King of The Wall

2021-01-06

Chapter 81 "Second Son" Calamity

Before crossing, Igor often wondered: like House How did a family like Stark, who cleans out second-hand goods in the plot, stand in North for thousands of years and won the war with several other families competing for the title of "North King"?

Now, as an outsider in this world, he has to take the time to look at the problem more deeply and fundamentally. Then, he gradually discovered that Eddard Stark's pedantic, lame and childish behavior in Game of Thrones was not the fault of House Stark's inheritance, and had nothing to do with his own "immaturity" or "stupidity", but from The very beginning has been doomed - Eddard Stark, simply was not raised according to the template of Game of Thrones players.

He is not an heir, but a "second son" who grew up in Vale.

In this era, in order to prevent internal family struggles, many Great Families will choose different ways when cultivating their heirs and his younger brothers: the eldest son and the future House Head, not only have to learn how to unite To rule and govern, you also have to know when to be noble and honorable, and when to give up some morality to protect the interests of the family... Not the children of the elder son, as long as they are brave, honest and loyal, they will be responsible in the future anyway. It is to assist the elder brother, not to be alone.

A simple summary is that the elder son must be cunning, and the rest is good. Too strong is not good for the family.

Ed got the latter treatment.

He was sent to Eyrie at the age of eight to be Jon Arryn's adopted son to maintain North and Vale's alliance, and the upright and noble Duke Arryn, the adoptive father, really helped oneself's allies raise him into a One - the same as the conscientious Chief Ranger Benjen Stark with whom Igor was already quite familiar - the "qualified second son".

That's not a problem in itself, the problem is that Ed's older brother, Brandon Stark, was later killed by the Mad King.

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The death of an heir is not uncommon in a backward and chaotic era. Usually, parents will quickly pick another child and immediately transform him according to the heir template. A bit - but what happened to Ed was: his parent Rickard Stark was killed by Mad King on the same day the eldest son died.

Therefore, an "adopted son and second son" suddenly lost his father and brother without a day of reformation and training, and became the patriarch of House Stark, the master of North. This is already a very rare situation in itself, and what is even worse is that the tragic war was provoked by this tragedy, and it broke out directly-Ed not only did not have his own elders to reform, but also did not have time to accept other people's elders. come to teach.

Ed doesn't have any experience or wisdom to be in charge, luckily, he's not alone against Targaryen. In the hurried start of the slayer war, he had the command and help of two Old Guys, patriarch, Riverrun Duke Hoster Tully, and adoptive father Vale Duke Jon Arryn.

By the time the war is over and the dust settles, Ed is already a heroic hero, the oldest and the highest-ranking person alive in House Stark, and even more so, North's actual power. Ruler - no one is qualified to point fingers at him, tell him how to rule, and transform him according to the template of qualified rulers.

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So, he completely retains the honor and integrity that oneself learned as the second son, and begins his rule over North. Luckily...the backcountry he ruled didn't have as many crafty plots and machinations and power struggles, and the second son's leadership didn't make a big mistake. So Eddard Stark not only adhered to the virtue of oneself, but also taught all the children of oneself to be qualified "second sons" - and what did Robb Stark, who was not educated by the eldest son, do when he became King in the North Stupid thing, everyone saw it.

House Frey was unaware after humiliating his important ally, beheading General Karstark, participating in the Red Wedding without any defense, etc... If Brandon Stark was still alive, how could the child he taught him do it? These things without political common sense come?
Therefore, there are still people who want to say that who is stupid, naive, etc., you can stop - just like the President of the United States came to China, I am afraid that even a village can't be managed well, Eddard Stark is a qualified person born under the operation of Westeros society The product was just misplaced by fate and his unknown country, Brother Wang.

Everything is the fault of the education of the "second son".

What Igor is trying to do right now is to do his best to keep this misplaced, pedantic and stubborn guy in the dark. There is no other reason - to have such an upright and respectful Night's Watch Legion, and most importantly, a guy who is quite easy to fool as Prime Minister, is currently in the best interest of oneself.

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"It's settled, don't be fooled tomorrow!"

"Night's Watch don't lie!"

After sending away Arya, who was elated with the promise, Igor let out a long sigh: It is undoubtedly a very hard job to help a Dou who can't be helped. Fortunately, he ran into a dead mouse in his first shot, and only a clever rumor ruined the first opponent's plan, and he had time to do something else before the next crisis.

Well... I'm going back to the hotel today, so let's write the reply to Wall first. Now, it's time to think about how to convince Commander Mormont to cancel or at least postpone the Ranger expedition, and to think of catching two ghouls and sending them to the south, so as to open the eyes of these unbelievers.

He stretched his body and went to the outside with Tyrion, and found oneself's new employee, "Aquan", the second member of the Night's Watch office, sitting upright in the office lobby. Behind the table, oneself looked at the facade with a serious look.

Igor rubbed his head, he couldn't figure out what to do with this guy who pretended to be garlic right now. If he said goodbye to oneself today, it would be easy to handle, I am afraid that he will stay by oneself on the surface and will still sneak into the Red Keep secretly to do things... If he causes trouble to oneself, it will be bad. .

"It's closed, let's go," Igor said to Jaqen. He didn't struggle for a long time. Since you're pretending to be arrogant, let's be good at acting. When it comes to killing people, I can't catch up with you, but when it comes to an actor's self-cultivation, there are many personal experiences in worry. After saying this, he turned his head and looked towards Tyrion: "Don't go to bed too early at night, I may ask you to help me write a letter."

"You should master writing as soon as possible," Tyrion naturally would not refuse , but still couldn't help complaining: "Pimping you all day, but it's very brain-consuming."

"It's hard work, and those who can work hard."

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Jeor Mormont was Earl of Bear Island before joining Night's Watch, and soon became Lord Commander after putting on black cloth, and has been in power until now. For the current Igor, this is undoubtedly a leader and great character that he can only look up to temporarily, and if you want to persuade such an Old Guy to change his mind, you have to use some methods.

After all, Lord Commander has never seen the battle strength of Others that is far beyond ordinary people. He wants to launch a Ranger expedition to investigate the north. In theory, there is no problem... Since there is no problem in theory , then Igor naturally couldn't dissuade him by reasoning.

Tsk...how does this start.

Igor returned to the Albatross Hotel with Jaqen and the entire group of Tyrion. After thinking about it all the way, he finally came up with an idea: since the reason is not easy to explain, then just think in reverse and start with an unreasonable beginning. , first use an unfair accusation to attract Mormont's attention, and then use multiple prongs to achieve the goal of persuasion.

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(end of this chapter)