003: A Song of Ice and Fire
Soon after the appearance of the first surrenderer, there was a second surrenderer.
In the end, there were three people left.
Kali is the Dothraki who cut off her braids and surrendered to herself at the very beginning.
Not only him, but the other two people who surrendered, Ego and Ancaro, also cut off the back of their braids after surrendering. And Kali also cut off the braids of the dead Dothraki and offered them to Liu Jian, and then cremated them with the dead Dothraki corpses and the dead and wounded horses.
At the time of the cremation, they sang about the Dothraki soul send.
It's a very simple song, which probably means to bless a dead friend to ride a horse forever and gallop in the starry sky at night.
Liu Jian kept watching them operate and listening to them sing, without stopping or asking.
Asking is not the best way to know if you know very little, listening is.
On the contrary, listening is the information revealed by these three people when they talk together, which is enough for Liu Jian to make a superficial analysis of the situation in the Dothraki Sea and the culture of the Dothraki people.
The names of the three people are called Ago, Ancaro, and Kari.
Liu Jian found the names of these Dothraki people very interesting.
Their names are short, and they are all adjectives in Dothraki, with Ego being quick, Ankaro being strong, and Kali meaning pretty. The name fits their own image very well, Agosheng is lean and short, probably less than 1.7 meters, and he should be very fast. However, this is very fast for ordinary people, and for Liu Jian, his speed that is much faster than ordinary people is no different in Liu Jian's eyes.
Ancaro was a very tall man, in his early twenties.
As for the beautiful Kali...... He does look a bit of a woman.
The name of the Chinese people represents the good wishes and expectations of the elders for the younger generations, while the names of the Dothraki people are more like a description of themselves. Those who are fast are called swift, and those who are tall and strong are called strong, as for Dothrak Collinch, who was just killed by Liu Jian, the word Lynch means hunter, carnivore, predator and other multiple meanings in the Dothraki language.
Other than that, regardless of their status, the Dothraki have no surnames to speak of.
There is no last name, which is a very important piece of information.
The appearance of surnames represents the popularity of blood identity.
No matter which nationality or culture it is, people with the same surname will always be closer to each other than others, and in the end, a clan culture similar to that of China will be formed, and only under this premise can nationalism take root. This is the inevitable law of the development of civilization.
The Dothraki do not have a surname.
This means that the Dothraki people are most likely not a unified people, and there is a lack of national identity between the Dothraki and the Dothraki people, and it is even possible that they are collectively called Dothraki because they all live in the steppes of the Dothraki Sea.
This is both good news and bad news for Mr. Liu, who does not have to worry about a strong government retaliating for his killings. The bad news means that the world, at least above this sea of Dothraki grass, is very backward in civilization.
After the three of them finished the cremation ceremony, Liu Jian called Carrie aside and asked again. In the face of Liu Jian's inquiry, Kali, who had just experienced Liu Jian's strength and terror, did not dare to slack off in the slightest, and would try her best to answer all the questions asked by Liu Jian.
Through observation and inquiry, Liu Jian also learned about some of the cultural and ethnic characteristics of the Dothraki people.
It feels like they are very similar to the nomadic peoples in Chinese history, such as the Huns, for example, the Mongols, it should be said that they are very similar.
The Dothraki are very warlike, and this is undoubtedly a warlike people.
This can be seen in the braids at the back of their heads.
The Dothraki began to wear their hair in braids from the time they became warriors, and each time they won a battle, they would take a bell from the corpse of an enemy, or make a bell from the bronze ornaments of the enemy and tie it into a braid, the long braid and bell were a symbol of the bravery of the Dothraki warriors.
Only when they lose a battle do they cut off their hair as a sign of defeat and disgrace.
At the same time, the Dothraki also retained some matrilineal clan influences.
The Dothraki have only one city, an incomparably gigantic city.
Vis Dothrak.
Located at the foot of Mount Our Lady on the other side of the Dothraki Sea, Vis Dothrak is known as the "world's best" lake, also known as the "City of the King of Horses".
Vis Dothraki did not have walls, as the Dothraki considered it a coward's act to hide in them.
It was immensely large, big enough to hold every Karatha, even if they all returned at the same time.
Normally, the only people living in the city were slaves and the old lady Doshikarin.
The so-called Doshi Karin is Kalixi, who has lost Kao.
Every Kalisi who died in Kao would go to Vis Dothrak under the escort of Kao's original command and join Doshikarin and become a member of Vis Dothrak's ruling group. All Kao and Karasa who enter Vis dothraki must in principle obey Doshikarin's leadership and abide by the highest standards of Vis dothraki. There shall be no desecration of the Mountain of Our Lady and the Lake of the World, and it is forbidden to carry all weapons, and no bloodshed is allowed.
Beyond the Dothrak Sea, there are many other cities.
According to Carrie, that's where the cowardly Infica lives.
In the Dothraki language, Infica refers to a foreigner in general. But it was not meant to refer to peoples other than Dothraki, it meant to be walkers.
In the social culture of Dothraki, only slaves walked. Only eunuchs, cripples, old people, women and children ride in carriages, and anyone who rides in a carriage except these people will be ridiculed.
Carrie knows the location of some of these cities, such as Kahor.
Head east from the Dothraki Sea until you reach a huge forest, where the city of Kahor is located. In addition to this, he also knows the location of two cities, Norvis and Pantos.
Kari had never left the Dothraki Sea in her life, and he knew this because caravans often arrived from these cities, bringing from the cities something that the Dothraki needed in exchange for the Dothraki warhorse skin. Of course, more information came from the slaves they had taken captive.
Dothraki, Pantos, Kao, Norfos, Vis dothraki, Mount Our Lady, the world's ** lake.
There is more and more familiar information, and Liu Jian gradually understands which world this is.
"Carly, have you ever seen winter?" Although the language barrier is different, with the special translation ability of the system, Carrie understands Liu Jian's problem very well.
"Honorable warrior, are you talking about the arrival of the White Demon?"
At the mention of winter, a look of fear was evident on Carrie's face: "I have never seen the White Demon coming, but I have heard my father say that when the White Demon comes, hundreds or even thousands of days and nights, the grass will die, the sheep will die, even the horses and people will die, and finally for a bite to eat, the blood brothers will also carry knives against each other." They first ate live sheep, then dead sheep and dead horses, ate live horses, and finally ate women and children, and even the strongest horses could not survive, and the strongest warriors could not defeat the white demons, and only the horse gods could resist the arrival of the white demons. ”
Aside from Carly's description of the white demon of winter, her fear of winter and her belief in the god of horses. From Carrie's mouth, Liu Jian got the message. Carrie had never seen winter, meaning that Dolasco hadn't experienced winter for a long time, and the last winter was decades ago, maybe even a hundred years ago.
Because Kali doesn't know whether the last time the white devil came was experienced by her father or passed down from her ancestors.
But there is no doubt that the winter was incomparably long, probably lasting several years.
With such a strange climate, coupled with a series of information such as Kao and the Dothrakis, the truth of this world is already very clear.
A Song of Ice and Fire.
But I don't know if it's the original Song of Ice and Fire, or the grand TV series adapted from the HBO network.