In the brightly lit tavern, a man wearing boiled leather armor inlaid with iron plates and holding a double-edged prisoner of war in his hand said in a rough voice.
He also held a leg of lamb in his hand, then opened his mouth wide to reveal a row of crooked square teeth, tore off a piece of meat and chewed it vigorously.
On the other side, an Iban raider who was also tall and stocky, holding an ax and a long-haired buckler in the other hand, sat directly next to him and retorted unceremoniously.
road.
"Fuck you!"
"Gron."
"I stepped on shit when I saw you."
This is Iban, an island nation located in the polar sea north of the Essos continent.
The largest island in Iban is Iban Island, an island covered with forests and mountains. The largest cities on it are the capital Iban Port and Iban No City.
There are many small islands scattered in Whale Bay in the south of Iban Island. In the southeast of Iban Island is a medium-sized mountainous island called Far Iban Island, on which the city of Iban Sa is built.
The Iban people are tall, stocky, and hairy. Whether they are men or women, they seem to be completely unevolved, with unusually broad chest muscles and shoulders.
Moreover, the Iban people also have a very obvious "reproductive isolation" from other races in the world.
If people from Westeros or other continents impregnate Iban women, the result will inevitably be abnormal fetuses or stillbirths.
Likewise, Iban men impregnate women in Westeros and elsewhere, often with monstrous or 'natural' abortions, like mules.
And the Iban people also have their own unique way of greeting.
"Oh, fuck."
"Why are you all coming here to join in the fun?"
"Do I have wedding wine here?"
The Iban warrior named Golon held the leg of lamb in his hand, took a swig of the strong wine in the wooden cup next to him, then bit off a mouthful of wool, and looked at his companion sitting in front of him and said dissatisfiedly.
"how?"
"Someone came here just now?"
However, this Iban man with messy yellow hair, holding an ax and shield, seemed not to hear the dissatisfaction in Goron's mouth.
Instead, he sat across from him generously, put down the weapons and shields in his hands, then took out a small knife, cut a piece of meat from Goron's leg of lamb, put it into his mouth, and asked
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"Buckwheat!"
"Son of a bitch, Torg Buckwheat!"
And Gron did not hide it, but spoke directly.
This Tog Bucks is a raider from Iban Island. He was once a member of the Warriors. The Warriors are also called the Blood Troupe. Their leader is called Vag Hut, a Qohor man.
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I heard that many years ago they went to Westeros to make a fortune, and then they were killed by a dragon.
The leader of the warrior group died on the spot, so they dispersed. From then on, the warrior group was disbanded, and the Iban Toge Qiaosi also returned to his hometown.
Tog Qiaosi joined another mercenary group after returning to Iban, and happened to be the mortal enemy of Goron and others. Because of this, the two couldn't stand each other, and they just had some conflicts in the tavern.
But if Goron is to speak, Tog Qiaosi is a deserter from the Warriors!
He also made an excuse, why was he beaten by a dragon?
This can make people laugh so hard that they will cut their shit off. Are giant dragons so common?
And why did the giant dragon attack them when it had nothing to do?
This is simply a cannon to swat mosquitoes.
However, at this moment, a faint roar suddenly came from outside the tavern, but it was not very loud. It penetrated the white wind and snow, as if it came from a very far away place. If you didn't listen carefully, you wouldn't know it.
Hear it, let alone in a noisy and messy tavern.
Iban is now also trapped in an eternal night, with no daylight.
However, the shadow council of the Iban rulers also responded quickly. They stabilized the local situation and did not allow the unrest to continue to expand.
Nowadays, people don’t know what happened. Why did the sun disappear?
There are smart people who know how to secretly stock up on food, but most people's lives have to go on. What can they do without the sun? They can only continue to eat and drink. Even if the end of the world is around the corner, they still have to struggle.
You can't just commit suicide in vain.
However, the faint roar from the outside continued. No one paid attention to it at first, perhaps because it was too far away. It sounded like the biting cold wind outside the tavern making a scream through the cracks in the door.
But as the sound became closer and closer, penetrating the wind and snow and ringing in the sky of Port Iban, some of the people sitting in the tavern seemed to react and heard something unusual.
Iban is about the same latitude as the Ancestor Tombs in the north, but it suddenly snowed when the long night fell, and it is still snowing heavily outside.
"Um?"
Goron, who was chewing the leg of lamb, was the first to react. He stopped what he was doing and asked.
"Wait...did you hear that?"
Then Goron held his leg of lamb in one hand, frowning and making a listening gesture.
After waiting for him to hear clearly, his expression suddenly changed. He quickly put down the leg of lamb in his hand and picked up the double-edged battle ax and long-haired round shield at hand.
And the many Iban people in the tavern didn't need to be reminded by him at this moment, they all had already reacted.
"what happened?"
"what sound?"
Everyone in the Iban Harbor Tavern suddenly stood up and grabbed the weapons at hand.
Boom——
Boom——
Boom——
Then I heard the alarm bells of Iban Port ringing. This is a bell that only sounds when foreign enemies invade.
The Iban people are fierce and all are soldiers. Therefore, when facing an invasion, they will ring a bell to call on all Iban warriors, both men and women, to take up their weapons and resist the enemy's invasion.
"Who invaded Iban?"
"The wooden men of Ivervelon? Or the Dothraki?"
One of the two major forces closest to Iban is the Dothraki, and the other is the Kingdom of Ifverlon, the legendary "Forest Walkers".
They live in the forest. There is only one city named Vaes Les. The Ifverlons are said to have forbidden magic. Although they are close neighbors of the Dothraki, the steppe knights never dare to provoke them.
Stay away.
However, all the Iban people in the tavern had blank faces, because theoretically the Dothraki were afraid of the sea and would never cross the sea to attack Iban.
On the other side, the wooden people of the Ifveron Kingdom, the neighbor, cannot be said to be peace-loving, and they would not hesitate to kill outsiders when they break in, but the wooden people have never left the forest.