What you must know about "Game of Thrones" about what happened before the beginning of the first season
"Game of Thrones" S01E01-02: Winter is coming, the game starts
"Game of Thrones" S01E03-E07: Strong temperament
"Game of Thrones" S01E08-E10: To live humble or die noble?
"Game of Thrones" S07E01: Shall we begin?
"Game of Thrones" S07E02: The Storm is Born
Those who grow their causes must eat their fruits-"Game of Thrones" S07E03
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I’m Ed Stark, and my wife, family and friends prefer to call my nickname Ned. As the Duke of Winterfell, the guardian of the north, and the prime minister of the king, I was now a prisoner. I stayed in the dark dungeon under the Red Fort, like a blind man, or like a dead man. It is true that the king shit, and the prime minister wipes his butt; when the king dies, the prime minister is buried.
I sleep and wake up, wake up and sleep, and I can't tell which state is more painful. When I fall asleep, I often dream of old people, such as my sister Laanna and my close friend Robert. The scenes in the dream are about to drive me crazy. When I woke up, every time I moved, my injured leg would feel severe pain (for the benefit of the Lannister Kingslayer), and I had to worry about the situation at this time and the current situation of my family.
"The gods save me!" At this time, I was particularly eager to return to Winterfell in the North, and miss the peaceful sacred woods. That place was where I would go every time I took a human life.
01
I can't compare with my brave and mighty brother Brandon, he is a good leader, more suitable to be a lord than me. I am more suitable to wear a white robe to be a Yulin Iron Guard and become the best warrior to fight for honor. However, fate made me bear more responsibilities. When I heard that the Mad King had brutally killed my father and brother, I couldn't worry about falling into sorrow, and then started a war of seizures with my friend Robert and adoptive father Aylin. I led the rebels to fight south and hurriedly married Caitlin Tully, who was supposed to be my sister-in-law.
I have been going south to find my sister Leanna, who was abducted by Rega Targaryen. She should have become Robert's wife. I still remember the night when her father betrothed Lyanna to Robert, she seemed unhappy. Although everyone knows about the romantic love of my best friend, I always feel that as long as his feelings for my sister are sincere, then his previous romantic history will be of little importance. I tried to persuade my sister to accept Robert, but she said to me: "My dearest Ned, love is precious, but it can't change a person's nature after all." She thought that Robert would never settle in a room. Unfortunately, she has said this point now, and Robert's illegitimate children are really countless.
I finally found Leona in the Bliss Tower at the junction of the northern part of Dorn and the Storm. There are seven people in our party: Jory’s father Martin Kelso (suddenly feel very sorry for their Kelso family, many of their families are Our Stark family sacrificed), Theo Woll, Ethan Glover, Sir Mark Leiswell, Horan Reid from Zedi, and Earl Dustin, who were ordered to garrison outside the tower The three are not waiting: "Sword of Dawn" Sir Arthur Dane, Sir Oswell Ha'an, and the elderly Royal Guard Captain Sir Jello Hytal.
No wonder I didn’t see them in the Battle of Trident River, the time of King’s Landing, and the siege of Wind’s Breath. If they were there, maybe the Kingslayer would not succeed (I’ll never forget that I rode into the Red Fort hall. At that time, the Kingslayer was sitting on the Iron Throne in a majestic manner), we will also sacrifice more brothers. This was a painful experience. We were seven on three. In the end, only myself and the little Zedier Holland Ride survived. After the bloody battle, I entered the tower and saw my sister Lyanna who was dying on the blood bed. "Ned, promise me..." She said weakly her last words, and then she left her newborn child to death.
Over the years, I have repeatedly dreamed of the scene of the year: the fierce battle and the pale face of my sister.
I once doubted whether Robert really knew Lyanna, maybe he just missed her beauty and didn't know her temper or temperament.
02
Since I was eight years old, I have lived with Robert as the adopted son of Jon Alling in Eagle's Nest. I regard Robert as a sibling and Alling as the adoptive father. Robert wrote that he was going south to Winterfell. At that time, we hadn’t seen each other for nine years. The last time we saw him was during the Baron Greyjoy rebellion in the Iron Islands. .
At this time, Robert is no longer the wise boy who killed Rega and pardoned Barristan and other old officials with a hammer in the Trident River. After becoming a king, he got tired of it. He was immersed in the meat forest of the wine pond for a long time, which obliterated his ideals and aspirations, and became bloated.
He came to invite me to be his prime minister. I hate the South and don’t want to leave Winterfell, but then I found out that the former prime minister Jon Alling had passed away unexplainedly. This matter was mostly related to Lannister. In order to find out the truth, Also in order to save my best friend, I decided to go south to King's Landing to take over as the prime minister.
This prime minister is a hard job. Robert is arrogant and extravagant, and the royal family’s debt is as high as six million golden dragons. Under this circumstance, Robert will hold a competition in the name of my prime minister. The cabinet ministers all have their own calculations.
"If you kill Targaryen, your honor will be tarnished forever." "Do you think it is honor that makes the country peaceful and peaceful? It is fear and bloodshed."
Robert became cowardly. He even killed a child for a potential or non-existent threat. The last time we had a quarrel over the same issue, it was during the War of the Slayers, the old Tywin Lannister The guy brutally killed Rega's infant child, but Robert was indifferent to this and did not punish Lannister.
I have asked countless times in my heart, is this the same Robert Baratheon that I have known and loved since I was a child?
I have had countless opportunities to leave, but I cannot leave until the truth of the death is found out. If I leave, there will be no one to control Robert's words and deeds. He will be deceived by those cowards and villains, and one day he will make himself and even the whole country without honor at all.
Strangely speaking, sometimes children's ignorant eyes can see facts that adults ignore. One day, when Sansa grows up, she must tell her how one of her words has cleared away the many doubts. Without knowing anything, she said the angry words, "He is not like the drunkard king at all," and the simple truth suddenly surged in her chest, as cold as death. This is the sword that killed Jon Allyn, and this sword will also kill Robert, perhaps slower, but it will definitely happen sooner or later. A broken leg will eventually heal, but certain betrayals will gradually corrode the soul. The kind of toughness, Jon Ailin yelled like this before he died, it was indeed the case. The hair of every illegitimate child is as dark as night. Melion recorded the last union between the bucks and the lions more than ninety years ago. Tia Lannister married Gewen Baratheon, the third oldest in his family. Their only child was an unnamed baby boy who died prematurely, as Melion’s book describes: “Big head, good appetite, and black hair.” Thirty years ahead, a Lannister family member The man married a girl from Baratheon’s family as his wife. She gave birth to him three daughters and one son, all of whom were black hair. No matter how you go back between the fragile and yellowed pages, you will always have to yield when golden and black.
I kept thinking of Robert in my sleep when he was young. I think we fought the country together and won the throne. Why did we fall into this field? He died at the foot of a pig and I was locked in this ghost place.
I'm sorry Robert, as Varys said, it was my kindness that killed him. The kind and crazy idea at the time made me go to Cersei Lannister for a showdown. I kindly let her escape in advance, but she drugged Robert's wine. "In the Game of Thrones, if you are not a winner, there is only a dead end and no middle ground." I didn't care about what Cersei said at the time. I disdain to fight for power, so I lost the game and my subordinates used it. Blood and life paid the price for my stupidity.
When Robert was dead, I couldn’t bear to tell him the truth (Joffrey was not his biological son), and I didn’t want him to suffer more. I just changed "My son Joffrey" in the will to "My legal heir." "I decided to do everything I can to defend his honor.
03
I curse each of them. They are a group of guys who have no sense of honor and can only play Game of Thrones: Littlefinger, Jeno Slint and his golden guard, the queen, the kingslayer, Paisier, Varys Even Robert's younger brother, Duke Lanly, because he ran away when he needed him the most.
I have no interest in their scheming and treacherous. For people like Littlefinger and them, power and conspiracy are commonplace. Littlefinger once said to me: "Stark, you put your honor on your body as armor, thinking you can keep you safe, but in the end you burden yourself with a heavy burden and make it difficult to move." He once persuaded me to pretend to be with Lannister. Okay, I agree with that kid Joffrey ascends the throne, and if there is an accident, he will give Lam to the top.
It is impossible for me to reconcile with the Lannister family and ignore what they did before. My son was disabled because of them, and Caitlin would have died without the ice wolf. Besides, I always insist that Stannis Baratheon is the authentic heir to the throne.
For a moment, I once questioned myself in my heart: Can the sense of honor really protect your children? Can it really be eaten as a meal?
04
Varys came to visit me in prison and brought the latest situation. I didn't expect this eunuch who I once despised became my last friend. At the moment I miss the safety of my two daughters, the ladylike eldest daughter Sansa, and my naughty second daughter Arya. She looks so much like my sister Leona. She has never had a good relationship with Sansa. , I hope every child of the Stark family will remember the principle of lone wolves.
Varys told me that Sansa would not hesitate to intercede for me in front of the imperial court for me. He persuaded me to confess my crime. If I did, Cersei would send me to the Great Wall of Extremis, as a night watchman, and my brother Ben Yang. The illegitimate son Xue Nuo is a company, will I lay down my honor just to steal a few years? But Sansa is still in their hands. If I am dedicated to my honor, will she be in danger?
Speaking of Jon Snow, he is actually not my illegitimate child. Before she died, Leanna repeatedly asked me to treat her child as my own child, because Robert hated the Targaryen family so deeply that if he knew it, the child would not be able to live safely. For a promise, I had to endure the misunderstanding of my wife Caitlin, let the world question my personality, and tarnish my honor.
Every child in the Stark family has an ice wolf, and this is all thanks to Jon Snow. When I asked him if you didn’t want it, he replied: "The Ice Wolf is the emblem of the Stark family. I am not a member of the Stark family, father." He only excluded himself as an illegitimate child. Later I had to join the night watchman again. It was not in my heart. I felt a little sorry for Leona, but for the sake of safety, I had to do this.
You are also Stark. Although you don't have my surname, you have my blood. "(You might not have my name, but you have my blood.)
I promised him that next time I meet again, I will tell him about his mother, but this promise may never be fulfilled. If I give up the honor at this time, it is possible to go to the Great Wall to tell him a story.
I will tell him all the things that happened in the "wrong spring" when he was 18 years old: how his father, dragon prince Rega Targaryen, defeated many knights and won heroically in the Hellenborg tournament; he was handsome and handsome. How his father met his beautiful mother.
I still remember that when I insisted on going south to King's Landing, my wife Caitlin begged me not to leave. Because of the promise to my sister, I had to make her suffer, thinking that I really had an affair outside and gave birth to an illegitimate child. At this time I am 35 years old. We are not old yet young. If we had stayed in Winterfell, maybe we could have another son with Caitlin.
It’s just that I didn’t expect that Junlin City would mean that I might never see it again in the future.
I said these things against my will in front of the people on the square. It was never easy for me to lie: "I betrayed my king, my best friend, Robert. I betrayed his trust and trust. , I vowed to protect her child, but when his bones were still cold, I conspired to dethrone and kill his son and make myself king. Now, I invite the archbishop, the'beloved of God' Baylor, and the Seven Highest Gods to speak for me The truth bears witness: Geoffrey Baratheon is the only legal heir to the Iron Throne. In the name of the Seven Gods in the sky, he is the ruler of the Seven Kingdoms and the guardian of the whole realm."
In the end I decided to lay down the honor, just for my family. I saw Arya in the crowd, and the old god blessed her. Fortunately, I saw the brother of the night watch beckoning him to take Arya away.
I didn't expect Joffrey to order me to be executed. Ironically, he did not personally pronounce my death sentence but directly let the executioner execute it. In this case, I usually say something like this: "In the name of Robert I of the Baratheon family, the king of the Andals, the Roinas and the ancestors, the ruler of the Seven Kingdoms and the guardian of the whole territory, I, Ed of the Stark family, Duke of Winterfell and Guardian of the North, sentenced you to death."
Because I often teach my children that the Stark family still has the blood of the "ancestors" in their bodies, we believe that those who sentence the death penalty must do it themselves. If you want to kill someone, you should at least look into his eyes and listen to his last words. If you can't do this, then maybe he is not guilty of death. The ruler can never kill for pleasure, nor can he escape responsibility. If you hide behind the scenes and pay the executioner to execute it, you will soon forget what death is. Even if Joffrey was Robert's biological son, that kid wouldn't deserve to be a ruler.
Death is actually an easy thing. I have been prepared long ago. Perhaps people can only be brave when they are afraid. If the world is full of sinister villains, rulers take pleasure in playing with power, and honest and kind people do not end well, I would rather die.
Robert once said to me: "Ned Stark, I know you can't lie, whether for love or honor." In fact, I said panic three times, both for love and honor, and once for Lyanna. , Once because of Robert, in the end, I confessed my unwarranted crime. What I am most sorry for is actually my family.
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