Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon.

Chapter 195 Dragon Statue

With the idea in mind, Viserys immediately began to hand-paint, completely drawing the image of the sea dragon Naga from the memory in his bones.

The sea dragon is more like an oriental dragon than a giant dragon. It is serpentine in shape, with a dragon-shaped head and a snake-shaped body, with scales on its body and strong limbs.

The reason why Viserys wanted to draw the sea dragon was to extract its head part and splice it onto the head of the "Ancient Dragon God" who was responsible for controlling the power of storms.

The essence of this splicing is the same as the fusion of totems of various tribes in the tribal era. It is to splice part of an existing powerful mythological creature onto a "god" created by Viserys. Viserys believes that this will allow the god he created to take over the power of the mythological creature more quickly.

Of course, Viserys couldn't just splice the image of the sea dragon exactly. He had to coordinate his own image for artistic processing. This is very necessary. This splicing can actually be regarded as a kind of "take-it-as-it-is". It is not a good thing to absorb everything. It is not good to change it to make its own image fit the sea dragon. Viserys decided to control the image of the "Dragon God" himself, adding horns to the dragon's head, drawing it more like the head of an oriental dragon, and drawing the horns with different power characteristics. In combination with the head, the image of the body was also created.

When the three heads are destined to use different colors to express different powers, his body inevitably has only one color to choose from, that is, black. Only a dark base can accommodate different color expressions and highlight the color representing power. The color of mythical creatures is essentially an intentional expression of power. Take Viserys's current three-headed power as an example. The power represented by his three heads is manifested on the horns of different images. They have different shapes and represent different powers. The golden color represents lightning, the red color represents fire, and the white color represents frost.

Viserys roughly made the image of the Thunder Head and the Sea Dragon 70% similar, and added parts of his own imagery that he felt suited his personal aesthetics, which means that a part of his body has received the power of the Sea Dragon, but he does not want to become a Sea Dragon or inherit everything from it.

After several revisions, the final image was a one-legged flying dragon with three heads representing different powers: thunder, fire, and ice.

This "Dragon God" is somewhat similar to the coat of arms of the Targaryen family, but also slightly different.

"Dany," Viserys finished drawing and showed it to Daenerys first, "Look, this is what I designed the Ancient Dragon to look like."

Daenerys looked at it and asked curiously, "What are you going to do?"

"The knights and nobles who survived the Rain House City incident have seen how I stirred up the wind and clouds in the sky and turned the storm into a continuous drizzle. I think many people would be very happy to erect a statue of the 'Ancient Dragon God' in their own territory, which is nominally used to suppress the storm." Viserys did not intend to be too radical. He only planned to try to promote himself in the rain forest area first, and privately let some believers who were not particularly devout to the Seven Gods erect a non-missionary statue at the port, taking the pragmatic and specialized path of God, saying that this was the Ancient Dragon God who possessed some storm power in the legend of Valyria, and that he could try to use his statue to suppress the wind and rain caused by aliens. "I want to try first to see if people's prayers to this god will be directed to me."

Viserys was not trying to create a single omniscient and omnipotent god, nor was he trying to spread his doctrine. He only intended to display his power to regulate wind and rain and deal with storms in the rainforest area, just like the local dragon kings in the eastern countries on Earth, so that people could pray for good weather. After all, Viserys only had a part of the power of Stormsong at the moment, and what he wanted to test was whether this part of the power could play any effect on people's prayers and beliefs.

Viserys had the idea of ​​building a statue because he heard from Stannis that Melisandre had suggested that Stannis build a temple of R'hllor in the Stormlands to suppress the darkness and evil in the Stormlands. Viserys certainly would not build a temple of R'hllor, so he simply tried to build a totem-like statue to see if it would work.

After all, it was his first statue, and Viserys was inspired later, and he drew the image of the dragon god "Sleeping Dragon" in imitation of the game he had played, hoping that if the statue worked, he would try to suggest that people build temples around the statue and carve these things he designed in the temples.

As soon as Viserys decided on the statue and carving of the Dragon God, he set off immediately and flew to Rain House City without stopping.

Those knights who fought against the murlocs are still staying in Rain House City. They should be gathering knights and rulers from all over the place. Viserys specifically instructed them to spread what they saw and heard in this battle.

By the time Viserys arrived at Rainhouse, they had already been in the barracks for three full days displaying the corpses of the alien murlocs and promoting their experiences in the evil fishing village to the new knights.

Viserys knew that this activity of gathering rulers from all over the place to preach would continue for several days. Rainhouse, Greenstone, Mistwood and Cape Wrath had joined together to gather all the vassals, knights and local stewards in the Rainforest at Earl Wilde's castle in Rainhouse to spread the news that the strange storm in various parts of the Rainforest was caused by evil magic. According to the king's order, all places should be well protected and the people in various places should be strictly controlled. At the same time, check whether there are any strange phenomena occurring in various places.

When Viserys arrived, it was still drizzling in Rain House. This was much better than the storm last time, but there were still many areas in the rain forest that were still shrouded in strange storms. When Viserys flew over from Storm's End, he could see from the sky that many areas were still covered with dark clouds.

But those areas were too vast for Viserys to check them one by one by himself, so he still needed the people in the country to report any anomalies in various places, so that it would be possible to locate some special areas more quickly. Viserys did not fly into the Rain House City, but only flew to the temporary military camp that had not yet been disbanded.

Just like last time, it was the commander, Sir Mund Wilder, who came out to greet the King's sudden visit.

It was drizzling outside. Sir Mond took off his helmet and shouted excitedly, "Your Majesty!"

Viserys did not beat around the bush and directly made his request according to the military order. He moved his body and shook off a package hanging on his body, as if the knight on his back had thrown the package to the old knight: "Sir Mond, you have fought in the fishing village, so you should know how abnormal the rain in the Stormlands is. I have a task for you, which is a military order. Find a few professional stonemasons and build a dragon statue to suppress the storm on a high hill facing the sea above the town of Rain House according to the image above. The statue does not need to be too big. Make a flat area on a high place, with a length and width of nine feet, so that the statue is in the middle and stands facing the sea. The picture on it is the ancient dragon god of Valyria who has some power over storms. Don't paint the eyes of the statue. When it is completed, send a raven to notify me, and I will paint the eyes of the statue."

With that, Viserys flew away again.

Sir Mond picked up the package and opened it, only to find a huge blueprint inside. There were three large pictures on the paper, all depicting the same image. A majestic three-headed single-legged flying dragon, the image was very different from the king's three-headed dragon, but seemed somewhat similar. It was the first time Sir Mond saw such a clear design. These three pictures clearly depicted the entire dragon statue from three angles: front, side, and top view, and were extremely majestic.

This military order was unheard of, but the king had to make a personal trip, so Sir Mond did not dare to neglect it, so he immediately set off for Rain House City to find the stonemason. He also informed the patriarch of the Wilde family, Earl Caspar, of this matter. The earl himself had witnessed magic and dragons at the king's wedding and Dragonstone, and heard what Sir Mond had seen and heard on the way to exterminate the cultists. He had already regarded King Viserys as a truly powerful god, and he took this matter very seriously. Considering that the erection of this dragon statue was not for religious purposes and did not violate the teachings of the Seven Gods, Earl Caspar simply summoned the most professional craftsmen of the Wilde family, took the initiative to provide the best quality stone resources and manpower, and asked the craftsmen to erect the statue on the high hill above the town of Rain House City according to the king's requirements.

What Viserys wanted to build was not a spectacle, but just a statue for experiment, so the dragon statue he requested was not very large, far from the majestic statues in the sept that were dozens of feet tall. The drawings he gave clearly stated that the statue only required a height of nine feet (2.7 meters), but a wider width, because the statue was a dragon and needed to spread its wings, so it required a width of twelve feet (3.6 meters), and the overall model was a 3:4 ratio.

Viserys had witnessed the time it took to rebuild the seven statues in the sept on Dragonstone, and estimated that a statue of this size would take at least ten days or half a month to find the stone, carve it into shape, paint it, dry it in the shade, and transport it up the mountain. Moreover, Viserys's painting was so detailed that the craftsmen might have technical difficulties.

Viserys was certainly not idle during this period. The problems in the Stormlands were more troublesome than he had imagined. Viserys realized that he might not be able to quickly deal with the disaster in the Stormlands in the short term. In order to deal with the increasing number of victims affected by the rainstorm, Viserys had to consider establishing a disaster relief system.

Yes, in theory, the Seven Kingdoms were a unified state, but in fact, under the ancient feudal system, the Seven Kingdoms were not a qualified feudal state. The king and the lords ruled the nobles and the people on their own feudal lands, and the life and death of the people on the vassal lands was actually none of the king and the lords’ business.

Originally, under this feudal system, dealing with disaster victims was the responsibility of the lords in the feudal territories. The lords naturally had the obligation and responsibility to do these things. On the contrary, Viserys, as the king, and the Duke of Storm's End, as the feudal lord, did not have to worry about these things.

This feudal system would create a very bad phenomenon. If ordinary people in other places in a certain feudal lord's territory could not survive, but ordinary people and nobles in his direct territory lived well, then this feudal lord was actually a very good feudal lord.

However, the disaster in Stormlands was too severe. The feudal lords' traditional way of dealing with the victims was no longer feasible. Under the political slogans of Viserys' rule, the lords of the territories could not follow the cruel old practices and choose to be rotten at this time, ignoring the disaster and letting the victims die. They also had to prevent the victims from gathering and rioting when they were desperate. So they had no choice but to ask the feudal lord for help.

And now it is the king himself who is the guardian of the underage lords of Stormland.

In the end, Viserys took the old path of time travelers in dealing with disaster-stricken people - work-for-relief. Viserys ordered Davos and Arland, who were now in charge of the Stormlands, to issue orders to the feudal lords in the disaster-stricken areas, asking them to gather the victims to some towns that were relatively less severely affected, and to let the lords of each territory organize the victims to repair city walls, roads, and river embankments in the name of the feudal lords and lords in exchange for relief from the feudal lords and lords.

It is outrageous that under this feudal system, Viserys could not even use the money from the national treasury to provide disaster relief to various places directly in the name of the king and the guardian of the Stormlands - he could certainly do so, and the people would love him for it, but it would not do him any good. Under such a feudal system, the love of the people was not as good as the loyalty and support of the lords - so Viserys could only indirectly provide low-interest loans and affordable supplies to the lords of the disaster-stricken territories in the name of the king and the guardian of the feudal lords.

Although this disaster relief system seems inefficient and troublesome, it is in line with the cognition of the lords and people of the Seven Kingdoms. By doing this, Viserys will not only make the lords feel that they owe him a favor and become more supportive and loyal to him, but the victims will also think that the king is a benevolent monarch and worthy of love.

海龙
Dragon God
The Dragon King Sleeping in the Ring
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