There are only two Boltons officially appearing in A Song of Ice and Fire, namely Luce and Rams. I'm sure there's no one who isn't impressed with them. The horrors of Fort Terror, the cruelty of skinning, the sinister cunning of plotting blood weddings and burning Winterfell... I would say that this father and son are not very much like "people".
Bolton's language is "My Blade Shangfeng". But just as "listen to me roar" is far less widespread than "Lannisters have debts to pay", this family known for skinning also has another saying: "Naked people have few secrets, but people who are skinned have no secrets.". Rams peeled Theon's skin little by little, looking ferocious and vicious, but compared to his ancestors, this was only a child.
Bolton skinned his enemies, and for thousands of years, their greatest enemy was Stark. It is said that there is a secret chamber in The Fort of Terror that specializes in collecting human skins, and some Burton kings like to make Stark's skin into a cloak and wear it on their bodies.
Bolton family crest skinner
The burning of Winterfell was not a "pioneering" undertaking by Rams, as two Burton kings had done it in ancient times, both named Royce.
In the Age of Heroes, when each reigned as king, Burton called himself the "Red King". According to records, the territory of the Bolton family once stretched from the End River to the White Blade River and south to Sheepshead Mountain. From the map, this is quite a large piece of land, close to the last fireplace city of the End River (Amber family), and the east of The City of Caho (The Stark family), probably belonged to the Bolton Territory.
The Red King, who officially surrendered to Starkner, was named Roga Burton, who bowed to the King of Winter and sent his son as a hostage. - We have analyzed this, and a big reason is due to the arrival of the Andals. The Andals landed from the east, and the Boltons would be forced into an unfavorable situation of fighting on both the east and the west.
Rebellion was also commonplace for Burton. Starks had a branch family, the Grey Starks, who ruled the Wolf's Lair at the mouth of the White Blade River for about 500 years, until they were dragged into the water by Bolton to rebel and eventually became extinct. The establishment of the Stark family is also related to the rebellion of Bolton, when the youngest son of the Stark family, Cuarón, was granted a fief for "fighting the rebellion", and then built the city of Caho in the "land of the rebels", according to the geographical location, this "rebel" is only afraid that it is not Bolton.
Finally, do you remember the story of the ancient king of the Seychelles, the "bard" Bell? The first half of the story is romantic, with Bell posing as a singer and kidnapping the only daughter of the Lord of Winterfell, who gave birth to a son who inherited Winterfell; the second half is tragic, Bell's son kills his father in a battle with the Savages, his mother commits suicide, and the Stark killer is later skinned by the traitor Bolton.
So I think Burton's style is "to oppose at every opportunity". Unfortunately, Robb and Caitlin were too unaware of this.
About twelve thousand years ago, the ancestors came to Westeros from the eastern continent of Essos along the Arm of Dorne, and led their first king of the first republic of the country known as the First King. After the death of the First Patriarch, his tomb was built on a weed-covered hillside, known as the Great Desolate Tomb.
The ancient King of Arizuka claimed that his bloodline came from the Ancestral King, and the legend says that the King of Aragama fought the King of Winterland for a thousand years (historical records show that there are only more than two hundred years, and the history of Westeros's water injection is also hehe). When the last Arizuka king submitted to Stark, he married his daughter into the Stark family. The land of the Great Wasteland was given to the Dustin family, who claimed to be descendants of the First Ancestor King and the Arizuka King, and their fief was called Aratsuka Tun and their castle was called Aratsuka Hall.
The Great Wasteland where the Archaeopteryx king was buried is said to have a curse: anyone who tries to be on a par with the Archaeopteryx will become weak and like a corpse. Some people believe that the fall of the Arizuka King is precisely from this, because they claim to have ruled all the ancestors. Another theory involves the Night King, the thirteenth commander-in-chief of the Night's Watch, saying that his queen, who looks like a ghoul in any way, is actually the daughter of a certain Arizuka King (Note: This article is talking about the Night King in the original book, not the ghost leader in the TV series).
The Night King and the Queen of corpses
I don't feel that this possibility is low. It should be known that the Great Wall is a barrier, and the ghosts in the north cannot come over, nor can the dragons in the south (the dragon of the good queen Alyssan has refused to carry out the instructions to fly over the Great Wall three times). So the Night King and the Queen can only be humans. Since Stark may be a "ghost bloodline" and has the magical attribute of a wolf spirit shaper, why can't the descendants of the Aragami King have a "talent attribute"? Or is it that the "Corpse Queen" is a witch who has mastered magic and manipulated the Night King?
The Dustin family has a long history and was once powerful. During the Targaryen Blood Dragon Dance, this family produced a fierce man, Count Roderick Dustin, known as "Old Rotten Rhodes". This person is old, but he is not necessarily decayed.
During the Dance of the Blood Dragons, Stark in the North chose to support the Black Party Queen Renella, and Count Roderick Dustin led two thousand Winter Wolf troops south to fight. The Earl of Dustin was in his prime, and his men were all old men with gray hair, but this army fought with great courage. In the Battle of the Lakeshore, they attacked the Lannister spear array five times and won a crushing victory. The army led by sir Christon Cole, the hand of the King of the Green Party, was ambushed by the Combined Forces of winter wolves and rivers, and Sir Christon tried to negotiate, noting that if a war were fought, the other side would suffer heavy casualties.
Old Rotten Rodhaha laughed. "That's what we're here for. Winter is approaching and we have to leave, and there is no more glorious way to die than to die with a sword in hand. ”
Old Rhodes himself blew the trumpet of the charge, and Sir Christon was killed by a stray arrow in this battle.
The fierce man's final battle was the Battle of Tengshi Town (the first Battle of Tengshi Town), in which the remnants of the Winter Wolf Army faced ten times as many enemies. They still had a bloody path under the leadership of the old DecayIng Rod, and Rhode himself rushed to the opposing commander, Mond Hightower. Sir Brandon Hightower swung his tomahawk and cut off Rod's entire left arm, but the "old decay" still killed the Earl of Mond and Sir Brandon in succession, and then died of his wounds.
Dustin's coat of arms
The Leswells ruled the streamlands, and the territory was adjacent to the Dustins. There is a story of the "Seventy-Nine Guards" in the history of this family.
The story goes that seventy-nine night watchmen deserted, and after fleeing the Great Wall, they hid in all directions to escape the pursuit. One of them was the youngest son of the then Earl of Leswell, and he fled with them to his father's castle to seek refuge. But the righteous Earl of Leswell took all seventy-nine men, including his own son, and escorted them back to the Great Wall. The seventy-nine deserters were punished by being frozen alive into the ice wall and guarding the Great Wall forever. In his later years, the Earl of Leswell took the initiative to join the Night's Watch, guarding the Great Wall and guarding his beloved son.
Leswell family crest
It's interesting, dating back to before Robert's Uprising. Count Leswell had two daughters, one of whom Miss Ballet was madly in love with Winterfell's heir, Brandon Stark. Brandon had also said to his little lover, Leswell, that he didn't want to marry Caitlin Tully at all. Lord Rickard wants to develop south through marriage, which is all the pot of bachelors. It sounds like a scumbag routine, but who says there can't be the truth hidden in the routine?
Another Leswell girl, Bessanne, was married to Luce Bolton. The Earl intends to take a second step, marrying ballet, which he wanted to marry into Winterfell, to Brandon's younger brother Ned. - Is this a wishful thinking with two bets? Unfortunately, Brandon died, and Caitlin Tully once again stole the ballet's chance to "become Stark". In the end, Ballet had to marry the Earl of Dustin. However, even more unfortunately, not long after the marriage, Count Dustin followed Ned to the Tower of Elysium and never returned, including the bones.
In the canon, Luce Bolton became the Guardian of the North, and the first to be loyal to him were the Dustin and Leswell families. This three-family alliance is solid in the case of the old peeling. But the variable here is the little peeling Rams.
Bessanne has passed away, she originally gave birth to a son Domilik to old Peel, this child does not look like a Bolton at all, he has a gentle and kind personality, when he learned that his father had an illegitimate child, he took the initiative to find Rams, hoping to be a good child with him. He served as a waiter for his aunt, Mrs. Dustin, and was deeply loved by her.
However, the good boy is dead, suspected of being killed by Rams. In the original work, Xiao Peel is fierce and cunning, but in terms of political means and overall situation, it is far worse than his Old Son, and in the face of the northern princes of their respective stomachs, the only way that Little Peel can think of is to suppress it by means of terror, and jump like thunder at every turn. And he was ugly. So Mrs. Dustin was extremely disgusted with Rams.
What is the goal of Mrs. Dustin Ballet? She longed to enter Winterfell and even become the "queen." She is a widow, so she can achieve her goals by remarrying herself. And she could remarry Luce Burton, who became the guardian of the North, or a crippled Bran or a young Rickon,—— and I don't think she would care about that.
As mentioned in a previous article, ballet is similar in many places to Elaine of the Reyes family (for more information: Castelle of Ice and Fire: The Rainy Season when Tywin Lannister was nineteen years old). Elaine was bent on becoming the mistress of Kayam City, and had a relationship with three Lannisters, but she was still not as good as heaven, and was forced to remarry the old man of Tabeck, so she held a grudge, and eventually dragged Reyes and the Tabek family to perish; ballet was also "wanted to be a member of stark", she had the opportunity to marry Brandon and Ned, but she married Count Dustin and became a widow, and "begging for it" became a grudge for a long time. Will she, like Elleen, bring ruin to her mother's and husband's family? Could this be another "reincarnation terrier" that Martin played?
Elaine Reyes
To sum up: Old Peel is alive in power, Mrs. Dustin is firmly in favor of, she needs to get rid of the little peel and the old Skinner's wife Frey; old Peel dies, she must rebel against the water, help the return of which Stark counterattack backwards. The point is that she also preserved her strength in the Battle of the Five Kings, so no matter which camp she fell into, she would have considerable influence and say. How will Rickon decide when he returns?
I think that under the current progress of the Ice and Fire North, the character of The Ballet Lady is very interesting. A woman's heart is a needle in the ocean! [Cover your face]
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