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#54 - Chapter 17: The End of the Long Family
And so, amidst this mutual bickering, the year 283 AC passed. In the second year of Robert Baratheon's reign on the Iron Throne, Hand of the King Jon Arryn personally traveled to Sunspear to return Lewyn Martell's bones. He expressed his apologies to House Martell and initiated peace talks with Prince Doran Martell of Dorne.
However, Gregor Clegane and Amory Lorch, the men who killed Elia, were vassals of the Westerlands. Jon Arryn had no authority to punish them, which became an eternal wedge between Dorne and the Iron Throne.
Perhaps the Targaryen family's luck had run out. A storm of unprecedented scale swept through Blackwater Bay. Dragonstone bore the brunt of it, with most of its hundreds of warships destroyed. The mighty Royal Fleet was shattered, shaking the last foundations of the Targaryen dynasty. The surviving soldiers even began to plot rebellion, capturing members of the Targaryen family and presenting them to King Robert as a gesture of surrender.
On that stormy night, Queen Rhaella gave birth to a girl in a difficult labor, naming her Daenerys Targaryen. Soon after, the Queen died from postpartum hemorrhage. Seeing that all was lost, Ser Willem Darry, the former master-at-arms of the Red Keep, along with a few other staunch loyalists, seized a ship under the cover of darkness. They smuggled Viserys, Daenerys, and a wet nurse from Dragonstone away, aiming to reach the coast of Braavos across the Narrow Sea.
Stannis's advance progressed smoothly, and the garrison of Dragonstone surrendered without resistance. In the name of King Robert Baratheon I, he seized Dragonstone, the last Targaryen stronghold. However, he searched Dragonstone high and low but found no trace of the Targaryen remnants.
Robert was furious about this and berated Stannis as useless in the Small Council. Then, he named Stannis the Duke of Dragonstone and Master of Ships, the commander-in-chief of the Royal Fleet. He also named his younger brother Renly as the Duke of Storm's End and Lord Paramount of the Stormlands.
Stannis complained to Cressen, "Robert asked me to build him a fleet, and I did. I also took Dragonstone in his name. Did he hold my hand and say, 'Brother, you did well!'? No! He turned around and blamed me for letting Willem Darry escape with Viserys and the little baby. It wasn't my fault."
Stannis continued to Cressen, "I cleared the enemies for Robert, and I built a fleet for him. See how Robert thanks me? He appointed me Duke of Dragonstone. I never asked for Dragonstone; I don't want this forsaken place. Yet, he gave Storm's End and its revenues to Renly."
In any case, this War of the Usurper, so important to Westeros, truly ended, ending the Targaryen dynasty's rule of over three hundred years.
Looking back, it was also normal. The Targaryen family conquered the Seven Kingdoms with the unmatched power of dragons, but they were destroyed by internal strife. The Dance of the Dragons war caused the Targaryen family to lose their strongest support, the dragons.
The subsequent Blackfyre Rebellions further depleted the royal family, leaving them with fewer and fewer heirs. From time to time, a tyrant or a dimwit would emerge, tormenting the common people to the point of despair. Therefore, this War of the Usurper completely collapsed this once invincible family.
When the storm destroyed the Dragonstone fleet, Ser Bandarr returned to Crackclaw Point with the remaining strength of his family. The situation was much better than expected; eight out of ten ships returned, and even the mercenaries lost less than 60 men.
Before Stannis landed on Dragonstone, Bycott sent a raven to King's Landing. Lord Ardrian was the first to rush to the Red Keep to swear allegiance upon receiving the news. Robert gladly accepted his allegiance, but as punishment, he stripped him of two knightly territories. House Celtigar preserved its strength to the greatest extent in this turmoil.
Liu Yuan, in Oldtown, felt that these were minor problems. The foundation of House Celtigar was its fleet and overseas trade. As long as these were not lost, he would find a way to get the land back in the future.
He was now wondering when to go to Harrenhal to retrieve those dragon eggs.
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In the year 289 AC, under Aegon's Conquest, a warm sea breeze swept through Oldtown. It was already deep autumn, but it still felt hot here, which was a testament to the strangeness of the world of ice and fire.
Robert I had been on the throne for six years, and it was now the midst of a long summer, which had lasted for two years. In such a climate, even the winter in the North could grow grains. The Seven Kingdoms entered a period of peace. Apart from the wildlings in the North and the pirates in the South, even robbers were very rare in the inland. Therefore, under Robert's rule, the lives of the common people of Westeros were becoming increasingly prosperous, and no one remembered the Targaryen family anymore.
On the west bank of the Honeywine, in a small but exquisite courtyard, a tall teenager was practicing swordsmanship. His bare body revealed smooth muscles, containing great power. He swept his sword backhand, directly cutting off a section of a stone pillar as thick as a wine barrel. He kicked out with his right leg, and with a loud bang, the stone pillar was kicked into two pieces. Without even turning his head, he threw the long sword backward, and it landed directly back into the scabbard next to the table. He took a long breath, and the white air was visible more than three meters away.
This person was Liu Yuan. After five years of study and exercise, he had grown up. Currently, under the continuous scouring of his spiritual power, this body had perfectly matched his transformed soul and body. Now, he would no longer be affected by the daily forced sleep, and his physical fitness had also increased at a visible rate. He pressed his hand to his chest, and a light curtain that only he could see appeared.
Name: Liu Yuan (Gaelon Celtigar)
Race: Human (Sub-Dragon Bloodline assimilated, awakened)
Age: 14 (Unknown)
Strength: 49
Agility: 48
Constitution: 49
Spirit: 80
Integrated Perception: 66
Hidden Attributes: (Unknown)
The personal panel was as simple as ever, and all attributes had grown considerably. If he were to meet Big Belly Ben again now, he could hammer him to death with one hand, which meant that he now had the capital to go out and make waves.
As for the dragon bloodline awakening, although the panel did not explain it. Combining Liu Yuan's performance in the plot of Daenerys, the intuitive manifestation should be a certain degree of immunity to fire.
Liu Yuan also tested it. It should be able to stack with his fire element adaptation. His hand was placed in a furnace fire of about 600 degrees Celsius and was not burned. He would only feel a stinging sensation at about 1200 degrees Celsius, and the current fuel could not reach higher temperatures. And there would be a sequelae, that is, after the bloodline was stimulated. His hair would turn silver-white, and his eyes would be violet.
Such a typical Valyrian trait, if he walked on the street now, he would likely be mistaken for the remnants of the clan. This made him stay in the workshop for two full days before he initially mastered this transformation.
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