Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon.

Chapter 100 Denise's Prophecy
Although there is no way to go further down in this tomb, there must be something underneath.

The head of the Targaryen family who followed the prophecy of Daenerys the Dreamwalker and moved the Targaryens to Dragonstone was named Aena Targaryen.

Theoretically, according to the burial method of this tomb where the ancestors are older as they go deeper, the person buried at the bottom should be Aenar Targaryen.

Viserys originally thought that the highlight of the tomb would be Daenerys the Dreamwalker, but apparently the Targaryen family did not think so when they built the tomb. They believed that Daenerys was certainly important, but Inar Targaryen, who made the decision, was more important, so they buried the most important thing in the tomb with him.

This is not incomprehensible.

Although the prophecy of Daenerys the Dreamwalker changed the fate of the Targaryens in the long run, according to legend, Aenar brought five dragons with him when he migrated to Dragonstone in accordance with Daenerys' prophecy. In theory, when the catastrophe of Valyria occurred, the five dragons brought by Aenar made them the only powerful fighting force that survived the catastrophe of Valyria.

You know, before the outbreak of the War of Conquest, the only one of the five dragons that survived was the Black Death Balerion. To put it another way, when Aena ruled Dragonstone, Balerion, the most powerful dragon of the Targaryen Dynasty, was the smallest of the five dragons at that time.

Even during Aenar's reign, there may have been five hundred-meter-tall dragons on Dragonstone at the same time.

Before the end of Valyria, Aenar moved to Dragonstone, a move that seemed to surrender to other hostile families, and was ridiculed by his opponents as a coward. However, 12 years later, Valyria was destroyed, and the only dragon king in the world was the Targaryen lineage.

Inar was called the Exile, and his reputation in history was overshadowed by Daenerys' prophecy. But if you put yourself in his shoes, how wise were his actions in the eyes of the Targaryens who almost perished with Valyria at the time, and to what extent was his prestige when he was alive?
It is also very interesting to see the sculpture of the "glorious" Guymon holding down a long whip, which symbolizes his identity as a slave owner.

It is said that Aenar came to Dragonstone with all his wealth, slaves, wives, siblings and relatives. Although Valyria relied on dragons to rule and prosper, it still maintained slavery. As the first Targaryen lord of Dragonstone, Aenar may have retained multiple identities.

A fallen dragonlord of the forty or so dragonlord families of Valyria and a slave owner on the fringes of the Valyrian Empire.

Aenar was most likely the last Targaryen to be buried in the crypt as a Valyrian dragonlord and slave master.

This tomb may have been supplemented and built by different people at different times, and the overall construction of the tomb should have started with Inar.

But in the end, the mausoleum was completely abandoned, the gates were closed, and the four tower mechanisms were built. Viserys suspected that it was Aegon and his descendants who did the work, because Viserys was not sure whether "blood and fire" had been the Targaryen language since the Valyrian period, or whether it was created by Aegon after the conquest based on the tradition of Westeros. He could not find the answer to this information from his memory.

Daenerys and her brother walked hand in hand to the bed-like sculpture in the center of the tomb and looked at the sculpture in the center carefully: "She is Daenerys the Dreamwalker?"

The sculpture of Denise is an image of a lady lying down gracefully with her eyes closed in rest. Her face is no longer young, but kind and peaceful. The sculptor used white stone to sculpt her short silver hair and carved her facial features very delicately. Even after hundreds of years, it can be seen that even though she is no longer young, she is still a real beauty.

Viserys had told Daenerys more than once that she might have inherited Daenerys's "Dream Walker" talent, and Daenerys couldn't help but feel particularly close to the sculpture. Next to Daenerys was her brother, her husband Gaimon.

Daenerys looked at the sculpture of them sleeping together here, and thought that they had been sleeping here together for hundreds of years without realizing it. She couldn't help but feel a little nostalgic, and she held Viserys' half-dragon hand a little tighter.

But her brother didn't have such a delicate mind as hers. He just turned his head and asked her, "What did you find?"

Hearing the question, Daenerys calmed down and answered her brother: "No."

Viserys had no idea what Daenerys was thinking just now. He was fully focused on observing the structure of the tomb: "There are three murals on the wall. Let's go and take a look. Perhaps the secret lies in them."

Daenerys reluctantly turned her eyes away from the statue of Daenerys, "Okay." Then she followed Viserys to one of the murals.

The first mural they saw was on the middle wall of the tomb, a scene of doomsday.

The lava volcano in the image of fourteen fire peaks was erupting, pouring countless ashes, smoke and flames into the sky. Countless terrible lava was sprayed into the sky, and countless dragon crystals poured down from the red clouds. The surging and hot flames even burned the dragons soaring in the sky. The cracked earth engulfed the palaces and cities of Valyria, and the surging sea water filled the sinking earth. The land was torn into countless broken islands, and a huge tsunami was surging and engulfing these broken islands.

The mural was painted with a special pigment that had amazing expressiveness. In the painting, there were dark red rolling clouds that seemed to be pressing down on the ground, dark blue waters that seemed to be able to swallow everything, blood-stained Valyrian cities and gorgeous fallen palaces, and giant dragons of different colors that seemed insignificant in the catastrophe.
Daenerys was puzzled: "This scene is too horrible. Why would such a horrible scene be carved in the tomb where the dead are buried?"

"Because this is the prophetic scene that Daenys dreamt, and it came true," Viserys replied. "Interesting. What are the other two?"

They then went to look at the mural on the left wall.

This painting is a very abstract three-headed dragon painting, a colorful dragon with three heads, with black, green, gold and silver scales on its body. It is in a blurry cloud, its wings seem to be flapping, and the three heads are looking in different directions, as if on alert - to Viserys it seemed that the three heads were looking in different directions.

It is somewhat similar to the Targaryen family crest, but also different.

Daenerys' comment on the painting was: "This is the family emblem, but the emblem is red, and it looks like this, is this you? It looks like you are alert to some danger while flying?" She was used to the sight of Viserys' three heads doing their own things and didn't find it strange at all.

"This is amazing," Viserys said. "The Targaryen coat of arms may be related to Daenerys's prophecy? Did Daenerys predict what I would be like hundreds of years later? Will I become like this in the future?"

He remembered the words of the Red God Priest: No matter whether you were one before, you are one now.

"Brother, you said that I inherited Daenerys's talent as a dream walker. Will I also dream about the future?" Daenerys said excitedly, "Just like I dreamed of you on Dragonstone before, and now it has come true! I have thought about it. In the future, my tomb will be like Daenerys's, with the paintings I predicted."

Viserys continued her words: "Okay, next time I will find a better court painter to paint my image more majestic. Let's go and see what's in that painting over there." They came to the third painting.

The painting shows three dragons and three dragon riders.

The dragon in the middle is very huge, with scales as black as night, and its wings spread out to cover half of the sky. On the right is a smaller dragon with silver scales, and on the left is a medium-sized dragon with gray-white scales. Although the riders on the dragons are very small compared to the dragons, they also have obvious features, and it can be seen that they are one man and two women. They fly high in the sky, casting a huge shadow on the ground, and the shape of the shadow can be roughly distinguished as a map of Westeros. Because of the composition, Dorne appears a little distorted in the shadow.

This was undoubtedly Aegon the Conqueror and his sister wives Visenya and Rhaenys, and their dragons, Balerion, Vhagar, and Meraxes.

Is this really the prophecy that Dreamwalker Denise dreamed of?

Viserys could not help but look at the gracefully reclining statue, and he was amazed and shocked.

Legend has it that when Daenerys was a virgin, she dreamed of the Doomsday, and there were few legends about the prophecy after that. However, there is a rumor that before the destruction of Valyria, Daenerys personally recorded various visions and wrote a book called "Signs and Prophecies", but this book has been lost.

These were probably the three most important prophecies she considered in her life, so much so that she wanted to record them in her own tomb.

Viserys increasingly felt that it was indeed Aegon the Conqueror who closed the family mausoleum, and that the loss of the book "Signs and Omens" might also be related to him. If he were Viserys, he would do the same, because after the conquest, Aegon became king, and the abstract three-headed dragon prophecy left by Targaryen neither foreshadowed a crisis nor was it a particularly important omen at the time. Instead, it seemed to be a secondary prophecy confirmation of their conquest of Westeros prophecy.

Daenerys' prophecy seemed to have ended after Aegon's conquest, and he would create a future belonging to the new Targaryen dynasty. How could Aegon at that time have thought that the last prophecy would be fulfilled three hundred years after his conquest?

To the right of the mural of Aegon's conquest prophecy, there was an inverted black stone slab in the corner. Daenerys found that there seemed to be words on it: "What is that?"

She remembered Viserys's warning not to touch him easily, and just waited for Viserys to act.

Viserys picked it up carefully. On the black stone tablet was a passage of words: "I do not recommend people to interpret vague prophecies. When I see a drop of water dripping onto the lake, and I do not know whether it is rain, dew, or snowflakes melting, I will record the sight of it dripping onto the water, without being troubled by its cause."

Viserys was tempted to turn the slab back upside down. He would say the same thing to others when the prophecy didn't concern him.

But he held back. There was a pit on the wall that matched the stone slab, and he carefully placed the stone slab on it, and the stone slab was like a key inserted into a lock.

There was a rumbling sound in the tomb instantly.

The statues and coffins of Denise and Gaimon in the center of the tomb began to move on their own, and soon a staircase leading downwards was revealed.

The crypt was hot up here, and it was deep below the platform where the tomb stood, but Einar's chamber was evidently deeper still, and Viserys could smell the pungent odor coming up the stairs.

Things went better than Viserys had imagined.

Below is the tomb chamber, the main body of which is made of black stone. There is a channel for draining magma, and there is a huge magma pool converging inside the tomb chamber. The tomb chamber is very large, more than ten times larger than all the tomb chambers on the upper levels, and it is also very grand.

The most eye-catching thing is the skeleton of a huge dragon lying in the magma pool in the middle of the tomb, with less than half of its skeleton exposed in the tomb.

The dragon's skull was incredibly large, with teeth standing up like giant spears, and its incredibly large mouth was open facing the entrance to the tomb.

In the middle of the dragon's mouth, a black stone throne occupies a very conspicuous position in the center.

This tomb chamber is unique in that it has no sculptures or sarcophagi.

There was only a naked skeleton wearing a crown sitting on the Black Stone Throne.

And in the arms of the skeleton was a huge dragon egg.

I know you may not like the occult and DND-like parts, but they are necessary in the outline. After Aegon's conquest, dragon riders patrolled the north, but the dragons did not dare to approach the Wall. The magic of the Wall is stronger than you think, and the White Walkers it blocks may be stronger than what you and I see now, and they cannot be easily solved by dragons breathing fire. Especially the coming winter is the home of the White Walkers.

And one more thing, I have always been writing in the Ice and Fire world where news is transmitted very slowly, so it is impossible to expect that when the protagonist shows off on Dragonstone, the whole world will be shocked, fearful, and react violently.

For example, a Westeros resident received three pieces of news at the same time. One was that someone witnessed a sea monster pulling a ship into the sea in the waters near Crab Island. One was that someone in Qohor in the eastern continent claimed that a three-headed dragon appeared. One was that a Targaryen appeared on Dragonstone.

And soon there will be news that the Targaryens on Dragonstone have a three-headed dragon and that the Night's Watch in the north is seeking help from the wildlings heading south. Will you be shocked? Horrified? Terrified? Or will you be happy to see so many weirdos appear and ask when the White Walkers will come?

It is common knowledge among readers that Beric of the Brotherhood Without Banners will be resurrected, right? But how many riverland lords want to catch him and hang him to prove that the resurrection of the dead is a rumor?

An outrageous piece of news has to appear repeatedly or be witnessed with one’s own eyes before people will be convinced of it, realize it belatedly, and feel a chill down their spines.

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