After unloading the heavy Berserker Armor, Titus was already at the stairway to the viewing platform.
Meaning, I gave Crown Prince a few rounds of applause for his victory, and he started walking up...
Crown Prince, who has become the final "winner" of this Harrenhal competition, was not very keen on those competitions in the past.
This time when Harrenhal came back, he seemed to be a different person. He was dressed neatly and prepared seriously. He also won consecutive games throughout the entire competition, defeating all the opponents standing opposite him.
Including "Sword of the Morning" and "Fearless Legend", Rhaegar even picked four Kingsguard under his gun.
This competition was generally considered by those present to be a spear duel representing the highest level of Seven Kingdoms, and Prince Rhaegar, who had repeatedly defeated powerful opponents, deserved the win.
Under the scene of Rhaegar raising his spear high and Ser Barristan Selmy being eclipsed, almost the entire audience stood up, and the cheers one after another were deafening again, resounding around the arena.
King Aerys, who was sitting at the top with his back leaning back on the goose down cushions, did not make a sound.
The king recalled that in Lannisport, during the martial arts competition to celebrate the birth of his second son, his former good friend Tywin had taken advantage of the excitement to propose to him the idea of marrying his daughter Cersei to Rhaegar, and letting his son Jaime be Rhaegar Squire.
At that time, I suddenly changed my attitude and rudely rejected my former friend's request.
What did he say then?
Oh, by the way. He said, "You are my most capable servant, Tywin, but there is no union between a servant and the master's successor."
The king raised the corners of his mouth, which already had several fine lines, and felt happy every time he could "blow" Tywin. This also included the beautiful wife Tywin who teased her, the big-breasted Joanna·Lannister, whom he had verbally violated many times.
And every time Tywin asked to resign, he refused to agree.
Why?
It's been so long that Aerys can't remember clearly.
I seem to have heard a malicious rumor. Someone in King's Landing is spreading: King Aerys is just a puppet on Iron Throne, but really rules Seven Kingdoms's is his Hand of the King... Because of this rumor, Aerys asked Tywin to pull out the tongue of his guard captain Ilin Payne in court.
Look at Tywin's twitching cold face, it's really enjoyable!
In a daze, he looked at the heroic eldest son in the audience, raising his gun to signal, and His Majesty Aerys's smile gradually faded away.
His Majesty the King was not proud of his eldest son's astonishing performance. He may have viewed the outstanding heir as a threat as the important ministers around him were deliberately conniving at his slanderous remarks.
Except for the king and the two Hand of the King he brought, as well as Titus who was reaching the top step by step, everyone else was shouting with joy.
The next step is the ownership of "Queen of Love and Beauty".
No coincidence makes a book.
After working hard to win, Rhaegar, like his old father, is also thinking about the past.
During the "Duskendale Defiance" period, Dennis Darklin, the lord of Duskendale, kidnapped his father who went to collect taxes, and claimed that if Hand of the King Tywin who surrounded Duskendale dared to act rashly, they would kill the king first.
At that time, almost all the ministers of Small Council gathered in the military camp outside Duskendale, and of course he was also there.
Some important ministers considered Aerys II's safety and opposed Tywin's strategy of forcible attack, believing that it might endanger the king's life.
Hand of the King Tywin points directly to himself and answers:
"Maybe he will do it, maybe he won't. If he does, we will have a better king."
That's it.
Rhaegar frowned in the memory.
It seems that as the king's willfulness intensifies, he has gradually become the new hope of the kingdom.
According to the consistent tradition of Targaryen Royal House, because after he came of age, he had no sisters of the right age to marry, or even suitable blood relatives, his marriage problems were put on the table.
In order to solve this problem, the father sent his cousin brother and childhood friend Steffon·Baratheon Duke to go to sea to Lys, and even as far as Volantis, to find a suitable bride for himself.
Because in the Essos named "Essos", there are still many descendants of Valyria.
Maybe the Duke had other ideas, or maybe Targaryen's name was no longer popular after losing Dragon Queen. In short, Duke Storm's End at that time did not complete the task assigned to him by his father.
The Duke and Duchess even encountered a storm on their return and died in a shipwreck in Shipbreaker Bay outside Storm's End.
Then, he married Princess Elia·Martell from Dorne, and gave birth to his daughter Rhaenys at the beginning of last year.
He remembered that when he happily took his eldest daughter to King's Landing to show his parents their granddaughter, his mother Rhaella Queen enthusiastically embraced the child, while his father Aerys refused to touch the child who "smelled of Dorne"...
Just because little Rhaenys looks like her mother, with black hair and brown eyes, without any of Targaryen's Valyria features.
Later, he and Elia gave birth to a boy, and he named the newborn son "Aegon".
Dorne Princess's constitution is as weak as her brother's. After giving birth to her daughter, she lay in bed for half a year, and she almost died when she gave birth to her second son.
Maester of Dragonstone told him that Elia was no longer suitable to have more children.
"But..."
Rhaegar As he rode his horse to the foot of the auditorium, his thoughts began to change rapidly, as if he wanted to become more firm in his thoughts.
"... The dragon must have three heads!"
While muttering softly, Crown Prince did not go for the beautifully decorated "Queen" crown that was held in the palm of the referee's hand. Instead, he took a round crown object wrapped in silk from his own Squire hand.
Rhaegar always thought that the "prince" circulated in the fable of Targaryen Royal House, the "Savior" destined by Westeros, was none other than himself.
He had no doubt about it.
To this end, he studied hard and practiced martial arts...
However, in the correspondence with Citadel, he learned new information: in the fable, Savior Prince who sang the Divine Comedy should be a "Aegon"...
Then the real answer is more likely to appear in his children. The lost Rhaegar thought this way for a period of time...
It wasn't until the moment he took off the "Knight of the Laughing Tree" mask that Rhaegar realized that he was wrong.
Yes!
How could only "blood and fire" participate in writing the poem "A Song of Ice and Fire"?
With complex emotions that cannot be told to others, Crown Prince, who finally won the first place, has re-solidified his own beliefs.
When Prince Rhaegar, who "has a dragon in his heart and picks roses carefully", galloped past Whent Earl's daughter's seat, Miss Ashara·Dayne, who was sitting next to Princess Elia, was already ready to tease her best friend.
But then, a surprising color appeared in the Most Beautiful Woman in Dorne's beautiful purple eyes--
Rhaegar Crown Prince ran past the location of his wife Elia·Martell.
The "Silver Prince" who is deeply loved by the people opened the silk in his hand and revealed the answer. When he gently placed the Crown representing "Queen of Love and Beauty" on the lap of House Stark Lyanna...
The smiling faces of everyone present froze.
Placed on the brown-haired Maiden's lap is a Crown woven from "Winter Rose", which is crystal clear and as blue as frost.
Crown of Winter Rose: