Chapter 24: Skinchangers and Wolf Wargs
Dany misunderstood Watson. He really gave her a book of magic secrets.
After returning home, she couldn't help but be curious about the Twelve Cry of Spring, so she secretly opened the book and flipped through it. She originally planned to study the top skills of the other world, but when she opened it, she found dense data and maps.
Yes, there are twelve kinds of Cry of Spring in Watson's diary, but the 12 difficult "gymnastics" movements only occupy twelve pages. The book fell to the ground before, and it happened to be opened on the page of Cry of Spring.
In fact, more of the content is numbers and map sketches.
Not only the Dothraki Sea, but almost the entire topography of the Essos continent is described in detail, and even the population, industrial distribution, military deployment, city wall sentry towers and other data of each city-state are available.
It seems to be specially used for his khal son to conquer cities?In addition, Watson also recorded the growth of grass in the nomadic pastures of the centaurs, rainfall, temperature, humidity, whether certain areas are prone to epidemics, herbal knowledge learned from witch doctors, the length of summer, and the temperature and agricultural production in various regions in winter.
It seems to be disorganized, but it actually contains the most brilliant survival experience of nomadic centaurs.
In short, Watson's diary is almost useless to a single person, but it is a magic book for khals. Of course, the premise is that the khal must know the goods.
It records in detail the customs and customs of the Essos continent, production and animal husbandry, geographical environment, and seasonal changes. If Blue-Eyed Haggo had lived, he might have become the greatest khal with the assistance of his father, and even unified the Dothraki before Dany.
This diary is very useful for Dany's future conquest of the Dothraki Sea, and she decided to bury Watson with honor.
Well, personally preside over Watson's cremation ceremony.
"The tail of the blood comet has really become longer, and Watson has joined the khal's team!" Ago pointed to the bloody traces in the sky and shouted in amazement.
When ordinary horsemen cremated, they didn't actually need to look for signs in the night sky, but Dany kept her word. After putting the old man's body on the small crematorium, she really shouted a few times to the sky in public.
Then the horsemen were horrified to "discover" that the comet's tail had grown a little longer.
The comet was getting closer to the planet, and theoretically it would become brighter and brighter, and the comet's tail would become clearer and clearer, but it was impossible for such a significant change to occur in just a few words.
Illusion, everything was an illusion.
But Dany didn't correct them, but ordered with a solemn and mysterious expression: "Kill the horse!"
A stubborn horse was led over. Well, it was indeed stronger than Watson's previous mount.
Two warriors held down the horse's head, and the third centaur flashed his scimitar. A white line reflected the red light of the torch, cutting through the dark night sky of Buddha's dawn.
The horse neighed and struggled, but it only made the blood spurt from its neck more intense.
"Splash", the dark red horse blood fell into the copper basin below like a waterfall.
"Bring the docile straw horse here," Dany said again.
An old Dothraki warrior stepped out, carrying a straw horse made of sticks and devil grass on his shoulder.
"Soul out of the body!" She pointed at the dying horse with her right hand and shouted in Mandarin Chinese, English, Sichuan dialect, and Dothraki.
To her Khaleesi tribe, it seemed that Khaleesi was chanting a series of mysterious spells.
"Mommy, mommy, coax!" After muttering a few more "spells" that Dany herself didn't know what they meant, she suddenly threw her arm and pointed her left sword at the foal horse, "The soul is back!"
Under the awe of the horsemen and the bewildered gaze of Jorah, Dany took a breath for a while, then glanced around and said, "Okay, the spirit of the steed has entered the foal horse. This will be a rare and precious horse with the gentleness of a foal horse and the power of a fierce horse. Old Watson no longer has to worry about not being able to catch up with the khal, nor does he have to be afraid of falling off the horse's back!"
"Put the foal horse on, it's almost dawn, get ready to light the fire." She waved her hand and ordered.
"Then how do we deal with this?" The warrior who was holding the horse to bleed asked nervously, pointing to the horse's corpse with tears in his eyes.
Khaleesi is not only the Unburnt and the Mother of Dragons, but she also knows the magic used for sacrifice. It's so awe-inspiring!
"You're stupid, of course we'll roast it over a big fire." Dany rolled her eyes and said unhappily.
She had gone through so much trouble just to preserve food as much as possible while fulfilling the tradition of the horsemen.
Watson's body was roasting in the fire, and a group of horsemen were busy outside the fire. Some roasted horse meat, and some cooked soup in an iron pot - horse blood, horse bones, barley, dried apples, turnips, and peppercorns. No salt was needed, and it was fragrant.
Hmm, I don't know if it was the aroma of the food, or the burnt aroma of Watson's meat, or a mixture of the two?
The strange smell increased people's appetite, and the horsemen and Jorah ate very hard.
Dany couldn't stand it herself, so she carried a bamboo basket on her back, a basket of roasted meat, and ran away under the pretext of taming a dragon.
On the fourth day, Karls set off at dusk as he had done in the previous few days. Along the way, he could see puddles marked with rocks and wooden stakes.
The situation was better than the worst Dany had expected. Even if the second group of knights had taken water from most of the puddles, when Karls came and removed the rocks pressing on them, shallow water marks could still be seen.
Dany didn't spare any of them. As she walked, she consumed her water reserves. She used her empty water bag to collect all the water mixed with mud and sand, and then poured it out and filtered it when she set up camp.
Even though the water supply was temporarily relieved, after walking for about three hours, someone in the team died. A one-and-a-half-year-old baby girl.
Her mother cried heartbreakingly, and the whole team could hear her mother's pain and despair. Dany felt very uncomfortable, but she was powerless.
She didn't even know the cause of the baby girl's death. She didn't have heatstroke or lack of food and drink. She passed away after having diarrhea in her mother's arms for a long time.
According to the tradition of the Dothraki people, this poor child is too young to ride a horse. She can't enter the endless black grassland of the Kingdom of Night. She must be reincarnated again.
The child was buried in the sand on the spot.
The team hardly stopped. Just like dealing with the old Watson who fell off the horse yesterday, only Dany and the ten-man team that the mother was in were left to deal with the aftermath.
Perhaps after all the bad times come good times. In the morning light of the next day, Dany laughed and waved to the sky, applauding her baby dragon's first flight.
When the black dragon circled and rose into the sky, turning into a small dot and disappearing, Dany got anxious and unexpectedly entered the dragon dream state.
It was also the first time that she had a dragon dream from a distance without touching the black dragon. In fact, it was not appropriate to describe this state as "dragon dream".
If we use the "wolf spirits" of the Stark brothers and sisters as an analogy, Dany can call it a "secondary dragon spirit".
Wolf spirits, also known as skinchangers, or a type of skinchanger, refer to humans who can invade the consciousness of animals or other people and control their behavior.
For skinchangers, it is easier to do this if there is an emotional bond between humans and animals. Therefore, wolves, which are close relatives of dogs and have more loyal genes, are the most common skinchanger partners.
The person who controls the wolf is called a wolf warg, not that he can only communicate with wolves.
Bran, Rickon, Arya of the Stark family, and Jon Snow, the nominal protagonist of "A Song of Ice and Fire", are all wolf wargs. They have powerful and enviable skinchanger talents.
It's just that they have not undergone systematic training, and they have been denying and rejecting their talents subconsciously, so their abilities have not been fully revealed.
Bran is so strong that there is no need to elaborate. When he is upgraded from a skinchanger to a green prophet, he can wander on the timeline of Westeros, change the past, and observe the future.
Well, the old gods observe the world through the weirwood, and the weirwood only exists in Westeros. The power of the old gods should not be able to reach Essos.
Jon's talent makes the strongest wildling skinchanger, "Six-Shaper" Varamyr, feel timid. So how strong is Varamyr?
So strong that even when he was beaten to a pulp by the red priestess, he still had the energy to take over other healthy humans.
Even if his fate was bad and the possession failed, Varamyr did not die, but possessed his pet wolf.
Well, in the end, he was unlucky and met Bran, the first skinchanger in Westeros.
God didn't want him to live.
As for Arya, her Nymeria was released long ago, and ended up going to Braavos to be an apprentice of the Faceless Men. The wolf and Arya are separated by the strait and thousands of kilometers, but they can still communicate through wolf dreams from time to time.
Finally, Rickon, who was only three years old, could actually predict the future to a limited extent through wolf dreams.
Sansa's "Lady" died too early, and her experience and life values were very un-"Northern", so it is impossible to guess whether she has the talent of wolf spirit.
However, Robb Stark should also have a very strong talent. His direwolf can foresee the crisis of his master, and has reminded his master several times that "there is danger" or "this person is not trustworthy", and it is as magical as a divine beast.
It's just that Robb has a wife and forgets about the wolf, and has always rejected the crisis premonition received from the wolf in his subconscious.
Wolf spirits are recognized as "evil creatures" of the same level as white walkers and goblins. As long as wolf spirits are found, everyone will kill them. The reason for such social opinion is closely related to the history of the continent of Westeros.
As mentioned before, except for fantasy species such as the children of the forest and giants, all humans in Westeros are invaders and refugees from the past of the continent of Essos.
The children of the forest are a dark and beautiful nation with short stature. The height of adults is about the same as that of ordinary children.
They have dark chestnut skin, big ears, and big golden eyes.
But some children of the forest who have the gift of green prophets have green or red eyes. If such children of the forest merge with the heart tree, they will become green prophets and gain green vision.
The key is here. The skinchangers almost originated from the children of the forest and are representatives of the lost civilization.
Twelve thousand years ago, the first generation of invaders carried bronze weapons and competed with the indigenous people for a place to survive.
One side was small and weak, with a small number of tribes, but had strange magic; the other side was tall and strong, with advanced bronze weapons, more people, but no superpowers.
The two sides "fought each other like chickens" and barely ended up in a draw. On the small island in the center of the God's Eye Lake, the Thousand Faces Island, they signed an "oath" to divide the sphere of influence.
This process lasted for 4,000 years. Because the first generation of invaders, the "first men", had seen the "magic" of the Children of the Forest, their own beliefs were also very "loose". Gradually, the first men began to worship the mysterious gods of the Children of the Forest and became believers of the old gods.
Maybe it was because of faith, or maybe it was because of blood hybridization (don't doubt it, let alone the "child"-sized Children of the Forest, the people of Westeros even went to giants, and their appetite was frightening), skinchangers began to appear among the first men.
There is one skinchanger in a thousand people, and one greenseer in a thousand skinchangers.
This ratio seems a bit low, but if you think about it, there are one or two greenseers in almost every generation, and one or two "Brans". There are one or two people like Bran in every generation. It's really a bit scary!
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