Karen is a young man from a village near Tianji City. He has dark brown hair, bright black eyes, and fair skin, which are very typical features of a stone man.
The Dornish people living south of the Crimson Mountains are roughly divided into three major groups. Although they are collectively called the Dornish people, they are divided into detailed categories.
The Salt People live by the sea, mainly in the Broken Arm area near the Sea of Dorne in the Crimson Mountains.
They are soft and dark, with smooth olive skin and long black hair blowing in the wind. Most of them are fishermen and sailors, and are experienced sailors who pilot the Dornish fleet.
Oberyn and the Martell family are typical salt people.
The Sand People live in deserts and narrow river valleys, and are even darker than the Salt People. They are exposed to strong sunlight all day long, and their faces are brown and red.
As for the last major ethnic group, they are the Stone People. They live in the mountains and passes of the Crimson Mountains. They are the best and most beautiful among the three. They are the descendants of the Andals and the Ancestors. They have brown or blond hair.
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Compared to the other two major ethnic groups that reject the outside world, the Stonemen are the most friendly ethnic group among the Dornish people to people in the outside world, because their ancestors are also descendants of the Andals and the First Men.
But within Dorne, because of this very obvious difference in appearance and culture, the faces of the stone people are very similar to their enemies, with almost no difference. Therefore, the stone people are also the most marginalized by the other two groups within Dorne.
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Now, Karen, a young man from a village near Tianji City, is leading the villagers to escape from their hometown where they have lived for generations and go to the outside world.
However, now all roads to the outside world have been blocked by noble gentlemen.
The Prince's Pass road used to be smooth and was the main road to and from Dorne. It is easier to walk here than the Bone Road and there are no steep cliffs.
But now the Prince's Pass is subject to very strict inspections. Only caravans can enter and exit, and the number of people is also greatly restricted.
Therefore, Karen, along with his mother, younger brother, and dozens of villagers from Tianji City, could only take great risks and try to cross the Crimson Mountains to the frontier and even the royal territory of the River Bend.
The reason why these Dornish people fled their homeland was not too complicated. Naturally, it was because they could no longer survive.
The traditional nobles paid very high taxes on their fiefdoms. During the war, it even reached the point where they could only have one mouthful of food to avoid starving to death.
But this system has disappeared in other areas of the Seven Kingdoms, and the days when the nobles themselves decided how much to tax were gone.
Now the tax collectors under the Iron Throne go to various places to collect taxes. The taxes are paid according to a certain proportion and are transparent and open. Compared with the past, the taxes have dropped a lot, and the living standards of the people have also been significantly improved.
And these are also a chain reaction. When people's living standards improve, there will be fewer bandits, bullies, and brotherhoods. As long as they are not desperate, no one will choose to take risks.
The Iron Throne's policy changes create a virtuous cycle.
But among these changes, Dorne, the only one in the Seven Kingdoms that has not changed, seems very abrupt.
At first, the Dornish people relied on their own privileges to dominate other parts of the Seven Kingdoms. The local noble officials dared not speak out because they had a Dornish queen behind them.
However, with the end of the war, peace gradually returned to the Seven Kingdoms, and the privileges of the Dornish people gradually became difficult to use.
The City Guard of King's Landing no longer turned a blind eye to the illegal crimes of the Dornish people. The Dornish caravans, after offending many of their colleagues with their domineering behavior at the beginning, also encountered joint suppression by other caravans, and finally had to flee in panic.
Out of King's Landing.
The gradual loss of privileges is one aspect, but in the end, the Dornish people even found that they often struck hard at others. However, in fact, their lives were not as good as the other party's. Combined with their previous behavior, they looked like a clown.
The living standards of the people in other regions of the Seven Kingdoms are rising. Only Dorne is standing still, even faintly retreating.
Moreover, many colleagues who participated in the first and second conquest wars were canonized as knights, landed knights, and even lords because of their military merits.
The number of lords in the Seven Kingdoms has experienced a huge increase. Although most of them cut the large territories into countless small territories and entrusted them to these meritorious soldiers, they did not have any dissatisfaction. On the contrary, it was too late to be happy.
After all, they have leaped over the dragon gate and completed a class leap.
However, the Dornish people also did not participate in all this, because the king promised the Dornish people a high degree of self-control, and the merits of the Dornish soldiers should be canonized by their noble lords. The Iron Throne will not interfere, and the Dornish nobles naturally do not
Willing to give up his own land for enfeoffment.
In summary, these complicated reasons caused the inner imbalance of the first batch of Dornish people, and they left their hometown to develop in King's Landing, Seagull Town, Lannisport and other places.
Later, more Dornish people left their hometown and embarked on the journey north, which eventually reached a large scale. The population of a large number of villages dropped sharply. This aroused the vigilance of the Dornish nobles and began to prohibit the people in their territories from leaving.
, but by this time it was too late.
"We're going to make it out alive, right, Karen?"
The mother of the brown-haired boy was holding her younger brother in her arms. She was a little unkempt in a headscarf and spoke with a slightly trembling voice.
At this moment, they were hiding in the woods of the Crimson Mountains. The young Karen was most familiar with the terrain here, so he acted as a guide and led other villagers to escape.
Among the dozens of remaining villagers, there are many tall and strong warriors, who have even served in the Dornish army. They are holding homemade spears and swords and are waiting in full formation.
After hearing his mother's words, the brown-haired boy turned to look at her and his brother in his arms, and then nodded silently.
"Um!"
"Most definitely."
In fact, Karen already regrets running away a little. Although life in Dorne is not very satisfactory, after all, he will not die of hunger, and this is his hometown.
However, now that they have run away, there is no chance of turning back. The village chief found out that several of their families had run away and may have reported it to Earl Franklin Fuller.
The "Old Falcon" of Tianji City had already issued an order and spread it to the surrounding villages. Anyone who dared to leave his home without returning would be punished by death.
In other words, after Karen and others escaped to Prince's Pass, there was no way back.