Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon.

Chapter 226 Theory
"Master Prime Minister, Ser Garth Hightower is outside and wants to see Ser Baelor."

Oberon was in charge of the command in the Citadel and was a little surprised to hear the news: "Oh? How many people did he bring with him?"

"Only Ser Garth himself and his squire."

Oberon narrowed his eyes, looked towards the great library of the Citadel, paused, and said, "Okay, I understand. Wait here."

The news reached Viserys's ears, but Viserys didn't care: "Let them see."

Only half a quarter of an hour later, Ser Baelor Hightower returned to the Great Library with a pale face and said, "Captain Godian, please inform me that Baelor Hightower of the Hightower family wishes to see His Majesty."

Godian looked at him and made way for him. "Your Majesty has ordered that Ser Baelor Hightower or Lord Leighton do not need to be stopped from entering the classroom hall. Please go in on your own."

When these words were spoken, the princes in the Great Library were shocked for a moment, but in the end, except for Beile Haitar, who was pale, no one came forward to ask for a meeting.

Sir Baelor of the Hightower family entered the brightly lit classroom. Seeing the king standing calmly on the podium and a group of doctors with unpleasant faces below, he felt extremely frightened. However, he stepped forward and bowed, "Your Majesty, I, Baelor Hightower, the heir of the Hightower family, send my greetings to you. Please allow me to overstep my authority and tell you something in private."

Viserys asked curiously, "Interesting. What is Ser Baelor so anxious about?"

"Your Majesty, my father, Layton, is ill and dying. I will soon inherit the title and headship of the Hightower family."

"Oh?" Viserys said. "That happened? When did it happen?"

Beile replied: "Just now, Your Majesty, my brother Gars informed me of the news and hoped that I could return to the Tower to preside over the affairs."

Viserys asked with concern: "Such a big thing happened at home. It is time to go back and take charge of the affairs. Are you here to ask for the Tower back?"

Sir Baelor said stubbornly, "No, Your Majesty, I am here to confess my crime. Please allow me to meet you in private."

"In such a hurry?" Viserys asked calmly. "Should I tell you now?"

"Your Majesty, please allow me. Please."

"Yes." Viserys stood up and walked into the compartment in the hall.

Ser Baelor saw that he was not searched, so he straightened his clothes and followed. When he entered the house, he saw Viserys had his back to him. He did not dare to have any other thoughts. He knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, the Hightower family is willing to pay any price in exchange for your forgiveness."

"What do you mean by forgiveness, Ser Baelor?" Viserys asked. "I don't understand you."

"Your Majesty, our Hightower family is willing to hand over everything we have now. I only ask Your Majesty to allow me to lead the entire family to the west."

"What are you talking about, Ser Baelor?"

"Your Majesty, you have already found out about the 'real world' of the Citadel. I know you must have some suspicions about the Hightower family. It is only a matter of time before you find out about my Hightower family. Rather than doing that, I would rather point it out directly. Your Majesty, although you have dragons, you need to prepare for a war with the aliens and stabilize the rear. If you fight with my family, the Hightower family will certainly not be able to fight against the dragons, but I don't know if you have heard of the saying in the Kingdom of Dawn that 'a centipede will die but not die'. My Hightower family has ruled the area around Oldtown for nearly ten thousand years. It is not a task that can be accomplished overnight to completely wipe them out."

"Are you threatening me?"

Baelor Hightower stiffened his neck and said, "No, sire. I am seeking to avoid an unnecessary war, to save the Hightower family, and to save the innocent people of Oldtown."

Viserys just asked calmly, "So, it is you, the Hightower, who are behind the Citadel?"

Seeing Viserys so calm, Baelor tried to maintain his composure, but couldn't help sweating on his forehead: "No, Your Majesty. The Hightower family and the Citadel's 'real world' organization have been intertwined and compatible for a long time. There have been conflicts and mutual infiltration. From ancient times to the present, the relationship between them is no longer what it was at the beginning. The real world has its own goals, and we Hightower also have our own goals. It's just that the goals of both parties happen to coincide before they are realized."

Viserys laughed. "You are so eager to jump out. Have you ever considered that I can't find anything in the Citadel?"

Baelor responded, "I have never been by your side, sire. But I have heard your ways. The way you took Dragonstone, the wisdom with which you forced Lord Stannis to strike first, the shrewdness with which you set King's Landing on fire. I do not know how you will deal with the Hightowers, but I do know that when you do, they will be ruined."

Viserys looked into Baelor's eyes and said, "You Hightower have deep roots here. The outcome is still uncertain." "." Baelor shook his head. "The continuation of the Hightower family is not for the sake of strength or honor, but only for the continuation of family heritage."

Viserys goaded him. "Is this what you mean by 'light the way'?"

Beile smiled bitterly and replied, "Maybe, maybe not. No one knows what the ancestors who set the clan language were thinking. But I know that the family is cursed and has no choice. Even if someone tried to change it, it was useless."

Viserys was curious. "Cursed? You want to tell me about the origins of your House Hightower."

"That's right." Baelor smiled. "When Aegon the Conqueror came to Oldtown, our ancestors also told him that - but they were reserved at the time, only saying that the Hightower family originated from the 'Dawn Kingdom' and has been passed down to this day, so Aegon was willing to accept the Hightower family and let Maegor I marry the daughter of the Hightower family."

Viserys raised an eyebrow and looked over. "Is there anything else?"

"'The Kingdom of Dawn', ah, Your Majesty, please let me tell you about the origin of Hightower." Baelor said, "The Hightower family is descended from the Amethyst Queen of the Kingdom of Dawn. Eight thousand years ago, the Bloodstone King of the Kingdom of Dawn rebelled and seized the throne of the Amethyst Queen. The ancestors of Hightower were ordinary kings on the seashore of the Kingdom of Dawn. Because the Bloodstone King killed all the descendants of the Amethyst Queen, the ancestors had no choice but to sail into the sea, cross the 'Sea of ​​Sunset', and arrive in Westeros. Settled here. Three hundred years ago, this is the story that the ancestors told Aegon the Conqueror."

Upon hearing this, Viserys couldn't help but feel curious: "What is the other version of the story?" What he was thinking was, why does it sound like déjà vu to "The History of the Shang Fleet's Conquest of the Maya"?
Baelor's eyes seemed to travel through countless years, and he answered, "In fact, the Hightower family can be traced back even earlier. Tens of thousands of years ago, the Kingdom of the Dawn sent a fleet to the East Sea, which is the Sunset Sea of ​​Westeros, and found the continent of Westeros. The location of Oldtown is the bridgehead of the Kingdom of the Dawn. The ancestor of the Hightower family, half of whose bloodline was actually the captain of this investigation fleet. After that, the Bloodstone Emperor rebelled, and it was actually a princess who crossed the sea. The ancestor of the Hightower married her and respected her as the queen of the Hightower family. However, she brought an endless curse to the Hightower family."

"You must be curious about what the fleet of the Kingdom of Dawn is doing?" Baelor asked himself, "The answer is that the continent of Westeros is the promised land promised by the gods to aliens, magic, eccentrics, and children of the forest. This western continent should have been separated from the entire continent by the earthquake ten thousand years ago, and floated to the center of the Sunset Sea under the power of the gods. From then on, it became the place where only those who were promised can enter through the 'straight channel'.

In contrast, the main continent became Middle-earth, and under the rule of the Emperor, the great era of mankind began. However, the world did not develop as the gods promised, and the continent where the Kingdom of Dawn was located did not enter the great era of mankind. Instead, barbarians, beasts, and aliens continued to approach the border of the kingdom, the princes became more and more arrogant and rebellious, and the people of the kingdom became more and more indulgent and corrupt. The power of the gods to divide and migrate the continent seemed to disappear overnight, and it was replaced by an era of chaotic magic and aliens.

The emperor who ruled the Kingdom of Dawn realized that the world was not moving forward as promised by the gods, and that his prayers to the gods were no longer answered. He guessed that something had happened to the continent where the gods lived, so he sent a fleet deep into the vast ocean to search for the place where the gods lived. The place where the gods lived, Westeros, was finally found, had long been stagnant, and the Dorne Arm was still connected to the main continent. Even humans on the edge of the main continent began to enter the place where the gods lived through the Dorne Arm, competing with the goblins and the children of the forest for dominance over the continent.

When the news reached the Kingdom of Dawn, the Emperor realized that the gods—not the false gods that rose later, but the one who promised the world the direction of progress—may have fallen. Most of the records of the Hightower family are in Westeros, and we cannot be sure whether this news has any impact on the struggle for the throne between the Amethyst Queen and the Bloodstone King. But eight thousand years ago, the princess of the Amethyst Queen brought the black stone tablet that the Bloodstone King tried to return to the throne from the Emperor to the land where the ancestors of the Hightower lived. The princess gave the mission to the descendants: to restore the world to what it should have been.

And this mission became a curse for the Hightower family.

The princess is of the bloodline of the emperor, and her bloodline can be traced back to the gods. The black stone she brought also has magic. The mission she gave became the shackles of the Hightower family. For eight thousand years, Hightower has been trying to complete her mission.

But the world has long deviated from the original god's expectations. Our family has been searching for a way for 8,000 years, but in the end, we were unable to complete her mission. The scholars of the Citadel, who were supported by Hightower but gradually became independent over the long years, found a theory in their long exploration that cutting off magic would gradually restore the world to its original trajectory. So the Hightower family and the Citadel began to act according to this theory. But the rise of the Valyrians made us realize how weak our power is, and how powerful magic and sorcery can be. We achieved nothing for thousands of years, until the fall of Valyria and the arrival of Targaryen in Westeros, we had the opportunity to try to advance."

"That is absurd," Viserys responded. "I will assume that what you say is plausible. But according to what you say, your goal is to fight to the death with me. How can you talk about understanding and peace? Isn't it ridiculous?"

"No, Your Majesty." Baelor suddenly raised his head with a relaxed expression, "The fate of the Hightower family has ended. The curse and fate we carry have ended. My sister, the madwoman Moruoya Hightower, took away the stone tablet engraved with the mission and cursed the Hightower family for thousands of years tonight. It was impossible for anyone to do that. I can feel that the shackles that bound my soul have disappeared. I no longer need to devote my life to the family's mission and be imprisoned. And this also means that the Hightower family no longer needs to compete with you for that mission."

Viserys could not help asking, "What do you mean when you say that the madwoman Morua took away the black stone tablet that gave your family its mission?"

The black stone tablet of the Bloodstone Emperor, the blood of the Amethyst Queen, and the flash of magical movement that was felt earlier.

Viserys had a very bad guess that Euron, who had a close relationship with the Bloodstone King, might be planning something.

Legend has it that after the Amethyst Queen, the daughter of Emperor Opal, ascended the throne, her brother, in a fit of jealousy, overthrew the Queen and proclaimed himself the Emperor, the Bloodstone Emperor. Since then, the kingdom has been filled with terror and slavery. The Bloodstone Emperor was fond of studying dark and terrible witchcraft. He married a violent and cruel woman and often ate human flesh. In addition, he no longer worshipped the gods of Yi Ti, but instead worshipped a black stone that fell from the sky. The bloody chaos in the Far East eventually led to the Long Night: the Maiden of Light turned away and ignored the world, and the Night Lion went to the world to punish humans for their debauchery. The darkness lasted for a long time until a great warrior stood up (called Yi Tal in Yi Ti legends), holding the Lightbringer and leading a group of people who still had consciences into battle. In the end, light returned to the world, but this great empire could no longer rise. The whole world fell apart, and different tribes lived on their own and were wary of other tribes.

Following the various legends, the Bloodstone Emperor killed his own parents to seize the throne, relied on the Black Stone to dream of becoming a god, and then caused the Long Night; the Long Night caused the White Walkers to invade the human world, bringing a terrifying long winter, when the White Walkers were born, holding ice swords as thin as blades, and resurrected the dead to fight for them; after that, a great hero called Azor Ahai by the Orientals held the Lightbringer and led his troops to fight against the White Walkers, and finally the White Walkers were repelled and retreated to the land of eternal winter; after that, Brandon the Builder used ice, gravel and magic to build a great wall stretching for a hundred leagues from the Grand Canyon to the Shivering Sea to resist the White Walkers' invasion again.

Later ancient prophecies of Ashar claimed that a cold darkness would cover the world, the White Walkers would appear again, and the prophesied prince Azor Ahai would be reborn and lead an army to fight against them.

People thought that the White Walkers were the Long Night, but perhaps the Long Night and the White Walkers are two different things.

Viserys knew that the so-called "God" was actually a powerful being that possessed a certain "song".

Could it be that Euron is related to the God of Cold?
Or perhaps, in addition to the God of Cold, there is some kind of ancient god who represents "darkness" and has fallen, but it is so long ago that people don't know of his existence, so they mistakenly believe that "darkness" represents the "God of Cold".

The more Viserys thought about it, the more it made sense. After all, for a 'descendant of a god' like the Bloodstone Emperor to become a 'god', it would be impossible for him to become a vassal of the 'God of Cold'.

(End of this chapter)