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"What's the matter?" Arya had never heard her father say in detail about the great contest in the spring in 281 Aegon - in Harrenhal.

"The patriarch of Harrenhal, Lord Walter Haupan, had his daughter weave a garland of winter roses decorated with sapphires, a crown of love and beauty, guarded by five knights. In the tournament, whoever wins the championship in the end has the right to dedicate the crown of love and beauty to the girl he thinks is the most beautiful in the audience. If the champion gave the crown to a lady who already had her own family, or if the champion was married but did not give the crown to his wife, it would become a huge scandal. ”

"Since the beginning of the tournament, only six ladies from the Seven Kingdoms have been crowned Queen of Love and Beauty. The last queen of Love & Beauty was Jorah Mormont, who defeated her rivals to win the title, and she gave the crown of Love & Beauty to Lynnice Hightower. ”

"Jorah Mormont, the one who fled to the other side of the Narrow Sea to escape her father's pursuit?"

"It's him. On the night he presented the Queen's Crown to Lady Lynnice Hightower, he moved in with Lynnice Hightower. ”

"Oh!"

"Jorah Mormont won the championship because of Lynnice Hightower, but he also fled overseas because of Lyneth Hightower. ”

"Why?"

"Lyneth Hightower was a very beautiful woman, pampered and extravagant, and dragged Jorah Mormont into a pauper. In order to make money for Lynnice to splend, Jorah Mormont started a slave business and was wanted by Duke Eddard. ”

"I've heard that he ran away with Lynnice Hightower. ”

"Yes, he fled overseas to work as a mercenary, and the money he made as a mercenary was not enough for Lynnice Hightower's expensive expenses. Shortly after overseas, he was dumped by Lynnice Hightower, and the woman left with a merchant while he went out on a mercenary mission. ”

"He married a woman with whom he could not endure hardship. "But you don't have to worry about that, Sansa doesn't deserve you, but she has a good heart and won't leave you because you don't have any money in the future." ”

Will laughed, "I have no money in the future, or I am crippled in the war, and Sansa will not leave me?"

"I don't have any money, but if I'm crippled, I don't know. Sansa loves heroes, and if you're not a hero anymore, I don't think she'll be able to take it. ”

"You mean she's going to divorce me?"

Arya pondered for a moment: "I don't know, although she is my sister, I don't know her at all. It's not good for me to say that to her behind my back. But don't worry, you're my friend, and I'll take care of you no matter what happens to you in the future. ”

"Leave me alone if you're crippled?"

"No matter what has become of you, as long as you are alive, I will take care of you. ”

Will looked sideways at Arya, and the little girl took it for granted, there was no city.

She's telling the truth!

Will's heart warmed.

For the first time, he felt like he had relatives in this world.

Arya was righteous.

Will smiled, "Looks like I'm so much luckier than Jorah Mormont." Sansa is no less beautiful than Lyneth Hightower, and I've got the friendship of yours as a little friend. ”

"Jorah Mormont must not be able to live now. The departure of Lynnice Hightower must have hit him hard. ”

"Yes. After Lynnice Hightower abandoned him, he had been wanting to be pardoned to return home. So he became the little bird of Varys the eight-clawed spider on the other side of the Narrow Sea, and sold his information to Varys in exchange for the king's pardon. Now Jorah Mormont is with Daenerys Targaryen, and he is in love with Daenerys. ”

"Really?" Arya's eyes lit up.

"Of course it's true, because Daenerys looks a lot like his ex-wife, Lynnice Hightower. ”

Arya's eyes widened.

"Don't be so surprised, what I said is true. ”

"Uh-huh!"

"Do you know who you look like?"

"Like whom?"

"Lyanna Targaryen. ”

"You haven't seen my aunt again. ”

Will smiled, "I've seen it." ”

"How could you have seen it? You've been to the Harrenhal jousting tournament too?"

"With all the nobles of the country present, how can a thief, like a wandering singer, be absent?"

"My aunt can't look like me, I'm not a lady at all. I've heard from my father that Aunt Lyanna loves flowers, especially the Winter Snow Roses that grow in Winterfell. But I don't like winter snow roses at all, I don't like any flowers. ”

"Haha. All you have to do is wear long shawl hair, wear a fancy dress, put on light makeup, put on lip blush, and walk as gracefully as Sansa, and you're a Lyanna Stark. ”

"You're laughing at me?" Arya frowned.

"I'm not making fun of you. Eighteen years ago, at that martial arts competition, three people caused a national sensation. The first is the Smiling Tree Knight, who defeated three knights in a row and fled directly from the tournament against the king's orders. His escape went straight to the end of the rage, and King Aerys Targaryen withdrew from watching the game. ”

"The second is Prince Rhaegar Targaryen, who knocked out Earl Jon Royce bronze, Brandon Stark the wolf, Sir Arthur Dayne, the Dawn Excalibur, and Ser Barristan Selmy in the final. He finally won the spear championship of the jousting tournament, walked past the formation of five guardian knights, and took the queen's laurel from the daughter of Count Ha An, a symbol of love and beauty—and laid the laurel crown on Lyanna Stark's lap in full view, and in that moment, the audience was silent, as if time had stopped. His and Lyanna Stark's names immediately became a national sensation within days. This incident laid the groundwork for the Usurper War a year later. ”

Arya was silent. She didn't know what the war was going to do, she only knew how it would end.

"A year later, Rhaegar Targaryen came out to play with the Kingsguard Dawn Sword Ser Arthur Dayne and Sir Oswell Riverman after meeting Lyanna in the Riverlands, but I'd rather believe it was an appointment between the two. Subsequently, Rhaegar and Diana disappeared. The real reason for the disappearance of the two men is that Lyanna is pregnant with Rhaeggar's child. ”

"Jon Targaryen. Arya said.

"Yes. Rumors spread immediately after Rhaegar and Lyanna disappeared, the most widely known of which was that Rhaegar had abducted Lyanna. When the news of Lyanna's disappearance reached Brandon Stark, who was on his way to Riverrun to marry Catelyn Tully, Brandon the wolf immediately diverted from the way to King's Landing. Accompanied by four companions, Albert Arryn (Jon Arryn's nephew and heir to the Vale, who had no descendants at the time), Keller Royce (the Royce family of the Vale), Jeffrey Mellister (Riverlands Frontier), and Brandon's squire Ethan Glover (Wolf Forest Fort Glover's family, with Iron Fist as his family crest), Brandon bursts into the Red Keep and shouts for Rhaegar to come out to duel. ”

"He's not Rhaeggar's match!" Arya didn't forget that Rhaegar had defeated Brindon Stark at the tournament.

Rhaegar was not in King's Landing, but the Mad King was, and Aerys II immediately arrested Brandon and his party on the charge of treason with "attempting to murder the crown prince", and Raven summoned the father of each of the entourages to urgently enter Beijing to defend his children. When Rickard Stark and the others arrived in the capital, the Mad King immediately ordered everyone to be executed. Duke Ricard refused and asked for a joust trial, and the Mad King agreed. ”

"Well, I've basically heard of these things as well. Arya said. The Mad King was unconvinced, claiming that the samurai representing the royal family was Agni, and then had his grandfather tied up and hung upside down on a wildfire for barbecue. At the same time, Brandon, who was tied his hands behind his back, was put around his neck on a gallows in Telosi, and deliberately placed a long sword in front of him. The Mad King says that if Brynden can get his sword, he can cut Rickard's rope and save his father. Brandon desperately tried to get the sword and save my grandfather, but the rope around his neck was not long enough, and he ended up strangled to death by himself. ”

Arya stopped, the story was too tragic. Will peeked at Arya, who looked at her with ease, but her eyes were cold.

After Brinnden was strangled to death, Ricard was burned to death, and the rest of his entourage was burned without trial by order of the Mad King. Ethan Glover was only imprisoned in the Black Prison of the Red Keep by the Mad King as a witness, and it was not until Eddard Stark and his troops broke into the throne hall after the Usurper War won the war that Ethan Glover was released from the Black Cell.

Ethan Glover joined Eddard Stark's team when he was released from prison. Later, he became Ned's companion on his journey to the Tower of Elysium to rescue Lyanna. He was killed in a battle with three Kingsguard members at the Tower of Elysium.

The Mad King refuses to stop when he learns that Lyanna's second brother, Eddard Stark, and fiancé, Robert Baratheon, were both serving as squires under Lord of the Vale and Warden of the East, Duke Jon Arryn, the Mad King Raven orders Duke Arryn to sacrifice their heads.

The childless Duke of Arryn has always regarded his two adopted sons as his own sons, and the Duke of Arryn could not bear it anymore and gathered his vassals to rebel, and the North, the Stormlands and the Riverlands immediately responded, and the Seven Kingdoms rebelled against four at once, and the Usurper War broke out in full force.

At the beginning of the war, the Mad King thought that the rebels were vulnerable and would soon be crushed. However, after Prime Minister Jon Clinton suffered a crushing defeat at the Battle of the Bell for refusing to harm civilians, the situation began to turn around when the Rebel Army of the Four Directions successfully joined forces, and Rhaegar was still missing.

The whereabouts of Prince Rhaegar and Arthur Dayne and Oswell Ha An (all high-ranking leaders of the royal army) are unknown, and the army is leaderless. The anxious Mad King then sent the Iron Guard Captain Sir Geralt "White Bull" Hightower out to find someone. Soon Rhaegar single-handedly appeared and took over the counterinsurgency army.

The first thing Rhaegar did when he came back was to persuade his father to agree to all the conditions of Tywin in the West, and to put down his frame and ask for help from Tywin Lannister, the guardian of the West.

In the second event, Rhaegar led his army north to fight the rebels. The 40,000 Royalists and the 35,000 rebels met at the crossing of the Trident River, and Rhaegar repeatedly stabbed Robert in a heads-up duel, forcing Robert to retreat. When his spear finally pierced Robert's body, he was also hit in the chest by the desperate Robert in a lose-lose style, and Rhaegar fell into the river and was instantly submerged by the river.

Rhaegar was killed, and the royal army was routed, and the rebels were victorious. The river beach where Rhaegar died became what is now known as Ruby Beach, and hundreds of rubies from the armor on his chest fell into the water.

Duke Tywin Lannister, who had been sitting on the mountain watching the tiger fight, finally agreed to the Mad King's terms, sent troops eastward to King's Landing, and rushed to King Qin. As Robert was mortally wounded in the battle with Rhaeggar, Eddard Stark took command of the rebels and led his troops in an all-out assault on King's Landing in order to take the capital before reinforcements from the west arrived.

The Elder Army marched rapidly on King's Road and the Westfrontier Army on the Golden Road, each trying to reach King's Landing before the other.

By the time Eddard arrived in King's Landing, he had been one step slower, and Tywin's army had already entered the city.

King Qin's Western Army suddenly rebelled in the city and slaughtered King's Landing. The Mad King was killed by the sword of his personal guard, Jaime Lannister, and all members of the royal family were brutally murdered except for Queen Layla (who was pregnant with Daenerys at the time) and Second Prince Viserys Targaryen, who had long since fled.

This turned Ed and Lannister against each other.

The wounded Robert was crowned king after the Westfrontiers pledged their allegiance, but Eddard, who valued honor, could not accept Robert's pardon for the Lannisters' murder of the children of the Targaryens, and could not tolerate Jaime the Kingkiller to remain in the service of the Iron Guard, and he and Robert broke up for the first time in their lives.

Seeing that the two brothers broke up, and his adoptive father, Jon Arryn, also sided with Robert to persuade Eddard Stark, Eddard was furious and led his troops to the south to clean up the battlefield. After helping Stannis Baratheon relieve the siege of Storm's End, which had been under siege for more than a year, Eddard continued his search for his sister in the south, accompanied by six companions, Holland Reed, William Dustin, Ethan Glover, Martin Kesso, Theo Wauer, and Mark Leswell.

On the Prince's Pass in the Crimson Mountains north of Dorne, they found a small stone tower, the Tower of Bliss. Lyanna is in the tower, and three Kingsguards are stationed outside the tower - Ser Hightower, the captain of the Iron Guard who was previously sent by the Mad King to find Rhaegar and Sir Oswell Riverwin, and Rhaeggar's best friend, Sir Arthur Dayne, the Sword of Dawn.

After Ed's kind words to persuade the other side to retreat were refused, a fierce battle ensued between the two sides.

Because it was to save his sister, Ed rejected the one-on-one duel battle proposed by Dawn Excalibur, and seven people shot together, three of them besieged Dawn Excalibur and the other four besieged the other two, and in the case of an absolute advantage in numbers, the two warbands fought fiercely at the same time.

When there were still four people left on Eddard's side, only Arthur Dayne, the Dawn Excalibur, was left on the other side.

The four men besieged Excalibur of Dawn, but Arthur Dayne killed two of them in quick succession, leaving the wounded Eddard Stark and the barely able to move Horan Reed.

And Arthur Dane only suffered a minor shoulder injury.

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Sir Arthur Dayne's Dawn Excalibur takes its name from his two-handed greatsword "Dawn", a two-handed greatsword forged from meteoric iron, unusually heavy and sharp, not inferior to the Valyrian steel sword.

Arthur Dayne's exploits are numerous, one of which is the elimination of the bandit Brotherhood of the Kingsguardry. He served the people and led the army to suppress bandits, so he was deeply loved by the people. Eventually, he killed the infamous Smiling Knight in a decisive battle, eradicating the Brotherhood in one fell swoop. After his victory, he personally canonized Jaime Lannister as a knight.

He faced Prince Rhaegar Targaryen at a jousting tournament at Storm's End, in which Arthur broke twelve spears and was defeated. At the Harrenhal tournament, he was once again defeated by Prince Rhaegar in a spear tournament.

In swordsmanship, Rhaegar is inferior to Arthur, but in spear, Rhaegar is slightly stronger than Arthur.

Dane was admired not only for his swordsmanship, but also for his kindness, integrity, and nobility.

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Ed plucked up the courage to duel with Arthur Dane knowing that he couldn't defeat Arthur Dane, but the difference in martial arts between the two was too great, Ed's sword was constantly knocked off by Arthur Dayne, and his arms, thighs, calves and back were cut by Arthur again and again, and every time Arthur's sword hit Ed's throat, Arthur would stop and walk away, signaling Ed to pick up the sword and continue.

I don't know if it's providence or Arthur knows that the Targaryen dynasty has fallen and his best friend Rhaegar is dead, so he has actually germinated a will to die.

In the repetitive fight between Ed and Arthur Dayne, Holland Reed, who had fallen to the ground and remained motionless, sat up and quietly grabbed a longsword, which pierced Arthur's right leg as Arthur retreated.

Arthur spun his sword around and flew the sword in Horan Reed's hand, and when he returned to fight Eddard, Ed's sword went up to his throat.

Arthur dropped the sword in his hand, knelt down on one knee, his right leg could no longer stand, and faced Ed, revealing his famous chic and uninhibited smile: "Come on, Ed!"

"I'm not going to kill you!" Ed said.

"Don't dishonor my honor, Eddard. ”

"You can return to your own Starfall City, or continue to be the Kingsguard of the Throne Hall. You have the qualifications. ”

"My king is dead, and my kingdom is dead. Ed, it's my honor to die at your hands. I ask you only one thing. ”

"Please!"

"When I die, please bring this 'Dawn' sword back to my clan and bring it to Starfall City. ”

"Okay, I promise you!" Eddard's hand in gripping his sword was bruised.

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After Arthur collapsed into a pool of blood, Ed, who ran up the tower, found his sister lying on the "blood bed". Lyanna had a high fever, her strength was weak, her breath was like a gossamer, and her eyes were full of fear. After seeing her brother, Lyanna's fears were swept away.

"Ed, promise me, give me a promise!"

Ed, whose eyes were clouded by tears, nodded in agreement.

Lyanna smiled and clasped her brother's hand and passed away at the age of 16.

As Holland Reed struggled into the Tower of Elysium, he saw a newborn child in Eddard's arms, the bastard Jon Snow, whose real name was Jon Targaryen. ()

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