Viserys tore open the envelope and drew out its contents, unfolding them to look at them.
Ferrego Antareon is the current King of the Sea.
The Sea King of Braavos is the ruler of the Free Trade City State of Braavos. His personal bodyguard is known as the Chief Swordsman of Braavos. The one standing below with messy hair is Syrio Forel.
to hold such an important position.
The current Sea King of Braavos, Ferrego Antalion, lives in the Sea King's Palace in the city.
The title of Sea King is not hereditary. After the death of the previous Sea King, the new Sea King will be selected from all citizens by the governor and keykeeper of Braavos according to a mysterious and puzzling process.
Once chosen as Sea King, he will serve for life until his death.
The letter that Viserys is holding now is an autographed letter from Ferregor Anttalion.
The content of the letter is not very long, and it expresses a simple purpose.
Moreover, Viserys could see that the timeliness of this letter seemed to be a bit 'expired'.
This letter from Ferregor Antharion was written before the expedition of Viserys and the Targaryen fleet to Storm's End.
After all, Braavos is thousands of miles away from Dragonstone. By the time Neptune got the news of the naval battle, it was already too late to take back the letter.
Moreover, this letter was not written to him, but was written in his name.
After all, after Viserys was crowned, he became a wandering king with a claim to the Iron Throne in a sense. Moreover, his bloodline was pure and his legal principles were impeccable.
But the letter was actually addressed to his mother, Queen Leila.
In the letter, the Sea King of Braavos persuaded Layla to take Viserys to abandon Dragonstone and come to live in Braavos.
Braavos will provide active protection and blessing to the Dragon King's descendants, which is more elegantly called 'political asylum'.
At the same time, Aquaman also implicitly stated in the letter that "at certain critical times" he may consider supporting Targaryen's "just demands" for the Iron Throne of Westeros.
The entire autograph letter was written eloquently and in Valyrian. It seemed that the Sea King had more accurate information than the messenger.
However, Viserys looked at the nonsense written in the letter without changing his expression.
Braavos may really need these poor orphans and widowers, but it is definitely not for the reasons of 'justice', 'legality' and so on as stated in this letter.
Oris Baratheon, the first Prime Minister after the War of Conquest, was the illegitimate brother of Aegon I according to ancient rumors, and also had Targaryen blood.
However, these are just rumors without concrete evidence, and illegitimate children do not have legal inheritance rights.
The legal principle that Robert Baratheon relied on to ascend to the Iron Throne was his grandmother's bloodline.
Robert's grandmother is Relle Targaryen, the daughter of Aegon V, so as a "relative" of Targaryen, he has the qualifications to ascend the Iron Throne.
Therefore, Robert is more legitimate than the people of the Arryn family, the Tully family or the Stark family.
Viserys simply ignored the nonsense above, but he noticed that a person was mentioned vaguely at the end of the handwritten letter.
Ferregor Anttalion wrote in the letter that he invited Queen Layla and Prince Viserys to Braavos, and then secretly arranged for a mysterious person to meet Queen Layla and Prince Viserys.
The identity indicated is a word similar to 'in-law' in Valyrian, indicating a 'relative of the woman's family'.
Viserys's Valyrian was enough for daily communication, but without such a communication environment after leaving the Red Keep, it was inevitable that he would become unfamiliar.
He carefully thought about the meaning of Neptune's words, and then read it several times, and seemed to have a slight understanding.
This was because his perspective on the letter was different. Viserys initially viewed the letter with himself as the center and did not understand it for a while.
But now that I have woken up, if I look at this letter from the perspective of Queen Layla, the meaning of this sentence is very easy to understand.
Queen Leila’s ‘in-laws’?
Queen Rhaella had three children, Viserys and Daenerys, one was just a child and the other was just a baby. Only the eldest brother Rhaegar was married.
And although a lot of messy things happened later, the in-laws definitely did not refer to the Stark family in the north.
"Donne."
Viserys understood slightly, and the knot between his eyebrows loosened a little.
"Dorn actually wants to contact his mother?"
Viserys knew that the Iron Throne was currently negotiating with Dorne. In fact, Dorne had long been separated from Targaryen due to the cunning manipulations of his father Aerys and brother Rhaegar.
But at this juncture, Dorn actually contacted Braavos to pull the strings.
And Braavos, as a middleman, somehow agreed to secretly arrange a meeting between Dorne and Targaryen.
"But... didn't their Iron Bank already lend money to the Iron Throne during this period?"
“Aren’t they afraid they won’t get the money back?
still…
They want to use this to make a fuss and manipulate the war to make the Iron Throne owe them more money.
Viserys thought about the whole thing.
Or.
Braavos simply doesn't want the seven nations across the Narrow Sea to truly reunite and cause them any trouble.
"This is a bit subtle."
Viserys frowned, holding the letter in his hand and falling into deep thought.
He didn't know where the negotiations between Dorne and the Iron Throne were now.
It is even less clear what Dorne's true attitude is, whether he is truly reconciling with the Iron Throne, or whether he is just hypocritical.
And now that Dorne is taking the initiative to contact Targaryen, is it the intention of Prince Doran, or is it just a secret move by a group of people in the Maltai family who are dissatisfied with the peace talks.
He knew nothing about it.
Viserys understands Dorn's caution very well. After all, they are currently negotiating with the Iron Throne. If they send a ship directly to Dragonstone, then the negotiations will not need to be carried out, and war will break out in Westeros again.
but...
What this letter shows is not just that simple.
If Viserys understood it correctly, the letter meant that Queen Layla would take him to Braavos to meet with people from Dorne.
It was specifically noted that the Targaryens and Houses of Maltai were still related.
Then he used a more intimate title, indicating that he was a ‘relative of the woman’.
Viserys held the letter in his hand and suddenly had a bad premonition.
"This...does the Maltai family have any daughters?"