Many people do not believe in the existence of dragons, because this magical creature has disappeared without a trace a long time ago, so old that it has become a folklore, until they meet the dragon mother who hangs all the way, and there is no way to bypass the Targaryen family where the dragon mother is located.
<h1 class="ql-align-center" > Targaryen of the Targaryen family</h1>
A legendary family that is too attractive, the mysterious relationship between them and the dragon can not be explained, the dragon training genes are flowing in their blood, otherwise Lu En would not be able to climb the dragon's back smoothly.
You know, before this, in addition to the Dragon Mother, let alone ride up, it is difficult for ordinary people to even get close.
To explain this mysterious relationship, we have to go back to the pre-history of Game of Thrones, 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 the Mother of Dragons hung before), and even the Targaryen family is only an ancient era of a small and nameless branch.
Dragon Clan = Valyria ≠> Targaryen
The first thing that needs to be clarified is that targaryen, where the mother of dragons was born, | Targaryen| The family is not the only dragon family.
Before the game of Thrones began, the | that had once unified Westeros Westeros| The power of the legendary family of the mainland is so great that all the audience feel that they are the only one.
I miss this shot of the Dragon Mother hanging the first blow
A long time ago, even they were just an extremely weak and worthless branch of the Ancient Dragon Clan. But it is for this reason that they were able to create their own glorious dynasty in Westeros, a field that did not belong to them.
The Dragon Clan originated in Essos |, which we don't care about now Essos| The continent, which is the main reason why Uncle Martin revived the three dragons in this continent.
The true Dragon Clan was known in ancient history as the Valyrian | Valyria| an ethnic group, an empire that once bloodied and ruled the continent of Essos for centuries.
Left: Westeros - where the Seven Kingdoms are located
Right: Open the home stadium for Essos Continent - Mother Dragon
Separated by a narrow sea, it is only about | | So far
<h1 class="ql-align-center" > the origin and rise of the Dragon Clan</h1>
The Dragons were not the first rulers of the continent of Essos, the first ruling Imperial force of this continent that was some distance from the current storyline (now even the Mother of Dragons has returned to Westeros) took root in the city of Old Ghis.
A city-state based on slavery.
The founder of the state, Grazdan, has become a legend in the history of the empire, and even today, there are still many slave families named after him.
Legend has it that he was the first leader to establish and discipline legions, to lead their crusades, and the imperial civilization he built flourished on the continent of Essos for centuries.
I. permit. prepare. want. mount. field. Hmmm.
The Dragon Clan, born in the peninsula across slave bay, suspended the rule of the Old Ghis Empire, inhabited a group of active volcanoes historically known as the Fourteen Flames, and were adept at taming and using the Wyvern as a weapon.
Slave Bay, and Penghu Bay are two words apart
In their own racial legends, the Dragons and Dragons originated from the same ancestor and were close relatives of dragons.
And their looks really support this: almost pure white silver hair or blonde hair and purple eyes (this is a little different from the TV series), which is the only one in the entire world of ice and fire.
The bachelors have come up with various explanations about the origin of dragons and how dragons tamed wyverns.
The Dragon Clan themselves claim that the dragon was born in the "Fourteen Flames", but there is a legend in Qarth City that there were once two moons in the world, one of which was too close to the sun to overheat and expand and explode, like eggshell hatching, thousands of flying dragons flew out of the cracked moon.
This statement is specifically mentioned in the TV series (the second episode of the first season).
There is another legend in Asshai.
From a remote dark corner, there was once a mysterious clan that tamed the dragons in the shadows of darkness and handed them over to the dragons, and has since disappeared and never appeared.
But the legend itself has loopholes, even if this mysterious people can have the ability to tame dragons, why don't they conquer the world, but hand it over to the dragons?
Therefore, the dragons themselves are more credible in their explanation of the origin of the dragon, and in fact there are quite a few records of investigation to prove this, because there are records of dragons even in Westeros, and it is long before the arrival of the Targaryens.
Before being tamed, the Wyverns born from the "Fourteen Flames" volcanic group 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 dragon in the whole world and in history.
Although scholars can make all sorts of plausible assumptions about the origin of dragons and the origins of dragons, they have been unable to explain the mysterious origins between dragons and dragons.
Mother Dragon is mighty
The Dragons did not have a so-called queen/queen in their political system, and they called themselves Freehold "free retainers", and any clan who owned land could express their opinions.
Although there were also people like "consuls" in the ruling system to manage day-to-day affairs, they were all managed by the nobility and only among the nobles, and for a short period of time.
It seems very common to us that one family rules/governs an entire clan rarely in Dragon history (but the Targaryens did it in Westeros).
<h1 class="ql-align-center" > the demise of the OLD GHIS empire</h1>
There were only five human-dragon wars in the alternation between the Dragon Clan and this former empire, each of which ended with the latter collapsing under the flames of the dragon. The empire built by the legendary Grazdan was eventually unable to resist the flame attack and was razed to the ground by the Dragon Clan.
Although the Old Ghis Empire has died, it has left three cities in Slave Bay that are still very active today (even after the fall of the Dragon Clan), the main area of the Dragon Mother's army's conquest of the continent of Essos:
Astapor City of Astapor
Yunkai Yunkai City
Meereen Mirin City
ASTAPOR City of Astapor
The old song goes: "Bricks and blood make Astapo, and Astapo enslaves the people with bricks and blood."
Astapo was ruled by a group of slave owners who called themselves "good masters" and were known for cultivating an army of "unsullied" (unsullied: castrated from an early age and raised into a war machine).
▲ Dirt-free person ▲
The free astabonauts all wore toka robes, a symbol of nobility.
Their hair was greasy and oddly shaped, and there were yellow silk cloaks sewn with copper plates, representing their status. Their robes have embroidered silk threads, and they wear sandals and pleated linen skirts below the waist, and the TV series basically restores the description of the original book.
▲ The "good lords" of Astapo ▲
The whole city is made of red bricks, so it is also called "Red City", which is not the same as described in the book.
The city emblem is an eagle-like figure: the body of a woman, the wings of a bat, the legs of an eagle, and the tail of a scorpion. Its claws grasp the open handcuffs, and the emblem in the TV series is 100% restored.
YUNKAI Yunkai City
Also known as the "Yellow City", it was ruled by a group of slave owners who called themselves "wise masters", and the main trade was the sale of slaves and male prostitutes.
▲ Yun Kaesong in the play ▲
MEEREEN Mirin City
Also known as "Color City", the defense is strong, the walls are thick and well-repaired, there are defensive towers in each corner, and there are bronze eagle-bodied banshees on the walls (very similar to the city of Astabona) that can spray boiling oil at the enemy.
The slave owners who ruled the city called themselves "great masters" and liked to train their slaves to fight in the "arena" for fun.
<h1 class="ql-align-center" > loser</h1>
After becoming the absolute overlord, the Dragon Clan continued to expand its ruling territory, posing a great threat to the other indigenous peoples of the continent of Essos, but also laying the groundwork for the sudden change in the political structure of the continent of Westeros and the formation of the "Seven Kingdoms" in the future.
<h1 class="ql-align-justify" > Andal Andal</h1>
The Andals originated in Axe, located northeast of the Pentos, and for a long time before settling, the Andals were actually a nomadic people.
After a few head-to-head confrontations with the Dragons, the Andals were well aware of the disparity in power between the two sides, with a few subservient subjects being sold as slaves, and most of them crossing the Narrow Sea by boat to the then uncivilized continent of Westeros, which we collectively called the ancestors of the indigenous people who lived on the continent at that time.
The First Andal Landing Site in Westeros was eagle valley | Vale of Arryn| And here began their southern expedition to this wild continent, and the iron weapons they used far exceeded the bronze used by the ancestors who lived on the continent at that time.
Many of Eagle Valley's ancestor families perished permanently in a war that lasted only a few decades.
The rest of the ancestor families submitted to the throne, but a small number still retained the dignity of the primitive race and are still proud of the descendants of the ancestors, such as the Redforts and Royces families.
There is a song that sings that the Andal hero Ser Artys Arryn once rode a falcon on a giant spear to blade the ancestor King Griffon, thus establishing the Arryn family, but after the scholar examined this is a combination of the story of the "Age of Heroes", the real Arryn family is the successor of the ancestor Royce family.
After taking eagle valley, the Andals came out of the "Blood Gate" and flocked to other areas of Westeros, and in the process of the southern conquest, the Andals themselves split into different kingdoms, and the infighting between the kingdoms was even more intense than with the conquest of the ancestors.
Draw the point
The main families in Game of Thrones are divided from the Andals who fled from the continent of Essos
At the Battle of Trident, as many as seven kingdoms united to declare war on Tristifer IV, the last king of the ancestors, and after a hundred battles, the Andaly successfully conquered the last indigenous kingdom on the continent.
At the same time, hidden dangers were planted, leading to the birth of the white ghost.
The Andals are a more brutal enemy of the Forest Elves than the Ancestors (more on this later in the Battle between the Ancestors and the Forest Elves).
Because the Andals believe in strange gods and forest elves with strange ritual customs are very strange, they banish the latter from the deep forest.
After years of isolation from the world, the forest elves have long lost the ability and advantage of fighting against the ancestors, and in this way, the forest elves that the ancestors could not eradicate, the Andal tribe was properly destroyed in a short period of time.
A very small number of remaining forest elves fled to the northern region of The Neck, where the natural marsh terrain became their natural protective layer. The elves, who are still afraid of the Andals' extermination, create white ghosts that even they can't control to fight them in desperation, which becomes the biggest crisis for everyone in the final season of the eighth season.
Rhoynar people
Compared with the rational avoidance of the Andals, the Loynas have too much pride to give up.
They were the first people to learn ironmaking (even the Dragons learned their ironmaking techniques), and they had the same ancient civilization and culture as the Old Ghis Empire.
Towns and cities large and small were built along the River Loina, such as Ghoyan Drohe, known for its fruit groves and waterfalls, Ny Sar, the city of fountains, Ar Noy, the city of maroon marble, and Chroyane, the city of feasts (famous for building the "Palace of Philharmonic"), and so on, and even they have the magic of fire and heat of the dragon tribe: the water curse
Although they were the same people born of the Loina River, the city-states were very independent of each other, and each city-state was ruled by an independent prince or princess.
In the Loina ethnic group, women and men are on an equal footing.
These fragmented city-state cultures are also one of the reasons why the Loinas are humiliated by the Dragons. The war with the Dragon Clan lasted for thousands of years, and in the end it was not spared.
After centuries of peaceful coexistence, the Dragons finally officially declared war on the Loynas.
Although in the early days Loyna could defeat a single city and a single dragon clan, when the whole of Valyria drove thousands of dragons from the sky to attack, no amount of water, no matter how strong the water curse, could not protect the Loyna clan, the dragon clan went up against the current, bloodbathed the city of Chroyane.
Prince Garin watched the enemy slaughter the city, completely helpless, and in desperation cast a vengeance spell on the river god Loina.
On the night of the slaughter of the city, the Loina River rose against the season, the ferocity of the tide had never appeared in history, and the whole city was filled with a thick poisonous fog, and the dragons who invaded the city all died of a disease that spread rapidly throughout the body: gray lin disease
It was the kind of disease that the daughters of Ser Jorah and Stannis, who loved mother dragons dearly, had.
One of the princesses, Nymeria, already knew the outcome of the war before the Dragons entered the city, so she led some of her people (mostly women and children) away by boat.
After several years of drifting at sea, encountering different islands and continents, killing and injuring countless people on the way, and finally | on the island of Dorne in Westeros Dorne| It stayed forever and became the ancestor of our favorite red viper.
<h1 class="ql-align-center" > descendants of the LEGACY Dragon Clan: Free Nine Cities</h1>
If the Dragon Clan has continued any culture from the Old Ghis Empire, it is definitely a slave culture, unlike the Old Ghis who buy and sell slaves, the dragon slaves rely purely on plunder. Based on this political culture, the Dragon Clan derived its own town.
Pentos、Myr、Tyrosh、Lys、Volantis、Qohor、Norvos、Lorath、Braavos
These towns later became known as the "Nine Cities of Freedom", also known as the descendants of the Dragon Clan.
Ironically, the "Nine Free Cities" were based on the slave trade. Unlike the other 8 cities, Braavos was not built by dragon/slave owners, but by escaped slaves, and for a long time was called the "City of Mysteries".
<h1 class="ql-align-center" > DOOMSDAY Doomsos Pompeii</h1>
After defeating Loyna, the Dragon Clan succeeded in becoming the absolute overlord of the western part of the continent of Essos, from the Narrow Sea to the Slave Bay, from the Summer Sea to the Shiver Sea.
A large number of slaves were sent by the Dragon Clan to the "Fourteen Flames" volcano in batches to mine, in preparation for the invasion of Westeros across the Narrow Sea. They have even set up their own outpost across the strait: Dragonstone | Dragonstone|。
Although the local lords of the island resisted angrily, the strength of the Dragon Clan was too strong to be a comparison of magnitude at all.
Moreover, the Dragon Clan also succeeded in establishing a school city (located in the old town) | on this continent Citadel|。 Many important historical materials are stored in the school city, which is also the pilgrimage place for all the bachelors in Westeros, and Fat Sam came here to study to become a bachelor.
Two centuries later, the Dragon Clan's unique Valyrian steel had become a treasure for the nobles and kings of the continent of Westitklo, and the dragons' appearance in Blackwater Bay on dragons slowly increased over time, and the Dragons felt that the time was ripe for a large-scale invasion.
But without warning, the end came to this lonely and defeated race.
The whole disaster lasted only a few hours, but it almost devoured all the dragon clans, nearly 500 miles of hilly land was torn apart in an instant, the air was filled with dust and fireworks, and the temperature was so high that even the dragons themselves could not survive, let alone the dragons themselves.
The earth collapsed, swallowing up all the palaces, temples, houses and even the whole town, the lake evaporated due to the high temperature, and the volcano erupted, spraying the molten stones into the sky for thousands of meters, and the sky also rained dragonstone, filled with the smell of black blood.
The end of the Dragon Clan brought about the collapse of the regime, all the colonies rebelled angrily, and those Dragon Clans who were not destroyed by the doomsday disaster also died under the slave riots.
At this point, the most powerful race in history has since become extinct on the continent of Essos.
However, a family that was sent to Dragonstone as an outpost of the Dragons' invasion of Westeros and survived the apocalypse and ensuing riots was the Targaryen, mother of dragons, who later unified westeros.
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