The Free Cities speak a bastard version of Valyrian, as most have their origins as colonies of Valyria (I: 84.Ayrmidon's Engines of War is quite rare, and written on scrolls (I: 72).Depictions of the Doom of Valyria exist (I: 29).The writing of Valyria was in glyphs (I: 27).It is held that the ironsmiths worked with spells as well as hammer (I: 20).