Some people commented that the content of the second episode of "Game of Thrones" was too watery. Maybe they have forgotten how these protagonists came to Winterfell step by step.
The war is imminent, and a large number of characters who have been created since the first season will surely die. Facing the inescapable fate of death, these characters who have accompanied us for more than eight years spent a whole episode of 60 minutes to say goodbye to us .
I don't think it's long at all, and it doesn't feel boring.
You think it's too watery, maybe because you think they are the protagonists, and you think they will never die. But Game of Thrones has everything except the protagonist's halo.
Every man must die.
On the eve of the war, the little devil said that almost all of you here have fought with the Stark family (Wolf family), but now they are gathered in Winterfell to fight for the wolf family, for Winterfell, and for the North battle against the environment.
Lamenting the impermanence of fate and the changing circumstances of people.
Theon left his sister and people to come to this place where he grew up and where his story began.
I will fight for Winterfell, Lady Sansa, if you will accept me.
Winterfell, the starting place of "Game of Thrones", has naturally become the best choice for the eight-year ending battle. This guardian city in the north is pregnant with generations of descendants of the wolf family.
The eldest son Robert died early, and Rickon's sense of existence was too low, leaving only Jon, Erya, Sansa and Bran to take on the important task of reviving the family. By saying goodbye to the characters before the battle this week, talk about the history of the wolf family.
HOUSE OF STARK
The statement of the Seven Kingdoms, which is the most widely rumored in the market, is actually not completely correct. For example, at that time, one of the kingdoms, Dorne (the site of the Red Viper), was ruled by the Queen (not King) in the early days. The second is that Dragonstone, which was then ruled by House Targaryen, was not included.
Therefore, the so-called "seven kingdoms" are not actually "seven", nor are they all "kings". But since it has been established, we will continue to use the saying of the seven kingdoms here, and let's go to the main topic and take a look at the history of the wolf family.
Speaking of House of Stark, I have to mention Winterfell, but also the North, otherwise how did House of Stark's "King of the North" come from? Let's start with a map of the North.
The territory of Winterfell occupies more than 1/3 of the northern territory, from The Crey Cliffs in the east to Stony Shore in the west (the place where Theon's mutiny led the tribe to land in the north from the west), to the south to The Neck and north to The New Gift , see the green part above.
There is only one city in the North that can really be called a city: White Harbor, followed by Barrowton.
In addition, it should be pointed out that there is also a "Winter Town" in the north that forms and disappears seasonally.
Winter Town was born on the southern wall of Winterfell City. In spring and summer, people basically go to empty buildings, and in autumn and winter (in the world of ice and fire, a season may last from several years to several decades), they will gradually gather and be unable to survive the winter. , to find the residents of the North that Winterfell has taken in and protected.
Because in the north, it sometimes snows even in summer, the dry climate makes it very difficult to grow grains, let alone the long autumn and winter seasons.
The residents of the northern border are all descendants of the ancestors, but basically all traces of the ancestors have been removed, and they no longer speak the old language (the language of the ancestors is still used by the savages north of the northern border).
However, a custom of the ancestors still occupied a very heavy weight in the values of the people in the north, and this custom also constituted the cornerstone of one of the most tragic events in the history of ice and fire.
Guess what?
The Road of Hospitality and Friendship of the People of the North
The same roof does not harm each other
That is to say, as long as you allow others to enter your home, you must treat it with the attitude of the guest first, and must not persecute, and similarly, the guest must not harm the host's home.
This code is binding on both parties.
Therefore, in the bloody wedding of the Twin Towers in the ninth episode of the third season, the reason why Aunt Cat knew that the Frey family was very dissatisfied with her son's repentance of marriage, and still dared to go deep and let down her guard, was entirely based on the value of the North. It is also the reason why such a shock was caused in the north after the incident.
But it is interesting that there is a very distant fable about the "rat kitchen" in the north about this belief.
There is a legend that a cook boiled the son of a certain Andal king into pie and served it to the king for dinner. For this reason, the gods turned him into a very ugly mouse to eat his own offspring for a living.
The reason for the punishment was not that he killed the prince, nor did he give the prince as a dinner to the king, but that he violated the principle of "hospitality and friendship" in the north.
Therefore, in the final episode of the sixth season, Erya cooked the sons of Frey's family and sent them to old Frey to eat. It was not the screenwriter's flash of inspiration to avenge the wolf family, but Erya used one of the oldest legends in the north. come for revenge.
Competing in the North
wolves are king
The wolf family became the king of the north (the old saying is the king of winter) was not born with glory, but was established through generations of wolf clan expeditions to the north and south, the acquisition of princes and the long-term territorial defense.
To the north, expel the Giant Clan to the north of the Wall, while annihilating the Skinchanger tribe headed by Gaven Greywolf in "Battle of the Savage Wolf".
To the south, the Barrow Kingdom claimed that they had the supreme hegemony over the ancestors, including the wolf family. After nearly 200 years of large and small battles (historically exaggerated as the "Millennium Battle"), the wolf family finally surrendered to the Barrow family. The regime in the south was consolidated through political union.
But unfortunately, the long-term battle also made some very old families in the north permanently withdraw from the stage of history.
To the east, the Crimson Kingdom founded by the Boltons at Dreadfort Castle was the most painful opponent in the wolf's conquest. House Bolton's influence extends from the Last River to the White Knife (the inland river that divides the North from East and West).
Different from the invincible record of the wolf family in the past, in the battle with the Scarlet Kingdom, the two sides were evenly divided, with each winning and losing. There were even rumors that the Bolton family had occupied Winterfell and burned it more than once.
The various generations of monarchs of the Scarlet Kingdom are known for their cruelty. One of the kings, Royce Redarm, inserted his empty hands into the enemy's stomach and dug out his internal organs, which was frightening. family habits.
What kind of family is Bolton? The family of our cutest, cruelest and most perverted little skinny Ramsey~~~
So this proves two things:
- Small peeling metamorphosis has a family gene;
- The Bolton family's desire to obtain the title and status of the king of the north through political marriage (forcing Sansa to marry Little Flay) is also the legacy of the ancestors of the past generations;
At that time, the greater threat to the east was from the Andal tribe outside the northern border. Their long ships crossed the narrow sea from the east to land on the north and south sides of the northern border. The wolf family had to ally with the Scarlet Kingdom to resist foreign enemies.
But all this changed fundamentally when Theon Stark (historically known as "The Hungry Wolf") killed the leader of the Andal invasion warlord in the "Battle of Tears", and led the people of the north to cross the narrow sea to counter the invasion of the enemy Territory, it is said that this anti-invasion battle was quite bloody, and Theon Stark even put the head of the captive on a spear and brought it back to the northern coast as a warning to various foreign invaders.
To the west, the main opponents of the Wolf family are the sailors from the Iron Islands (Theon's family territory), and their battles also extend to Bear Island. The threat is much smaller.
A little reminder, in season 6 and season 8, episodes 1 and 2, your favorite little speaker is the House of Mormont (and Sir Jorah) from Bear Island, oh, and the usual coquettish bitches Not the same.
In addition to the wolf family and the main family mentioned above, there are actually other aboriginal people in the north that are worth mentioning, although they are small in number.
Across the bay from Bear Island, in the high mountains on the other side of the Gulf of Iceland, there are also a small number of high mountain tribes scattered. These tribes have been plundered and harassed by the Iron Islands for a long time like Bear Island. The archipelagos are quite unfriendly and loyal to the wolf family, but often disagree with the latter on some day-to-day management.
One of the characteristics of the Gaoshan tribe is the absolute belief in the hospitality and friendship in the north. Different tribes will even secretly compete to see who is the most hospitable #我的画风一笑#
Compared with the absolute loyalty of the mountain tribes to the wolf family, in the northeast of the north, the Skagos outside the Seal Bay are not so cute. Whether it is wartime or peacetime, they cause trouble for the wolf family from time to time.
Skagos means "stone" in the old language of the First Men, so they also called themselves the sons of the rock.
The Skagos are tall, hairy, smelly, and wear thick fur all the year round. There are also legends that they ride unicorns (??? I mean black question mark faces), some bachelors believe they have some giant blood, others It is suspected that they are a mixed race of the Northland and the Ib people across the Narrow Sea.
In The Neck, the southernmost part of Winterfell's territory, there lives another group of completely different northern natives, The Crannogmen, who have been the most loyal tribe of the wolf family since they were conquered.
The Crannogmen are rumoured to be able to breathe in water, have meshed hands and frog-like feet, and they wield poisonous frog spears and bows and arrows, but of course this is all exaggerated by word of mouth from people who never set foot in The Neck description, but the use of poisonous frog spears and bows as weapons is true.
They are small in stature, and it has also been rumored that they are a mixed descendant of aboriginal people and forest elves, but according to Maesters, they are more prone to malnutrition, because grain is difficult to cultivate and survive in the swamps of this area, so they are mostly used in Fish, frogs and lizards are the main food sources, and the most basic carbohydrates are quite scarce.
WINTERFELL
Finally, let's talk about Winterfell.
In the title of the TV series, you can see the general situation of Winterfell, and there is also the symbol of their belief in the old god "Heart Tree". The title of the eighth season has also made some adjustments.
Winterfell is the largest castle in the north and the base of the wolf family since the "Dawn Century". Legend has it that it was a protected area built by Brandon Stark (not the current Brandon) to allow future descendants to survive the cold winter. Up to several cold winter seasons (remember, each season in the world of ice and fire ranges from years to decades).
Brandon Stark is a legend, two of them are the construction of Storm's End and the Great Wall, but in fact, the bachelor's degree also said that these great things were not actually completed by one Brandon Stark, because there are several Brandon Stark in history (you started Can't the name be long Dim Sum?).
Winterfell is a rather strange castle, because its foundation and city walls do not start from the same ground, but are located on different terrains, which also indicates the current Winterfell to some extent. It was not designed as a whole at the beginning, but after many years of continuous addition and reconstruction of different parts, and even some bachelors have proved that there were some very complex and interconnected stone circles around the city. , but no traces can be found so far.
Winterfell has two layers of city walls, the inner wall is about 31 meters high, and the outer wall is about 25 meters high, so when the enemy breaks through the outer wall and thinks that the siege is successful, they will find that there are many bows, arrows, stones, and spears in the inner wall. Aloft awaits them.
Winterfell not only includes these high and low buildings, but also includes some open areas, such as the God's Wood Forest with more than 12,000 square meters. Thanks to the hot springs under this area, the God's Wood Forest can grow long in the cold north. years to survive.
The bachelor also believed that the rare underground hot spring was one of the main reasons why the ancestors decided to establish a city-state in this location.
In the first season, the cold winter has not yet come, you can see that except for the heart tree, the other plants in the Shenmu Forest are still green, and the hot spring lake can also be seen.
In the eighth season, it was snowing heavily, and white ghosts were pressing down on the realm.
I hope the history of the wolf family can continue.
Source: The World of Ice and Fire by Uncle Martin
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