Game Of Thrones: 4 Spin-Offs HBO Should Make (& 3 They Shouldn't)

2. The Doom Of Valyria

Taking the action over to Essos for this one, and what is one of the most intriguing locations in all of Game of Thrones: Valyria.

In the show, we've only seen it briefly: a plane of misty ruins that few dare to sail past, inhabited by Stone Men who'll give you greyscale as soon as look at you. However, that's a far cry from what Valyria once was, and something that deserves to be put on screen.

The rise of Valyria started at around the same time of the Long Night in Westeros, with the discovery of dragons. which the people managed to tame with magic. This created the Valyrian freehold, with Valyria at its centre. It's a far cry from Westeros, instead offering a rich, aristocratic society with huge towers, soaring dragons, and magic in the air (quite literally).

The Age of Valyria lasted for close to 8,000 years, so it's not like everything could be shown, but it could feature a few key aspects of the time, and then hone in on the period building up towards the Doom. So we might see its foundation as a prologue, then then Targaryens founding Dragonstone, and then getting to them deciding to leave Valyria after a prophecy from Daenys Targaryen, and eventually the mysterious Doom itself. Of course that could all be coloured in with additional events and so on, but they're the big broadstrokes.

No one knows what happened at the Doom, though it's believed to have something to do with the Fourteen Fires (the volcanoes where the dragons were discovered), and this an an opportunity to do something wholly unique in this world where we don't know the answers. It'd be filled with magic and dragons, a mystical Atlantean quality, and historical rooting with the fall of an empire/ruin of a city, such as the fall of Rome or the destruction of Pompeii. The answer to the Doom should surely come from the pen of Martin himself, who could weave great fantasy from this, and Carly Wray, having worked on Mad Men and The Leftovers, should fit well with the expansive characters and settings and mysterious, world-ending plot.