Chapter 467: The Baratheon Family (2)
Although it is rumored that Auris Baratheon is the illegitimate brother of Aegon, it is not explicitly stated, so it is not wrong to assume that Auris Baratheon was born as a commoner.
In terms of etiquette, he officially became a member of the royal family, and he inherited the family crest and clan language of Wind's End.
The crest of the Storm's End is a black crested stag in a golden field, and their language is: Burning Plain.
Since the family coat of arms is a deer, let's use the deer family as an abbreviation.
Although the Lu family is the youngest of the nine families, it is a real "working emperor".
At the beginning of the story, the eldest son of the Deer family, Robert Baratheon, is the king of the realm and the owner of the "Iron Throne".
He is the most powerful person on this continent, and he is also the one who opened the curtain of this power game!
For the sake of memory, the most powerful person at that time was called "Da Lu"!
The title of the Great Deer is as follows: "Andal, Royna, King of the "Forefathers", Ruler of the Seven Kingdoms, Lauber Baratheon, Protector of the Realm".
But he's definitely not the one with the longest title in the story!
Dalu's life can be roughly divided into two stages:
The first stage of Dalu's classmates, the book introduces it like this:
As a young man, Robert was a man with a well-groomed face and clear eyes, like the sturdy man that a young girl dreams of.
He was six feet five inches tall and stood out like a tower.
When he was clad in battle armor and wore a double-pronged antlered helmet, he became a veritable giant.
His strength was not inferior to that of the giant, and even Ned could barely lift the iron spike hammer he was used to.
In those days, the smell of leather and blood was like perfume.
It's a pity that I didn't see Dalu classmates at this stage in American dramas.
Including Li Yaoyang's version of the story, I can only see that the second stage of Dalu's classmates lost their love, indulged in food and wine every day, and gained at least dozens of kilograms.
A thick black wire beard covered his fat double chin, but there was nothing to hide his protruding lower abdomen and sunken dark circles.
When Oka-san was very young, his parents were tasked to go to the other side of the Narrow Sea to find a suitable wife for Rhaegar Targaryen (the prince of the Long family, later referred to as Dalong), but died in a shipwreck when he returned.
He had no choice but to go to Eagle's Nest and became the adopted son of Jon Arryn, Duke of Eagle's Nest.
At the Hawk House, he met his lifelong friend Ned Stark (the head of the Wolf family, hereinafter referred to as the Big Wolf) and his lifelong love Lyanna Stark (Ned's sister, hereinafter referred to as the Wolf Sister).
However, the love of his life, the wolf sister, was abducted by Dalong, or was not abducted.
Dalu's heart at this time can be imagined, his parents died in order to find a daughter-in-law for Dalong, and his daughter-in-law was abducted by Dalong again.
This kind of hatred can't be solved no matter how you think about it.
However, the matter was not over here, and later the "Mad King" (the father of the Dragon family, Rhaegar Targaryen's father, hereinafter referred to as the Dragon Master) burned his good brother Big Wolf to death.
The most important people in his life were hurt by the people of the Long family, and he has since formed a blood feud with the Long family.
After burning the big wolf's father and brother, the big boss of the dragon even asked the big boss of the eagle to hand over the big deer and the big wolf.
The Eagle Master has been with these two adopted sons for so long, and he has long regarded the two of them as his own biological children.
Where was he willing to send his children to the hands of the madman Long Da Boss, so he raised the flag to rebel, kicking off the "Usurper War".
Dalu's hatred for the dragon family is self-evident, the Trident River battle, facing the sworn enemy Dalong, the two launched a one-on-one heads-up duel in the river water of the ferry, and finally Dalu was superior in skill and beheaded Dalong under the horse.
After seeing the death of the commander, the Long family army was immediately defeated, and the rebel army won a decisive victory.
The "Battle of the Trident" also became a turning point in the entire "Usurper War".
From then on, the rebel army was overpowered, captured King's Landing, and overthrew the rule of the Dragon Dynasty.
After the overthrow of the Long family, our "working boy" Dalu classmate finally succeeded in sitting on the "Iron Throne" and became the most powerful "working emperor" on the continent at that time.
In order to stabilize the stability of the newly established kingdom, under the auspices of the Eagle Lord, Dalu married Cersei Lannister (the eldest daughter of the Lion Family, hereinafter referred to as the Lion Girl) as the queen.
However, it was an unhappy marriage, and on the night of the wedding, the deer was so drunk that he called out the name of the wolf sister in bed.
Imagine that on your wedding night, your husband calls out another woman's name, which woman can stand it?
This made the lion girl hate the deer to the core, and it also made the relationship between the deer and the lion girl very tense.
Dalu often punches and kicks the lion girl, and the lion girl is unwilling to give birth to a son and a half daughter for the lion.
The three children of Dalu and Lion Girl are not Dalu's children, and they feel sorry for Dalu when they think about it!
In the end, because of this tense relationship between husband and wife, our "working emperor" Dalu classmate finally died at the hands of the lion girl.
During a hunting trip, the Lion Maiden arranged for her cousin to replace the deer's wine with three times the strength of the spirits, causing the deer to be severely injured by the boar's stinging and eventually dying.
A generation of "working emperors" ended his performance on this historical stage.
In the end, the part-time job doesn't even have his own children, and the "working emperor" is really worthy of the name!
In fact, the character of Dalu is an extremely liberal and self-centered person, and at the same time, he is also a very tragic character.
His tragedy is that history has put him where he shouldn't be.
The "Iron Throne", which everyone envied and longed for, was a shackle for him.
He is by nature a man who yearns for freedom!
He once said to the big wolf:
"Ned, let me tell you secretly. More than once I dreamed of giving up the throne and taking my horse and war hammer with me to the free trade city-state on a boat, and I was supposed to live my life all day long in wars and adventures, singing and dancing. Be a mercenary king, and when the time comes, it's no wonder that the bard doesn't love me to death......"
He was a great warrior, but not a good king; He would rather be a free warrior than a imprisoned king.
He fought for the important people in his life, and he was in high spirits and invincible.
Those battles were what he longed for from the bottom of his heart, so he won, and even if his opponent was strong, he had the courage to move forward.
However, as a king, the entanglement of interests, the struggle for power, everything in this fly camp and dog, wiped out the fire in his heart.
He is no longer the boy who was in the sunset, but the dying man with a protruding lower abdomen and sunken eyes.
Maybe death is really a relief for him!
His tragedy is also that he will always believe only what he believes in, and he will always have only himself in his eyes.
He was born to be a self-centered person!
Sister Wolf's love for him has always existed only in his own heart.
The big wolf once said to him:
"Robert, you don't know Lyanna as well as I do," the big wolf told him, "and you only see her beauty, but you don't know her true temper."
It can be seen from here that in fact, in the heart of the wolf sister, she may not love him as much as Dalu imagined.
At a jousting tournament, Dalong won the tournament, and the victor had the right to crown his favorite lady as the "Queen of Love and Beauty" and bestow a laurel wreath made of flowers.
Dalong gave the laurel crown to the wolf sister, maybe the wolf sister was attracted to the big dragon at that time, so they both disappeared after meeting the big dragon later.
This is also why Dalong did not abduct the wolf sister, but the two of them were happy with each other, and they flew away.
But Dalu didn't think so, he loved the wolf sister deeply, and firmly believed that the wolf sister loved him deeply (at that time, the two of them had a marriage contract), and it was Dalong who abducted the wolf sister.
Such a firm belief allowed him to kill the dragon, but it also deeply hurt the wolf sister, resulting in the death of the wolf sister.
All he insisted on was his imaginary love, and he even hurt another woman for the sake of this imaginary love, and finally killed himself.
Is this love?
If yes, it's just love for yourself! It's a selfish love! It's a terrible love!
Let's talk about one of the protagonists of the Battle of the Blackwater River, Stannis Baratheon, let's call him "Erlu"!
However, there is a big difference between Erlu in the TV series and Erlu in the TV series
This is how Erlu is described: Stannis is as tall as his older brother, balding, with a broad chin and a thick black beard.
And the Erlu of the TV series, in addition to baldness, it is a god restoration!
Of course, this is not the most critical issue.
's description of the character: he is quiet and dull, with a well-known sense of justice and will never make any concessions. He had a habit of grinding his teeth gently while meditating.
And what about Erlu in the TV series?
Erlu's "taciturnity" was interpreted as a kind of hesitation, indecision, and lack of assertiveness.
Erlu's "sense of justice" was interpreted as a helpless move after the defeat of the war.
Erlu's "will never make any concessions", uh~, he has been making concessions in the TV series, okay!
The habit of grinding teeth has not been shown! Feed!
No matter how you look at it, at least the image and character setting of Erlu in the TV series are very kidney-oriented!
Because he is completely different from the far-sighted, extremely negative military talent, and extremely negative sense of justice in people's minds!
And the real Erlu is the messenger of the Lord of Light, the son of light, the Andal, the true king of the ancestors, the ruler of the Seven Kingdoms, the guardian of the whole realm, and the first heir to the Iron Throne!
In European royal or aristocratic families, and even our Chinese imperial families, in most cases, the eldest son is cultivated as an heir.
From an early age, they have to undergo all kinds of training in order to cultivate their royal spirit, domestic and diplomatic talents.
Some even have to cultivate their own cronies and retainers.
At the same time, in order to win over other aristocratic forces, they are also often popular objects for marriage.
However, as the second son of the royal family, their experience is much more miserable.
They were born as the spare tire of the eldest son, and only when the eldest son has a problem, can they have a chance to become the true dragon son.
They have received almost the same training and education as their elder brother since childhood, but at the same time they are taught to absolutely obey their elder brother and obey the orders of the family.
In their education, the honor of the family is always put first, which also makes them less domineering and more restrained and gloomy.
They are like the shadow of the Great Prince! And maintaining the honor and status of the family has become their life's fate!
Erlu is such a second prince.
In terms of ability alone, he is by no means worse than his eldest brother, and even better than his eldest brother in many places.
Many people only remember the earth-shattering battle between the big deer and the big dragon on Ruby Beach, but they don't remember the Erlu who single-handedly guarded the Storm's Breath Castle.
And it was precisely because Erlu held the Storm's End Castle and dragged the Tyrell family, one of the main forces of the Protector Army, that Dalu was able to win the battle of the Trident River, thus laying the foundation for the final victory.
Erlu's military talent began to emerge in this battle.
Many people think that Erlu followed Dalu's orders to defend the Storm's Rest Castle, and he is just a good executor of orders.
This is only partly true, he is indeed a good executor of orders, which also shows his perseverance and bravery, but his perseverance in Storm's End is not just out of the execution of his eldest brother's orders.
His insistence on Storm's End is more because he understands that only by holding Storm's End, and only by holding back the Tyrell army, can he win this war.
If he can't hold it, if he loses, then the war will be lost, and their family Baratheon will be defeated.
Only by seeing through all this can Erlu have enough reason and strength to protect Storm's Breath in such a difficult environment.
What's even more amazing is that Erlu, who saw through all this, was not yet 20 years old that year.
In the Battle of Storm's End, there is another very important character for Erlu, that is, the "Onion Knight" - Davos Seaworth (for the convenience of everyone's memory, hereinafter referred to as Onion)
Erlu was surrounded by the Tyrell army, and the city was already running out of food. It was our onion knights who smuggled a boatload of onions and salted fish into the castle and saved Stannis and his garrison from starvation. (Onion was still a smuggler at the time)
Erlu thanked the onion very much and cut off one of the onion's knuckles.
Thanks to him, the onions and salted fish he brought in saved Storm's End, and the Baratheons;
One of his knuckles was cut off as punishment for his smuggling.
In the original book, he said:
"Good deeds do not counteract evil deeds, and evil deeds cannot cover up good deeds, and each deed has its own retribution."
It is precisely because of Erlu's pursuit of justice that Onion has followed Erlu with all his heart since then and has become his most loyal subordinate.
At the same time, Erlu did not look down on him because of the birth of the onion, and even canonized him as a knight. (This is also the origin of his title of "Onion Knight")
How can such a well-known Erlu, who has a distinct personality and a degree of rewards and punishments, not make people admire and like it?
At the age of less than 20, Erlu was authorized to establish the Royal Navy to conquer Dragonstone after the end of the war.
Erlu here once again showed his outstanding military talent and successfully took Dragonstone Island.