Why does "Game of Thrones" fascinate people, chasing it season after season, but if you are too addicted to chasing the drama, you still have to buy the original. In addition to the epic plot, the profound display and analysis of human weakness and brilliance also give everyone who follows the drama a sense of substitution and deep feeling.
The most important betrayal in "Game of Thrones" is the "Blood Wedding".
The scene was bloody and cruel, originally like a representative of justice, the young wolf master who used soldiers like gods to create betrayal and slaughter. It is so unexpected and angry. This is the only scene where I don't want or dare to watch the play a second time. It's really sad.
So why did the Frey family betray the Stark family? Is it really because the conditions given by Tai Wen are better?
Risking his death and holding the lid of the pot to say something for the Frey family, it really has its own reasons, and what the young wolf master did indeed owe it to consideration. (Pat the bricks lightly, people can't resist being thin.)
The prosperity of the Frey family originated in their castle, Twin River City. Twin River City is not only their residence, but also a barracks and military fortress. The castle lies across the banks of the Green Fork River and is connected by a strong, wide bridge. This is the only way from the north to the riverland in the west. It is also the only river crossing fortress with a radius of several hundred miles. Therefore, as long as the Frey family collects the "bridge fee" from the merchants, it is enough to make the tribe rich and healthy. The Frey family soon became the richest and most powerful family in the Trident River Basin. Because of their rapid development, they were shameless by other families and secretly called them upstarts.
The construction of this bridge also took several generations of efforts by the Frey family to have the current Twin River City. In the Cold Weapon era, building a bridge was a very difficult project. Therefore, after Luanhe City was built, it was guarded on both sides of the river, with thousands of elite soldiers hidden inside, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack. No matter from which side of the bridge you come to attack Luanhe City, he can continuously deliver supplies and troops from the other side. Unless the two sides unite to attack Luanhe City from both sides of the bridge at the same time, after the city gate is closed, even if it is flanked by both sides, it will take a lot of time, and at the same time you still can't cross the river.
Therefore, this Luanhe city received a stable bridge fee during the peace period, and in the war years, whether it can cross the bridge smoothly and without a single soldier is the key to determining the war. It can also be said that whoever the Frey family leads will win the first chance of victory.
That's why Robb and Aunt Cat will marry for the support of the Frey family. After agreeing that the Frey War ended, Robb married the daughter of the Frey family, and Eliya married the son of the Frey family.
And who is Waldfrey? Waldfrey has always been grudged by the low status of the family. He has married eight wives and many children. Claims to be a figure who can give birth to an army. Many of his sons and grandsons were sent to the major lords of the Seven Kingdoms to serve as attendants or adopted sons. Some worked as alchemists in Rees and bachelors in Xuecheng. Before the Scarlet wedding, his most satisfying marriage was probably his second son married Gina Lannister, who was also Tywin Lannister's sister. Tywin, who was less than ten years old, strongly opposed his father Tytus’s betrothal of his younger sister Gina to Waldfrey’s second son, thinking that the Frey family was just a marquis and not worthy of the Lannister family status, and was only from Luanhecheng. The second son is not the heir. Strongly opposed to marrying his sister, but Taitos did not listen to Tai Wen's opinion. Of course, under the power of Tai Wen, the second son, Aimon Frey, has lived in Kaiyan City as a door-to-door son-in-law and hostage since he was 14 years old.
Before that, Horstituli had rejected the marriage between the Freys and his son Edmund.
Jon Ailin refused Waldfrey's request to send his grandson to Eagle's Nest as an adopted son.
In the last War of the Usurpers, Old Frey had been sitting on the sidelines and did not send troops until Robert gained the advantage. Therefore, he was called the "Late Frey" by Fengjun Horstituli.
In the Battle of the Five Kings, the Frey family publicly and fully supported Robb Stark when the battle was unclear. He even sent many descendants of the Frey family to follow Robb on the expedition. Asking people for others, giving way to others, and in order to be worthy of the young wolf master, chose one of the most beautiful daughters in the Frey family, Roselyn.
But what did Robb do? Borrowing someone’s bridge, he agreed to the marriage contract, but turned around and breached the contract and married a young nurse. If it were the daughter of an aristocratic family, perhaps Frey wouldn't have felt that she had been fooled, but Robb married a civilian woman whose status was far inferior to that of the Frey family. This would definitely be a great humiliation to Old Frey.
When the situation of the battle is not clear, people risked the entire clan to be destroyed to form an alliance with you. Confronted with the famous Lannister and the royal army, and possibly Stannis and Renly. All of them have more origins than Robb, a young man who was just born. But after you took advantage of it, you turned your head to violate the marriage contract. If the marriage contract can be violated, how can you make people believe that you will consider the life and death of the opponent when you kill the enemy on the battlefield? Do you see people as important ally? For Old Frey, it was your proud Stark family, who looked down on my Frey family and was discarded after using it. Then why should I consider you as an ally? Risking annihilation to put your family in a dangerous situation.
Therefore, Frey's betrayal or re-situation is inevitable.
The mistake of Aunt Cat and Robb was that they knew that the narrow-minded Frey would inevitably retaliate (although they made a remedy and let Edmund marry Roselyn instead of Robb), they insisted on believing the so-called "Guest rights", Catherine had always insisted on letting Old Frey give Robb bread and salt before entering the door. After Robb had eaten, Catherine thought that he had guest rights. This was considered the best among the Seven Gods or the Old Gods. The sacred right is, they will not be in danger.
However, you have given people the opportunity and reason for betrayal, but you only base your life on certain morals and traditional norms. Is it too careless? I want to get some kind of help urgently, but I only hope the fatal harm that may come at any time on miracles and loyalty, but I forget that anyone who dares to betray must not care about the retribution in the legend, because compared to life and death and profit, Retribution will come much later (about Robb's various mistakes in the Rebellion of the Five Kings, it is estimated that everyone will be able to tell a big story, and I look forward to your wonderful reply.)
Another famous betrayal came from Tywin Lannister against the mad king Iristangrian in the War of the Usurpers.
Tywin and Iris can be said to be close friends who have been together since childhood. It was also that after Iris took over, he used a lot of young faces and promoted Tai Wen to the youngest king in history. In the first two decades, the two trusted each other and joined forces to create a prosperous atmosphere in the Seven Kingdoms. Then, after hearing the rumors that the actual controller of the Seven Kingdoms was Tai Wen, Iris pulled out Tai Wen's captain of the guard, Ilyin Pine. He was afraid of the support and respect that Tai Wen had gained, and began to fear Tai Wen.
And the chaos in the valley city, Iris, regardless of Tai Wen's persuasion, insisted on going out to teach the disobedient lord himself. The result was imprisonment. In the end, Tai Wen led an army to rescue him. Instead, Iris suspected that Tywin was disregarding his life, and then fell to Prince Rega. Later, in order to get rid of Iris's vigilance, Tywin wanted to solidify the relationship between the Tangrian and Lannister families through in-laws and maintain the stability of the Seven Kingdoms.
In fact, this is a correct choice. According to legend, every Tangerian is always accompanied by crazy genes because of the intermarriage of brothers and sisters. The reason why the Tangrian family can rule the Seven Kingdoms is that they have dragons. In the Cold Weapon era, the dragon was like a higher-level rocket launcher, which no one in the Seven Kingdoms could match. So Tangrian can maintain its strong rule. In reality, maintaining the stability of the kingship was due to the emergence of hot weapons, which enabled the ruling class to have better equipped armies to maintain order, and the emergence of hot weapons prompted the collapse of the chivalry system. In the story structure of "Game of Thrones", due to the existence of the dragon, more loyal and martial knights gathered around Tangrian. Dragons and knights are not contradictory, but promote each other. In the legend, in order to secretly restrict the Tangerian family, some methods were used in the school city far away in the old town to make the body of the dragon degenerate from generation to generation, and the generation is smaller than the generation. The last generation of dragons is only as big as a dog and no longer poses a threat. .
When the descendants of Tangerian no longer have dragons, the crisis has actually begun to appear. At this time, it is the best choice to form an alliance with the most powerful and powerful other family. Although it was because Tangrian had maintained its rule for hundreds of years, even without the dragon, the centipede was dead and not stiff. The ruling order can still persist for decades.
When there is no dragon's support, then marrying with powerful nobles will be the only choice for the royal family to maintain stability. But Iris was jealous of Tywin and denied the marriage, and asked Rega to marry Ilya Matel of Donne. This is no less than a slap in the face to Tai Wen. Immediately afterwards, Iris, without the consent of Tai Wen, directly asked James to put on a white robe and become the Royal Forest Guard. James became the Royal Forest Iron Guard, which meant giving up the inheritance right of Kaiyan City. This obviously embarrassed Taiwen and made him dilemma about Kaiyan City's inheritance.
Knowing that it was irretrievable, Tai Wen resigned from the post of prime minister angrily and returned to Kaiyan City with Cersei. (Thai Wen is wise, at least retires all over his body, his life and wealth are not hindered.)
Soon after the outbreak of the Usurper War, Iris realized that the rebels should not be taken lightly, and under Rega's persuasion, he planned to recall Tai Wen to rescue him. However, no matter how many ravens were sent to Kaiyan City, there was never any response. At the beginning of the war, Iris was worried that Tywin would fall to the rebels, so he always took James with him as a hostage to hold Tywin. At the same time, in order to prevent Dorne from turning against the rebels, he sent Queen Layla and his youngest son Viselis to Dragonstone Island, but detained Dorne's Ilia and her children at King's Landing.
In the latter part of the war, Prince Rega died in the Battle of the Trident River. Tai Wen, who had been in the cold war with Iris for nearly a year, finally led a Lannister army of 12,000 people to appear outside King's Landing. Varys tried desperately to dissuade the Mad King from allowing Tai Wen to enter the city, and Iris, without any foreign aid, really needed an allied army, because at this time Robert's army was already on the way to the king. Persuaded by Pasir, the Mad King Iris asked Tywin to swear allegiance, and then opened the city gate. Then, the killing started...
Seeing that the situation is over, Iris ordered the Pyromancer to light a wildfire and prepare to blow up the King’s Landing, which has half a million people. James killed him on the way to the Earl of Rosat, so that the order was not communicated. At the same time, James turned his back on the Royal Guard His oath became the "King Killer". But it also saved the people of King's Landing.
The mistakes made by Iris are similar to those of Aunt Cat and Robb. He desperately wants some kind of help, but he hopes the fatal damage that may come at any time on miracles and loyalty. Anyone who dares to betray must not care about the legend. Retribution, because retribution comes much later than life and death and benefits.
Littlefinger, the top strategist of the Seven Kingdoms, once said: In a game of power, don't despise any humble chess piece. Perhaps it is precisely because Littlefinger starts at the humble bottom that he knows that contempt and arrogance will make the situation out of control. Never underestimate your opponents, subordinates, and allies you have hurt.
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