Red Fort, Sacred Wood Forest.

There is only one Heart Tree in the Divine Tree Forest.

In the eyes of the people of the north, the south refers to the border outside the north, and the place outside the neck is called the south.

According to this division, starting from the Riverlands, the other six countries are all southern.

Southerners believe in the Seven Gods!

In King's Landing, the capital of the Seven Kingdoms, the belief of the people is naturally also the Seven Gods, and the Seven Sacred Churches are located behind the Megar Tower, where the king and queen live.

Next to the Prime Minister's Tower, there is a forest, this forest is called the Sacred Tree Forest, and there is a forgotten heart tree in it.

The Heart Tree is the object of prayer for the beliefs of the old gods of the people of the North, and it is the sustenance of faith. Those who believe in the old gods pray under the heart tree, just as those who believe in the seven gods pray in the Seven Sacred Churches.

In the North, the Fish Beam Wood is the only choice for the Heart Tree.

In the south, where the seven gods are believed, the fish beams are basically cut down. In King's Landing, there is no Fish Beam Wood as a place of prayer for believers in the Old Gods, and as a stopgap measure, a large oak tree in the Red Keep's Sacred Wood Forest is used as a heart tree.

In Westeros, the people of the North believe in the Old Gods, the Iron Islands believe in the Drowning God, and the people of other places believe in the Seven Gods. The seven gods are a belief brought about by the Andals' invasion of the continent 6,000 years ago, so they are called new gods. The various gods that the ancestors believed in through the Heart Tree are collectively known as the Old Gods.

When the Andals invaded the mainland, the northerners relied on the place of Neckze to hold the border and were not conquered by the Andals, so they retained the faith of their ancestors. Compared to the new faith of the Seven Gods, the gods of faith of the people of the North are called the Old Gods, and the Seven Gods are called the New Gods because they are the beliefs brought by foreign conquerors.

Prime Minister Eddard Stark is a native of the North, and his faith is the Old Gods. In his territory, Winterfell, there is a Sacred Wood Forest, which contains three Fish Beam Trees that are more than 10,000 years old, and are also the Faith Heart Tree of the Stark family.

In King's Landing Red Keep, Eddard Stark could only pray under the Great Oak Tree, the only Heart Tree in the Sacred Grove.

Eddard Stark meets Queen Cersei and chooses to go under the big oak tree in the Sacred Wood Forest.

He first went to the oak tree, knelt down on one knee and prayed prayerfully, asking the gods of the north to give him the strength to see some signs to guide him through this difficult life as a prime minister, and to give him divine hints on the troubles of the present time.

Under the Heart Tree, Ed felt more secure.

The Sacred Wood Forest is an open space, there are no buildings here, and the density of the woods is very low, so you can see people walking far away, so you don't have to worry about 'the walls have ears'. Anyone who approaches this forest can't escape Ed's gaze, which is one of the reasons why Eddard chose to meet Cersei here.

Cersei is here as promised!

She left the hound and a few red cloaks on the edge of the Sacred Wood Forest, and walked into the Sacred Wood Forest by herself to meet the coarse Yankees in her eyes.

Cersei has been carefully dressed up to show elegance and nobility.

It's just that in Ed's eyes, it's all vulgar and ugly.

When Ed has a bad feeling for a person, makes a judgment and makes a decision, the other person's elaborate grooming only makes him feel more false and dirty.

Ed thinks both Cersei and Jaime should be hanged, but the children are innocent: Joffrey, Messira, Tomman.

Ed rose from the ground of prayer, and Cersei stood three paces away from him, looking at him with contempt.

"I'm here, what's the matter, Your Excellency Prime Minister. Cersei's tone was sarcastic.

"I know your secret, and sin is unforgivable. ”

"Oh, all people are guilty, and no one is noble, just like our upright, noble and honorary Prime Minister, who brought back a well-known bastard Jon Snow for Stark in the North. ”

Cersei chuckled, happy to see the clumsy Yankee's face change.

Ed said in a deep voice, "Cersei. Joffrey, Messella, and Tommen are not Robert's children, they are the bastards of you and your twin brother Jaime to satisfy their lusts, and you killed Jon Arryn for this reason, because Jon Arryn knew your secret. ”

However, Cersei's performance disappointed Ed, who did not see Cersei's panic and at least the least of shame.

Cersei smiled flirtatiously: "Dear Prime Minister, the Targaryen family is a brother and sister who marry, if you can't find a matching brother and sister because of childbirth, for the purity of the family bloodline, the nephew can also marry the aunt, and their marriage, do you think it's also evil?"

"That's different, you're Robert's wife. You and Jaime only have **, not legally married, while Targaryen does. Ed said coldly. He was struck by Cersei's shamelessness.

"I love Jaime and Jaime loves me. There is nothing wrong with either of us, it is the world that is at fault. You know better than anyone who your good brother Robert has in his heart. Lord Eddard, don't teach me a lesson, when a young and beautiful girl is on her wedding night, her husband presses her and shouts the name of another woman, and he has been thinking about it for sixteen years, what happiness do you think this woman has?"

"Cersei, you can choose divorce instead of betrayal!

"Divorce?" Cersei laughed out loud, laughing, and then gradually the laughter stopped, and her face showed deep disdain.

"Political marriage is about politics, not love. Robert married me so that the forces of the West could help him secure the Iron Throne, and my father married me to Robert so that he could use Robert's power to ensure the stability of the West. I've heard that the true love of Lord Eddard is Miss Asyrahdyne of Starfall, but not Caitlin Tully of Riverrun. He married Caitlin Tully only to get Duke Horst's troops to help him fight against the Mad King's Protector Army. ”

"Now that you have made your choice, you have no right to betray, let alone kill. Ed's voice became stern.

"Murder, Jon Arryn, I wanted to kill him with my own hands, but unfortunately the Seven didn't give me the opportunity. Cersei approached Eddard and reached out to grab his hand, rubbing her palm against the back of his hand with a hint of teasing, "Eddard, whose slander did you believe that I would kill Jon Arryn?

Ed looked at Cersei's beautiful face very carefully, and he could not see any remorse or panic in this beautiful face, but was full of banter and contempt, as well as ambiguous seduction of himself.

Ed felt nauseous.

Cersei thinks she can seduce him, and then tells him to shut up and not tell Robert about her and Jaime's scandal.

Ed said in his heart that Cersei was indeed beautiful and seductive. It's just that the more beautiful Cersei is, the more ambiguous she is about him, the more disgusting and disgusting Ed is.

Ed took Cersei's hand away, "Cersei, take your child and leave King's Landing immediately, the farther away the better." When Robert comes back from hunting, I don't want to see the child suffer because of your and Jaime's sins, the child is innocent. But you must hide, don't make a show, I'm sure Robert's wrath will burn across the Narrow Sea. He'll send someone to hunt you down, and you're running out of time. ”

Cersei stared at Eddard with strange eyes, "You called me here to let me leave King's Landing with the child and wander across the Narrow Sea?"

"I'm not here to save you, you deserve to be hanged, Cersei. But I know what happens to Robert when he gets angry, and he won't hesitate to kill your three children. Ed said coldly.

"I'm not leaving!" Cersei's smile disappeared and she said with the same coldness, "Why should I leave King's Landing, and I didn't do anything wrong?Robert sowed seeds all over the country, who gave him power?The Seven Gods hate bastards, so they don't give their bastard father's surname, so, is the real sin in the child? Of course not, it's on the ugly man's **, and the illegitimate child is innocent, but the suffering is borne by the bastard child, do you know why? Lord Eddard!"

Cersei held her head up like an aggressive rooster.

"Why?" Ed asked coldly.

"Because the eyes of the seven gods are blind, and the eyes of the old gods are blind, and the old and new gods are not only blind in sight, but also in their hearts! Eddard, whatever you have to do, I will never leave King's Landing!"

While Eddard and Cersei were fighting in the Sacred Grove, an army secretly crossed the Red Fork River and camped in the woods in the Riverlands. This army has two commanders, one of whom is the famous Magic Mountain.

In addition, there is another general who is not inferior to the Magic Mountain but has no reputation: Amori Lodge.

Amoriloch was short and fat, with a bloodless face, which made him look like he had just recovered from a serious illness. Amori Lodge was ugly, he had a pig face and very small pig-like eyes. On his armor and weapons, a scorpion-tailed scorpion-tailed beast is carved. This is the family crest of the Lodge family in the Westlands.

In Aegon 83, Amorites, along with the 17-year-old Magic Mountain, followed Duke Tywin into King's Landing, and Duke Tywin ordered two men to slaughter the royal family, one was Amori Lodge and the other was the Mountain.

The mountain is known for its heinous crimes: she raped Princess Elia of Dorne, the wife of Prince Rhaegar and then popped the princess's head and slammed the princess's baby boy who could not yet walk to death against the wall. And the Amori Lodge, who slaughtered people in the royal family with him, killed more people than the Magic Mountain, and his means were not inferior to the Magic Mountain.

Prince Rhaegar and Princess Elia also had a daughter named Princess Rhaenys, who was only a few years old at the time.

While Amori and the Magic Mountain were committing murder in the royal nursery, Princess Rhaenys hid under her bed. But she was dragged out from under the bed by the Amoritan knight, and the princess screamed in fright, which annoyed the Amoritan knight, and he drew his short knife and stabbed the little princess more than fifty times, until the princess was so angry that she stopped screaming and moving.

He got his own blood, and the princess's room was splattered with blood, and the scene was horrible to see.

After the battle, when Duke Tywin frowned and asked the Amori Knight why he had stabbed a girl a few years old more than fifty times, the Amoritan Knight had only one sentence: he hated the screams of children.

"Then why don't you stab you in the vital spot?" asked Duke Tywin.

"If you stab her to death, she won't scream. The Amorites replied.

It was a paradoxical answer, and one that chilled the nobles around Tywin.

In the West, the notorious is the Magic Mountain, but it is the Knight of Amori Loch that really chills the nobles. He is a propertied knight, he doesn't have to worry about food and clothing, he doesn't have to be a mercenary or a knight of oaths, and his only joy as a man may be to hurt as many people as possible until the other person dies.

The Magic Mountain will cut people into two pieces with a single sword, and the Amorites kill, just thinking about how to cut the other party a few more times, and at the same time let the other party survive as long as possible.

Duke Tywin sent two of the most feared generals in the West because Catelyn Tully captured his 'son he wanted to strangle' little demon Tyrion Lannister.

This is where Catelyn Tully owes consideration, as long as she moves Tyrion, and not in the name of the king, which is unacceptable to the Lannisters, the war is bound to begin.

The Lannisters' credo is 'pay their debts', which is one of the foundations of the family, which cannot be violated by anyone. Catelyn convicted Tyrion and arrested him on a private basis, and if the Lannisters did not come forward to ask for an explanation, Tywin's honor and Lannister's prestige would be most severely challenged.

This is something that the Lannisters cannot accept!

Even if Tywin wanted to, he couldn't do it. Tywin's father was the result of years of chaos in the West, and eventually had to rely on the royal army's troops to help maintain order. The nobles of the western frontier have risen above the lords, disobeying orders, and even declaring independence.

Tywin sent the Magic Mountain and the Amoral Lodge, each with a small force of cavalry, but he wanted the two wicked men to do evil, so that Eddard would receive a report from the Riverlanders, and he would personally lead his troops to quell the rebellion. Tywin then ambushed the cavalry and captured Eddard so that he could exchange hostages with Catelyn.

Duke Tywin's goal was not to kill Eddard, but to exchange hostages and save the little demon Tyrion Lannister. The Imp is Tywin's least favorite person, but the Imp has a death-free gold medal: the Lannister's last name.

Caitlin captures the little devil, but hurts the Lannister's surname. Even if the little devil wanted to die, it was the Lannisters who did it, and it was the Lannisters who wanted him to die, not anyone else.

This raid on the border villages of the Riverlands and the King's Lands was carefully considered by the Duke of Tywin.

The Magic Mountain and the Amori Knights are two small teams, two people of the same level, no one can control the other, Tywin wants to see two people bloody slaughter of the border villages and towns of the river land close to the royal realm for the sake of merit, and the time of the raid is set for the evening.

After encamping, Magic Mountain took Dunson Cregan, Sweetmouth Raph Cregan, Polyvo Cregan, and a huge fat blond Illyrio Mopatis with him.

The group of four came to the camp of the Amorite Lodge and entered the Amorite's marching tent.

Everyone else is afraid of the Magic Mountain, but Amoriel is not afraid. He even looked down on the Magic Mountain.

Amori always thought that when it came to cruelty and blood, he was on the Magic Mountain, but what made him very uncomfortable was that the Magic Mountain was so famous, the Seven Kingdoms were famous, and he was only a little famous among the nobles of the West, and no one had heard of his notoriety outside the West.

Amorites always hoped that he would have a chance to surpass the Magic Mountain, and the reputation of the first evil of the Seven Kingdoms should have belonged to the Amoritan Knights. If only he had been the first to enter Princess Elia's room, the good deeds of raping and killing Princess Elia would have fallen on him, and the notoriety of falling to death of the prince would have become the masterpiece of Amori Lodge.

Amorites never understood that even Duke Tywin felt too cruel and bloody for stabbing the princess to death more than fifty times, and the Bloody Duke told Amorili that next time this happens, don't use a knife, you should use a pillow, but why didn't his notoriety spread in King's Landing? Why do people only remember the Magic Mountain?! The Martell family also holds a grudge against the Magic Mountain, not the name of Amori Rock.

It's so unfair!

When Amoriel saw the Magic Mountain enter his tent, he was very upset. If you want to say who is the least happy in his heart, there is only one person: Magic Mountain.

"Magic Mountain, next time you come in, please let me know. Amoriel said coldly. He is as big as the Magic Mountain, the same military position, no one is anyone's subordinate, why should the Magic Mountain come in if he wants to?

The demon mountain did not answer, but strode up to Amorita, stretched out his hand and picked him up, and with a thud, he fell heavily to the ground.

This fall made Amori's internal organs make trouble in the heavenly palace, and it was extremely uncomfortable.

"Call me!" he heard the cold voice of the Demon Mountain on the verge of fainting.

Then, the footsteps of several people rushed towards him.

Someone threw a punch like a hammer in the chest, and Amoriel felt himself flying.