The Winter of Ice and Fire Is Coming

A twelve-foot-tall black stone statue crouched on the high wall of the ancient city of Valyria. Its four claws are like black sharp blades, deeply embedded in the huge rock wall. On the black back are rows of hideous barbs, raising its head and roaring. His huge mouth shows fangs like swords.

This is a **** dog gargoyle.

Not far from this **** dog, it is a black long pterosaur with huge wings spread out. The pterosaur's head is not big and its wings are almost everything. There are rows of spikes several feet long at the front of the wings, like a row. The blades of narrow swords arranged in order of length.

The long pterosaur's neck is a very short body, almost the neck is connected to the long tail at the back. The tail has terrible barbs and bifurcated spikes, reminiscent of a poisonous scorpion.

The whole body of the long pterosaur was covered with black round scales, reflecting the gloomy light in the sun. From a distance, this is a living pterosaur, not a gargoyle.

The twelve-foot-tall Hellhound and the gargoyle like the long pterosaur lined up one by one on the high wall of the ancient city of Valyria, and there were more than a thousand.

Here is Longshi Island at the exit of Heishuiwan. A very important military site, it is also the only way for the merchant ship trade of Junlin City Port.

These gargoyles, and the tall huge rock wall underneath the gargoyles, were built by Aegon Targaryen, the conqueror of the Targaryen family, using Valyrian masonry techniques. The Valyrian masonry technology and Valyrian steelmaking technology have been lost in the doomsday catastrophe, so the castle here is unique in Westeros.

The castle, including the city walls, are all made of black stone.

This huge rock castle on Longshi Island overlooks from high above, its shape is like a huge dragon flying with spread wings.

The architectural design in the castle is all related to the dragon.

Towers, drip spouts with different shapes of city walls, and door frames are all designed and built in the shape of a dragon. The dragon claws protruding from the wall are the torch stand, and inside the huge dragon wings are the blacksmith's shop and the weapon store. The dragon tail constitutes arches, bridges and outdoor stairs.

This is a veritable dragon castle.

On the city wall, crouching lifelike gargoyles are terrifying and terrifying, like living creatures, giving people a feeling of shock and fear. As if the next heartbeat, the hellhound will pounce at you, biting your neck with a big bite, and devouring you and the bones.

Those who first came to Longshi Island saw thousands of terrifying gargoyles lined up on the city wall, and they were all anxious and could not sleep at night.

And Stannis Baratheon, Duke of Dragonstone Island, lives in this dragon-shaped castle. Longshidao is his fief.

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The main castle of the castle-Shigulou.

Whenever a storm comes, the ancient walls of the Shigulou will rumbling and reverberate, as if a stone drum has been struck, hence the name Shigulou.

At the top of Shigulou is the famous picture table hall.

At this moment, Duke Stannis Baratheon was sitting in the only seat on the only high platform in the picture table hall.

In front of him was a huge wooden table with a detailed map of Westeros carved on it. This is a scale map table built by the conqueror Aegon Targaryen based on the terrain of the seven kingdoms of Westeros.

The map table is more than fifty feet long, about 25 feet at its widest point, and less than four feet at its narrowest point.

Sitting on a chair on a carefully designed high platform, all mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, and urban roads on the table have a panoramic view.

This map table hall has only one high platform and a seat overlooking the map table.

Stannis Baratheon was born with broad shoulders, strong limbs, and a tight face. His skin was dark and hard as iron after prolonged exposure to the hot sun. He is not yet thirty-five years old, and the top of his head is completely bald, only a row of sparse black hair that surrounds his ears, like a shadow of a crown.

The dark blue beard on his square chin is short, but very neat and meticulous, suggesting the master's steely personality. The eyes under thick eyebrows are intimidating, deep blue like night.

What is more disturbing, however, is his mouth, pale, thin as a blade, taut, never smiling.

"Robert is dead and I am the king of the Seven Kingdoms. Ed Stark temporarily controlled the situation. Joffrey is not in King's Landing, but he is rushing back from Kaiyan City in the west. Ed Stark is now king. Hand, acting as a king, the raven called me to go to King’s Landing and ascend to the throne. After that, there will be changes, Sir Davos, what do you think?"

Davos is a very thin guy, with a mediocre appearance, not sharp eyes, and Hanwei's origin is obvious. His green cloak had faded from the long-term sun and turned into a dirty gray. Under the cloak was a worn-out brown coat and trousers, which matched his brown eyes and brown hair.

There was a small, old brown leather bag hanging around his neck. Inside the bag were the four knuckles of his left hand, which he called a lucky charm.

His four knuckles were cut off by Stannis himself.

At that time, Robert, Ed and Jon Alling raised the flag of rebellion. The Fortress of Windsand where Stannis Baratheon was stationed was blocked by Metz Tyrell on land, and the waterway was blocked by Red Wing on Qingting Island. The family's battleships are tightly sealed, day and night.

Under the leadership of Metz Tyrell, the Allied forces in the Riverland kept attacking the Fortress of Wind's Breath, but they were still unable to take it. The siege lasted for a year. When all the rats in Wind's Breath Fort were dug and eaten by three feet, the defenders of Wind's Breath Fort had no food.

It seems that the Seven Gods heard Stannis Baratheon’s prayer. Back then, Dafoss, the most notorious but also the most unpredictable smuggler of the Seven Kingdoms, escaped Redwing from the waterway while the moon was black and the wind was high. The family patrol warship delivered a ship of onions and kippers to Stannis, so that the defenders supported the arrival of Ed Stark’s reinforcements.

After the war, Stannis canonized Davos as a knight and gave him a fertile field for Horn of Windfury. At the same time, as punishment for his previous smuggling crime, Stannis cut off the first knuckle of the four fingers of Davos's left hand.

After Davos was made a knight, he named his surname Seaworth. He put the cut knuckles into a leather bag and hung them around his neck as lucky charms.

Since then, Davos has also received a nickname: Onion Knight.

Stannis, who never laughs, is inaccessible, but Davos regards him as his sole lord. Stannis would ask someone for his opinion on any major matter that Stannis was uncertain about. This person was Davos Seaworth who would only tell Stannis his true opinion.

Davos touched his gray beard, and then touched the lucky charm on his neck: "Master Stannis, no matter whether it is true or not, we must go to King's Landing. The king's burial is imminent, and both public and private should go. Ai. De Stark regards honor above all else. I don't doubt his letter to the raven."

"The king's seal and handwriting are true." Stannis said. He handed the raven letter to Davos and asked him to see the wax trace of the king’s seal on it. Davos was illiterate, so there was no need to read the content. "It seems that Ed Stark also knows about Joffrey and Not Robert’s biological son, but Cersei and James’ incest. According to the law, I am the heir to the kingdom.”

"My lord, but we can't just go like this. Just in case, we must go with our navy and guard. Without further ado, your lord will order vassals."

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ps: Timeline, Stannis is here to advance.