Danni misunderstood Watson; he really did give her a martial arts manual.
Back home, unable to contain her curiosity about the Twelve Spring Cries Techniques, she secretly opened the book and flipped through it.
She had intended to study the peak techniques of another world, but upon opening it, she found dense data and maps.
That's right, Watson's diary did contain the Twelve Spring Cries Techniques, but the 12 difficult "gymnastic" movements only occupied twelve pages. When the book fell to the ground, it just happened to open to the page with the Spring Cries Techniques.
In reality, the majority of the content was numbers and rough map sketches.Not only the Dothraki Sea, but almost the entire continent of Essos is described in detail, including the population, industrial distribution, military deployment, city wall sentry towers, and other data of each city-state.
It seems specifically for his Khal son to conquer and plunder?
In addition, Watson, as an observer, recorded the pasture growth of the horsemen's nomadic grasslands, 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 of various regions in winter.Seemingly chaotic, it actually contains the most brilliant survival experience of the nomadic horse lords.
In short, Hua Sheng's diary is almost useless to an individual, but it is a divine manual for a Khal. Of course, provided that Khal knows its value.
It records in detail the customs, agricultural and pastoral production, geographical environment, and seasonal changes of the continent of Essos. If Blue-Eyed Haggo had lived, he might have become the greatest Khal with his father's assistance, and even unified the Dothraki before Daenerys.
This diary will be very useful for Daenerys' future conquest of the Dothraki Sea, and she decided to give Hua Sheng a grand burial.Well, presiding over Watson's cremation myself.
"The tail of the blood comet has really grown longer, Watson has joined the khalasar of the stars!" Ago pointed to the bloody streak in the sky, exclaiming in amazement.
When ordinary Dothraki are cremated, there's really no need to look for omens in the night sky, but Daenerys keeps her word. After placing the old man's body on the small pyre, she really did shout a few times at the sky in public.
Then the Dothraki were horrified to "discover" that the comet's tail had grown a little bit.The comet was constantly approaching the planet, and theoretically it would become brighter and brighter, and the comet's tail would become clearer and clearer, but such an obvious change could never occur in just a few words.
Illusion, it's all an illusion.
However, Dani didn't correct them, but instead, with a solemn, mysterious expression, ordered: "Kill the horse!"
A stubborn nag was led over, and yes, it was indeed more robust than Watson's previous mount.
Two warriors held the horse's head, and the third centaur's scimitar gleamed, a white line reflecting the red light of the torches, cutting through the dim dawn sky.The horse whinnied and struggled, only causing the blood to spurt more violently from its neck.
"Splash," the dark red horse blood cascaded like a waterfall into the copper basin below.
"Bring over the docile grass horse," Dany said again.
An elderly Dothraki warrior stepped forward at her words, carrying a grass horse made of sticks and devilgrass on his shoulder.
"Soul departure!" She pointed her right finger at the dying nag, shouting repeatedly in Mandarin Chinese, English, her Sichuan hometown dialect, and Dothraki.To her Khalasar, Daenerys seemed to utter a string of mysterious incantations.
"Mommy mommy hum!" After muttering a few more "spells" whose meaning even Dany herself didn't know, she suddenly flung her arm down, her left hand forming a sword-finger pointing directly at the grass horse, "Soul return!"
Under the awed gaze of the horse lords and the bewildered look of Jorah, Daenerys paused to catch her breath before surveying the crowd and saying, "Alright, the spirit of the steed has entered the grass horse. This will be a rare and precious horse with the gentleness of a grass horse and the divine power of a wild horse. Old Watson will no longer have to worry about not being able to keep up with the Khal, nor will he need to fear falling from the horse's back!""Put the straw horse up there, it's almost dawn, prepare to light it." She waved her hand and ordered.
"Then what do we do with this?" The warrior holding the horse that had been bled, pointed to the horse carcass with tears in its eyes, and asked nervously.
Khaleesi is not only the Unburnt and Mother of Dragons, but she also understands sacrificial magic, it's so awe-inspiring!
"Are you stupid? Of course, we roast it over the fire and eat it." Daenerys rolled her eyes and said irritably.
Wasn't her fussing around for so long just to preserve as much food as possible while fulfilling the Dothraki tradition?Watson's corpse roasted in the fire, while outside the bonfire, a group of horse lords bustled about with great enthusiasm. Some roasted horse meat, others boiled soup in iron pots – horse blood, horse bones, barley, dried apples, turnip chunks, peppercorns, no salt needed, fragrant and delicious.
Hmm, was it the aroma of the food, the burnt smell of Watson's roasting flesh, or a mixture of both?
The strange taste stimulated the appetite, and the horse lords and Jorah ate with gusto.
Daenerys, however, couldn't stand it. She slung a bamboo basket on her back, carried a basket of roasted meat, and ran off under the pretext of training dragons.On the fourth day, Khal LS set off at dusk as in previous days, constantly seeing puddles marked with rocks and wooden stakes along the way.
The situation was a little better than Daenerys had feared. Even after the second group of knights had taken water, when Khal LS arrived and moved the stones on top, shallow traces of water could still be seen in most of the puddles.
Daenerys didn't miss a single one. As Khal LS traveled, the water reserves were constantly depleted. She used the empty waterskins to collect all the seeping water mixed with mud and sand, and then poured it out to filter it when they camped.Even with the temporary relief of water, after walking for about three hours, someone in the group died: a six-month-old baby girl.
Her mother cried heart-wrenchingly, and the entire group could hear her pain and despair. Daenerys felt terrible, but was powerless to help.
She didn't even know the cause of the baby's death. It wasn't heatstroke, and she hadn't lacked food or drink. She just had diarrhea in her mother's arms for a while and then passed away.
According to Dothraki tradition, this poor child was too young to ride a horse. She cannot enter the endless black grasslands of the Night Lands; she must be reborn.The child was buried in the sand on the spot.
The group barely paused, and just like yesterday when dealing with old Watson who fell from his horse, only Dany and the ten-person team that included the mother stayed behind to handle the aftermath.
Perhaps after the worst comes the best, because in the morning light of the second day, Dany waved and clapped her hands to the sky with joy, cheering for her dragon baby's first flight.
But when the black dragon spiraled up into the sky, turning into a small dot and disappearing, Dany felt a sudden anxiety and unexpectedly entered a dragon dream state.
It was also the first time she had a long-distance dragon dream without touching the black dragon.Actually, at this point, using "Dragon Dream" to describe this state is no longer quite appropriate.
If we use the Stark siblings' "direwolves" as an analogy, Daenerys could be called a "lesser Dragon Spirit."
Direwolves, 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 the human and the animal. Therefore, wolves, which are close relatives of dogs and have relatively loyal genes, are the most common skinchanger partners.
The person who controls the wolf is called a wolf spirit, but it doesn't mean he can only communicate with wolves.Bran, Rickon, Arya of House Stark, and the titular true protagonist of "A Song of Ice and Fire" – Jon Snow – are all wargs, possessing powerful and enviable skinchanger abilities.
However, without systematic training, and constantly subconsciously denying and rejecting their talents, their abilities have not been fully revealed.
Bran's strength is self-evident; once he evolves from a skinchanger to a greenseer, he will be able to traverse the timeline of Westeros, changing the past and observing the future.The ability to manipulate timelines hasn't appeared in the *A Song of Ice and Fire* books, but the Hodor plotline in *Game of Thrones* should align with Martin's vision; the author Martin himself acknowledged the "Hodor" meme in an interview.
Well, the Old Gods observe the world through weirwood trees, and weirwood trees only exist on the continent of Westeros, so the power of the Old Gods shouldn't be able to reach the continent of Essos.
Jon's talent made the strongest wildling skinchanger, "Sixskins" Varamyr, feel apprehensive. So, how strong was Varamyr?So powerful that even after being beaten to a bloody pulp by the Red Priestess, he still had the strength to seize the body of another healthy human.
Even with such bad luck that the body snatching failed, Varamyr didn't die, but instead possessed his pet wolf.
Alas, in the end, he had the misfortune of encountering Bran, the greatest skinchanger in Westeros.
Fate didn't want him to live.
As for Arya, her Nymeria was released long ago, and yet even after she went to Braavos to become an apprentice Faceless Man, the wolf and Arya, separated by the strait and thousands of kilometers, could still communicate frequently through wolf dreams.Unlike the TV series' cursory treatment of Nymeria, Arya's wolf appears many times in the original books, saving Arya on several occasions. Arya even saves her own mother's body in a confused wolf dream state. Yes, a corpse can be resurrected.
Finally, three-year-old Rickon can actually predict the future to a limited extent through wolf dreams.
Sansa's "Lady" died too early, and her experiences and life values are not very "Northern," so it's impossible to guess whether she has any wolf spirit talent.However, Robb Stark should also have possessed very powerful talents. His direwolf could foresee danger to its master, repeatedly warning him with "danger" or "this person is untrustworthy," as spiritually perceptive as a divine beast.
It's just that Robb forgot about his wolf after getting a wife, and he constantly rejected the sense of impending danger he subconsciously received from the wolf.
Wolf spirits are recognized as "evil creatures" on the same level as the Others and the Children of the Forest, and everyone kills them on sight. The reason for this social perception is closely related to the history of the continent of Westeros.As mentioned before, with the exception of fantastical species like the Children of the Forest and giants, all humans in Westeros are descendants of invaders and refugees from the continent of Essos.
The Children of the Forest are a dark-skinned and beautiful people, small in stature, with adults being about the same height as ordinary human children.
They have deep chestnut skin, large ears, and large golden eyes.
However, some Children of the Forest with the gift of greensight have green or red eyes, and if such a Child of the Forest merges with a weirwood tree, they will become a greenseer and gain greensight.The key is this: skinchangers are almost descended from the Children of the Forest, representatives of a lost civilization.
Twelve thousand years ago, the first invaders, armed with bronze weapons, fought with the natives for survival.
One side was small and weak, with a small population, but possessed strange magic; the other side was tall and strong, with advanced bronze weapons and a larger population, but no superpowers.
The two sides "pecked at each other like chickens," barely managing to reach a stalemate, and signed a "covenant" to divide their spheres of influence on the Isle of Faces, a small island in the center of the Gods Eye.
This process lasted for 4,000 years.Because the first generation of invaders, the "First Men," had witnessed the "magic" of the Children of the Forest, and their own beliefs were very "loose," the First Men gradually began to worship the mysterious gods of the Children of the Forest, becoming followers of the Old Gods.
Perhaps it was faith, or perhaps it was interbreeding (don't doubt it, don't just think of the "child"-sized Children of the Forest, the Westerosi even went for giants, their appetites were terrifying), skinchangers also began to appear among the First Men.
One in a thousand people is a skinchanger, and one in a thousand skinchangers becomes a greenseer.
That ratio...Looks a bit low, but if you think about it, almost every generation has one or two Green Prophets.
One or two "Brans," every generation has one or two figures like Bran. It's a bit scary!
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