone to valyria, with the magic knowledge that he has and his priests and wizards, maybe outskirts of valyria at least or some outpost, not necessarily the heart of the smoking sea Euron is defined by his madness, if there is anyone who can pull a quick trip to valyria, its him

yes, i agree valyria had their own fire mages and such, dragonlords are simply noble families, some had enough wealth to employ such men to their desires. i believe the extent of "magic knowledge" of the noble families was the training, binding and riding of dragons, much as a noble westerosi young man who learns how to fight with the master at arms, riding, reading and such

the targaryens were a "poor" and not important noble familiy of valyria, maybe something like house payne or westerling, valyrian steel was by no means something cheap even in valyria, showed by the fact the aegon valued his valyrian steel swords, so it stands to reason that the targaryens were simply not rich enough to have a full set of valyrian steel armor buying an insland on the edge of the civilized world was something like a roman noble family having huge lands near gaul or germania, not very impressive. (and if i'm not mistaken GRRM himself said compared valyria to the roman empire)

I don't think that it's up to us to decide what he should be writing, its a mistake to think we know better than the author, this world building its essential, to give us a clear picture of westeros before, during and after those events, if we don't see this details, the consequences of the grand plots will have no weight since we would have nothing to compare with i'm sorry to invoke the blasphemy that is the HBO show this season, but if the books was an endless sequence of shock moments, reveals and gruesome deaths like the show currently is, that you can kill a high lord and warden, throw a newborn baby to the dogs, resurrect a corpse and still be boring, it would not have the same weight, there was a lot of symbolism in this chapter, character development (the human heart in conflict), hints about the dorne reaction to the impending news of quentys crispy death at the hands of the mad king daughter , after she served a similar fate to her brother(in their point of view) Dorne, along with the vale, are the only armies in westeros that are still 100% of their power and untouched by war, so every bit of diplomatic a political events surrounding these noble houses are extremely important, they can very well hold the fate of the IT in their hands,

I think its very obvious that Doran sending Elia with Arianne, its him grooming her for power, a mirror for her to see how stupid and impulsive she was, a kid, kissing lowborn men, putting herself in danger and lacking sense, and we see that its working, Arianne is indeed more responsible and mature, and herself is aware of that