Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon

The temple on Dragonstone Island was very lively and solemn at the moment, all because the Dragon King Viserys's first knighthood ceremony was being held. Under the newly built statue of the Seven Gods, Viserys personally conferred the knighthood, with Brother Baal as a witness. There were many spectators, including not only the knights of the Dragon King, but also the Princess Regent. The strangest thing the Chancellor of Finance could say was that among the witnesses in the temple at this time, there were also Shireen Baratheon and several of her men. Ten knights loyal to Baratheon.

Even Onion Knight Davos was surprised that the largest proportion of real knights in this ceremony were actually Shireen's subordinates - even though they were all wearing casual clothes.

It's a wonder to say the least. Since arriving at the castle, the Onion Knight has learned that Shireen herself is under house arrest in the castle in name only. Only Lady Selyse is really under house arrest and cannot see anyone. Every time there is any policy announcement or important ceremony on Dragonstone Island, Shirin will be invited to watch the ceremony. Shireen here is more like an observer who does not participate in politics.

Even the castle's management of the surrenders is surprisingly relaxed. Not only do they have time to go out to the school grounds every day, but when Shireen needs knights to show up, those real knights can also freshen up and take care of themselves. Standing beside her in casual clothes.

To be honest, if it weren't for the letter brought by the messenger crow, which showed that Lord Stannis had indeed established a foothold at Storm's End, Sir Onion would have almost thought that Shireen had officially become a Targaryen on behalf of the Baratheon family on Dragonstone. Vassals of the Dragon King. Although she did surrender to the Targaryens.

It is said that the Targaryen Dragon King on Dragonstone is trying to get in touch with Storm's End and ask Stannis to redeem them all.

But Onion Knight really can't understand this strange phenomenon. Anyway, this is the situation now. It's very weird. Everyone is living together so awkwardly, and no one points it out.

Only two people were conferred in this canonization ceremony.

The first recipient was a captain named Grolei, who was said to have made great achievements in sailing for His Majesty Viserys. He was the commander of Dragonstone's first fleet. The king thanked him for using his superb sailing skills to carry the king's ship through thousands of winds and waves back to Dragon Island. Shi Dao, so he was canonized as a knight.

The second one was Hubbard Lambton who picked up the Onion Knight at the foot of the mountain that day. He had actually been knighted, but he was not yet a real knight. The king took this opportunity to canonize him. He had inherited his father's title. He was given to his brother Howard Lambton.

Yaser, who privately criticized the current situation on Dragonstone, said that this was King Targaryen's way of manipulating people's hearts, because if he only canonized a foreign knight, the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms might have some random thoughts.

The Onion Knight had reservations about this, because when the Hubbard brothers and their father defended the temple from burning, no noble lord on Dragonstone stood up to speak for them, and the Onion Knight often felt ashamed in front of them.

The ceremony began.

Friar Barr anointed the two people kneeling on one knee in the middle of the church with holy oil. He recited "The Seal of the Gifts of the Gods" on each place on the forehead, nostrils, corners of the mouth, ears, chest, and hands of the consecrated person.

Then King Viserys tapped his shoulder with his sword.

"In the name of a warrior, I command you to be brave."

“In the name of your heavenly Father, I command you to be just.”

"In the name of the Holy Mother, I command you to guard the innocent."

"Rise, Grole. Knight of the Seven Kingdoms."

The knighted knight stood up solemnly and showed his knight's coat of arms to everyone. The background of the coat of arms was a ship in the wind and rain, with a red fireball hanging in the sky.

Then Sir Hubbard Lambton was also granted the title, and he swore loyalty to the king.

There were only two people, and the ceremony ended quickly.

"Two knights." At the end, when they all stood up, Dragon King Viserys said in a rather instructive voice, "You are already true knights. As the person who canonized you, I hope you will remember-"

Viserys' voice was not loud, but when he spoke the sept fell silent so everyone could hear what he said.

"A true knight protects the weak."

After speaking, he solemnly congratulated the two new lords, and then left with the regent and princess.

Davos heard Shireen whispering beside him: "A true knight should protect the weak."

"Alas!" Sir Axel sighed beside Shireen, and then returned to the school grounds out of boredom.

Shirin called him strangely: "Uncle, are you back?"

"Go back." Sir Axel forced a smile and said, "Yes, I'm going back."

After Axel left, another Florentine, Sir Eiland, said to Shireen: "Miss Shireen, what His Majesty the Dragon King said is the right path of knights. We should always remember that many knights have forgotten that they were in the Holy Land. I used to take the oath of being consecrated, but now I often feel ashamed when I think about it.”

Shireen nodded: "Uncle Alander, I will remember it."

"No, Miss Shireen, you shouldn't call me that on this occasion. I am your vassal at this moment, and you are my lord on such an occasion." Alander said seriously, "You call me Elland or Sir Elland will do."

"I -" Shireen saw Sir Ellander's solemn expression, so she nodded, "Okay, Sir Ellander."

Sir Alander nodded solemnly and said solemnly: "Then, let us leave first, Miss Shireen."

Shireen asked: "Are you all going back again?"

The knights nodded respectfully: "Yes, Miss Shireen."

"Okay." Shirin could only wave goodbye to them.

The Onion Knight was the last one. No matter how slow he reacted, he had already tasted what Elland meant. A large group of them had gathered together and were loyal to Shireen. As for whether this meant that they were still loyal to King Stannis.

"Ser Davos" Princess Shireen called him.

The Onion Knight suddenly didn't know what to do. He still hoped that the princess would call him "Onion Knight", like a little girl. But "Your Highness Shirin, it's so nice to see you."

"Me too. Why are you no longer in the Maester's Tower and I can't even find you?"

"I recovered and moved out."

"Oh, are you in the dark prison too?" Shireen said sadly, "I wrote to my father and asked him and His Majesty the Dragon King to redeem you, but father, did I do something wrong, Sir Davos? ?”

"His Majesty the Dragon King is a good king, and so is His Majesty Stannis." Davos was at a loss for words. "Things between kings are very complicated. Your Highness Shireen, I am not smart enough to explain clearly."

"It would be great if there was no war." Shireen sighed, "Della said that if there was no war, there wouldn't be so much trouble." Della was her maid.

"." Davos opened his mouth, but was speechless. Finally he had to say, "Your Highness, it's time for me to go back."

"Goodbye, Sir Davos." Shireen waved to him reluctantly.

Davos probably never understood the thoughts of His Majesty the Dragon King in his life. Not long after he returned to the school grounds, the guards changed shifts, and the knight who had been following him silently greeted him: "Sir Davos, what are you doing for today's class?" going or not?"

That was a young Stormland knight who, like Davos, was rescued on the Blackwater River. The rescued people couldn't get along with the knights of the Florent family who guarded the castle, so they formed their own group headed by the onion knight Davos, who was highly regarded by Stannis. The lesson he was talking about was the lesson Viserys asked Missandei to teach to his foreign soldiers. They would teach them how to read and write Common Language. Viserys allowed them to watch, but most of them came back after watching for a while. Because the course was similar to a child's enlightenment, and the person teaching it was a girl. Only Davos and the young knight persisted in the past few days.

During his treatment in the Maester's Tower, Maester Pyros often told him that the Targaryen king was very insightful and thoughtful. Davos just wanted to see what he was doing and find a way to understand his thinking, and he did learn a few words. He had at least learned "loyalty", "integrity", "justice", " How to spell "Justice" and even the Valyrian version can be said.

"Go on, let's continue to see."

After the release time, the surrenderers lined up one by one from the cell door and returned to the dark cell. Davos and the young knight walked towards the guard under the gaze of everyone, showed him the wooden tag on his clothes, and were then led Heading towards the restaurant in the main castle hall.

There are enough tables to seat hundreds of people in the main castle restaurant, and lectures are usually held there.

When he walked to the main castle restaurant, Davos saw that there were young stewards who were trained in the castle today. Most of these people were illegitimate sons of nobles from the Narrow Sea. They regarded the sergeants who were studying here as Davos. They regarded it as a novelty, and those experienced affairs officers did not have so much leisure.

But unexpectedly, Davos actually saw an old man with white hair and beard among the onlookers today, and he didn't know why he came to join in the fun. The old man lowered his head, but he didn't look around with curiosity like those young noble illegitimate sons. Davos heard from Pylos that the stewards trained in these castles were said to be learning a novel but effective mathematical algorithm. The king had learned a new accounting method from foreign countries and planned to promote it. These people came to learn that. of.

When all the guards arrived after their shift break, Missandei, the girl who acted as a teacher, took the wooden board she used for teaching and led the listeners to review the Common Language alphabet before starting to teach today's text. The two words taught today are "dragon" and "king".

Many people felt that after Viserys occupied Dragonstone, he was eyeing the Seven Kingdoms, especially when the news that he had dragons spread among the merchant sailors traveling to and from Dragonstone, and the whole territory was shaken - at least as far away as Dragonstone. The nearby princes are very panicked, and they don't know what they would think if they knew that the situation in the castle and town on Dragonstone Island was like this every day.