Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon

"Hiss~"

A stinging electric shock came from the palm of his hand, and the pain made the warrior's son almost drop the box in his hand.

The people behind him heard his hissing and couldn't help asking: "What's wrong?"

"It's okay, it should be the wool that shone and pricked me."

The illiteracy rate in Westeros is extremely high, and most people don't know what "static electricity" is. When they are electrocuted by static electricity from wool, silk, etc., they will only use the most intuitive description to describe it. They call this phenomenon "shining thorns."

The warrior's son who was electrocuted by static electricity just thought it was an ordinary static electricity. Since the beginning of winter, almost all people who can afford to buy bleached wool will wear a warm woolen coat. It is abnormal not to be electrocuted a few times when dressing, combing hair, and touching metal every day.

The long night is hard to distinguish between day and night. The box came down from the merchant ship at the River Gate. They moved the box across most of King's Landing in the dark and put the items in the storehouse of the Church on Silent Sister Street.

Soon, these warrior sons moved all the goods to the warehouse.

A monk with a stern face was inspecting the goods in the warehouse.

When the warrior's son put down the box, the monk carefully approached with a hurricane lamp, looked at the mark on the box, and moved the lamp closer after confirming the source: "Open it."

The warrior's son pried open the box in response.

Pieces of black glass stones shining with black light lay quietly in the box, the glow of the lamp danced on the blade, and the flame orange glow drew sharp fine lines on the glass edge.

It was dragon crystal.

"Huh? What's going on?" The monk reached out and grabbed a piece of fragment, which was as light as a feather and shining with black light.

It was a fragment of a large dragon crystal. On the top layer of the box, several pieces of dragon crystal were broken into slag, and it was obvious that they could no longer be used to grind into arrowheads or spearheads.

The warrior in charge of carrying this box said: "It was like this when I moved it."

The monk raised the oil lamp and shone it on the warrior's face. There was a seven-pointed star engraved on his forehead, proving that he was a devout and fanatical "Star Warrior".

The monk nodded: "Dragon crystal is fragile. Go ahead, most of it can be used, take it to the workshop."

The warrior nodded, picked up the box again, and went deeper into the warehouse.

After crossing a narrow path with only a faint light, walking down the stairs, entering the stinking sewers of King's Landing, turning a few corners, and looking around in the dark, you will come to a brightly lit and hot underground space.

This is the underground of the Temple of Thought in the Rhaenys Hill, or, you can also call it the "Dragon Cave".

The Temple of Thought is a temple of the Seven Gods built during the reign of Aegon Targaryen I. During the armed uprising of the Order, it became the base of operations for the Sons of Warriors. Later, Maegor rode Balerion and flew over the temple without warning to pour dragon flames. The Temple of Thought was reduced to ruins in the flames, and Maegor built the famous Dragon Cave of the Targaryen family on the ruins to keep dragons.

Now, after the Dance of the Dragons, the huge dome of the Dragon Cave has collapsed from the inside, and the bronze door has been closed for more than a century, becoming a ruin blackened by flames.

This place once became a place where some half-closed doors used the ruins to receive customers, until one of the prostitutes stepped on a rotten floor and fell into the cellar with the prostitute, and found the wildfire that Aerys II had asked the pyromancers to bury here.

In the last year of Viserys's reign, Cersei also followed Aerys II's rich experience in burying wildfires, and buried many wildfires underground here, preparing to burn King's Landing into a wasteland.

Then the warrior sons who received Viserys's hint took over here, not only cleared Cersei's wildfire, but also quietly transformed the huge underground here into the operation base of the warrior sons. They built a warrior statue under the ruins and renamed this place the Temple of Thought.

Like all religions, although the seven gods of the Church of the Seven Gods are the seven faces of one god, the prayers of different temples have different emphases. This is the purely military warrior temple. Or it can be called the "Star Warrior" monastery that baptizes the sons of warriors and grants them the "blessing" of the gods.

Because the Targaryen royal family does not recognize the legitimacy of the sons of warriors, they are preparing to go underground at any time.

There are blacksmiths, cooks, smelting furnaces, and weapons processing workshops here.

The place where the warriors carrying boxes send the dragon crystal is the processing workshop. Here, there are special stone mill craftsmen and tools. They will grind the dragon crystal ore from the direction of Dragonstone into arrowheads, spearheads, and daggers.

And here, it must be solemnly stated.

Although the Warrior Sons Armed Forces are willing to buy dragon crystal raw materials, food, tung oil, wildfire, asphalt and other materials from Targaryen, it does not mean that they will obey Targaryen's arrangements. They think they are just preventing the long night and the White Walkers, and are preparing for war by drawing on Targaryen's familiarity and experience with the White Walkers.

They fight for the glory of the Seven Gods and represent the "warriors" to spread blessings and honors in the world.

Therefore, in the weapon processing workshop, the last process here is different from all other places. Here, the last process of the weapon is dyeing.

The Warrior's Son has a special pigment master who uses the dyeing mineral raw materials that are difficult to obtain at this time of year to prepare pigments and process and dye the polished obsidian weapons into rainbow colors.

In the teachings of the Seven Gods. The seven colors of the rainbow represent the seven gods.

The emblem of the Warrior's Son is a rainbow sword.

Of course, it is difficult to obtain mineral raw materials for dyeing at this time of year. Therefore, the pious acting lord Earl Gunther, who was left by Viserys on Dragonstone, could only reluctantly recruit islanders to join the vigorous mining industry on Dragonstone in the long night and winter, express the king's respect for the Seven Gods, and earn this money with piety.

Although the Sons of Warriors has an alias "Poor People's Assembly", the church is not poor at all. Don't look at the leader of the Sons of Warriors "High Sparrow" wearing tattered clothes all day long. The church supports the armed forces with great strength. Since Cersei lifted the ban on the Sons of Warriors, it has only been one year. The weapon retention rate of the Sons of Warriors has been able to achieve at least one crossbow for all members, and the armor coverage rate has reached an astonishing one-third.

One third is not a small number. Now the total number of Sons of Warriors is as high as 6,000, including more than 100 knights who come with their families.

More than 2,000 armored warriors. Looking at Westeros, except for a few major princes and some second-tier nobles with deep accumulation, ordinary lords really can't put together such a team.

Not to mention there are more than 4,000 unarmored warriors.

Two thousand armored warriors are a real force that can stir up the wind and cloud.

The Church is very rich, and has enough connections and channels to obtain resources. In just one year, they bought finished armor everywhere, recruited blacksmiths, purchased iron ore, recycled iron farm tools, and melted ironware from churches everywhere.

It is no exaggeration to say that to develop armed forces from scratch, to achieve such a level within a year, looking at Westeros, perhaps only the former Lannister in the West can do it, because the West is rich in mineral deposits, and Lannister has enough money.

As for other great nobles, either they have mines but no money, or they have money but no mines and no resources.

In this era, it is not easy to make armor, and it is even more difficult to establish an armed group from scratch.

However, this star warrior moved the cargo box to the weapons workshop, and soon someone took it over and processed it.

After the great monk in charge of the workshop confirmed his labor and prayed for him. Next, the warrior set out to report to the training ground of the Knight Corps and continue his hard training.

Going deeper from the hot underground workshop and going up a spiral staircase, the warrior soon arrived at a relatively intact huge space in the collapsed ruins of the dragon's lair.

This should have been a nest built for a dragon in the Targaryen dragon's lair. Now, in the center of this space, a huge granite base has been built, and on the base, a warrior statue that has entered the final stage of body shaping stands there.

This space can already be called a temple for warriors.

Seven hundred white candles are piled on the granite base, illuminating the warrior's majestic body. Surrounding the warrior's majestic body, thousands of star warriors blessed by God - warriors with seven-pointed stars engraved on their foreheads, chests or backs - are kneeling towards the warrior's statue, taking off their cold-proof clothing, or wearing only single clothes, or exposing their backs, showing the warriors the marks engraved on their bodies and praying devoutly.

In the season when there are more and more rumors about magic and witchcraft, these devout believers believe that such asceticism can get the blessing of the warriors. The High Sparrow traced the origin of this asceticism and found historical evidence. He believed that when the Andals landed in Westeros, those knights who engraved the seven-pointed stars on their bodies relied on such asceticism to obtain the guidance and blessing of the Seven Gods, and finally defeated the ancestors and the children of the forest.

The warrior quietly walked into the temple, passing through countless star warriors who insisted on asceticism in the temple, and came to the head of the group, the High Sparrow.

The Big Sparrow was a thin, cold-eyed, gray-haired old man. He wore only a simple, monotonous woolen tunic, a thin one, and knelt devoutly in front of the warrior. Although there were countless candles illuminating the cathedral seven steps away, the Big Sparrow was still cold.

The collapsed dragon's lair was leaking badly.

The face of the 'sparrow companion' who was wearing the same clothes as the Big Sparrow had been frozen blue, and his body was trembling slightly, but the Big Sparrow himself was motionless, without a tremor. Everyone knew that the leader was extremely devout in his faith, and his will was as firm as steel.

Because of the flapping of the wings of various butterflies, the Archbishop of the Church was not assassinated as in the original world line, and the Big Sparrow had no chance to succeed the Archbishop, but by mistake, he became the leader of the Star Warriors and the Warrior's Sons.

Although he was not yet the Archbishop, he had the church's armed forces, and the power and prestige of the Big Sparrow were greater than the Archbishop in the hearts of many warriors. The current Archbishop is a cowardly stamping machine. He can easily be persuaded by any opinions of others. He is a puppet used to balance the forces of all parties.

For the warriors of the Knights, no matter what other bishops think, once this bishop dies, these fanatics will hold up axes and swords and carry the High Sparrow to sit on the position of Archbishop.

Seeing the warrior coming back, the High Sparrow's voice was firm and kind: "Back."

The warrior solemnly replied: "Yes."

The High Sparrow nodded at him and responded as usual: "Okay, join the practice." But suddenly he saw that the warrior looked at him with a bit of a wrong look, "What's wrong?"

It turned out that when the warrior approached the High Sparrow, he suddenly felt a burst of electricity from his forehead, straight to his heels. This inexplicable and weird feeling made the warrior a little dazed.

"Oh, I remember your name is Dosan." The High Sparrow seemed to know something and smiled faintly at the warrior, "Give me your hand."

The warrior named Dosan bowed his head, knelt on one knee, and extended his hand respectfully to the High Sparrow: "Yes, Captain."

Dosan felt the hand of the sparrow covering the back of his hand, and there was a strange warmth. Then he heard the sparrow say: "Your practice has been effective. Go find Hasti and tell him that you have entered the door." "Yes."

Dosan has been meditating and practicing with the warrior group these days, resisting hunger and cold, and seeking spiritual liberation. He no longer feels sad or happy about this progress. He just nodded lightly, stood up calmly and walked through the crowd of ascetics under the warrior statue, and came to the location of a group of ascetics with bare upper bodies and bloodstains.

Here, he found Hasti, an ascetic monk with scars on his back: "Master Hasti, I have entered the door."

Brother Hasti had a compassionate face: "Oh, okay, kid, follow me."

Then, Dosan followed Hasti and continued to walk through the ascetics covered with bloodstains here, and entered the dim room under a staircase at the edge of the temple.

This is a room with a strong smell of blood, like a torture chamber.

Hasti kindly handed him a cleaned iron whip with spikes hanging on it: "Child, go, wash away your deepest sins, get the blessing of the warriors, and feel the existence of the gods."

Dosan solemnly picked up the iron whip and stepped into the deepest darkness of the room. In the deep darkness, the tall warrior took off his coat and knelt on a bluestone platform.

Then he began to swing the iron whip, letting it whip his back and letting the spikes on the iron whip pierce his flesh and blood.

Again and again, this devout believer whipped himself and recalled his deepest sins.

Three years ago, during the siege of King's Landing and the riot in King's Landing, he and several hungry companions took advantage of the riot to kill a man who looked quite decent, but they could not find a penny from him. Then, for some reason, in the evening of that day, he returned to the place where the murder took place and saw a child in tattered clothes crying beside the corpse. He couldn't help asking, and then he learned that the person they killed was a baker who had no money at home and was looking for a job baking bread.

Dosan returned home with mixed feelings, and then saw the burning house and his wife's body in the house. It turned out that the mob also rushed to the neighborhood where Dosan lived that day and looted the nearby decent-looking houses. His wife was stabbed to death at home by the mob in order to protect a piece of black bread that she exchanged for her body. They also set fire to it.

That was the most tragic day in Dosan's life. Everything he had was ruined, and he was almost collapsed.

From time to time, he would always hear the wailing of the baker's child in his mind, and he would always think of the scene of his wife lying in the burning house.

These things tortured him and made him crazy.

Later, Dosan got the answer after confessing to the Big Sparrow. All this was because of his evil thoughts, his desires, and his sins.

Only by cleansing these sins can he be freed.

The iron whip full of spikes whipped his body again and again, and the blood flowing from his back seemed to take away his sins, and the pain relieved his soul and brought him peace.

The whipping of the iron whip gradually weakened.

Dosan fell into a chaotic feeling of almost fainting under the pain, blood loss, and cold.

At this time, Hasti's kind voice sounded: "Listen to the voice of the warrior, repent your sins, and seek your liberation."

A tingling electric current rushed from the forehead to the tailbone, and Dosan seemed to feel a force supporting his body in a daze.

In the chaos of almost fainting, he vaguely saw a ball of golden light guiding him. He stood up in a daze as if he was in a dream. Following the golden light, he saw a psychedelic color in the darkness, a colorful stream of light.

And the color guided him in the direction, he stood up in a daze, followed the light and walked past the kind monk Hasti, and walked out of the door of the ascetic room.

At this moment, Dosan saw the light in the temple, and the statue of the "warrior" emitted thousands of golden lightnings, which made him unable to open his eyes. The candlelight that ordinary eyes could only see became dim in his eyes.

"Oh, warrior!" He murmured, as if in a dream, "Please give me courage and strength, let me eliminate all the sins in the world for you, atone my sins, and spread your name."

Hasti came to him at some point and led him to kneel down and pray to the statue devoutly.

At this moment, in the blood loss and abnormal half-sleep and half-wakefulness, the star warrior felt it.

The power of the warrior is warm and sharp.

It is the thunder and lightning representing the punishment of heaven.

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As a "god" in the sense of Westeros, giving power to someone is often not based on the will of that person. Like Euron, like Patchface.

Although the beliefs of the Seven Gods believers are somewhat troublesome, the essence of the Seven Gods doctrine is to stimulate the power of "human song" that people have. If people have confrontational emotions in their minds and bodies, they are likely to resist other powers.

But the Seven Gods sect does not have real gods, so it is easier than imagined to make trouble.

Since ancient times, the means of bewitching believers are nothing more than mental hallucinations showing miracles, mental PUA, etc. Viserys is now the monarch of the storm. It is not too easy to infiltrate power into mortals unconsciously, let alone the Sons of Warriors, which is an organization with a lot of mental power that is abnormally higher than ordinary people.

As soon as Viserys came back from Valyria, he began to think about how to "make a substitute" for the Seven Gods without real gods. The gems in Valyria that were infected with the power of gods and the dragon bone magic that Viserys had once given him inspiration.

That is to use items containing the power of his own song to radiate and influence the believers of the Seven Gods bit by bit.

Viserys didn't need to ask them to admit that Viserys was a "warrior" or something in front of them, but only needed them to feel the power radiated by Viserys through their way when the mental power of fanatics was most likely to surge abnormally, so that they could naturally get close to Viserys's "song" and be affected by the magic radiation.

The glass candles that Viserys carried with him were used to transmit messages remotely, and the rest were specifically used to influence the dreams of the "infected".

Yes, take Dossan, who had just entered the door and saw the "warrior" shining brightly, as an example. His hallucination actually came from the dragon crystal ore that Viserys gave them, and some of those ores were watered and infected by Viserys's own magic power - this kind of whimsical idea came from Viserys's invasion by the power of the Drowned God in the same way, but Viserys was not as cruel as the Drowned God, and his power to infect the dragon crystal was only a little bit.

The mental sensitivity of the contactor needs to reach a certain limit to stimulate this power to invade their body, and once someone stimulates it, Viserys can sense the position of the instigator and locate the instigator. Then they can use this to influence their minds, causing them to have various hallucinations and enter bizarre dreams.

Mortals do not have the power of Viserys to resist the influence of "gods", so they are almost all under Viserys's guidance.

Viserys does not need to let them dedicate the power in their souls as a blood sacrifice to call up power like the Drowned God spreads power. His purpose is to make them hallucinate and "see" the miracles of the gods they believe in.

With the subtle influence day after day, their power and cognition of the gods they believe in will gradually overlap with Viserys.

The only thing missing now is the opportunity for these believers to connect "warriors" with Viserys.

At some point, Viserys does not need to say anything, they will naturally connect Viserys with their gods and come up with a reasonable explanation.

"Warrior" just happens to meet Viserys' needs. In essence, even if he is not the son of a warrior, "blacksmith" and "father" Viserys has similar things prepared.

There is a fact that the mortals of King's Landing and the followers of the Seven Gods will never know: in a sense, the White Walkers and the zombies attacking King's Landing were led to King's Landing by Viserys taking advantage of the situation.

Compared with this, the more bizarre fact is that the Vale can only be regarded as the party affected by Viserys' plan.

Viserys's fortress-like defense in the Riverlands actually presents a phenomenon: tight on the left and loose on the right.

This is of course the geography of the Riverlands. Most of the noble castles in the Riverlands are distributed on the left side of the Green Fork River. There are only a few villages and towns on the King's Road to the east of the Green Fork River. Viserys directly suggested that these villages and towns choose to migrate.

In this way, the White Walker vanguards who infiltrated the south can be said to have unimpeded access to the King's Road in the Riverlands, and can enter the area of ​​Harrenhal without any obstacles, go deep into the crown area, and even directly reach King's Landing. The White Walkers even divided their troops into the Mountains of the Moon and went deep into the Vale.

Viserys sold the King's Road from the North to King's Landing when he began to arrange the defense plan.

The purpose is self-evident, it is the faith of the Seven Gods.

Viserys did not even tell Daenerys all the plans, although Daenerys knew his purpose, and saw that his arrangements had been reversed and coordinated.

Yes, Viserys wanted to put extreme pressure on King's Landing, to put a fatal threat on the center of the most important religious belief in the Seven Kingdoms, to the armed and fully armed Church, which had lifted the ban on armed forces, had a full understanding of the enemy.

Viserys wanted them to experience firsthand that even if the Seven Gods had military force and power that could make the princes afraid, they could only make meaningless struggles and resistance in front of the army of the White Walkers. Then, Viserys would appear and help mortals with unquestionable power.

In front of the White Walkers, the so-called noble king in the castle was no less spared than the humble civilians, and the so-called holy bishops and evil sinners would die together fairly and become wights.

At that time, would those devout believers doubt the real existence of the gods? Would they question their faith?

When Viserys helps them with the unimaginable power of mortals, will they have new thoughts?

Viserys has seen the initiative of the church on Earth when it was impacted by scientific progress. He hopes that the Seven Gods in Westeros can also exert sufficient initiative after being impacted by magic, aliens, and divine power.

Many people will die.

Yes.

But Viserys believes that the bloody reality is always more effective than preaching. He will not tell mortals: I am a god, and faith in me can save you.

He wants to use bloody lessons to warn the mortals of Westeros, especially the bishops and believers of the Seven Gods Church, to either fight with him in his name or wait for destruction.