映像特典～オールドタウンと知識の城シタデル

(Pycelle)Without question, Oldtown is the oldest, wealthiest, and greatest city in Westeros.
(Qyburn)Though King’s Landing is more populous, and arguably, more powerful.

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クァイ「王都の方が人口が多くより強力です、恐らく。」

(Pycelle)The city straddles the mouth of the Honeywine River, and the bounty of the entire Reach flows beneath its stone bridges to ports that are renowned throughout the world.
(Qyburn)Thus, we needn’t speak more of them. More interesting is the history of the city, for none can say when it was founded. Many centuries ago, a few bold maesters sought out the Children of the Forest, who claimed that men have lived at the mouth of the Honeywine since the Dawn Age.

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クァイ「ならそれ以上言うことは無いでしょう。それより興味深いのはその街の歴史です。いつ創設されたのか誰も知らないからです。何世紀も前、数人の勇敢な学匠が森の子らを探し出しました。ハニーワイン川河口には夜明けの時代から人が住むと彼らは主張します。」

(Pycelle)Nonsense. Maester Jellicoe proved that the city began as a trading post where ships from Valyria, Old Ghis, and the Summer Isles put in to replenish their provisions and make repairs. Hence, the most famous feature of the city, the Hightower, raised even before the city walls as a beacon through the fog-covered waters. Originally built of wood and standing a mere fifty feet above the ancient fortress of its foundation, it is now thick stone and rises even taller than the Wall. Those born and raised in Oldtown can tell the time of day by where its shadow falls.
(Qyburn)But no maester can tell why. Even in our oldest records, the island on which it stands is called Battle Isle. What battle was fought there? And when? As for the ancient fortress that forms the tower’s base, its walls and interiors are all of solid black stone with no hints of joints. Or mortar. And no chisel marks of any kind. We know it predates the tower itself by thousands of years. But who built it? How? And against what?

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クァイ「でも学匠にも理由が分からないんです。最古の記録でもこの塔が建つ島はバトル島と呼ばれます。そこでどんな戦闘が起きました？いつ？塔の土台となる古代の砦に関しては、壁と内部が全部堅い黒石でできており継ぎ目やモルタル痕は全く無い。ノミの跡も一切無い。塔自体より数千年古いことが分かっていますが、誰が建てたのでしょう？どうやって？目的は？」

(Pycelle)The maesters who have studied it declare it to be of Valyrian construction, akin to Dragonstone and the Black Walls of Volantis. As is well-known, the dragonlords of Valyria could turn stone to liquid with dragonflame to shape it as they wished.
(Qyburn)Didn’t one Archmaester link the fortress to the vanished mazemakers of Lorath? And another maester to the legendary Deep Ones who inhabited the Iron Islands before the Ironborn?

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クァイ「その砦をある大学匠がロラースの消えた迷宮と関連付けませんでしたか？また別の学匠はアイロンボーンより前に鉄諸島に住んだ伝説のディープワンと関連付けませんでしたか？」

(Pycelle)Both marginal opinions without common support. But of more importance than the origin of the tower is the family to which it gave its name. House Hightower. The ancient ruling family of Oldtown. Known for their prudence and love of peace.
(Qyburn)And pieces of gold.

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クァイ「金もです。」

(Pycelle)During the Age of Heroes, when Lymond Hightower saw the Gardener kings conquering the Reach, he didn’t beat them on the battlefield, but in the godswood. He bound his house to theirs by marriage. And transformed House Hightower from wealthy but relatively minor kings to the greatest lords of the Reach. Thanks to Lord Lymond’s foresight, Highgarden has always defended Oldtown, allowing the Hightowers to focus on higher pursuits such as learning and trade.
(Qyburn)On that, we agree. When the Andals invaded Westeros, Lord Dorian Hightower told his wife of twenty years that wars are bad for trade, and, to make his point, traded her for a young Andal princess. When Aegon the Conqueror was earning his name, House Hightower traded its loyalty to the Gardeners for his confirmation of their rights, welcoming him with open arms and open gates.

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クァイ「その点は同意します。アンダル人がウェスタロスを侵略した時、ドリアン・ハイタワー公は、戦争は貿易に悪影響と20年連れ添った妻に告げ、裏付けに若いアンダル王女と交換した。征服王エイゴンが名声を得た時、ハイタワー家はガードナー家への忠誠と彼らの権利を引き換え、門を開け両手を広げて彼を歓迎しましたし。」

(Pycelle)House Hightower bent the knee to Aegon to spare the city from his dragons. I would think such insinuations and insults beneath even you, Qyburn. Then again, mockery of one’s betters is the trade of fools.
(Qyburn)I wouldn’t know. Perhaps if I’d studied at the Citadel as long as you, Grand Maester.

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クァイ「分かりません。上級学匠、あなたと同じ位長く知識の城で学んでたら分かるかもしれないのですが。」

(Pycelle)The Citadel is the greatest seat of learning in the known world. Without it, and the maesters it trains, Westeros would be a land of superstition and ignorance.
(Qyburn)Like the ignorance that shrouds the Citadel’s own birth?

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クァイ「知識の城の誕生を覆い隠す無知のようにですか？」

(Pycelle)Even without records, we have more than enough reason to believe that the Citadel began as a court of scholars and priests assembled by a second son of House Hightower. When he died, his elder brother raised the Citadel so that wise men would always have a home in Westeros and could continue the inquiries and debates that had given such joy to his younger brother.
(Qyburn)His little brother’s pets, as legend has it, he called them. And so the maesters have remained. Only their masters have changed. Now they serve every lord with a castle for a fee, of course, whilst the Citadel serves its own importance.

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クァイ「伝説によれば、賢者らを弟のペットと呼んだんですよ。それで学匠は生き残ったんです。使用側が変わっただけです。彼らは賃金のため全領主の城に仕え、もちろん一方で知識の城はそれ自身の重要性を果たしています。」

(Pycelle)Every word you speak merely validates your own expulsion from our ranks. great.
(Qyburn)Knowledge is validation enough. I assume the world’s greatest minds would agree. And perhaps they would if I’d met them. Oldtown is a city for old men and old beliefs. But the world is changing. No matter how high the tower, the clouds will not hold it up if the ground shifts beneath it.

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クァイ「知識さえあれば十分です。世界最高の賢者なら同意しますよ、彼らに会えば恐らく。オールドタウンは老人と古い信念の街です。でも世界は変わりつつある。どんなに高い塔でも、下の地面が動いてしまえば雲は塔を支えられませんよ。」

The Citadel of Oldtown is the greatest center of learning in the world, not that it has much competition, really. Most lords think of books the way they think of younger sons, useful to have around as long as they keep to the corners.

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Back when House Hightower still ruled Oldtown as kings, a crippled younger son sought solace in books and those who wrote them and became the greatest patron of learning in his day. Scholars of all sorts flocked to Oldtown to debate and write and. debate. After this Prince Peremore’s death, his brother granted land to Peremore’s Pets, as the wise men were called, though now they’re known as maesters.

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Like the Night’s Watch, the Citadel accepts any boy into its halls, be he a lordling, peasant, or bastard. Merit, not birth, determines advancement. Once a novice proves adept in a field, he forges a chain link that signifies his skill. Black iron is for ravenry, gold for sums and accounts, silver for healing, iron for warfare, Valyrian steel for the higher mysteries. Magic, though nobody likes to say the word in the Citadel or explain how dragons fly or dead men walk.

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Once an acolyte has forged enough links to make a chain, he becomes a maester. Should he continue his studies, he might rise to Archmaester and be given a ring, rod, and mask forged from the appropriate metal for his chosen field. The wisest or most ambitious of the Archmaesters might even be called to serve as a Grand Maester on the Small Council, responsible for steering the king and the realm, as well as keeping the Citadel informed of everything.

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The heart of the Citadel is the library, which contains tomes from all over the world on every subject imaginable, from the trivial to the essential to the restricted. If the world ended tomorrow, we could rebuild it with the knowledge contained in these books, theoretically. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.

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But as every novice learns, the Citadel is more than a building, more than a library, more than the Order of Maesters. It is an idea that we may know the world, not completely, not in any one man’s lifetime, but piece by piece. With each generation building upon the knowledge of their predecessors where they can and preserving it where they can’t. And unfortunately for us all, forgetting it when they shouldn’t.

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