The first chapter of Quan Yu's Wild History series (there are quick links to other chapters at the end of the article)
The Targaryen ancestry and the crown prince status of Jiaen are still the biggest secrets that disturb the political stability of the Seven Westeros. As Fat Sam said, Jiaen is willing to give up the throne for peace (has previously given up the title of King of the North), but whether Long Ma is willing to become an unstable factor.
As the biggest magical element of Quan You, the three dragons of Dragon Mother were born out of thin air at the end of the first season, and what kind of ending will there be at the end? Will they disappear like their ancestors? ?
Regarding the existence of dragons, many people don't believe it, because this magical creature has disappeared without a trace long ago, and it has become a folklore for a long time, until they saw the dragon mother who was hanging out all the way.
Theoretically speaking, at the end of the seventh season, one has already died, but it was taken back by the Night King, so there are still three in the world. There is no way to circumvent the Targaryen family where Dragon Mother belongs to this topic.
The Targaryen family, TARGARYEN, a legendary family that is too attractive. No one can explain the mysterious relationship between them and the dragon. The dragon training gene flows in their blood, otherwise Jiaen will not be able to climb up smoothly. Dragon back. You know, before this, apart from Long Ma, let alone riding, it was difficult for most people to even get close.
This mysterious relationship dates back to before the official history of "Quan You". The center of this world is not the continent of Westeros where the Seven Kingdoms are located, but the continent of Essos across the strait (that is, the place where Long Ma opened before. ), even the Targaryen family is just an unnamed small branch of ancient times.
First of all, dragon =Valyria≠>Targaryen.
It needs to be clarified that the Targaryen|Targaryen| family in which the dragon mother was born is not the only dragon family.
Before the start of the "Game of Thrones" drama, this legendary family that once unified Westeros|Westeros| mainland was so powerful that all the audience felt that they were the only one.
A long time ago, even they were just an extremely weak and trivial branch of the ancient dragon clan. But for this reason, they were able to create their own glorious dynasty in Westeros, a field that did not belong to them.
The dragons originated from the Essos|Essos| continent that no one cares about now. This is the main reason why Uncle Martin resurrected the three dragons on this continent.
The real dragon race is a race called Valyria|Valyria| in ancient history, an empire that has been bloodbathed and ruled the continent of Esos for centuries.
1. The origin and rise of the dragon
The Dragon Race is not the first ruler of Essos. The first ruling empire power of this continent that is some distance away from the main story line (now even the dragon mother has returned to Westeros) is rooted in OldGhis. A city-state based on slavery. The state builder Grazdan has become a legend in the history of the empire, and even today, many slave families are still named after him.
Legend has it that he was the first leader to establish and discipline the army and lead the army to conquer the east and west. The empire civilization he established has prospered on the continent of Essos for centuries.
The dragon clan born in the peninsula area opposite the Slave Bay terminated the rule of the OldGhis Empire. They lived in the active volcano group known as the "Fourteen Flames" in history. They are good at tame flying dragons and use them as weapons.
In their own racial legends, the dragon people and the dragon originated from the same ancestor and are close relatives of the dragon. And their looks really prove this: almost pure white silver hair or blond hair and purple eyes (this is a bit different from the TV series), this is the only one in the entire ice and fire world.
The scholars put forward various explanations about the origin of dragons and how dragons tame flying dragons.
The dragons themselves claimed that the dragon was born in the "Fourteen Flames", but there was a legend in Qarth that there were two moons in the world, one of which was too close to the sun to overheat and expand and explode, like an eggshell hatching. Thousands of flying dragons burst from rupture. The moon flies out. This statement is specifically mentioned in the TV series (the second episode of the first season).
There is another legend in Asshai.
From a distant dark corner, there used to be a mysterious tribe who tamed the dragon in the dark shadow and handed them into the hands of the dragon tribe. Since then, he disappeared and never appeared.
But this legend itself has loopholes. Even if this mysterious nation can have the ability to tame giant dragons, why don't they conquer the world just like this, but give it to the dragons?
Therefore, the dragon clan’s explanation of the origin of the dragon is more credible, and in fact, there are quite a lot of investigation records to prove this, because there are records of dragons even in Westeros, and they are still far away in the Targaryen family. Before coming.
Before being tamed, the flying dragons born in the "Fourteen Flames" volcanoes must have scattered all over the world, including but not limited to the continent of Westeros. Even so, it is true that dragons can be tamed, and there is only one line of dragons in the entire world and in history.
Even though scholars can put forward all kinds of plausible hypotheses about the origin of dragons and the origin of dragons, they have been unable to explain the mysterious relationship between dragons and dragons.
There is no such thing as a queen or queen in the dragon clan’s political system. They call themselves the Freehold "free retainers", and any clan who owns land can express their opinions.
Although there are people like "consultants" in the ruling system to manage daily affairs, they are all managed by the nobles and only selected from the nobles, and they will be managed in a short period of time.
In our opinion, the fact that one family rules/manages the entire tribe is rarely seen in the history of the dragon clan (but the Targaryen family did it in Westeros).
2. The demise of the OLD GHIS Empire
There were only five human-dragon battles between the dragon clan and this former empire, and each time the latter was defeated under the flames of the dragon as the end. The empire built by the legendary Grazdan was ultimately unable to resist the flame offensive and was razed to the ground by the dragons.
Although the OldGhis empire has died out, it left three cities in Slave Bay that are still very active today (even after the demise of the dragon clan), which is the main area where the Dragon Ma army conquered the Essos continent:
Astapor Astapor City, Yunkai Yunkai City, Meereen Meereen City
ASTAPOR Astapo City
The ancient song sang: "Bricks and blood make Astapo, and Astapo uses bricks and blood to enslave the people".
Astapo is ruled by a group of slave owners who claim to be "good masters", and is known for cultivating an army of the "unsullied" (the unsullied: castrated from an early age and cultivated into a war machine).
The free Astabo nobles wear Toka robes-a symbol of nobility. Their hair is greasy and oddly shaped, and they have yellow silk cloaks sewn with copper plates to represent their status. Their robes have embroidered silk threads, sandals and pleated linen skirts below the waist, the TV series basically restores the original description.
The whole city is built of red bricks, so it is also called " Red City ", which is different from the description in the book. The city emblem is a eagle: the body of a woman, the wings of a bat, the legs of an eagle, and the tail of a scorpion. Its paws are grasping the opened handcuffs, and the degree of restoration of this emblem in the TV series is 100%.
Yunkai
Also known as the "Yellow City", it was ruled by a group of slave owners who claimed to be " Chief Masters ". The main trade was the sale of slaves and male prostitutes.
Meereen
Also known as "Color City", it has a strong defense force. The city walls are thick and well-maintained. There are defensive towers at each corner. There are also bronze harpy heads (similar to those in Astapo) on the wall. The enemy sprayed boiling oil. Slave owners who ruled the city called themselves "big masters", and liked to train slaves to fight blood in the "area" for fun.
3. Defeated
After becoming the absolute overlord, the dragon clan continues to expand its rule of the territory, posing a huge threat to other aborigines of Essos, but it also paves the way for the sudden change of the political structure of Westeros and the formation of the "Seven Kingdoms" in the future. .
Andal
The Andals originated in Axe and are located in the northeast of Pentos. Long before they settled down, the Andals were actually a nomadic people.
After a few head-to-head confrontations with the Dragons, the Andars knew that there was a disparity in power between the two sides. A small number of them bowed their heads and were sold as slaves, and most of them crossed the narrow sea by boat to reach the uncivilized mainland of Westeros at that time. , We collectively refer to the aboriginal people who lived on this continent at the time as the ancestors.
The first landing site of the Andals on the continent of Westeros was Eagle Valley|ValeofArryn|, and they began their north-south expeditions on this barren continent. The iron weapons they used far exceeded that of the time. Bronze used by the ancestors who lived in the mainland.
Many of the ancestor families of Eagle Valley died forever in this war that lasted only a few decades. The rest of the ancestor families succumbed to submission, but a small part still retains the dignity of the primitive race, and still prides itself on the descendants of the ancestors, such as the Redforts and Royces families.
There are rumors that the hero of Andal, SerArtys, Arryn once rode a falcon on a giant spear and slashed the ancestor King Griffon, thus establishing the Arryn family, but this is a combination of the "hero age" story, the real Arryn family. He is the successor of the ancestor Royce family.
After capturing Eagle Valley, the Andal tribe went out of the "blood gate" and flocked to other areas of Westeros. In the process of conquests from the south to the north, the Andal tribe itself split into different kingdoms, and the internal fighting between the kingdoms was even It is even more fierce than fighting with the ancestors.
Draw a key point: The main families in "Quanyou" are all divided from the Andal tribe who fled from the mainland of Essos.
In the Trident battle, as many as seven kingdoms united to declare war on Tristifer IV, the last king of the ancestors. After a hundred battles, the Andaly tribe successfully captured the last aboriginal kingdom on the continent.
At the same time, hidden dangers were planted, leading to the birth of the white ghost.
Compared with the ancestors, the Andars are the more cruel enemies of the forest elves (the battle between the ancestors and the forest elves will be described in detail later).
Because in the eyes of the Andal people, the forest elves who believe in strange gods and peculiar rituals are very strange, so they expelled the latter from the deep forest.
After years of isolation from the world, the forest elves have long lost their ability and advantage to fight against their ancestors. In this way, the Andal clan, which the ancestors could not eradicate, was properly destroyed within a short period of time.
The very few remaining forest elves fled to TheNeck in the north, where the natural swamp terrain became their natural protective layer.
The elves, who were still afraid of the Andal tribe’s extinction, created white ghosts that they could not even control to fight them in despair. This became the biggest crisis for everyone in the final season of the eighth season. (The reason for the white ghost is currently only mentioned in the TV drama version, not mentioned in "The World of A Song of Ice and Fire")
Rhoynar family
Compared with the rational avoidance of the Andal tribe, the Loina tribe has too much pride to give up.
They were the first people to learn how to make iron (even the dragons learned from them), and they have the same ancient civilization and culture as the OldGhis Empire.
Large and small towns and cities were built along the Lojna River, such as GhoyanDrohe, famous for its fruit forests and waterfalls, NySar, the city of fountains, ArNoy, the city of Marvel marble, and Chroyane, the city of weddings. "Famous) and so on, even they have a magic opposite to dragon fire and heat: water curse
Although they are the same people bred by the Loina River, the city-states are very independent, and each city-state is ruled by an independent prince or princess.
In the Loina tribe, women and men have equal status.
These separate city-state cultures are also one of the reasons why the Loyna tribe is shameless and defeated by the dragon tribe. The war with the dragons lasted for thousands of years, but was ultimately not spared.
After centuries of peaceful coexistence, the Dragon clan finally officially declared war on the Loina clan.
Although Loina could defeat a single dragon in a single city in the early days, when the entire Valyria drove thousands of dragons to attack from the sky, no amount of water or strong water curse could protect Loina. The clan, the dragon clan went upstream and washed the city of Chroyane with blood.
Prince Garin stared at the enemy slaughter city, completely unable to do anything, in despair, cast a vengeance curse on the river god Loina.
On the night of the city slaughter, the Loyna River had a high tide against the seasons. The ferocity of the tide has never appeared in history. At the same time, the entire city was filled with heavy poisonous fog. All the dragons who invaded the city died of a disease that quickly spread throughout the body: gray scale disease.
It's the kind of disease that the daughter of SerJorah and Stannis, who loves Dragon Ma, got.
Before the dragons entered the city, one of the princesses, Nymeria, had already known the outcome of the war, so she led some people (mostly women and children) to leave by boat.
After several years of drifting on the sea, encountering different islands and continents, there were countless deaths and injuries on the way, and finally stayed permanently on Dorne Island|Dorne| on the mainland of Westeros and became the ancestor of our favorite red viper.
4. Descendants of the Dragon Race: Freedom Nine Cities
If the dragon race has continued from the OldGhis empire, it is definitely a slave culture. Unlike OldGhis's buying and selling of slaves, the dragon's slaves rely purely on plunder. Based on this political culture, the dragon clan has derived its own towns.
Pentos, Myr, Tyrosh, Lys, Volantis, Qohor, Norvos, Lorath, Braavos
These towns were later known as the "Free Nine Cities" and were also known as the descendants of the dragon clan.
Ironically, the "Free Nine Cities" was based on the sale of slaves. Among them, Braavos is different from the other 8 cities. It was not built by dragons/slave owners, but by slaves who successfully escaped. It was called the "mysterious city" for a long time.
5. "The End of Pompeii"
After defeating Loyna, the Dragon Race successfully became the absolute overlord on the western side of the Essos continent, from the Narrow Sea to the Slave Bay, from the Summer Sea to the Shaky Sea, without a single opponent.
A large number of slaves were sent to the "Fourteen Flames" volcano by the dragons in batches to mine in preparation for the invasion of Westeros across the narrow sea. They have even established their own outpost on the opposite side of the strait: Dragonstone Island|Dragonstone|.
Although the local lord on the island furiously resisted, the power of the dragon clan was too strong, and it was not a comparison of magnitude at all.
Moreover, the Dragon Clan successfully established a school city |Citadel| (located in the old town) on this continent. Many important historical materials are stored in Xuecheng, which is also the place of pilgrimage for all bachelors in Westeros. Fat Sam came here to learn to become a bachelor.
Two centuries later, the Valyrian steel unique to the dragons has become a treasure for the nobles and kings of the Westitk Luo mainland to compete with each other. The occurrence of dragons riding dragons in the Blackwater Bay has gradually increased over time. The dragons feel that the time for a major invasion is ripe.
But without warning, the doomsday came to this group of lonely people seeking defeat.
The entire disaster lasted only a few hours, but almost swallowed all the dragons. Nearly 500 miles of hilly land was instantly torn and shattered. The air was full of dust and fireworks. The temperature was so high that even the dragons themselves could not survive. Not to mention the dragons themselves.
The earth collapsed, swallowing all the palaces, temples, houses and even the entire town. The lake water evaporated due to the high temperature. The volcano erupted and sprayed molten stones into the sky for several kilometers. The sky also rained on dragon stones. , Filled with the smell of black blood.
The dragon clan’s doomsday brought about the collapse of the regime, and all the colonies furiously resisted. Those dragon clan that were not destroyed by the doomsday disaster also died under the slave riots.
At this point, the most powerful race in history has since been extinct on the continent of Essos.
However , a family was sent to Dragonstone Island as an outpost for the dragons’ invasion of Westeros and survived the end of the day and the riots that followed. It was the Targaryen who later ruled the Westeros continent. Mom's family.
Source: "The World of a Song of Ice and Fire" by Uncle Martin
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The family of wolves, a nine-year history of Quan You’s blood and tears
Westeros United War: PART I
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