75 Wedding News & Wildfire
Apparently not on a whim, after a brief oath, Robert even ordered the attendants to bring the official parchment document and print it on the spot, so that the appointment of the Blue Rite took effect.
The nobles at the banquet witnessed this, and at first they were quite incredible, because Dragonstone Island had always been the crown prince's fiefdom, but then they quickly thought of the king's canonization, and then realized his true purpose-
In front of all the nobles, the third brother was named the Duke of Dragonstone, and the purpose of skipping the current heir Stannis naturally could not be to appoint an heir beyond the inheritance rules that had been passed down for thousands of years, but to express the king's attitude of breaking the old traditions.
This is surprising, but it is much more acceptable than the king's appointment of his younger brother as his heir.
So the applause and celebration quickly filled the banquet hall, regardless of what they thought about it in their hearts, on the outside, these nobles were full of sincerity and blessings.
This obviously disrupted Lan Li's original purpose, originally he ran forward with caution and pretended, but he took back the lord's canonization document in a daze, and he didn't understand why he was sealed to Dragonstone Island after thinking for a long time.
Shouldn't it be Stormland?
The plot in my memory seems to have changed drastically, and then King Robert canonized Stannis Baratheon as Duke of Stormlands and former Lord of the Sea, so there was another jump.
On the way to the ceremony, Lan Liyou noticed that the Duke of Tyrrell who had been talking to him with a smile on his face turned away with a gloomy face, and he thought of something because of this, but he felt that it had nothing to do with him, so he didn't care much.
King Robert then announced that he and Cersei of the Lannisters would be married six days later, and officially invited everyone present to attend, so in the midst of a lot of cheers, the stormy feast came to an end, and the black-haired boy who returned to the bedroom of the Megar House was in a state of confusion, and soon fell into a deep sleep.
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What changed after becoming a duke?
After that dinner, Lan Li thought about it carefully.
He had his own territory, an island at the end of Blackwater Bay in the eastern part of King's Landing, which he had never seen, but he had heard that it was not a large place, and there was a volcano on it, which was said to be spewing steam out for a long time, and it might suddenly erupt and swallow up the island one day.
He has his own castle, a strange castle built by the dragonlords of the ancient Valyrian Free Fortress with magic and dragon flames, and it is said to have a very unique appearance, which is very different from other castles in Westeros.
He also had several vassals who had been loyal to House Targaryen, but the surviving Targaryens on Dragonstone fled after their fleet was destroyed by the storm, and they surrendered to Baratheon.
At present, the few vassals are also in King's Landing, and early the next morning of the canonization, they ran to the front of Lan Li to pay a visit and swore allegiance on their knees, which seemed to be nothing unruly.
In addition, he also has the right to design his own coat of arms, because after the canonization is completed, he is equivalent to breaking away from the Baratheon family of Storm's End, and he can be regarded as a semi-independent portal.
Lan Li didn't have much idea about heraldry, so he decided to use the current Crown Buck for the time being.
Originally, he thought that since he was canonized, he might go to the narrow but mysterious place on Dragonstone Island after the wedding, and he was a little worried about whether the curse he was carrying would take effect-
Although it is clear that the so-called curse has been swallowed by the blood, and only the remnants remain, it is still clearly written that there is a small chance of causing a storm......
However, he was then informed that he would remain in the Red Keep, and that the royal family would take charge of everything on Dragonstone, and that he would take office two years later when he was a little older.
In other words, at present, the canonization is only to call him by name.
This may be the "frailty" who took care of him, or there may be other reasons, in short, when everything calmed down, Lan Li found that his life had not changed much.
Except that people started calling him Lord.
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"Get out of the way! Make way for Duke Lanli! ”
The guards on horseback kept shouting, the footsteps of the tall horses tapped on the narrow road, and a group of plainly dressed commoner women hurriedly shifted their positions with the clothes drying in front of their doors, and looked at the sudden line of nobles with annoyance.
The road was flanked by three-story adobe buildings, the ground beneath his feet was covered with mud and dry bumps, and some distance ahead was a sheep's gut path leading to a barren hill, and four guards followed the carriage, staring warily at the surroundings,
Lan Li in the carriage didn't pay attention to the commotion outside, and was now sitting there a little bored peeling apples, the dagger in his hand was sharp and dexterous, and he saw that the apples were constantly peeled off one by one, and finally pulled to more than half a meter long.
This was the third day of Lan Li's canonization, and he had successfully exited the gate of the Red Keep and was heading towards his goal.
But he was the only boy in the carriage.
Lan Li originally planned to take the Lannister little devil with him, but he didn't know what he was stimulated, and he had already agreed to something during the banquet, but he suddenly regretted it, and now he was hiding in the Red Fort and reading a book and didn't plan to go out.
This doesn't affect anything, because after becoming a duke, Lan Li already has a certain amount of freedom, and being able to leave the castle at this time is proof of this.
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As we moved forward, the car swayed along the uneven road, the crunch of the wheels and rolls continued to sound, and the stench that could be smelled in the nose was gradually replaced by a peculiar smell, and finally when the carriage stopped at the end of the narrow road, the smell was very obvious.
Further on, the staircase path that continued to spread to the top of the hill, and after nibbling on the apple, he threw away the pit, and the black-haired boy strode towards the top of the hill called Rhaenys.
The purpose of this trip was to collect the copy medium that he had discovered when he first entered the city.
And the medium is on this hill.
As they progressed, the diagonal staircase was left behind, and the group finally stepped onto a flat, deserted square.
At the end of the square is a towering ruined dome, and when you look around, you can see a dense cluster of earth-colored buildings standing together below the hills, like bulging hills.
Further afield, two other hills stand tall, one of which houses St. Belle's Basilica of King's Landing, and the other is where the Red Fort stands.
Aegon Hills, Visania Hills, Rhaenys Hills.
They are a landmark location in King's Landing.
Aegon the Conqueror landed on the coast of King's Landing, and the three natural hills on the edge of the coast were named after him and his sisters.
Now the vicissitudes of life, the hills still exist, but they have long been different.
"It's not really a good place to build a garden." After glancing at the top of the empty hills, Lan Li muttered, and then followed the wafting smell towards the ruined dragon's lair ahead.
The dome building called the Dragon's Lair is huge, but it has been abandoned for a long time at this time, the appearance is charred black, cobwebs and dust are dense, and a bronze gate is closed, but there is a broken opening not far from the door that allows people to lead to the dragon ** without hindrance.
Stepping in and walking around the ruins, Lan Li confirmed that the smell was not coming from the surface of the dragon's lair, but beneath the dragon's lair.
He shook his nose and searched until he reached the abandoned walls of the Dragon's Lair, his eyes on the dusty planks beneath his feet.
"What are you looking for?" Seeing that his footsteps stopped, one of the guards who had been following him couldn't help but ask.
They had been observing the boy duke for a long time, and it seemed that he had not come to hang out.
"There's something hidden down here." Lan Li replied, and then beckoned him forward.
The plank was finally forced to open by the guard's long sword, and a dark underground passage came into view, except for Lan Li, everyone else was stunned by this, but when they saw Lan Li enter first, they did not hesitate to follow in.
After entering the passage, the smell became even stronger in Lan Li's nose, and those behind him stared warily at the surroundings, ready for accidents.
However, there were no surprises, and when they walked through the passage to a gloomy and dark cellar, all they saw were rows of wooden shelves with dusty clay pots.
Lan Li glanced at the wooden shelves strangely, but he didn't pay much attention to them, and followed the smell to the depths of the cellar, where the two guards followed him, and the others looked at the hidden cellar curiously.
"What is this?" One of the guards leaned in with a torch to look at the crockpots on the shelves, and for a long time he couldn't see any obvious signs on the sealed cans.
He picked up one of the cans and tried to crack it open, but as soon as he made a move, another local guard who ran in behind him hesitated.
"These seem to be wildfires......
The black-haired boy who had just picked up something not far away couldn't help but look back at the row of wooden shelves that he had originally regarded as waste, and after scanning the rows of crockpots on the shelves and the guards for a few moments, cold sweat broke out.