"The head of the direwolf...this is undoubtedly a warning from the White Walkers to us."
"I remember that your Majesty visited the north a long time ago. Didn't your Majesty see this formation?"
Only when you look down from the sky can you see the full view of this formation of heads. If Viserys flew through the sky on a dragon, he should have seen this formation of heads. However,
"Don't speak ill of your Majesty!"
Then someone's guess was scolded by others. The command tent of the Night Watch Legion camp was in a mess, and people were talking about this large array of heads.
Especially the direwolf head among them, which is a naked warning from the White Walkers to humans. It seems that they know that the Stark family is destined to embark on this road back home.
Among the chaotic crowd, Ed Stark himself looked very calm, looking at the map in front of him with a pair of gray eyes. This was a comprehensive map of the North, but in the center of the map was the scene he had just visited.
The small wooden bow I found.
This was the practice bow that his sister Lyanna had used when she was a child, and he was very impressed.
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"This formation was made fresh. Although the icy and snowy climate north of the Neck has delayed the decay of the corpses to a certain extent, the time they died was not very long."
"The teams we sent out to patrol have all returned. There is not much attrition. According to speculation, they may be expedition teams organized by the Free Trade City State and were killed by the White Walkers."
The person who spoke was Colin Halfhand, the leading ranger in the Night's Watch Legion and the former deputy commander of the Shadow Tower. He was considered a real and powerful figure in the legion.
He could live alone outside the Great Wall for a winter and then return safely.
His name is known to everyone among the savages, and many savages even hate him to the core. He can be called the maker of widows and orphans.
Based on his long-term experience outside the Great Wall, he can infer that the time when these people died was not too long, perhaps only in the past few days.
According to other people's speculations, this group of people is likely to be people sent by the trading city-state on the other side of the Narrow Sea.
After all, this cold winter has also had an impact on the other side of the Narrow Sea. In addition to the snow disaster, Braavos has already had more than one heavy snowfall, because Braavos and the Neck are on the same line in latitude.
, the seasons are roughly the same, but it has never been so cold in Ningze in previous years, almost like outside the Great Wall.
Moreover, the people of the trading city-state are also particularly concerned about the wars and disasters that occur in Westeros, and the deserted North has become a place for them to explore.
But the courage of these people is commendable, but it is a pity that they found the wrong opponent. The White Walkers caused hundreds of thousands of human coalition forces to collapse, and they lost consecutive battles. It was not just fear.
However, it was not a pity for the expeditions or mercenaries of this group of trading city-states to die, but Colin Halfhand's words made everyone present feel scared, including Rickard Karstark, the most popular High Steward of the North.
people.
Rickard Karstark now becomes the actual leader of the Northern Army.
But in name, they still need to obey the orders of Lord Commander Mormont of the Night's Watch.
Otherwise it is rebellion.
The next day, His Majesty will ride the Black Death and parachute to his head, and a puff of dragon flame will send him rolling to the seven levels of hell.
Rickard knew this very well, and his power came from Viserys detaining Robb Stark in King's Landing.
Although the Young Master is still the Governor of the North in name, he will only be a servant if he does not come back. If Your Majesty detains him for the rest of his life, then Rickard can be the 'Governor of the North' for the rest of his life.
This can also be regarded as a finishing touch, laying the hidden danger of "discord between kings and ministers" in the northern border.
When he first tasted this kind of power, the Earl of Kahor City had already fallen deeply into it. This feeling was something he had never felt before.
Including the northern nobles who are surrounding him now, they were still toasting and sitting around him yesterday to celebrate him becoming the Grand Steward of the Northern Territory.
In the past, these people gathered around Lord Eddard Stark, but Lord Stark faced his vassals with a cold attitude.
Stark
Karstark
In fact, Karstark is also a Stark. The same wolf blood flows in their bodies, but they just formed a branch at the beginning.
The ancestors of Karstark were canonized to the city of Kahor, and then the names of "Kahor City" and "Kahor City" were eventually changed to Karstark.
Since Stark can sit, why can't he?
What's more, this era has changed. Except for the North, Dorne and the Iron Islands, the governors of other places have been replaced by different people. Even people like Littlefinger...
Thinking of this, the impetus in his heart became even more uncontrollable. The strong man with a gray beard heard the words of Colin Halfhand, and then secretly glanced at the lord he once loyal to, who was now wearing black clothes.
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Ed Stark naturally didn't know what kind of changes had taken place in his once most loyal subordinate when he tasted the taste of power, and whether he would leave his son with a "lonely and important minister" whom he could rely on.
The people in the north have a straightforward mind and are rarely flexible, and they don't understand the principles and rules of power. Otherwise, they would not have suffered a lot of bloodshed during their journey south.
At this moment, he was thinking about what Colin Halfhand said. If he followed the words of the deputy commander of the Shadow Tower, it meant that the White Walkers were still in this land not long ago and had just left. This was also the moment when everyone in the tent became quiet.
reason.
"Didn't it mean that the White Walkers have retreated to the north of the Great Wall?"
"How can we fight the White Walkers without dragons?"
There was a commotion in the tent of the Night's Watch. Whether it was the southern nobles who were assigned to the Night's Watch or the northern nobles, they had become dependent on the dragon.
"Should we seek help from His Majesty?"
They have lost the courage to fight the White Walkers without the support of the dragon. In their opinion, only with the dragon in front can human soldiers be able to fight the White Walkers.
"The White Walkers will not come out to fight us!"
At this moment, Commander-in-Chief Mormont, who was in the center of the crowd, looked at the messy tent, and couldn't help but speak loudly.
"Otherwise they wouldn't have retreated. Only one person was left behind to try to scare us away."
As soon as he spoke, everyone fell silent. No matter how Mormont came to be the commander-in-chief of the entire army, he was nominally the commander-in-chief. No one dared to disobey him. After all, behind him stood the Iron Throne. All disobedient people
Lord Commander Mormont's men rebelled against the Iron Throne and started a rebellion.
Everyone knows what happened to the person who started the rebellion last time.