Chapter nine hundred and twentieth mortals have faith
R'hllor's faith has spread so widely that it can be found almost all over the world.
"The road ahead is difficult and long."
Therefore, Daenerys's mission in this expedition was extremely arduous, and she had an important mission on her shoulders. She even abandoned her child in King's Landing, unable to fulfill her responsibilities as a mother.
The middle of Aegon's calendar year 307 was a turbulent year.
After the long night passed, the Valyrian Empire launched its first external war. They conquered Volantis, the largest remaining city-state among the Free Trade Cities, in a devastating manner.
The once glorious nine free trade city-states were the center of human civilization and economy, and the core of commodity circulation. But who would have thought that the glorious trade city-states would begin to decline at a terrifying speed in the past twenty years.
Braavos, the boss of the trading city-state, was reduced to ruins in the war between humans and the White Walkers. Loras and Qohor also suffered the same fate.
Pentos and the three daughter kingdoms of Lys, Myr and Tyrosh have all been annexed by the huge empire rising in the west and have become part of the empire's territory.
Therefore, only Volantis and Norvos are left struggling to support the nine once glorious Free Trade Cities.
However, everyone knows what happened later. For some unknown reason, the Red God Cult planned to assassinate Aemon, the young prince of the empire, which aroused the anger of Daenerys, the third queen of the empire.
And people originally thought that the empire launched a war to attack Volantis this time just to vent its anger on the little queen whose child was assassinated.
But what everyone didn't expect was that after spending half a month to conquer Volantis, the imperial army did not stop. Instead, it set a very clear goal.
They declared a series of Essos gods headed by the 'Red God' R'hllor and their church to be 'evil gods' and 'sinful religions'.
Therefore, the Valyrian Empire army adhered to the principle of "man can conquer nature", launched an attack on these "evil gods" and "sinful religions", and began to continue to advance into the depth of the Essos continent, sweeping away everything they could see.
Everything related to these evil gods.
'Man can conquer nature' is actually just a brief summary. I don't know when this idea began to spread from the Targaryen military system.
Perhaps after the first war between humans and the White Walkers, the White Walkers went south and swept across the Seven Kingdoms. Although humans, under the leadership of King Robert, made tenacious resistance, they lost consecutive battles and were eventually forced to retreat to the south of the Neck.
The Twin River City, and at the same time sought help from Viserys, the 'Young Dragon Lord' who had risen across the Narrow Sea.
It was this request for help that ultimately changed the fate of the people of the seven countries.
Viserys led the Golden Company and the Dothraki across the Narrow Sea to the continent of Westeros and formed a coalition with the armies of the Seven Kingdoms. In the end, they tenaciously defeated the White Walkers and won the first war between humans and White Walkers.
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In this war, people had experienced despair. They prayed devoutly, hoping that the gods in heaven could send down their grace and save the fate of believers.
However, it is a pity that the gods in heaven are indifferent and cannot see the suffering in the world. They ignore it all.
In the end, humans could only rely on their own tenacious resistance to defeat the White Walkers.
Therefore, from that time on, such an idea began to spread among the Targaryen army.
That is, although the power of mortals is small, they can still save their own destiny. The gods are ignorant and cannot see the suffering in the world. People can only rely on their own strength to save themselves.
"Everyone has faith."
So in this case, why should we believe in the gods in the sky and hold them on high altars? Why not believe in ourselves?
A soldier who fights bravely to kill corpses on the battlefield, a bachelor who saves lives and heals the wounded, a lord who opens his granary and is charitable, etc. Every ordinary and great ordinary person is worthy of belief. There is no need to believe in those useless gods.
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Naturally, these people include Viserys, their king, who defeated the Night King and saved the fate of all mankind.
It was under this situation that Viserys inadvertently ignited the fire of his faith, a small and weak flame. However, now this small flame has grown into a blazing divine fire.
"Help yourself!"
“Continue to strive for self-improvement!”
The thoughts and emotions that spread among the Imperial Army began to surge sharply during the most difficult and difficult time of the Long Night.
Because at that time, even the most loyal believers lost faith in the gods in the sky, and their faith began to waver. Then this thought reached its peak after the Long Night ended and the Battle of Qohor was won.
This thought is somewhat similar to a saying widely circulated in the continent of Essos, 'All mortals are mortal, and all mortals need to be served'.
The God of Many Faces was once trapped in the mines of Valyria and witnessed slaves being tortured to death. They were captured from all over the world and prayed to various gods in various languages, but
But no one received a response, and in the end they all died of regret.
Therefore, the God of Many Faces was also the first faceless man to realize the true meaning of the gods at this time.
This saying, which was later widely circulated in the continent of Essos, "All mortals are mortal, and all mortals need to be served." It began to spread from this time on.
But now it has become 'Everyone has faith, everyone is mortal, and everyone needs to be served.'
Therefore, in a strict sense, this idea was not first spread from the Targaryen army, but a belief that was born hidden beneath the water due to the accidental or inevitable process of the world's history.
Of course, this belief of the lower class people has not been noticed by the gods in the sky, who are still busy participating in the internal fighting among the gods.
Humanity needs a leader.
But it is a pity that the God of Many Faces is just a top killer who spent his whole life to establish a top killer organization. He is the god who answers the prayers of believers most frequently, but he is still not enough to become the leader of mankind.
Viserys stepped forward at this time, took over the position of the God of Many Faces, and became the psychological sustenance of many mortals.
Religious wars.
Therefore, the imperial army, led by the young queen Daenerys, made an expedition to the east. After conquering Volantis, their goal became very clear.
They want to destroy all belief in 'evil gods'.
But destroying the belief in these evil gods is not to promote the Seven Gods of Westeros or the Drowned God, etc.
Rather, it is necessary to spread the word to drive all these evil gods who care about human life and ignore human life from the surface of the earth and cut off all connections between them and the mortal world.
They announced to the world that mortals can also control their own destiny.