Chapter 116 The rotten things in Westeros in those years
In the past year, the situation in Westeros has also changed suddenly.
When Dany was still a guest in Qarth, the usurper Robert's good friend, Eddard Stark, the Duke of Winterfell, followed the footsteps of his father and brother and was beheaded by "Mad King II" Joffrey in the most humiliating way.
There is no doubt that the Stark family in the North is the absolute protagonist in "Game of Thrones", and their miserable experience has always been deeply sympathized by the audience - Dany often puts their characters into her when watching the show.
But from an objective point of view, it is not too unfair for their family to have such an experience.
First of all, let's talk about Eddard's death. Rather than saying that
Eddard died at the hands of Joffrey because of Robert, it is better to say that his wife and daughter conspired to kill him.
It is said that Eddard Stark has low emotional intelligence and no political acumen. In fact, he is very self-aware and understands that he is not suitable for King's Landing. When Robert personally went to the North to find him to be his prime minister, he was going to refuse.
"Robert is my good friend. If I reject him, he will be furious and scold me, but we will be reconciled in a few days."
At that time, after holding hands with his wife happily, Eddard said to her.
Eddard and Robert grew up in the Vale of Arryn. They are both adopted sons of Duke Arryn and have rebelled together. They can be called the best friends in the world of A Song of Ice and Fire.
Eddard's judgment is not wrong.
But his wife is a most orthodox noble woman and considers things very realistically.
When she was young, Catelyn Tully could face the love of her childhood sweetheart, Littlefinger, with the most rational emotions. Now that she is the mother of five children, she can also deal with King Robert's invitation with the most rational attitude.
She urged her husband to accept the king's appointment for two reasons: first, you were good friends in the past, but now he is the king and you are the minister, and the power of heaven is unpredictable; second, the children are grown up, and it is time to talk about marriage. King's Landing is the capital of the Seven Kingdoms, where the powerful and the rich gather, and there are more opportunities than the desolate North.
As the heir, the eldest son Robb had to stay and guard the house when his father was away. The third son Rickon was too young, only three years old, and could not leave his mother - Catelyn herself would not go to King's Landing.
At that time, there were three children who planned to go to King's Landing with Eddard, the eldest daughter Sansa, the second daughter Arya, and the second son Bran.
The two daughters had to find a husband Catelin and her husband looked down on Theon and never thought of letting him marry Sansa and Bran, as the second son, had no inheritance rights and his future was worrying - this was not unfounded worry. Eddard's younger brother Benjen, because he had no inheritance rights, eventually fell to the Night's Watch on the Wall.
If he went to King's Landing, with the blessing of the Prime Minister's father and the King's uncle, Bran could at least get a genuine knight, and with better luck, he might even become a Kingsguard.
There is no doubt that Catelyn Tully made the choice that a good wife and mother should make.
Unfortunately, she was too politically savvy to ignore the reality that King's Landing was facing a big storm, and her husband had no ability to avoid the storm at all.
Instigating her husband to go to King's Landing can be barely whitewashed, but kidnapping Tyrion is too stupid.
Well, it's also because Littlefinger is too smart. He made her have a super Mary Sue mentality that "a man who loves me deeply will not hurt me, and even if I get married, he will definitely continue to be my licker" which easily deceived Catelyn and made her firmly believe that it was Tyrion who murdered Bran.
I have to sigh here that Littlefinger is really a role model in the licking dog world. He licked the couple's family to pieces.
Back to the point, although Tyrion is a dwarf and is not liked by his father, he is a Lannister after all. Catelyn kidnapped him, and officially declared war on the Lannisters on behalf of "Stark + Tully".
This immediately put Eddard in King's Landing and the Queen's line into an unfavorable situation of life and death. Although his good friend is the king, the Lannisters are too powerful-Robert borrowed 3 million gold dragons from Duke Tywin, and the court was almost mostly maintained by the Lannisters.
After talking about how a wife cheated on her husband, let's talk about how Sansa Stark cheated on her father.
After Ed found out that the three children of Robert and the queen were not the king's biological children, he did not immediately reveal the matter to Robert.
He had a heart that was so upright that it was a bit pedantic, and he was worried that Robert would kill Cersei's three children like Tywin killed Prince Rhaegar's infant.
So he secretly found Cersei and told her: I know the shabby things you did, and now you haven't told my poor but cruel good friend. I give you three days, take the children away quickly, and then our two families will fight on the battlefield!
When Cersei knew that he knew, she killed Robert in advance.
Because in King's Landing, all of Ed's power comes from the king.
It is said that after killing Robert, Cersei should immediately take down Ed's family, or at least control him.
But Cersei didn't.
The first stage of Game of Thrones is the power struggle drama - "Edward vs. Cersei". Both protagonists are new to power struggles. Compared with Tywin, Varys, Littlefinger, Prince Martell, and Old Rose of Highgarden, these two can be described as a fight between novices.
Cersei's palace fighting skills are full, but her court fighting skills are very trendy.
After all, Eddard has experienced the "War of the Usurper" that overthrew the Targaryen Dynasty. He has some knowledge and a certain political sense.
Seeing his good friend die tragically the day after he gave Cersei the final notice, he immediately realized that he had killed his good friend.
In grief and remorse, he decided to use his life to protect his good friend's "Baratheon Dynasty".
Eddard had already realized that he was going to die, but he didn't want his two daughters to die with him.
So he endured it and planned to secretly send his two daughters to the clipper ship that had been prepared long ago. When they left King's Landing, he would fight the Lannisters alone to the death.
Not to mention, in the early days of the king's murder, Eddard really had the capital to fight desperately.
Because Renly, Varys and others planned to support him, even Littlefinger, who secretly pitted him and left him with a bloody face, didn't want him to fall immediately.
Those people did not support Eddard's justice, but out of considerations of political balance. Once Eddard fell, the next King's Hand must be Duke Tywin, who had full skills in military, finance, power struggle, and palace fighting.
Unfortunately, Eddard righteously rejected the advice of all those who leaned on him. The king's third brother, Duke Renly, had to run away, Varys never dared to see him again, and Littlefinger simply surrendered to Cersei.
At this time, Eddard was still doomed to lose, but he had realized: my friends have all gone to hell, so why should I be afraid of death?
It must be said that if Eddard wanted to, he was still very capable of hiding secrets.
Just like he had concealed Jon Snow's life experience from everyone, including the cunning Varys and Littlefinger, he had almost concealed his plan to secretly send his two daughters away from everyone in King's Landing.
Then his eldest daughter Sansa came out to betray her father. The night before leaving, she secretly ran to see Cersei and told her everything about her leaving. In the early days, Sansa was a typical aristocratic girl who loved handsome boys, and Joffrey was very handsome. She was reluctant to leave Cersei. She suddenly woke up, and the next day she captured Eddard and locked him in the dungeon.
All of Eddard's men were killed, the Prime Minister's Tower was bloodbathed, only Sansa and the maid Jenny survived, and Arya was left on the streets.
Eddard had long since given up his will to die, and was not afraid of being imprisoned in the dungeon, but his two daughters fell into Cersei's hands, and he had to give up his honor for the second time in his life.
For the sake of his daughters, he admitted to the people of King's Landing in the Cathedral of St. Baelor that he had committed treason and that Joffrey was the legitimate king. - According to the agreement with Cersei, when he surrendered, Joffrey would let him put on a black robe and go to the Wall to be a night watchman, but Joffrey was too crazy and regretted it temporarily, and chopped off her father's head in front of Sansa.
Sansa not only pitted her father, but she also had to bear a large part of the responsibility for a series of tragedies in the Wolf family later.
How many stupid things did Catelyn do to save her?
Well, after talking about Eddard's death, let's talk about other major events.
After Ed was imprisoned, four kings rose up at once:
Robb, the King of the North who wanted to avenge his father, owned the North and the Riverlands, wolves and trout;
Joffrey, King Robert's cheap son, owned the Crownland and the Westerlands, and lions;
Stannis, the Duke of Dragonstone, the second brother of Robert, owned Dragonstone and the nearby islands, and the flaming heart + stag of the Lord of Light;
Renly, the third brother of Robert, the Duke of Storm's End, owned the Stormlands and the Reach, and the golden rose and the crowned stag;
Dorne and the Vale of Arryn were the only ones left out of the Seven Kingdoms, but the Martell family of Dorne had a blood feud with the Lannisters, and Elia, the wife of Rhaegar, was a princess of Dorne, and she and her two children died tragically at the hands of Tywin.
Although the Vale of Arryn was controlled by Catelyn's sister Lysa, theoretically it belonged to Robb's side, but Lysa only listened to Littlefinger.
Among the four forces, Robb's paper power is the strongest. The huge network of "wolf + fish + eagle (valley) + deer" established during the War of the Usurper has not been completely broken - that's how the naive Robb and Catelyn think.
But this turmoil itself was caused by Lysa's madness - Lysa killed her husband, but told her sister that Lannister killed him - "Eagle" had already left the alliance first.
Speaking of Lysa, I have to complain that Eddard Stark's marriage is like this: I married my eldest sister-in-law, my adoptive father married my younger sister-in-law, and I became brothers-in-law with my most respected adoptive father. I am very happy to have a closer relationship, but my younger sister-in-law is my wife's dog's dog.
"Three Deer" Renly is happy to continue the previous alliance, but "Two Deer" Stannis is a lonely person, and no one can guess what he is thinking.
Erlu gnashed his teeth and said, "I don't want to be king, I don't want to be the son of prophecy, why force me to do it", while secretly arranging for the red-robed priestess to kill his own brother with a "ghost doll".
Well, as mentioned before, the Lord of Light R'hllor has two sides, he is both the god of fire and the devil who controls shadows, and his priests have blood witchcraft that controls shadows to kill people.
The shadow devil of the red-robed woman seems to be more perverted than the shadow secret technique of Shikamaru's family - when the shadow cut Renly's throat, he was equipped with a full set of throat armor, a fine steel throat armor that even an axe could not cut, and the shadow tore through the thick steel plate like cutting through thin paper.
Sanlu died before he could achieve his goal, and was the first to receive a box lunch.
The "Crown Stag + Golden Rose" alliance under his command was disbanded, the "Stag" returned to Erlu, and the Golden Rose became a wild state.
After becoming the leader of the "stag", the two deer not only rejected Robb's alliance, but also ordered the red woman to use blood witchcraft to curse Robb - it is not certain whether Robb's death is related to it, but Joffrey, Robb, and Balon, who were cursed by the red woman, all died.
Littlefinger and Catelyn were childhood sweethearts. Littlefinger was a poor boy who almost licked Catelyn's dog all his life - the imaginary girl Catelyn, not the Duchess Catelyn
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