Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon.

Chapter 219: The History of Hightower
"Hiss—he's too dangerous."

The old man in the old town let out a painful hiss, covered his right eye in agony, his expression distorted, and he was unable to stare at the burning glass candle in front of him.

Glass candle.

It is no exaggeration to say that Lord Layton Hightower studied magic in the towering tower. In fact, Lord Layton and his daughter, "Mad Woman" Morua Hightower, were among the first people in the world to know about the rekindling of glass candles. He also knew some simple ways to use them, such as using glass candles to spy on the situation in Old Town.

But as an old man, Earl Layton's mental strength was very weak and he could not sustain the consumption for too long. However, his daughter was gifted and was born with a very strong mental strength. Earl Layton knew that the "mad woman" was not crazy, but because of the "atavism" phenomenon, she had the talent to become a powerful wizard and was influenced by various emotions from others since she was a child. Fortunately, Earl Layton discovered her talent early and saved her from being tortured by this talent and going crazy through magic education.

"What's wrong, father?" The crazy woman Moroya looked at Count Leighton in confusion, then took the initiative to move closer and stared intently at the flame of the glass candle. In her eyes, a scene gradually appeared in the flame: a conference room in the Citadel, where a group of excited doctors were discussing something. From time to time, they turned their heads to talk to someone that the glass candle could not see.

Morua held her breath and gradually saw the vague outline of the invisible person. She knew it must be King Viserys, but she could not see his location clearly in the glass candle.

When Morua concentrated her attention and tried to see King Viserys's face clearly, she suddenly felt a strong pain in her head, and then she involuntarily stopped observing through the glass candle.

Morua was surprised by this strange feeling and asked anxiously, "What is going on? There has never been such a situation before. Even Marwyn in the Citadel does not have such a method."

Count Layton still covered his eyes in pain: "Didn't you try to observe him a few days ago?"

Morua replied, "You have been accompanying the king to inspect various places in Old Town these past two days. Father, I always remember that you did not allow me to use this to spy on your every move."

Lord Leighton replied in surprise, "He is different from all the Targaryens that Hightower's ancestors have met. He has been to Valyria, and he must have learned the strange methods of those crazy people in Valyria. He is too dangerous. Similar people have only appeared in records dating back to the Dawn Age, and those people are all obstacles that go against the correct direction of the world. If he has become like those evil monsters in the Dawn Age with a lifespan of hundreds or even thousands of years under the blood magic of Valyria, then the family's thousands of years of hard work may have to start all over again. Dragons and sea monsters have appeared one after another, and news of mermaids and white walkers has come one after another. Everything seems to have returned to the beginning. Things shouldn't be like this."

"Father, don't worry."

Count Layton seemed to have aged ten years in an instant: "Oh, Morua, I have waited all my life. I thought that the fate of my family could be ended in our hands, but how long will this curse last?"

Moroya looked at her father, a hint of helplessness and sympathy in her eyes, and then replied: "Father, you put too much pressure on yourself."

".Moroya, my child, leave me alone."

"Yes, father." Morua looked at her old father, and a thought flashed through her mind: [Don't worry, father, the family will no longer be bound by such things, and everything will end in my hands. I have learned the truth and freed myself from the shackles. It was all because of that stone. The curse on it has affected the Hightower generation after generation. We have been carrying sins that do not belong to us for too long, generation after generation, making endless futile efforts. It's time to throw away those shackles. Everything will end in my hands, and I will illuminate the future for the Hightower. ]

Morua left the dark room where her father was and came to the magic research room at the top of the towering tower. In addition to magic, the history of the Hightower family was also recorded here.

Since which generation, only the heirs of the Hightower family and those destined to become the inheritors of history can enter this room to receive the inheritance.

Unlike most families in Westeros, the history of the Hightower family has never been interrupted. From the Dawn Era to the present, the recording methods have changed from stone carving to parchment, and the content of the records has changed from brief to detailed. The only thing that remains the same is that descendants with Hightower blood will be cursed when they come to the room that records the history of the Hightower family. This curse comes from a black stone. In the oldest records of the Hightower family, this stone once belonged to the Bloodstone Emperor of the Dawn Kingdom. The Hightower, who inherited the lineage of the Amethyst Queen of the ancient Dawn Kingdom, are descendants of the Dawn Kingdom that moved their entire family after the Bloodstone Emperor's bloody era and crossed the Sunset Sea to Westeros.

The curse is that when the Hightower bloodline comes into contact with the Black Stone, an idea will be planted in the mind of the person to restore the world to what it should be, and they will be bound by this idea for the rest of their lives.

In Hightower's records, the emperor of the Kingdom of Dawn is a descendant of "God". After eventually shedding his "divinity", he will become the "promised" human emperor who will rule Middle-earth and usher in a great era for mankind.

And in the great era of mankind, all aliens, elves, and magic will end in the Far West.

"The Far West is the first continent of the world, the beginning of all things. All magic and elves flew through the clouds above the world on the high-altitude air currents and came to the Far West in ancient times. The stories and songs of elves and magic also ended here."

After the Hightower family came into contact with the true family history, the worldview formed under the influence of the Black Stone Curse. The world was originally created by the gods of creation, and Westeros - the Far West Continent is the first continent of the world, and it is also the final destination of all magic, aliens, and elves. After all this is achieved, the world will usher in a great era for mankind.

According to records, the original process of the world moving towards the future was interrupted by the "Blood Stone Emperor", who killed his sister, the "Amethyst Queen", interrupting the process of the "Human Emperor" shedding his "divinity", thus causing the world to move in a direction completely different from what the Creator God expected.

According to the historical records of the Hightower family, before her death, the Amethyst Queen issued a decree to her descendants, which fell on the black stone that once belonged to the Bloodstone Emperor. This move ended the Bloodstone Emperor's plan to use the power of the black stone to become a "god" again from a human, and at the same time imposed restrictions on his descendants, requiring them to follow the predetermined destiny, turn the world back on track, and usher in a great era for mankind.

If Viserys were here, he would understand this period of history like this: similar to the original Ice and Fire World, the Human Era would begin in Middle-earth, just like the Lord of the Rings World, and the elves and magic would flee to the western continent of Aman. But the Amethyst Queen believed that the Bloodstone Emperor interrupted all this, so she left a mental stamp and wanted his descendants to restore everything to "what it should have been". But with the death of the Bloodstone Emperor, the world did not return to the "right track", and elves, magic, and aliens became popular in the world, and the western continent of Aman, which was supposed to be hidden from the world and unknown to the world, still occupies a very important position in the world.

After migrating to the Western Continent, seeing the war between the ancestors and the children of the forest, and building the Citadel after years of research and exploration, the ancestors of Hightower gradually found a solution to the problems they faced in their historical exploration, which was to slaughter all aliens, erase everything related to magic, and expel magic and aliens from the world, so that the world could be restored to "what it should have been".

Therefore, they were happy to accept the Andal people's human-centered belief in the Seven Gods, and were committed to eliminating gods, magic, and witchcraft.

The dragons were only part of what they were supposed to eliminate, but the Valyrians were so powerful that they didn't know how to solve it. In the Valyrian era, they looked around the world and it seemed that only dragons were magical creatures. But this entanglement lasted for thousands of years and eventually turned into hatred of dragons. In the process, some people began to associate dragons with magic and witchcraft, and constructed lies to guide all those who agreed that the world "should be like it was" to be hostile to dragons, magic and witchcraft.

According to Hightower's records, they thought their goal had been achieved a hundred years ago. However, the fact is that the ideological imprint left by the Amethyst Queen still torments them, and the world has not become "what it should have been".

By the time of Leighton Hightower's generation, he had fallen into madness in order to resolve the family curse-like ideological imprint. He frantically studied magic and witchcraft, trying to find a solution.

After decades of research, Earl Leighton found nothing. "Mad Woman" Moroya is the "historical inheritor" chosen by Earl Leighton. After him, he and his successor, Belle Hightower, will shoulder the historical mission of the family.

After Viserys reappeared with his dragons, Lord Leyton despaired of the curse that turned the world into "what it should have been". Like some of his predecessors, he began to look for ways to eliminate the influence of the "Black Stone", but the imprint of the Amethyst Queen's thoughts made him, like his predecessors, have his spirit branded with "inheritance", and he had no way of discarding the Black Stone.

But Moroya had come into contact with the aura of the "Blood Stone Emperor" before, and she had a hunch that the mysterious existence that inherited the aura of the Blood Stone Emperor might be able to erase the influence of the Black Stone for them, and she seemed to have a way to get in touch with it through the power of the Black Stone.

(End of this chapter)