Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon.

Chapter 227 World Development Context
Viserys listened to Baelor Hightower talking about his family heritage like a criminal caught in Detective Conan, and for a moment he felt like he had power but nowhere to use it.

Poison, assassination, armed rebellion. Viserys was prepared for all of these, but the performance of Hightower and the Citadel so far made him feel like he was preparing a wonderful ballet for a blind man.

No one knew who stabbed Maegor I to death on the Iron Throne with a sharp sword through his throat, and no one knew who fed Aegon II poison wine in the palace. Not to mention that the Hightower family had an ancestor like Hobart Hightower, who, at the end of a Dance with Dragons, died by drinking poisoned wine with Ulf the White, an ambitious man created by Sowing Blood, and did a heroic act.

Viserys had been waiting for some violent reaction from Hightower, hoping that someone would drink the poison with him or kill the king so that he could show his power in public.

Viserys didn't expect that the Citadel and Hightower would fall just as he started to attack, before he could even use his strength.

"The black stone tablet that has been passed down from generation to generation in the Hightower family has a curse and a mission magic. The mission requires those with Hightower blood to protect the tablet until the mission is accomplished. Originally, no one could resist the mission on the tablet, and no one could take it away or destroy it. But Morua has taken the tablet away and suppressed its magical influence by some unknown method. Hightower has finally gotten rid of that mission. I am free, and Hightower is free!"

"I have heard it said by a more trustworthy person than you: 'No man has ever crossed the Sunset Sea, and no one knows what is beyond it,'" Viserys asked. "You said Hightower crossed the Sunset Sea from the Kingdom of the Dawn, and later the Amethyst Queen's princess followed him. Your family must have a chart of the crossing?"

"Unfortunately, we didn't. Our ancestors' ships didn't rely on normal sailing to cross the Sunset Sea. They relied on the power of the Emperor's messengers to cross the Calm Belt. The Sunset Sea at that time was much safer than it is now. The center of the great circulation had not yet formed in the Sunset Sea. The center of the great circulation is a sea area deep in the Sunset Sea with no wind and no ocean currents. It is isolated from the land and is sandwiched in the middle of the sea area surrounded by the Sunset Sea Great Circulation. Without magic and natural wind, no ship can pass through there."

The central area of ​​the great circulation that Beile mentioned sounded to Viserys like Point Nemo in this world. Point Nemo on Earth, also known as the Ocean Inaccessible Pole, is a sea area in the South Pacific Ocean. It is the most remote place on the Earth's surface from the land. It is sandwiched in the middle of the sea area surrounded by the South Pacific circulation. After the Earth entered the space age, Point Nemo was regarded as an excellent "grave" for spacecraft wreckage because of the special nature of the sea area. Because if the wreckage of a spacecraft falls into Point Nemo, its remaining radiation and harmful substances will be trapped here and no longer flow out, and will not pollute other places.

"It seems that your family is very familiar with the Sunset Sea."

Baelor responded: "Before the likes of Brandon the Shipwright, Alyssa Farman, Eustace, and Norman, the Hightowers had made countless unrecorded explorations of the Sunset Sea over the millennia. The Hightowers sought to find a sea route from the Sunset Sea to the Upper Kingdom of the Old Dawn."

Viserys was curious: "Citadel, since you know the world is round, have you ever tried to go east?"

"The result will be the same whether you go east or west. The Kingdom of Dawn collapsed after the Bloodstone Emperor. Even if we find a route, it won't change anything. Hightower hasn't gone deep into the Sunset Sea for hundreds of years." Beile sighed, and then said, "Your Majesty, I say this to tell you. My ancestors once plotted against your ancestors, including my father and I. We also thought about trying to fight against you. But all this was beyond our control. But now my family has been freed. In order to continue, on behalf of the Hightower family, I am willing to pay any price in exchange for your forgiveness. Hightower will no longer pose any threat to you."

"Ser Baelor," Viserys looked at him strangely, "as the head of a family, and soon to be the ruler of the Earl of Oldtown. Think about it, if you were me, what would you do?"

"Your Majesty, those are just mortals' thoughts. As the spokesperson of the gods, you can think at a higher level. I know what you have done for your dragons in the Stormlands." Baelor suddenly looked over, "You are collecting faith for your dragons, you are creating gods. The Hightower family can help you, assist your dragons to become true gods, and spread faith for your dragon god."

Viserys laughed. "You are joking, Ser Baelor. Even if I am planning to create gods for my dragons, if the Hightowers are as capable as you are, what do mere Targaryens and dragons have to worry about?"

Beile didn't take it seriously and asked seriously: "Your Majesty, do you know the truth of faith?"

"What?" Viserys was really curious when he heard the other party ask this.

Baelor replied: "Faith is a manifestation of the power imprint left in people's hearts by the promise of a great era made by the true gods. Why can believers of the Seven Gods defeat the Children of the Forest who are protected by the old gods? Because the imprint left by the true gods on people allows humans to turn faith into power. Even if the gods they believe in cannot exist in reality, humans will develop spiritual power that can resist magic because of the power of faith. And those sects that claim to have gods are just attaching this kind of human power to the so-called 'gods'."

Viserys was puzzled. "That is an interesting statement. Do you believe that gods are real?"

Baelor replied, "The existence of God is beyond doubt. The Human Emperor of the Kingdom of Dawn is the descendant of the true God. In fact, according to the observations and speculations of the ancestors of the Hightower family, the 'Faith of the Seven Gods' was originally supposed to be the 'God' representing mankind before the arrival of the 'Great Era of Mankind'. He would return the divine power to mankind at the final promised moment, indicating that the world has entered the Human Era. It's just that the 'God' has not been born, and that promised moment seems to never come."

Viserys was still curious. "'The Great Age of Mankind'? You mentioned it several times. Is this a prophecy passed down in your family?"

"It is a promise from the true God." Beile replied, "That is the promise that the Emperor of Dawn received from the true God. That message is engraved in our blood from the Amethyst Queen and Princess. When we come into contact with the mission, this cognition will be awakened in our blood."

Viserys asked, "Your blood is etched with that knowledge, so you must believe it. You said the Hightowers could help me. Do you have other plans?"

Baelor paused, then replied, "I don't deny it. I told myself that witnessing the birth of a 'god' would allow me to think of ways to create a 'human god'. But in fact, you don't have to worry. If you agree, I can die with the psychological comfort of the continuation of my family. And the rest of the Hightower will fight for you."

Viserys ignored the second half of his sentence and asked, "Do you think that when the god of mankind is born, the 'Great Age of Mankind', which has never made any progress, will enter the next stage?"

Baylor nodded seriously: "Yes."

Viserys shook his head. "So your family, which may have the blood of the True God, has no idea of ​​the true nature of God, right?"

Combining these pieces of information that were difficult to distinguish between true and false, Viserys roughly sorted out the possible history of the world in his mind and came up with a conjecture that roughly conformed to the development of the world and was logical.

When the Creator God first created the world, the world should have developed in a normal direction, with distinct four seasons, and scientific movement trajectories and geological activities.

Even the God of Creation gave some god-like beings a spoiler of the future, saying that at the end of the creation movement, a great era for mankind would come. These beings who were spoiled were very excited, and each of them worked hard towards the future that had already been determined. But one day, the God of Creation gave up, and the miracles disappeared. The original trajectory came to a halt.

With this stop, the power of the song that created the world lost its direction and stagnated, but the stagnant power affected the normal operation of the world. The most obvious thing affected was the rotation trajectory of the planet. The song was moving normally and the planet was rotating normally. But one day, the movement suddenly stopped, and the song also stopped. The song itself did not know what happened to the Creator God, and could only follow its instinct to maintain the status quo.

It is speculated that the Song of the Earth controls the power to shape the world, and should control the geographical shape. This can explain that for a planet, when there is a force that forcibly maintains the current geographical shape, the geological plates stop moving, there will be no more earthquakes, and the relative positions of mountains, rivers, seabeds and mountains remain at the moment when the Creator God disappeared, waiting to be restarted. Such a situation will cause chaos in the operation of the planet.

Under the influence of this force that forcibly maintains its geographical originality, the planet's rotation axis has problems, which is undoubtedly the root cause of the chaos of the world's four seasons.

This chaos lasted for at least 8,000 years, or even longer, after all, 8,000 years ago was only the time when the White Walkers appeared. It is even boldly speculated that this chaos may have appeared before the recorded Dawn Age, 12,000 years ago, or even tens of thousands of years ago.

until today.

To be honest, before coming into contact with the Citadel and Hightower, Viserys guessed that the reason why the four seasons in the World of Ice and Fire were in chaos was because there was something wrong with the sun, because many people speculated that the World of Ice and Fire might be a three-body planet.

But if you think about it carefully, the long night of the Ice and Fire World only happened once 8,000 years ago. The rest of the time, the length of the four seasons was just chaotic, but it showed a certain pattern. At least the logic from spring to summer to autumn to winter was smooth, and there was no record of going directly from spring to summer and then to autumn or winter. Thinking about it this way, the possibility that the Ice and Fire World is a three-body planet is much smaller.

Now, based on the speculations of the Citadel, Viserys felt that there was a high probability that there was a problem with the planet's rotation axis. Not only did the planet have to keep rotating, but it also had to maintain its geological status quo unchanged at the moment the God of Creation disappeared under the influence of an unscientific force.

It can be imagined that in order to maintain the same geological state, the forces on this planet must be disordered when it rotates. The rotation speed and geological state of this planet remain unchanged, and what changes is the rotation trajectory of the rotation axis. This can explain the disordered length of the four seasons, but it always maintains a normal order.

Viserys tried to imagine the rotation trajectory of the planet in the world of ice and fire. Every time the planet rotates, the angle between the rotation axis and the equator changes, and it is very irregular. Every year, there will be a huge offset. Such abnormal and irregular offsets make the four seasons very disordered.

Why can the cycle of the twelve zodiac signs in the Ice and Fire World be used to calculate years, and why the record of seven wandering stars can always exist in the records of astronomy? It is because the orbit of this planet is most likely normal, and the galaxy it is in is also most likely a stable galaxy.

The only abnormal thing in this star system is the planet where the Ice and Fire World is located.

The reason for this, to some extent, is the existence of magic and witchcraft, as the members of the 'real world' organization firmly believe. On a deeper and more fundamental level, it is the stagnation of the "song" of creation in this world that caused this consequence.

There are indeed abnormal forces influencing the world to return to normal.

As the descendants of the spoilers, the Hightower family was the spoilers of the Dawn Kingdom. They had no way of knowing that the creation movement had stagnated and could not wait for the "Great Era of Humanity", so they began to search for the reason aimlessly. It is speculated that in the generation of the Bloodstone Emperor and the Amethyst Queen, it is very likely that they had a fight because they had glimpsed a little truth. The Bloodstone Emperor chose to become a "god" and become part of the chaotic new world - perhaps he also had the intention of competing for the future control of the world, while the descendants of the Amethyst Queen chose to find a way to restore the world, pointing the finger at abnormal forces - that is, magic and witchcraft.

In the process of searching for the correct method, the descendants of Queen Amethyst, the Hightower family, supported a special research institution, the Citadel.

In the process of constantly researching the truth of the world, the Academy was influenced by the Hightower family's concept of "restoring the world". Eventually, the "Real World" was born in the Academy, an organization dedicated to eliminating the abnormal forces that affect the world and restoring the world to normal operation.

It is very likely that the organizational concept of the "real world" and the plan of the Hightower family were born during the period when Valyria colonized Essos, and even Viserys can be inferred to be in the middle and late stages.

Because it is obvious that the Citadel and the Hightower chose to fight to the death in Westeros, the promised land of mysterious things by the Creator God, for a long period of history. The initial research direction of the Hightower family and the Citadel may have been aliens, magic, and gods. Viserys even speculated that they may have believed that eliminating the aliens on the continent of Westeros would usher in the "great era of mankind" and "restore the world."

Viserys guessed that the Citadel and the Hightower family probably stole some wizardry knowledge when they got the glass candles from the Freehold, which allowed them to take a different approach and have a more "essential" understanding of the world, and these understandings made them more hostile to magic and witchcraft.

Anyway, no matter what the truth is, there is no doubt that this world is so chaotic with four seasons because it is affected by abnormal forces.

But no matter whether it is the Citadel or Hightower, they obviously have not touched on something more fundamental. This is a world where "gods" exist, and a world where abnormal forces seek to influence the development of the world. When the mortals of the Citadel and Hightower tried to restore the world to the original world envisioned by the creator gods who disappeared somewhere, those forces had already given birth to self-awareness and ambitions, and in the name of different gods, they wanted to make the world what they wanted it to be.

(End of this chapter)