1. Stannis's only child
In 286 years after the conquest, King Robert's younger brother Stannis married Cyris of the Florentine family.
Robert is a mercurial man, and he is not honest at his brother's wedding, and he and Celis's cousin Dilina frown, and before the wedding is over, he and Dilina study the Wushan Yunyu on Stannis's marriage bed.
It was not until Stannis and his wife entered the cave room three times that they woke up the king who was sleeping soundly with his arms around the beauty, and the atmosphere was extremely awkward.
Soon after, Dilina became pregnant and gave birth to the king's illegitimate son, Edric Storm. Celis also became pregnant, giving birth to Stannis.
Since then, Celeste has never conceived a child, and this superstitious woman has always believed that the inability to have a son is related to the occupation of the marriage bed by Robert and her cousin, and often complains in front of her husband.
But complaining doesn't change reality, and Hirin becomes the only child of the Stanniss and the only successor to Stan's career.
This child, like most of the little girls of the aristocratic family in the game of thrones, has been pampered since childhood, carefree, innocent and romantic, kind and lovely. Before facing the power struggle, Shireen first encountered a terrible skin disease--- gray scale disease.
This is a disease peculiar to the world of ice and fire, and the skin of people who suffer from this disease is like a sun-dried cement floor. Although it is not a terminal illness, most doctors are helpless against it, and only a national hand like Sam can cure the disease.
The quacks of Dragonstone Island and Stormland are helpless against gray scale disease, and Stannis can only retreat to the second place, in The growth of Shi Lin, give her more care, let a rigger with a scarred face play with Xi Lin every day, so that Xi Lin can find some confidence in the misfortune of the rigger patch face.
Schilling thrived much better than the Stanniss expected. Although sensitive, the child had a very sound personality and was more favored by her vassals than her father, Stannis. In particular, the Onion Knight, who regards Xi Lin as his own, is both a friend of Xi Lin and a mentor to Xi Lin, and has repeatedly given Xi Lin guidance.
Stannis is a well-known cold-faced king, and even Xi Lin's grandfather's family is on the side of Lan Li without hesitation, but every time Xi Lin visits the stormy land, the courtiers are willing to play with the little girl.
Xi Lin did not speak much, her voice was very low, but very charismatic, and when she spoke, the coarsest man with the loudest voice would immediately quiet down and listen to her opinion quietly.
Although Lennon did not have the determination of Lyanna Mormont, in Dragonstone And stormlands, Shiren also had the same charisma as the Bear Girl, and if Stannis could use her daughter's personality charm, it would be more effective.
Xi Lin and The Bear Girl are similar in age, only nine years old when they appear, but age is never a problem in the world of ice and fire, and the young people in the original book are generally five or six years older than in the series.
2. Stannis's glory and dreams
To say that the pretentious, throughout the world of ice and fire, no one is more serious than Shirin's father Stannis.
Ever since meeting Merisandre, Stannis really thought that he was born again of Arthur Yahweh, the son of prophecy born in the Land of Smoke and Salt (I always felt that the Land of Smoke and Salt was only suitable for the birth of ham), and not only converted himself to the Lord of Light, but also asked his men to burn the statue of the Seven Gods.
The Star of Faith is rising in Stannis's heart, this man is obviously in a corner, but he has the heart of a king who worries about the country and the people, he wants to think of the life of the world, and in the case of defeat in the Battle of the Five Kings, he leads his troops all the way to the north, to rely on his own strength to go to the Great Wall to fight against the ghosts.
The difference in the pattern makes Stannis surpass the small people of the same period who are fly-camp dogs, which makes people awe-inspired.
For a while, I also hoped that the final victory would be Stannis, because the civil war of the Seven Kingdoms was a war of injustice, and only the war against the ghosts was an undisputed just war, and Stannis, who initiated the righteous deeds, deserved our respect.
But Stannis's glory and dreams didn't last long.
His life was scorched by faith, but it was also bleak by being too obsessed with faith.
In order to express his loyalty to the Lord of Light, Stannis sacrificed again and again, first with the lives of ordinary people, and later with his nephew's "King's Blood", and gradually turned his great ideals into a huge MI letter activity.
These activities did not take Stannis from one victory to another, but rather kept him losing.
But Stannis was sincere to the Lord of Light, and even after his defeat, he never questioned his faith, he felt that his failures were "the heavens will descend on the Scythians", it was the test of the King of Light, and only by passing the test would the King of Light give him miracles, and when he was reincarnated as "AthoLl Yahai", he commanded the world, then the Iron Throne was within reach.
Stannis: The Lord of Light didn't help me, it must be because my sacrificial sacrifice wasn't enough.
The King of Light is not short of money, there is no shortage of women, only the sincere offerings of believers, and stannis the best way to express his sincerity is to sacrifice his precious daughter.
The tragedy of Hilling is that Stannis did not love her, but loved her too much.
According to Merisandre's logic, Athol Yahweh sacrificed his dear wife to defeat the otherworld, so Stannis, the son of prophecy, should also sacrifice his precious daughter.
There is no mention of Shireen's death in the original book, but Shireen was sacrificed by Stannis and has been approved by Mr. Martin.
3. Does it make sense for Stannis to sacrifice Heelyn to the Lord of Light?
Faith was originally a positive word, but when it came to Stannis, it became a spell that made him fall into the fire.
If you criticize Stannis for his enchantment, he will retort with righteousness and sternness: I am for the country and the people, and I am for the sake of the world. It wasn't Stannis's nonsense, it was that he really believed it.
If Stannis really won the favor of the King of Light for sacrificing Shirin, and then became the king of the Seven Kingdoms, Xi Lin would be worshipped as a holy woman, and many people would even understand Stannis's intentions and think that he was forced to do so.
However, such a Stannis is disgusting.
Noble goals, once needed to be achieved through despicable deeds, noble will become a fig leaf for despicableness.
Stannis may be a qualified king, a good king who governs for the people, but he is not a good man, let alone a good father.
I'd rather watch him die in a battle than see him ascend to the throne by sacrificing his daughter.
To show sincerity, too, I want Stannis to pass on to Shireen and then sacrifice herself to the Lord of Light. It is believed that with the help of the Onion Knight, Hillin can do better than Stannis.
At the end of the day, I don't believe Stannis at all, he's talking about it for the country and for the people, but he still thinks about power, and he can sacrifice everything for the sake of supreme power.
The belief in the King of Light is because the King of Light is his last straw, and only by adhering to this belief can people believe that he is the son of prophecy and prove his legitimacy as king.
Stannis's high self-confidence, in my opinion, is actually inferior to the extreme, and only through the external objects of the Lord of Light, only through the ritual sense of sacrifice again and again, can he regain his self-confidence and cover up the huge emptiness inside.
A truly confident man like The Duke of Tywin would never engage in a sacrificial flower rack.
4. What is merry Sandra guilty of?
Stannis is a false faith, and Merisandre is the true faith, believing in the Lord of Light for no reason.
For hundreds of years, the followers of the Lord of Light have preached in Westeros more than once, but only Merisandre made a big fuss, allowing the Footprints of the Lord of Light to travel inside and outside the Great Wall, on both sides of the Blackwater River.
The red-robed monk Soros does not understand politics, so he can only make a chief of staff for the Lightning King, and the red-robed woman Merisandre knows to draw a "son of prophecy" pie for Stannis, which makes Stannis want to stop, and finally breaks the robe with the seven gods, and throws herself into the arms of the red god (the lord of light) without hesitation.
Merisandre thus became a mentor to King Stannis, whose influence surpassed that of the Onion Knights.
Although Merisandre and Stannis use each other, Merisandre's belief in the Lord of Light is very pure, and she is like Yao Guangxiao in the Ming Dynasty, who has participated in the Game of Thrones throughout her life, but not to gain power, but only for her own faith, for the King of Light.
Unfortunately, Melisandre did not have Yao Guangxiao's clever calculations, and could only pretend to be a ghost, making Stannis's career a mess, and she was not a ghost or a ghost, and she was abused by the unknown fate to doubt her life.
In The death of Schilling, Stannis was the mastermind, and Merisandre was an accomplice and executioner, and no matter how well they justified themselves, it was difficult to escape the fair trial of the world's hearts.
5. Good and evil
I have always believed that stannis's demise had been doomed ever since he sacrificed his daughter-in-law, Heerenes.
He gained spiritual comfort from the Lord of Light, but lost the support of his subordinates and the hearts of the people.
Originally, in the series, Stannis and Little Peel were waiting for Stannis to win, but once Shireen died, there was no difference between Stannis and Little Peel.
Evil versus evil, a hill of raccoons; a vicious dog bites a vicious dog, a mouth of dog hair.
Many people even hope that little skinning can capture Stannis alive and peel off Stannis's skin to avenge Shirin.
Even the onion knight, who was most loyal to Stannis, was disheartened by Shireen's death and completely lost faith in Stannis.
Stannis's wife, Celis, was originally in favor of Stannis's belief in the Lord of Light, but the death of her daughter made Sylise despair of her husband and the Lord of Light.
Stannis, who has no support, even if he is still strong at heart, will not help, he has no chance to make a comeback.
The "ZHENG righteousness" that Stannis hangs on his lips is not justice. True justice is engraved in everyone's heart, and everyone has a scale in their hearts, including every Dragonstone soldier without culture:
You can even kill your own girlfriend, what do we mean in your mind?