Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon

"My Lord Prime Minister, Ser Garth Hightower is outside asking to see Ser Baelor."

Oberon was in charge of command in the school city and was a little surprised when he heard the news: "Oh? How many people did he bring?"

"Only Sir Garth himself and his attendants."

Oberon narrowed his eyes and looked at the large library in the school city. He paused and said, "Okay, I understand. Wait here."

The news reached Viserys, but Viserys didn't care: "Let them see it."

Only half a quarter of an hour later, Ser Baelor Hightower returned to the library with a pale face: "Captain Godian, please inform me that Baelor Hightower of the Hightower family wishes to see your majesty."

Godian looked at him and moved out of the way: "Your Majesty has ordered that Sir Baelor Hightower or Earl Leyton do not need to block him from entering the classroom hall. Please go in on your own."

As soon as these words came out, the princes in the Great Library were shocked for a moment, but in the end, no one came forward to ask for an audience except Baelor Hightower, who looked pale.

Sir Baelor of the Hightower family entered the brightly lit classroom. He saw the king standing on the podium with a calm face, and below were a group of ugly-looking doctors. He felt extremely scared in his heart, but he bravely stepped forward and bowed: " Your Majesty, Baelor Hightower, heir of House Hightower, sends his regards. Please allow me to overstep my authority. I have something to tell you privately."

Viserys asked curiously: "Interesting, why is Ser Baelor so anxious?"

"Your Majesty, my father Leighton is ill and about to die. I will inherit the Hightower family title and patriarch."

"Oh?" Viserys, "Such a thing happened. When did it happen?"

Belle replied: "Just now, Your Majesty, my brother Garth informed me of the news, hoping that I can return to the towering tower to preside over the affairs."

Viserys asked with concern: "Such a big event happened at home. It's time to go back and take charge of the matter. Are you here to invite the Tower of Heaven back?"

Sir Baelor said bravely: "No, Your Majesty, I am here to accuse you. Please allow me to see you privately."

"So anxious?" Viserys asked calmly, "You want to say it now?"

"Your Majesty, please allow me. Please."

"Okay." Viserys stood up and walked into the compartment in the church hall.

Seeing that there was no search, Sir Baelor straightened his clothes and followed him. As soon as he entered the room, he saw that Viserys's back was turned to him, but he did not dare to have any other thoughts. He knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, Hightower The family is willing to pay any price in exchange for your understanding.”

Viserys asked strangely: "What understanding? What do you mean, Ser Baelor, why can't I understand your words?"

"Your Majesty, our Hightower family is willing to hand over everything we have. I just ask for your permission to take the whole family to the west."

"What are you talking about, Ser Baelor?"

"Your Majesty, you have already found out about the 'real world' of the school. I know that you must have doubts about the Hightower family. Next, it is only a matter of time before you find out about our Hightower family. Let me make it clear. Your Majesty, although you have dragons, you need to stabilize your rear to prepare for a war with the aliens. If you fight with my family, the Hightower family will not be able to fight against the dragons, but I wonder if you have heard of it. There is a saying in the country that 'a hundred-footed insect never dies', and our Hightower family has ruled the area around Old Town for nearly ten thousand years. It is definitely not something that can be accomplished overnight."

"Are you threatening me?"

Baelor Hightower choked his neck: "No, Your Majesty. I am trying to avoid unnecessary war, seek a way for the Hightower family to survive, and seek a way for the innocent people in Oldtown to survive."

Viserys only asked calmly: "So, it is you Hightower behind the city?"

Seeing Viserys being so calm, Baelor tried to maintain his composure, but couldn't help sweating on his forehead: "No, Your Majesty. The Hightower family and the 'real world' organization of the Citadel have been intertwined and compatible for a long time, and there have been conflicts. , have also penetrated each other. From ancient times to the present, the relationship between them is no longer what it was originally. The real world has its own goals, and we Hightower also have our own goals, but the goals of both parties coincide before they are realized. "

Viserys smiled: "You were so eager to jump out, didn't you think that I couldn't find anything in the city?"

Baelor responded: "Your Majesty, although I have never been by your side, I have heard of your style. Your method of recovering Dragonstone, your wisdom in forcing Lord Stannis to strike first, and your shrewdness in setting King's Landing on fire. I don’t know how you will deal with the Hightower family, but I know that by the time you do it, the Hightower family will probably be in ruins.”

Viserys looked into Baelor's eyes and said, "You Hightowers are deeply entrenched here, and the outcome is still uncertain."

"..." Baylor shook his head, "The continuation of the Hightower family is not for the sake of strength or honor, but only for the continuation of the family inheritance."

Viserys provoked him: "Is this what 'lighting the future' means?"

Belle replied with a sad smile: "Maybe it is, maybe it is not. No one knows what the ancestors who set the clan language are thinking. But I know that the family is burdened with a curse and cannot help it. Even if someone has tried to make changes, it will not help."

Viserys was curious: "Carrying a curse? It seems you want to tell me about the origins of our Hightower family."

"Exactly." Baelor smiled. "When Aegon the Conqueror came to Oldtown, our ancestors also told Aegon the Conqueror - but he had reservations at the time and only said that the Hightower family originated from the Kingdom of Dawn. , has been passed down to this day, so Aegon is willing to accept the Hightower family, and is willing to let Maegor I marry the daughter of the Hightower family. "

Viserys raised his eyebrows and looked over: "Is there still such a thing?"

"'The Kingdom of Dawn', ah, Your Majesty, please let me tell you about the origins of Hightower." Belle said, "The Hightower family is descended from the lineage of Queen Amethyst of Kingdom of Dawn. Eight thousand years ago, Kingdom of Dawn The Blood Stone Emperor of the country rebelled and seized the throne of the Amethyst Queen. The ancestors of Hightower were originally an ordinary king on the seashore of Dawn. Because the Blood Stone Emperor killed the Amethyst Queen's bloodline, the ancestors had no choice but to take advantage of the situation. The ship entered the sea, crossed the "Sea of ​​the Setting Sun", and settled here. This is the story that the ancestors told Aegon the Conqueror three hundred years ago. "

When Viserys heard this, he couldn't help but be curious: "What is the other version of the story?" What he was thinking was, why did it sound like "The History of the Mayan Conquest of the Yin Shang Fleet"?

Baelor's eyes seemed to have traveled through countless years, and he replied: "In fact, the Hightower family can be traced back even further. Tens of thousands of years ago, the Kingdom of Dawn sent a fleet deep into the East Sea-that is, the setting sun of Westeros. Sea, and found the Westeros continent, where the old town is the bridgehead of the Kingdom of Dawn. Half of the ancestors of the Hightower family were actually the leader and captain of this survey fleet. After that, the Bloodstone Emperor rebelled and came across the sea. She was actually a princess. The ancestors of Hightower married her and honored her as the queen of the Hightower family. However, she brought an endless curse to Hightower. "

"You must be curious about what the Dawn Kingdom's fleet is here for?" Belle asked and answered. "The answer is that the continent of Westeros is a promised land promised by the gods to aliens, magic, weird spirits, and children of the forest. This land The Western Continent should have separated from the entire continent under the influence of earthquakes tens of thousands of years ago, and floated to the middle of the Sunset Sea under the influence of the power of the gods. From then on, it became a divine abode that only those who were promised could enter through the 'straight channel' place.

In contrast, the main continent became Middle-earth and entered the great era of mankind under the rule of the Human Emperor. However, the world did not develop according to the path promised by the gods. The continent where Dawn Kingdom is located did not enter the great era of mankind. Instead, barbarians, beasts and aliens continued to approach the borders of the kingdom. The princes became more and more conceited and rebellious. The people of the kingdom He became more and more indulgent and depraved. The power of the gods to divide and migrate the continent seemed to disappear overnight, replaced by an era of chaotic magic and aliens.

At that time, the Human Emperor, who ruled the Kingdom of Dawn, realized that the world was not moving forward according to the path promised by the gods, and the Human Emperor no longer responded to God's prayers. The Human Emperor guessed that something had happened to the Divine Residence Continent, so he sent a fleet deep into the vast sea to search for the Divine Residence. . And Westeros, the land of the gods that was finally found, has long been stagnant, and the Dorne Arm is still disconnected from the main continent. Even humans on the edge of the main continent began to enter the land of the gods through the Dorne Arm, and competed with ancient spirits and children of the forest for dominance of the continent.

When the news came back to the Kingdom of Dawn, the Human Emperor realized that the gods—not the false gods who had risen later, but the original one who promised the world the way forward—may have fallen. Most of the records of the Hightower family are in Westeros, and we are not sure whether this news had any impact on the struggle for the throne between the Amethyst Queen and the Bloodstone Emperor. But eight thousand years ago, the princess of the Amethyst Queen came to the land where Hightower's ancestors lived, bringing the Black Stone Tablet of the Bloodstone Emperor's attempt to return to the throne of God from the Human Emperor. The princess gave the descendants a mission: to restore the world to what it should have been.

This mission became the curse of House Hightower.

The princess is of the bloodline of the Human Emperor, and her bloodline can be traced back to the gods, and the black stone she brought also has magic. Her mission became the shackles of the Hightower family, and Hightower spent the next eight thousand years trying to find ways to fulfill her mission.

But the world has already deviated further and further away from what the original god had envisioned. Our family has been looking for a way for eight thousand years, but in the end there is no way to complete her mission. The city's bachelors, who were supported by Hightower but gradually became independent over the long years, found a theory during their long explorations. Cutting off magic would allow the world to gradually return to its original trajectory. So the Hightowers and the Citadel began to act on this theory. But the rise of Valyria made us realize how weak we were, and how powerful magic and sorcery could be. We accomplished nothing for thousands of years, until Valyria fell and the Targaryens came to Westeros. , we have the opportunity to try to advance.”

"This is too outrageous." Viserys responded, "I think what you said is somewhat credible, and this is your defense. But according to you, your purpose and mine are simply to fight to the death, and from Where is the talk of understanding and peace? Isn’t it ridiculous if you think about it?”

"No, Your Majesty." Belle suddenly raised her head with a relaxed expression, "The fate of the Hightower family is over. The curse and the fate we bear are over. My sister, the crazy girl Moroya Hightower, tonight, I don’t know how to take away the stone tablet that was engraved with the mission and the curse that had been imposed on the Hightower family for thousands of years. It was impossible for anyone to do it. I can feel that the shackles that bound my soul disappeared. Now, I no longer have to devote my life to the mission of my family and be imprisoned, and this also means that the Hightower family no longer has to fight with you for that mission.”

Viserys couldn't help but ask: "What do you mean when you say that the mad woman Moroya took away the black stone tablet that gave your family a mission?"

The Black Stone Monument of the Blood Stone Emperor, the bloodline of the Amethyst Queen, plus the flash of magic movement I felt earlier.

Viserys had a very bad suspicion that Euron, who was closely related to the Bloodstone Emperor, might be plotting something.

Legend has it that after the Amethyst Queen, the daughter of Emperor Opal, ascended the throne, her brother, in a fit of jealousy, overthrew the Queen and proclaimed himself the Emperor, the Bloodstone Emperor. Since then, the kingdom has been filled with terror and slavery. The Bloodstone Emperor liked to study dark and terrible witchcraft. He married a violent and cruel woman and often ate human flesh. In addition, he no longer worshipped the gods of Yi Ti, but instead worshipped a black stone that fell from the sky. The bloody chaos in the Far East eventually led to the Long Night: the Maiden of Light turned away and ignored the world, and the Night Lion went to the world to punish humans for their debauchery. The darkness lasted for a long time until a great warrior stood up (called Yi Tal in Yi Ti legends), holding the Messenger of Light and leading a group of people who still had consciences into battle. In the end, light returned to the world, but this great empire could no longer rise. The whole world fell apart, and different tribes lived on their own and were wary of other tribes.

Following the various legends, the Bloodstone Emperor killed his parents to seize the throne, relied on the Black Stone to dream of becoming a god, and then caused the Long Night; the Long Night caused the White Walkers to invade the human world, bringing a terrifying long winter, and the White Walkers came to the world, holding ice swords as thin as blades, resurrecting the dead to fight for them; then, a great hero called Azor Ahai by the Orientals held the Lightbringer and led the troops to fight against the White Walkers. In the end, the White Walkers were repelled and retreated to the land of eternal winter; then, "The Builder" Brandon used ice, gravel and magic to build a long wall stretching from the Grand Canyon to the Shivering Sea, stretching for a hundred leagues to resist the White Walkers' invasion again.

Later, the ancient prophecy of Ashar claimed that the cold darkness would cover the world, the White Walkers would appear again, and the prophesied prince Azor Ahai would be reborn and lead the army to fight against them.

People thought that the White Walkers were the Long Night, but perhaps the Long Night and the White Walkers were two different things.

Viserys knew that the so-called "gods" were actually powerful beings with some kind of "song".

Could it be that Euron is related to the God of Cold?

Or perhaps, in addition to the God of Cold, there is some kind of ancient god who represents the "darkness" and has fallen, but it is too long ago that people do not know of its existence, so they mistakenly believe that the "darkness" represents the "God of Cold".

The more Viserys thought about it, the more he felt that it made sense. After all, if a "descendant of God" like the Bloodstone King wanted to become a "god", he would never become a vassal of the "God of Cold".