Viserion is very beautiful, although it is less domineering than Drogon. Its scales are mostly creamy yellow, and its horns, wing bones, and spine are golden.
His sharp teeth are two rows of shining black blades, his eyes are two pools of molten gold, and the red-orange flames he sprays are mixed with pale golden light.
Viserion's roar can scare a hundred lions into fleeing.
Although he is creamy yellow, he is often called White Dragon. He can understand when others call him his name.
When Gao Bin called him, Viserion raised his eyelids, and his golden eyes seemed to be telling his pain.
Gao Bin tried to put his hand on its skin, but it was hard, cold, rough, and had no feeling at all.
Its big nostrils are breathing heavily, and every blow will affect the wound, but his eyes are full of fear, and Snow is trying to calm it down.
"Your Majesty, its condition is not very good and it needs medical treatment."
Gao Bin nodded slightly:
"Try your best to treat it and make sure it is cured."
Now that you are sure to surrender, you have to treat it as one of your own, or no, as your own dragon.
"Yes!"
After cleaning the battlefield, Gao Bin learned that nearly 1,500 Unsullied were captured this time.
He ordered:
"Those who are willing to be loyal will stay, and those who are unwilling will be killed. We will take no prisoners."
Gao Bin's cruelty exceeded everyone's expectations, but no one dared to disobey his orders.
Soon, screams rang out from the prison camp.
Regardless of whether it is true or not, fear of death is human nature. In the face of death, no one can remain calm, and the same goes for Wushou.
Especially after seeing Gao Bin kill without batting an eye, most of the Unsullied chose to surrender.
In fact, except for Gray Worm, no Unsullied person is completely devoted to Dragon Mother. After all, they are still mercenaries, so talking about relationships is nonsense.
After killing a few disobedient chickens, the remaining people recognized the reality and chose to surrender.
Since then, Gao Bin has gained another strong fighting force.
Although this victory has eliminated the crisis in Westeros, the potential threat of Dragon Mother cannot be ignored.
Where will she go next? Gao Bin is very curious.
...
Two months later, Gao Bin returned to King's Landing and reunited with his family.
However, we didn’t exchange pleasantries for too long, and then we chatted about political affairs with Tyrion.
During the time he left, the country was developing very well, with new roads opening and new bridges being built. These are all serious achievements!
"Your Majesty, at present, the economic level of the seven countries has reached a new peak. The amount of deposits in the bank is increasing sharply every day. There must be a new investment direction."
Gao Bin thought for a moment. Since ancient times, the development of real estate has always been a strategic investment direction, and this world is no exception.
So he said:
"We can develop it appropriately in the direction of housing. I see that many people still have no fixed place to live."
"What do you mean?"
"Establish a real estate development company to develop houses suitable for ordinary people to live in, form block-shaped residential areas, and conduct unified planning and management."
Tyrion is very smart. Gao Bin only mentioned it and he understood what to do.
"Okay, in addition, a plague broke out in the southern continent, and a large number of victims landed in Dorne to seek refuge. The lords of Dorne sent letters to King's Landing asking for help, hoping that we would help and make a unified plan."
Gao Bin frowned:
"Southern Continent?"
The southern continent is Sothoros, located south of Westeros and the Eastern Continent, separated by the Summer Sea.
Gao Bin really hasn't studied much about the Southern Continent. The only thing he knows is that it is vast, covered by tropical jungles, plagued by plague, and has vast unexplored areas.
The northern coastline has been surveyed, including the ruined cities of Yimen Tower and Yilin, but little else is known about them.
There are many islands along the northern coast, such as the Island of Tears, Toad Island and the Basilisk Islands. As the name suggests, there should be many snakes living in the latter.
Ax Island and Nas Island are also islands off the coast of the mainland.
Sorosoth has always been a mystery in Gao Bin's impression.
The hinterland of the mainland is covered by impenetrable rainforest, and the haunted ruins of the ancient city beside the Yi River are still a mystery. It is only a few days south from Cape Snake, and even the shape of the coastline is unknown.
Perhaps the people of the Summer Islands explored and charted the coastline, but they took their charts very seriously and never shared them with outsiders.
Qarthite maps once marked it as an island twice the size of Great Morak, but merchant ships never found its end.
The Ghiscari who built the Tower of Ymen and Goroth believed that Sothoros was as big as Westeros.
The one who searched the farthest was Geninara Belerys and her dragon Terexiu. She hoped to find the legendary boiling sea and river of steam, but she only found endless jungles, deserts and mountains. p>
Three years later she returned to the Freehold, claiming that Sothoros was as big as Essos.
Regardless of its size, in the eyes of Westeros people, the southern continent is an unclean land, full of deadly miasma and poisonous gases.
Green blood fever, sweet rot, greyscale, red death, etc. were all introduced from the Southern Continent.
These are just the tip of the iceberg, there are many Sothoros diseases that are so ferocious that they can wipe out entire settlements;
After studying traveler records for centuries, some scholars found that the infection rate among Westerosi people who visited Sothoryos was as high as 90%, and nearly half of them died.
Disease wasn't the only danger for explorers on this wet, green continent.
The giant crocodile at the bottom of the Yi River will capsize the boat and then devour the struggling passengers in the water;
The river is full of piranhas, which can bite people down to their bones in just a few minutes;
In addition, there are flying insects that sting, venomous snakes, wasps and worms that lay eggs in the bodies of humans and animals.
There are countless large and small snake lizards in the Basilisk Islands, and some are even twice as big as lions;
In the jungle further south of Yilin, it is said that there are giant orangutans that can kill elephants with one hammer.
Further south is called the "Green Hell", where more terrifying monsters live. If the legend is true, the caves there are home to pale white vampire bats, which can suck up human blood in a few minutes;
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Patterned monitor lizards wander in the rainforest, bumping into their prey and then tearing them apart with long, curved claws on their powerful hind legs;
Fifty-foot pythons swam in the bushes, and spotted spiders weaved webs among the trees.
The ruler of the southern sky is undoubtedly the terrifying long-winged dragon;
They are close relatives of the giant dragons. Except that they cannot breathe fire and are smaller in size, they can rival the former in other aspects and are more ferocious.
The body length of the Striped Elongated Pterosaur can reach 30 meters, and the Swamp Elongated Pterosaur is even larger, but its movements are slow and it rarely leaves its nest;
Although the brown-bellied long-winged dragon is no bigger than a monkey, it is more dangerous than its kind because they move in groups - and the most deadly one is undoubtedly the legendary shadow wing. This nocturnal demon with black scales and black wings can completely hide in the night
...until it pounces in the air and tears apart the chosen prey.
Due to the above dangers, Sothoros is naturally sparsely populated compared to Westeros and Essos.
More than twenty trading towns stand on the north shore - as some people say, they are towns made of mud and blood, filled with moisture and misery, filled with adventurers who come from the Free Trade Cities and the Seven Kingdoms to try their luck.
Home, scoundrel, exile and daughter-in-law.
Earlier the Ghiscari had established several outposts on the northern coast of Sothoryos during the Old Empire.
They established the city of Yimen Tower at the mouth of the Yi River, and the place of exile Goros at Cape Basilisk.
Qarth's explorers searched for gold, gems, and ivory along the east coast of Sothoryos, and the Summer Isles did the same on the west coast.
The Valyrian Freehold established colonies at Basilisk Point three times:
The first time it was destroyed by the brown-striped locals; the second time it was destroyed by the plague;
When the Dragonlords captured the Yimen Tower during the Fourth Ghiscari War, the colony of Basilisk Horns was abandoned again and has never been rebuilt since.
All colonies usually died out in less than a generation, with only Yimen Tower lasting more than a generation, but the once glorious city was now a haunted ruin, gradually eroded by the jungle.
Queen Nymeria and her fleet once arrived in Sothoros to replenish fresh water while fleeing.
Here they met pirate kings from Ax Island and other places. The pirates proposed that the Rhoynar pay tribute to each pirate king thirty virgin girls and boys every year, and hand over all ships, so that they could settle on Toad Island.
But she was rejected by Nymeria.
Nymeria stopped at Yimen Tower. When Nymeria arrived, the city had been abandoned for a thousand years.
Some of her people settled on the Basilisk Islands and along the Yi River, while others traveled upstream to reach the Yilin ruins.
Yilin is infested with ghouls and spiders, the climate is hot and humid, and there are many poisonous insects. The Rhoynar people are bitten and infected with various diseases, among which children and the elderly are especially susceptible to infection. Even bathing in the river will cause death; The water of the Yi River is home to all kinds of piranhas, as well as parasites that lay eggs in animal flesh.
The Rhoynar stronghold at Basilisk Point was quickly plundered by pirates.
The Yilin ruins are constantly attacked by spotted ghouls from the jungle.
About a year later, a small boat sailed from Yimen Tower to Yilin and discovered that all the Rhoynar people in the haunted and abandoned city had disappeared overnight.
Nymeria immediately recalled her remaining subordinates to the ship, and sailed again to Nath, known as the "Butterfly Island". The people of Nath warmly entertained Nymeria and her people.
However, many Rhoynar people contracted the unknown disease that protected the island, causing dozens of Rhoynar people to die, and they had to leave again.
The residents of Sothoryos have thick bones, strong muscles, long arms, sloping foreheads, huge square teeth, thick jaws and rough black hair.
Their broad, flat snouts are like pigs, and their thick skin has brown and white patterns.
It is worth mentioning that Sothoros women cannot reproduce with any male outside their own race.
When they mate with men from Essos or Westeros, they produce only stillborn fetuses, many of which are non-human deformities.
The Sothoros people who live near the sea have learned how to trade and communicate. The Ghiscari people think that they are mentally retarded and not suitable for being slaves, but they are fierce warriors.
Residents in the south are further away from civilization, and the locals with brown markings are more barbaric.
The people of Sothoryos worshiped the dark gods and held various despicable rituals.
Many of them are cannibals, and more are corpse eaters.
When they cannot feast on the bodies of enemies and strangers, they eat the corpses of their own companions.
The plague that broke out in the southern continent this time is greyscale, which is a disease that can kill.
Its symptoms are that the patient's skin becomes hardened, covered with black and gray spots, and is as hard as stone to the touch.
The most terrifying thing is that the tongue and lips of the sick person will directly turn into stone.
In those cold and humid areas, it is especially easy to spread among children.
The patient's appearance will be greatly damaged, but at the same time he will not be infected by gray blight or other low-fatal diseases.
Savages believe that people who are still infected with greyscale are unclean.
Tyrion believes that Guerin's curse refers to greyscale.
The Curse of Gaelin is said to be a curse that haunts the Heartbroken Land.
According to legend, this curse was set by Prince Guerin.
Prince Gaelin was a Rhoynar in history. At that time, the Rhoynar still lived on the banks of the mother river Lorne.
After the curse was cast, a large amount of mist evaporated over the entire Heartbreak Ridge, tirelessly torturing countless resentful souls floating in the air and evil spirits suffering underwater.
Legend has it that after the men of Volantis and Valyria captured Guerin, they locked him in a golden cage and laughed at him.
The humiliated Guerin summoned Mother River Lorne to destroy these invaders.
Just that night, the tide rose and flooded the Heartbreak Territory, and all the intruders were drowned.
Since then, it is said that the souls of the departed invaders have remained underwater forever.
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The reason why Tyrion deduces that the so-called Curse of Garin refers to greyscale.
It's because Jelia told Tyrion that the conquerors of Valyria didn't believe in this curse, and they are still suffering underwater.
Many sailors are sadly lost here, including punting boats, river pirate boats and large oar boats on the river.
They search for traces of sunshine in the lonely fog, but are destined to find nothing until hunger or despair takes away their lives.
Gao Bin asked:
"Is there any cure for this disease?"
Tyrion shook his head:
"As soon as I got the news, I talked with experts from the Academy of Sciences. They said that a plaster made of lime and mustard mixed with boiling water can inhibit the spread of the disease in the body.
But the monks insist that only praying and offering sacrifices can quickly suppress the disease.
There are also folk remedies such as cutting open infected organs to prevent the spread of the disease, but this treatment has almost no effect."
Gao Bin still chooses to believe what the experts say. Gao Bin, the expert in the original world, would definitely dismiss it, but the experts in this world should still be reliable, right?
At least they are afraid of death, and Gao Bin is the one who can control their life and death!
The problem now is that Gao Bin is worried that a large number of refugees invading Dorne will bring turmoil to Dorne, which has just calmed down.
Dorne's borders are bounded by the Sea of Dorne to the north, the Stepstones to the east, and the Summer Sea to the south.
The Crimson Mountains stretching between them are the land barrier that separates Dorne from the rest of the Seven Kingdoms.
There are only two main passages in the Crimson Mountains that connect Dorne to the rest of the continent: Stone Pass and Prince's Pass.
Prince's Pass leads to the Reach, and the exit of the Bone Road is near Summer Hall.
Therefore, Dorne is theoretically a closed area. Once there is internal turmoil and two key intersections are blocked, it will be difficult for outside reinforcements to enter, unless they take a detour and land by sea. But by that time, the day lily is cold. Dorne is the hottest region in Westeros. It is rocky, mountainous, arid and barren, and has the only desert on the continent.
The land in the area where the river flows is fertile, and there is enough rainwater and other water supplies even in the long summer, ensuring that Dorne is still suitable for human habitation.
In Dorne, land water is as valuable as gold, and wells are closely guarded.
Dorne is the least populous of the Seven Kingdoms.
Due to the great migration of the Rhoynar people in history and their relative isolation, the Dornish people are significantly different from other Westeros people in culture and race.
The Dornish people adopted many Rhoynar customs based on their original Andal roots.
Dornish people are known for their warm-bloodedness and open-mindedness, and they have always been regarded with suspicion and hostility by the people in the Dorne borderlands.
The bastards in Dorne are given the surname "Shad", just like the bastards in the North are called Snow.
Dorne produces many products that are rare in other parts of the Seven Kingdoms, especially citrus fruits and Dorne-specific wine.
Lemons, olives and pomegranates are also mainly produced in Dorne.
Many of these crops require canals to guide streams and rivers for irrigation.
Dorne also produces the famous sand horse, which is a slender but swift horse that can run for two days without getting tired. It is only produced in Dorne.
Ships from the Free Cities (such as Volantis) dock at the docks of Plank Town at the mouth of the Greenblood River, and then the goods can be transported by land.
The trade convoy first replenished supplies in Sunspear, and then headed across the vast desert toward the Prince's Pass.
Once upon a time, the First Men arrived in Westeros across the land bridge known as the "Arm of Dorne" across the Narrow Sea.
In the great battle between the Children of the Forest and the First Men, the Children of the Forest destroyed the Arm of Dorne in order to prevent the First Men from entering.
A thousand years ago, Dorne was a combination of some Andal countries and some small countries, none of which was powerful enough to unify the entire region.
It was not until later that the legendary Rhoynar warrior queen Nymeria led the Rhoynar invasion.
She formed an alliance with Lord Mors Martell of Sunspear, and with his support, she conquered the entire peninsula, unified it into the Kingdom of Dorne, and placed it under the rule of House Martell.
The history of Dorne is full of violence, especially when families in the mountains must cross the border to plunder the Dorne borderlands in order to survive. The two sides are trapped in endless grievances and retribution.
The borders between Dorne and the Reach are also constantly at war, and even in times of peace, looting across the mountains and borders occurs endlessly, creating a feud between them.
Seven centuries after the Andals invaded, Aegon the Conqueror invaded Westeros.
In the war of conquest he launched, all the kings of the Andals surrendered one after another.
Only Dorne succeeded in stopping the Dragon King.
While other kings and nobles fought Aegon in the fields or in their castles, the Dornish people refused to confront Aegon head-on, preventing him from using his dragons.
Contrary to the other six kingdoms, the Dornish people used ambush and plunder tactics, attacking quickly, and then quickly retreating to the desert or through the mountain passes, even the dragons could not find them. In the end, Aegon had no choice but to withdraw his troops from Dorne.<
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A century and a half later, "Young Dragon Lord" Daeron I completed the unfinished business of his ancestors and successfully conquered Dorne.
However, Dorne rebelled almost immediately.
In the resulting conflict, they lost 40,000 warriors, forcing the Targaryens to withdraw from Dorne.
Later, Daeron's successor Baelor the Blessed made a truce with Dorne.
In the end, Daeron II married Princess Milia Martell of Dorne, while his sister Daenerys married Prince Malon Martell of Dorne.
Dorne was eventually incorporated into the Seven Kingdoms in a peaceful manner, and thus gained some privileges and retained its original title of supreme ruler.
The war to conquer Dorne lasted for an entire summer. In the end, the Iron Throne army was repulsed by the Dornish people. Dorne continued to remain independent for the next forty years.
At that time, Daeron I deeply felt that Dorne's independence represented the unfinished work of the Targaryen family, so when he succeeded to the throne, he vowed to make up for the regrets of his ancestors, and launched a war of conquest of Dorne.
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After taking the throne, Daeron I marched south and launched a war against Dorne.
His army crossed the narrow path and avoided the defenders and watchtowers of the Bone Pass. On the other hand, the main force of Dorne was fighting the enemy at the Prince's Pass.
Daeron boasted that bypassing the Bone Pass defenders was the reason for his victory, but the fleet was the key to victory. His admiral Alyn Velaryon led an army to break through the Plank Town, and then went up the Greenblood River. There are many strategies.
En inland.
However, it is said that the Young Dragon King lost ten thousand people to conquer Dorne and spent another fifty thousand to maintain his rule.
After the conquest was completed, the Young Dragon King wrote "The Conquest of Dorne" to brag about his achievements.
After Sunspear surrendered, the Young Dragon King sent Leonor Tyrell, Duke of Highgarden, to take charge of Dorne.
He led the army to every city, annihilating the rebels and forcing the Dornish people to surrender.
He forced the local lords to leave their castles and make them his resting place, everywhere.
One night at night, Duke Tyrell came to Sandstone City to rest. There was a thick velvet cover on the lord's bed, and a small belt hanging from the pillow, which seemed to be used to summon the maid.
Just as the Duke pulled off the belt, the cover above his head suddenly cracked, and hundreds of red scorpions fell in, killing him on the spot.
The governor's death reignited the war in Dorne, and within half a month the Young Dragon King's conquest was in vain.
The Iron Throne was trapped in the quagmire of war in Dorne, and Daeron was likely to die in the war in the end. His Kingsguard, Ser Olifa "Green Oak" Oakheart, died beside him.
Ser Aemon Targaryen, the "Dragon Knight" who is also a member of the Kingsguard, seems to have been captured by the Dornishmen.
The peace-loving King Baelor succeeded Daeron to the throne.
Then he walked barefoot through the bone path, negotiated peace with Dorne, and redeemed Prince Aemon, the "Dragon Knight".
The Martell family and the Targaryen family later entered into a marriage contract, which laid the foundation for the future peaceful integration of Dorne under the rule of the Iron Throne.
Generally speaking, the Dornish people have always had a rebellious heart. Once the plague causes Dorne and the Iron Throne to separate, the war will break out.
In a short period of time, Gao Bin no longer wants to think about war, at least it cannot be a civil war between humans. He must go all out to develop the economy and make reserves to deal with the war with the Night King.
In fact, he never understood why the White Walkers wanted to go south.
Regarding this question, there are actually many versions of the answer, but no one knows which version is reliable.
If we can figure out the reasons, we may be able to find better solutions.
The history of the White Walkers is much earlier than that of humans, at least dating back to the age of the Children of the Forest.
The Children of the Forest are the indigenous people of Westeros. Long before the ancestors came to Westeros during the Dawn Era, they had lived in various parts of the continent.
There are too many unknowns about the Children of the Forest.
These mysterious people with magic have disappeared from human sight for many years.
Legend describes them as short humanoids, not much taller than children, with dark skin and beautiful faces.
The giants called them "Wu-Ta-Na-Gan", which means squirrel people.
They call themselves "people who sing the praises of the earth" in the original language.
Children of the forest do not use metal, weave clothing, or build cities.
They used stone tools, weaved clothes from leaves, and used bark as leggings.
They live deep in the forest, in caves, swampy islands and secret tree towns, seemingly blending in with the forest.
Legend has it that the children of the forest have supernatural powers and can do magic.
They control the wild beasts in the jungle and can even transform into wild beasts.
Their music is so beautiful that just hearing it will make the listener cry like a baby.
They also have the ability of green vision (although maesters believe that green vision is not a kind of magic, but just another type of knowledge).
It is the children of the forest who carve strange faces on the weirwood trees to protect the forest.
They believe their wisdom is tied to the faces in these trees.
The Children of the Forest believe that the weirwood is where the gods live. When they die, they will become part of the tree. It is said that the Children of the Forest can also talk to the dead.
In the Age of Dawn, the Children of the Forest occupied the entire continent of Westeros.
When the First Men invaded Westeros, they burned the weirwood trees.
This triggered a war between the First Men and the Children of the Forest.
During the war, the Children of the Forest used weapons and bows made of obsidian, and also used powerful magic to shatter the Arm of Dorn.
But this still could not stop the ancestors.
In the end, the ancestors and the children of the forest reached an agreement to armistice on Thousand Faces Island in the center of God's Eye Lake.
The Green Seers and Wood Dancers, the Children of the Forest, reached an agreement with the ancestors: the ancestors owned the coast, plains, grasslands, mountains and swamps, but the lush forests would always be owned by the Children of the Forest.
They carved their faces on every tree on the island to allow the gods in the sky to witness this sacred oath. They also established a "Green Man" to maintain the oath. This oath lasted for more than four thousand years.
About 8,000 years before the Andals landed, there was a long winter called the Long Night by later generations. The Children of the Forest and the Ancestors fought against the White Walkers in the War of Dawn, and finally the White Walkers were driven back to the land of eternal winter.
The ancestors of the Church of the Children of the Forest worshiped the old gods, but after the invasion of the Andals, the faith of the Seven Gods largely replaced the old gods in the south.
The relationship between the children of the forest and humans became more and more distant until it ended.
By the time Aegon landed, there had been no sign of the Children of the Forest for thousands of years.
After the Dawn War, the relationship between the First Men and the Children of the Forest tended to ease, but the latter slowly began their retreat away from humans until they crossed the Great Wall and reached the depths of the forest.
There is a record in the Night Watch's collection that during the Age of Heroes, the Children of the Forest gave the Night Watch one hundred obsidian daggers every year.
The people of Westeros believe that the Children of the Forest are extinct long ago, but there are still a few Children of the Forest surviving in the human world.
The population of their remaining tribes is declining. Most of them live in the north far away from the Great Wall, living in caves at the bottom of the mountain. The entrance is a crack on the hillside and is protected.
Time froze in the cave, it was vast and silent.
This is the residence of more than 60 singers and the burial place of tens of millions of corpses, extending to the endless distance at the bottom of the mountain.
The one who lives with the children of the forest, the children of the forest call him the last greenseer.
The path in the cave leads deeper, with bottomless pit-like shafts, sharp spears, and forgotten roads leading straight to the center of the earth.
Leaf warned Bran Stark that even though the Children of the Forest had lived here for millions of years, they still had not explored everything in the cave.
Bran realized that they were true singers, and he listened to their songs.
But they sang in the original language, so Bran could not understand the content of the song, and their voices were as pure as the winter wind.
Bran asked Ye Zi where the other children of the forest were, and she replied:
"Go deep underground... into the rocks, into the trees.
Before the First Men came to this land you call Westeros, it was our home.
But even in those days, our numbers were few.
The gods gave us a long life, but not many of us, lest we crowd the world like deer crowding the forest where there are no wolves to hunt them.
It was in the dawn era, when our sun was rising.
Now that the sun sets, this is our decline.
Almost all the giants have become extinct. They were both our bane and our brothers.
The giant lions in the Western Mountains have been slaughtered, the unicorns have almost disappeared, and there are only a few hundred mammoths left.
The direwolves will outlast us, but their doom will come.
In the world created by humans, there is no room for them, or for us."
The aliens symbolize darkness and death. From a certain perspective, the mission of this race is to destroy all living creatures.
Therefore, the attack of the White Walkers is inevitable. If you want to end it once and for all, you must eliminate all the White Walkers.
To deal with the White Walkers, dragon crystal is essential. Dragon crystal refers to turpentine or obsidian.
Children of the forest use dragon crystal to make daggers, blades, arrows and other weapons.
According to the literature of the Night's Watch, during the Age of Heroes, the Children of the Forest presented the Night's Watch with one hundred obsidian daggers every year.
Dragonglass weapons are one of the few enemies of the White Walkers.
White Walkers cut by obsidian blades will die on the spot.
Obsidian blades are sharper than steel, but they are also much more fragile.
Valyrian people call dragonglass "frozen fire" and use obsidian to make glass candles.
Common people like to say that dragon crystal is the product of giant dragons, while bachelors claim that dragon crystal comes from the fire underground.
Dragonstone Island has huge reserves of dragon crystal, and dragon crystal is also an important export commodity of Asia.
"Crowfood" Morse Amber wore a prosthetic eye made of dragon crystal after one of his eyes was pecked out by a crow.
In the tower of Winterfell, Maester Luwin poured out several shiny black arrows from a green jar and showed them to Bran, Rickon and Osha.
Bran picked up one and found that it was made of glass. Osha called it "dragon crystal".
Maester Luwin said that it was obsidian. The Children of the Forest did not know how to smelt metal, so they used obsidian arrowheads for hunting and their blades were also made of obsidian.
Osha interjects that they still do.
Bran took the arrow closer and looked at it carefully. The black glass was smooth and shiny. He thought it was very beautiful, so he asked Maester Luwin if he could give him one.
Jon Snow found a bag of obsidian knives, leaf-shaped spearheads and countless arrowheads buried in the ground at the Fist of the First Men. "Dragon crystal", he thought to himself.
There was an ancient horn underneath the dragonglass product. When Jon turned it over and shook off the dirt inside, a large number of arrows slipped out.
Jon gave the dragon crystal products to his friends as lucky charms, among which Samwell Tarly got a spearhead and a dozen arrowheads.
In Qarth, Xaro Xanwan Daxos told Daenerys Targaryen that the glass candle that had been extinguished for more than a hundred years was rekindled in the house of Erathon the Nightwalker.
Samwell Tarly and the other brothers who survived the Fist of the First Men fled south for their lives in the snowy midnight.
A strange ghost rode a dead horse out of the swirling snow.
In a blind panic, Sam accidentally stabbed the White Walker with the dragonglass dagger given by Jon Snow and killed it.
Under the dagger, the body of the White Walker gradually shrank and turned into a puddle of liquid.
In a few dozen heartbeats, the body of the White Walker liquefied, leaving only the dragon crystal dagger.
It turns out that dragon crystal is not that difficult to obtain.
Gao Bin has also been actively preparing supplies, especially the reserves of dragon crystal daggers, and this is also thanks to Stannis.
Since this guy was defeated and returned to Dragonstone Island, he has never left the door and never stepped back, and he has great plans to die on Dragonstone Island.
Dragonstone Island is an island formed by the eruption of the active volcano of Dragon Mountain. It is located at the exit of Blackwater Bay. There are rich dragon crystal mineral deposits at the foot of the mountain.
In addition to the castle, there is also a small fishing village on the island.
Not far away is Tideshead Island, the home of another Velaryon family from Valyria.
Although it is ancient and strong, Dragonstone does not have many vassals. Due to the sparse population on the island, it is difficult for the lord to raise an army.
Dragonstone was built using advanced Valyrian masonry technology, which was lost in the Doomsday, making it unique among the Westeros castles.
Dragonstone Castle is built of black stone, with its towers carved in the shape of dragons and many gargoyles of different shapes along the walls serving as battlements.
Most of the designs in the castle are related to dragons. Smaller dragons decorate the doorway frames, dragon claws protruding from the walls are torch pedestals, huge stone wings contain the blacksmith shop and armory, and dragon tails form arches, bridges and
Outdoor stairs.
The Stone Drum Tower is the main castle of Dragonstone. Whenever a storm comes, the inside of its ancient walls will rumble and echo, hence its name.
The cells in the dungeon under the main castle are hot and humid. It is said that the passages and hidden ladders here can reach the center of Longshan as far as possible.
A high arched stone bridge connects the Drum Tower and the Dungeon Tower in the air.
The Picture Table Hall is located at the top of the Shigu Tower. It is a circular room with four tall narrow windows facing east, west, north, and south.
There is a huge wooden table behind the hall. The table is carved with a detailed map of Westeros. During the war of conquest, Aegon the Conqueror used it to formulate battle plans.
The "Map Table" is over fifty feet long, with the widest point about half the length and the narrowest point less than four feet. The position corresponding to Dragonstone Island has been carefully designed to correspond to a seat on a high platform.
You can have a panoramic view of everything on the desktop.
The hall and kitchen hall is a dragon lying on the ground, and people enter through its huge open mouth.
The kitchen is a curled-up dragon, with smoke and steam from the oven expelled from its nostrils.
Aegon's Garden is located near the Dragon Tail Gate. Aegon's Garden is filled with the pleasant fragrance of pine, and tall black trees rise from all sides.
There are also wild roses and towering thorn bushes, and cranberries grow in the mud.
The Flying Dragon Tower is one of the towers on Dragonstone Island, and the screams on it defy everything.
Sea Dragon Tower is one of the towers on Dragonstone.
It sits facing the sea, shaped like a sleeping dragon.
Under the crow's cage on the tower are the bachelor's rooms.
The stairs in the tower are narrow and winding.
Go down the steps of the Sea Dragon Tower, then pass through the Portrait Hall, walk between the gargoyles on the middle and inner city walls, pass through the black iron gate of the city wall, and finally climb up the stairs to reach the Picture Table Hall.
There are statues of the Seven Gods in the sanctuary on Dragonstone.
The old woman's eyes are pearls, the Heavenly Father's beard is gilded, and the stranger looks more like an animal than a human being.
The idols are carved from the masts of the ships on which the ancestors of the Targaryens fled across the sea from Valyria.
Over the centuries, they have been coated with layers of paint, gilded, silvered, and inlaid with jewels.
There are several altars in the church, as well as stained glass.
It is said that Aegon the Conqueror knelt down and prayed here on the eve of setting sail to conquer the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.
This is not credible, as Aegon's known conversion to the Seven was only after he arrived in Oldtown during the Conquests - the sept was probably built only after that.
It is said that about a hundred years before the doomsday disaster came to the Valyrian Free Fortress, the Valyrian people developed their power into the Narrow Sea. They annexed the island guarding the throat of Blackwater Bay and built a castle on the island, but there was no
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Dragonstone thus became the westernmost territory of Valyria.
The castle tower was shaped from the rock by Valyrian magic and resembled a dragon to create an eerie atmosphere, hence the name Dragonstone.
Twelve years before the Doomsday, it is said that Aenar Targaryen gave up his family business in the Free Fortress and moved his family to Dragonstone because he believed his daughter dreamed that Valyria would be destroyed by fire.<
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For nearly a hundred years, the Targaryen family had been avoiding the island and did not interfere with the affairs of Westeros. It was not until Aegon the Conqueror, the seventh generation ruler of Dragonstone, that he formulated a strategy to conquer Westeros from this castle.
Aegon and his sisters and wives joined forces to launch a war of conquest and unified the six kingdoms. After that, they established King's Landing as the capital of the Seven Kingdoms, and Dragonstone became the residence of the heir to the throne, the Prince of Dragonstone.
However, before the Red Keep was built, Dragonstone was once the residence of the royal family.