Red Keep's guards caught Cole ton Chested, who was struggling to no avail, and dragged his body straight outside.
Cole kept shouting in his mouth, "Jaime·Lannister, you will regret today's decision! You will all regret it! Wildfire will swallow everything! Including yourselves——"
His voice was soon drowned behind the bronze door of the throne room.
Not long after, shrill screams came from the square outside the gate, accompanied by the crackling and crackling sounds of Wildfire——
No one in King's Landing knew the truth, and they only thought that Hand of the King was executed due to poor management during the war, just like his predecessor and his predecessor.
Hand of the King is gone again, they are all used to it.
Except Jaime·Lannister who heard the secret of Wildfire with his own ears.
Aerys II The night the king burned to death Hand of the King Cole ton Chested.
Jaime·Lannister once again came to stand guard outside the king's palace door and burned people to death. Aerys's desire would always increase greatly.
He's also used to it.
This time, there was no Jon·Darry to accompany him - his brother in white robes was reported to have died on the south bank of Trident. His throat was cut to death by a female guard named "White Eagle" under the black Earl.
That woman seemed very powerful and dangerous. This was not the first time she had killed someone like this. The last person killed by "White Eagle" seemed to be a wealthy knight named the Reach.
They are so good, they don't have to worry about those dirty rights and wrongs, they just need to fight to the death on the battlefield----
Ser Jaime allowed his thoughts to continue to wander.
Because from the door behind, there was another cry, it was King Aerys who started to torture his wife Queen Leila again.
Jaime thought that Leila's cries made him feel worse than Cole's screams when Dun was burned alive.
Whenever this happens, he always thinks back to the questions and answers he had with the still-living Jon·Darry.
He proposed that as white-robed iron guards, the two of them should protect the queen.
Jon·Darry agrees that the queen should be protected, but also replies: If the perpetrator is the king, is it an exception? Is it really an "exception"?
Ser Jaime would not admit that when Cole today Earl said those words, he was really tempted for a moment----
The next day.
King Aerys appointed Rossart, the president of the Alchemists' Guild and the leader of Pyromancer, as his new Hand of the King.
This is already the fourth Hand of the King in the past two years.
What else can people do besides getting used to it?
During this period of time, Alchemists' Guild has gained unprecedented trust and power.
Jaime·Lannister, who was originally not too touched by this, suddenly realized after experiencing yesterday's incident that the city he was in was facing a disaster.
The source of the disaster is not just from the so-called "Wildfire" buried deep underground----
Maybe, what should I do?
He's a Kingsguard That's right.
But he is only seventeen years old, and sometimes he really wishes life could be simpler.
Such a complicated situation is not suitable for him----maybe it is suitable for Tyrion? Of course it is also more suitable for their father----
Westerlands, Casterly Rock.
Outside the stone window of the meeting hall, beams of warm afternoon light filtered through, projecting a tall figure on the stone wall.
Casterly Rock Duke, Warden of the West, Lannisport Shield, Jaime's father Tywin·Lannister is standing by the window, his shoulders as tight and broad as Casterly Rock's rock wall.
He is about forty years old and is in the prime of life as a man. However, Duke Casterly Rock seems to have shown signs of hair loss in the past two years. Is the Duke seriously considering that perhaps he should shave off all his blond hair?
Tywin has thick beards growing on his temples, which glow like precious metals in the sunlight. Presumably even if he becomes bald, it will not have much impact on Lord Tywin's appearance. He can still be so majestic.
The Duke's light green eyes were dotted with tiny bits of gold, and he was staring at the sea view outside the window and the third largest city in Westeros by the sea - Lannisport.
His mouth moved.
That wasn't a smile, but a rare hesitation on his face.
Tywin rarely smiles. Even his most trusted vassals and even his closest family members cannot see his smile.
The word "smile" seemed to rarely exist in his life.
But this is not the case.
He himself knew that once upon a time, he did not reject smiles so much, nor did he regard smiles as weakness.
Who told his incompetent father to be called the "Laughing Lion"?
My father's weakness and stupidity almost brought the entire House Lannister into the quagmire.
Because of that damn smile, Tywin has seen too many people ridicule his father and Lannister since he was young, so he has never liked or trusted smiles.
In his childhood, Tywin served as Aegon V's royal cupbearer in King's Landing. There, he made two inseparable friends, Aerys·Targaryen and Steffon·Baila Theon.
When the battle of "King of Nine Coins" took place, three friends once fought side by side for the same purpose.
Tywin became a knight before them both, and then when Prince Aerys turned sixteen, Tywin conferred him a knighthood.
After the war, Tywin, who took control of the family's troops, began to clean up the bad debts left by his father, put down the "Reyes-Tarbeck Rebellion", and flooded the underground city of Castamere with water, giving those families who had despised Lannister their due end.
The cities where the two rebel families lived were completely destroyed, leaving only two ruins as a warning to other families who dared to cause rebellion or who had previously joined the rebellious ministers.
To commemorate this incident, a singer composed a song "The Rains of Castamere", which is the reference for Seven-String Tom's new song.
A few years later, when House Farman in Fairy City refused to obey the regulations, Tywin didn't even say anything, but just sent a harpist to play "The Rains of Castamere" in his castle hall. Farman immediately surrendered----
His fingertips unconsciously rubbed the notches on the window sill, and Lord Tywin's thoughts drifted back to twenty years ago.
At that time, the king was not crazy yet, he was still a handsome prince who was passionate and free-spirited, and Steffon was even more generous and a good boy. They had been on the battlefield together, and they could trust each other and treat each other with sincerity. They were not inferior to the three brothers who had just won the battle in Riverlands.
Aerys trusted himself so much that in the second year after annihilating Westerlands's rebels, he had accumulated prestige through the war and was named Hand of the King by the newly enthroned king.
Tywin, who is only twenty years old, has become the youngest "Hand of the King" in the history of the dynasty.
That year was probably the most comfortable year Tywin had lived.
He married his cousin Joanna, and their married life was very happy. Everyone knew that only Joanna could make Tywin laugh.
King's Landing also began to spread the saying, "Master Tywin rules Seven Kingdoms, and Lady Joanna rules Master Tywin".
But then, everything changed.
Aerys II became suspicious and irritable, and once regarded his Hand of the King as an enemy.
House Targaryen inherited fertility problems were the primary cause of the king's personality changes.
Like Aerys, there are also times when you are pious.
The death of Prince Jaehaerys caused Aerys II to collapse. After executing his wet nurse and his mistresses, he began a hunger strike and prayed with the archbishop.
Finally, he swore that from now on, he would only sleep with his legal wife, Queen Leila.
Aerys has fulfilled his oath, but it does not mean that his mouth is willing to stop.
Joanna gave birth to a pair of twins, Cersei and Jaime, a girl and a boy. The babies were healthy and beautiful, and their hair color was like molten gold.
Regarding this natural birth, Aerys·Targaryen II commented. "I seem to have married the wrong woman."
At the tournament celebrating the tenth anniversary of the king's accession to the throne, Joanna·Lannister brought six-year-old twins from Casterly Rock to the palace.
Aerys, who drank too much at that time, openly asked Joanna's twin, "When you sucked her, did you destroy her strong and white pride?"
This question made Lord Tywin's opponents in the court very happy. They were happy to see Hand of the King, who was of noble birth, become the object of insults and jokes, but it tarnished Lady Joanna's reputation.
Tywin endured it.
No matter how outrageous the outside world spreads his so-called "kingly demeanor", he is only the "hand" of the king.
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When Joanna gave birth to her third child, she died early due to dystocia. Tywin was deeply affected and never married again.
The death of his beloved wife also means that the bright and beautiful side of Tywin has completely disappeared.
Out of utilitarian considerations and an effort to resolve the strange relationship between monarch and ministers, Tywin·Lannister proposed a marriage contract between the royal family and the Warden of the West family, but what they got in return was another humiliation.
He and Joanna always hoped that their son would become a knight who achieved great achievements, and his daughter would become a perfect queen.
However, Aerys not only despises his daughter, but also wants to steal his son, his heir?
People say that he is ruthless and calculating. Even his younger brothers and sisters feel more responsible for him than family affection.
But only he himself knows how much unspeakable weariness is hidden behind this coldness - except for his late wife Joanna, no one can see him after taking off his disguise.
Tywin returned to his lion-headed seat from the window, listening to his second brother Kevan and other vassals reporting on the military situation, with emotion and anger evident in his expressions.
Looking at the Harrenhal position due south of the rebel army on the map, which was the castle that Robert I was about to attack, there was no trace of confusion in Tywin's light green eyes.
"Sir, there is new news from Grand Maester in the royal capital. King Aerys has appointed a new Hand of the King, who is also a warlock from the Alchemy Guild----"
After listening to the low-pitched report from his subordinates, Tywin, who had served as Seven Kingdoms Hand of the King for many years, finally stood up slowly and looked at the location of the royal capital on the map.
He hesitated no longer.
After so many years of forbearance and concession, all I got in exchange was insult and hurt. It was time to make a break.
"Pass my orders----"
Casterly Rock Duke spoke, his voice low and firm, with unquestionable majesty.
"There is no need to wait for other families. All the troops that have arrived at Casterly Rock will set off tomorrow. The goal is one-
King's Landing."
Kevan·Lannister Seeing that his brother had made a decision, he sighed softly, "The lion took a nap, and now he is waking up again."
"A lion won't act if it doesn't smell meat."
A few days later, Master Titus, who was almost ready, was leading his troops out of Harrenhal, casually answering the guard captain's questions.
Wenda just asked him what he thought of Duke Westerlands who had always remained silent.
They are now walking towards the dock at Gods Eye.
Eddard·Stark is a good FIT person, but Xingsuo Cheng Earl doesn't want to act with him.
The Allied forces are complex and too large, so Ned cannot move quickly.
Titus is very fast.
He wants to fight faster than the lion in the west!
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