ハレンの巨城とドラゴンストーン城｜ウェスタロスの最重要拠点｜事前動画

On the shores of the god’s eye do north of the Isle of faces rises a monument to arrogance and cruelty, Harrenhal. For a people who prided themselves on those ships, the Iron men of old seized any chance to leave them and carved out a vast kingdom from the peaceful river lords. The empire reached its zenith under king Harren Hoare called the black by those the terrorized and by his own men though they meant it proudly.

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King Harren enslaved the Riverlands to raise the mightiest fortless Westeros had ever seen. A castle that could garrison as million men with walls so vast that winters would come and go and beseeching armies grow old and gray before the castle fell. Five towers he ordered reaching into the heavens like grasping fingers a monstrosity which he forced our people to build for their own subjugation.

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But the very day the slaves laid the last stone, Aegon Tagaryen and his sisters arrived in the south. When they arrived with a small army, Harren laughed and shut the gates. Harrenhal would have its first test and an easy one at that, it failed. Harrenhal could have withstood an assault from all the armies in westeros combined, but Harren learned that the tallest and thickest walls meant little to dragons, for dragons fly. With Harren and his sons dead Harrenhal quickly surrendered to Aegon.

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House Tully raised the RiverLords in rebellion against the Ironisland and with Aegon we flushed the Iron men to the sea. We should have torn down the castle stone by stone then, but Harrenhal seems such a magnificent prize that Aegon gave it to one of his commanders whose line then with it to extinction as would every family to hold it thereafter.

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When many speak of Harrenhal, their voices drop to whispers about mad lady Lothston who were said to send a giant bat to collect children for crockpots, and to bathe and blood and serve feasts of human flesh. About the ghosts of black Harren and his sons who still walk the castle at night, all aflame of the servants who went to bed in full health and were found in the morning burnt to ash.

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Mere stories to frighten wayward children and excite young girls you may say he would not be entirely wrong. Harrenhal is a price a nigh impregnable castle with enough land and enough income to make a man at a stroke one of the greatest lords in westeros. But he would not be entirely right either.

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Say by a king’s grace Harrenhal became yours now you must garrison it you must repair it and maintain it even stretch to the ends of your means you cannot fill and manage the whole castle. So you would treat your household to four of the five towers then three then two then only the bottom thirds of those. You close the whole of a hundred halls and take your meals in your rooms even then you can’t shake the feeling of desolarion that Harrenhal and its vastness is devouring you. In later years, as you bury a grandson or a great-grandson the last of your line, you will know it has.

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Nobdy knows why the Targaryen first came to the Island of Dragonstone. Old varirya was then at the height of its power and the center of the civilized world which ended at the Narrow sea. Westeros was a filthy backwater with seven kings squabbling over borders and minor glories, so much for progress.

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the Island itself was and is nothing, it had no gold or gems to love Variryan nobility all that is rock mostly a shiny black stone to o brittle for war and too sharp for building. The Targaryens called it “dragonglass”, I call it “useless”.

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But the Targaryen managed to raise a castle here. Simplerons claim they used ancient Valyrian sorcery forgetting that the Targaryen brought a small army with them from Essos. There’s no magic in strong backs, though admittedly the castle is unlike any in Westeros. Foreign and strange if the Targaryen never regretted their barren outpost and longed for the comforts of home, the doom made their folly permanent. Valyria collapsed into the waves and was no more. To look east was to see the ruin of their homeland, the greatest civilization before or since, but to look west as Aegon realized was to see a fertile land ripe for conquest.

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Perhaps even a new Valyria. Though good for little else Dragonstone was the perfect staging point for Aegon’s invasion of Westeros. The Blackwater Bay granted easy access to the continent. The lands there were disputed by three kingdoms the Reach, the Iron Islands and Storm Lands. But their capitals were far enough away that none could mount a force before Aegon got a foothold, even if their kings had been able to stop bickering over whose problem he was. Then it was too late. Aegon had chosen his first camp well. With the bay to the east, the river to the south and open fields to the north and west his army would be impossible to take by surprise. A perfect site for an invasion and one day his capital city, King’s Landing. The doom had taught the Targaryens the prudence of refuge.

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After conquest Dragonstone became the seat of the crown prince and heir to the Iron Throne. It would serve them well and me ill 300 years later after. My brother , Robert Baratheon rebelled against Iron Thrones, and the Lannisters slautered the Mad king, Aerys and his royal family. Robert dispatched me to deal with the last surviving Targaryen’s children. But before I arrived a loyal knight smuggled them across the Narrow Sea to safty.

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Hatred for the Targaryen blinded Robert, unjustly I was blamed and strict of our family castle of Stome’s End and given Dragonstone in stead. Over the years, whenever I demand my rights restored, Robert would remind me of the Islands royal pedigree and pretend he was doing me honor, as if I were one of his tavern girls to be so easily decieved and dismissed.

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But Robert is dead and I, Stannis Baratheon and the rightful king of Westeros let the usurper and trators sit on the Iron Throne. From Dragonstone I will be the dagger at their throat.

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