"But fortunately, you are back now, and you have brought back Dragon, House Targaryen, who has disappeared for hundreds of years. Perhaps this is another opportunity given to House Targaryen by fate."
"Daenerys, you are more like Rhaegar than Viserys. I mean, in terms of your personality, Rhaegar also talks like you. Although you are a little melancholy, you know what you want better than anyone else."
Maester Aemon said this, turning his head slightly, as if staring at the distant past through time. At that time, Rhaegar often wrote letters to his family members who were far away in Wall, and he couldn't help but have a nostalgic smile on his lips.
He said, "Rhaegar is a good man, but he was so obsessed with poetry and Prophecy that he ignored the sharp sword in reality. And you, Daenerys, you are tougher than he was back then. Viserys taught you how to survive and how to be a qualified ruler."
Viserys listened to Maester Aemon's comments and did not feel unhappy because he was compared with the dead Rhaegar. Instead, he looked calm.
He knew that what Aemon said was true, and Rhaegar was also his most promising family descendant before, but now the one who stands above Wall is Viserys. Targaryen.
Viserys himself didn't care much, but Daenerys didn't know how to answer this sentence. He just smiled at Aemon's words, and then glanced at Viserys with a pleading look in his eyes.
Viserys understood and interrupted Maester Aemon's somewhat heavy memories at the right time. He patted Daenerys's shoulder gently and brought the topic back on track.
He said, "Grandpa Aemon, there is no need to remember the past glory and regret. We are here today not only for Dany to meet you, the elder of the family, but also to seek your wisdom to deal with the current crisis."
Maester Aemon nodded slightly when he heard Viserys's words, and the nostalgic look on his face gradually faded away, replaced by a rigorous and focused look unique to Scholar.
"You are right, Viserys. Indulging in the past will not benefit the living in the present. Mormont Lord Commander mentioned that they found some strange 'blood runes' in Beyond the Wall, and hope that I can find some clues from ancient books."
Viserys also looked serious and said, "Yes, Grandpa, do you have any clues here?"
Aemon just raised his finger and pointed at the bookshelf behind him, and then said, "Sam, bring over those things you found last night."
Sam had already left, but then he poked his head out from behind a pile of bookshelves. He was holding three rolls of paper in his hand, one of which had begun to turn black.
He walked over quickly, put the scrolls on the table, then stood respectfully beside him, lowered his head, and twisted his hands together in front of him.
"I spent the whole night reading." Sam suddenly spoke, his voice sounded a little dry, and said, "In the records before and after the end of Long Night, I found two records about 'Blood Sacrifice Runes'."
"One is that after the thirteenth Lord Commander of Night's Watch became Night's King, someone found a record north of Frostfangs of using human sacrifice to awaken Others. It said that those who were sacrificed would be engraved with symbols and then arranged in a circle. The record above said that Wizard believed that it was Night's King's purpose to concentrate the power of death and pass it on to Others."
"The other thing is earlier, when the Children of the Forest people used First Men captives for experiments to create Others in the Dawn era. They also used similar techniques, but they didn't use living people at that time, but the blood and flesh of dead people. The things they made should not be exactly the same."
"Is there a specific description? Or what the runes roughly look like? How are they arranged?" Viserys asked.
Sam unfolded the rolls of leather paper, and drew some scrawled symbols on one of them. He roughly drew them by himself last night based on the descriptions given by the members of Beric's team.
He pointed at the symbols and said, "I tried to draw a few based on what Beric Ser said, but he said it was not accurate, so I could only roughly compare it with the records in ancient books."
"What is written in the ancient books is 'Rune Circle'. Seven to twelve people are arranged in a circle. Each person's chest and abdomen are cut open, and the blood flows along the carved groove to the center of the circle. After the ceremony is completed, Others will be born from them under normal circumstances, and other corpses around will also become Wights."
"It's just... according to the records, it was just because Children of the Forest at that time could not confirm that those who died had Stark blood, and they were just using a large number of corpses to conduct experiments to increase the probability of becoming Others."
"Seven to twelve people." Viserys repeated the number and said, "Beric said that there were about a dozen corpses in the camp they found, arranged in a ring."
"That may be a complete ceremony." Aemon continued, "If Night's King really engages in such a ceremony in Beyond the Wall, it means that it needs to quickly increase the number of Others, but that also means that the number of Others it has should not be too many."
"Creating a Others requires a life sacrifice and the blood of Stark as a medium. Both are indispensable. Night's King would not have chosen to do this before."
"Because there are so few people in Free Folk who may have the blood of Stark, it is very troublesome to do this. But now it seems that they can't wait any longer. They would rather pay a higher price to expand the number of Others as soon as possible."
"Why can't they wait?" At this time, Daenerys, who was quiet on the side, suddenly said.
"Because Viserys, his three-headed Dragon brought huge pressure to the existence of Beyond the Wall."
Aemon turned to the direction of Daenerys and said in a gentle tone, "Night's King knows that Viserys brought the dragon to Wall, he needs to completely seal it in Viserys Create a few more Others before locking Wall, and then break through Wall quickly, otherwise, when Viserys defends Wall to death, they may not have a chance next time."
Viserys nodded. In his opinion, in addition to what he had guessed before, those large-scale sacrifices were probably to summon an existence that was older and more powerful than the ordinary Others.
As for the rest of the things, Aemon's inferences were similar to what he thought. It seemed that he did have some understanding of the matters of Wall and Beyond the Wall.