The Winter of Ice and Fire Is Coming

The Valyrians who built the long bridge and the black wall of Valantis also left their descendants in Valantis.

In Valentis, among the nobles living in the Black Wall, nine out of ten are of Valyrian blood.

Zogo Kao of the Dothraki Sea led an attack, and the news made the three Archons of Valantis busy and nervous. Valentes inherited the political form of Valyria, a city ruled by consuls. The governor comes from two parties: the Tiger Party and the Elephant Party.

The consuls are elected by free Valantes with land, one person, one vote, and elections are held once a year.

The elections last for ten days each time. These ten days have also become the carnival of the Valentes. Some candidates will do anything to get votes, but only legal citizens whose ancestors are Valyrians are eligible. Running for consul.

The Tigers are the old nobles and warriors of Valantis. They advocate the use of force to achieve the desire to conquer the world. In the centuries after Valyria’s Freedom Fortress was destroyed by fire four hundred years ago, the Tigers took power and launched conquests. They had conquered Mill, Taloxi, and Rees, but were eventually defeated by the coalition forces of the city-states. The Tigers' control of Valantis’ politics was also greatly weakened, and their reputation plummeted.

Elephant parties are merchants and money lenders, and they advocate conquering the world with trade. In the three hundred years after the Tiger Party declined due to the defeat of the war, the Elephant Party has been in control of the Valantis government, and so far, out of every three governors, at least two are from the Elephant Party.

Maraccio Meguya is one of the three governors. He belongs to the core force of the Tiger Party. He has been elected as the governor many times and enjoys the name of the Tiger. He holds 10,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry, and his regiment is called the Tiger Robe Army.

The Tiger Pao Army is loyal to the Tiger Party. A considerable number of fighters in the Tiger Robe Army believe in the red **** Lakhlo, who is also the Lord of Light who Melisandre believes in.

In addition, Valantis has 20,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry belonging to the city guards of the city-state of Valantis. The city guards are loyal to the Elephant Party. The city guards consisted of slaves, of which there were only a few free people.

The city guard is in the hands of the chiefs of the Elephant Party, one of whom is Neciso Visama. Neciso Visama and Illyrio, the governor of the Pantos city-state, have deep personal relations, and of course their personal relations are based on trade interests. Governor Illyrio had some shady businesses, such as the slave trade that was firmly opposed by the Bravo, and he would secretly trade with Nesiso Visama. Illyrio and Neciso had a lot of secret business dealings.

The other consul in the Elephant Party is Dofas Penimion, a wealthy businessman who has been to the sea trade in Westeros. He is actively preparing for his next re-election.

The news that Zogo Cao’s army has attacked and captured many towns along the way spread to Valantis. After receiving the news, the three consuls colluded. The Tigers’ Maraggio believed that they could use the black wall to hold on, because The Dothraki people have a characteristic, whizzing and whizzing away. As long as they hold on for more than a month, the Dothraki who impatiently stay in one place for a long time will leave automatically, and most of them will follow Valyria Avenue to attack the free trade city of Mill.

The straight-line distance from Valantis to Mill was only five hundred miles.

The black wall is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack. The Dothraki cavalry is invincible in the prairie battle, but is not good at siege battles.

Only in this way, Xicheng was in no danger. Valantis West City is not protected by high walls.

Among the two consuls of the Elephant Party, Dofas was only willing to negotiate peace. He believed that the Dothraki people only wanted money and materials. As long as they sent a delegation to negotiate peace with them and give them money, they would naturally retreat. In this way, it will avoid irritating Zogo Kao. The price of angering Zogo Kao is beyond Valantis's ability to bear, because Zogo Kao will slaughter the city to teach those who dare to resist him and turn all the nobles into slaves.

And the consul Maraccio who has made friends with Illyrio of Pantos is a man who doesn't have much opinion on the military and politics, and he is in the middle position. He was afraid of angering Drogo Cao, and he was also afraid that Daenerys and Daenerys proposed to liberate the slaves. The notoriety of Daenerys' liberators spread not only to the slave cities in the east, but also to Valantis. .

The wealth and pleasure of the nobles in Valantis were created by the slaves. Maraccio's wealth was also earned from the slave business. The place where the slave trade bridge was built between the western world and the eastern slave cities was Valantis.

It is difficult for Maraccio to decide whether Daenerys the slave liberator will view the slave aristocrats as hostility or kindness after entering the city.

If Daenerys turns a glance at their slave business, then Maraggio is willing to negotiate peace and pay for the disaster. But if Daenerys wants them to change the rules of the slave trade, Malaccio would rather fight.

The three-digit archons could not reach a consensus, and finally they decided to consult Ben Nello, the priest of the Red God.

In Valantis, there is a huge temple: the Temple of Rahlo, Lord of Light.

It is rumored that this is the largest temple of the Lord of Light in the world, more than three times larger than the Seven Sacred Places on Westeros-Baylor's Great Sanctuary.

The Red Temple is located east of the Lorne River, near the Black Wall. No one knows when the Red Temple was built. The pillars, stairs, supporting walls, stone arches, domes, and towers of the temple are all huge and integrated, as if they were cut from the same rock. More than a hundred colors such as red, yellow, gold, and orange are interwoven and interpenetrating on the walls of the temple, just like clouds at dusk.

If Zogo Kao wants to conquer Valantis, his first step will be to conquer the West City without high walls, and then to conquer the Lahlo Temple without any protection outside the black wall.

Every time Zogo Kao conquered a place, he would demolish the local temple, and then move the statues in the local temple back to the only city of Dothraki, Vis Dothrak. On both sides of the city avenue of Vis Dothrak, there were various gods from other cities. Those gods covered with dust or broken hands and feet became the pride of the Dothraki people in conquering the world.

The Temple of Lahlo has its own armament, and they are called the hands of the Holy Fire.

The Hand of the Holy Fire is the guardian of the Red Temple, bought by the Red Temple from an early age and trained as a soldier. Wearing gorgeous armor, wearing orange cloaks, and holding spears with a burning tip, they guard the entrances of the temple. They are known as the holy warriors of the King of Light and the guardians of the Red Temple.

The Hand of the Holy Fire has always maintained the scale of one thousand people, and one person who dies will supplement one person.

In Valantis, no one dared to despise the hand of the holy fire armed with only a thousand people.

Because in Lahlo, whether it is the tiger-robed army belonging to the Tiger Party or the city guards of the Elephant Party, most of them are believers in Lahlo.

When necessary, as long as Pastor Benello gives an order, most of the fighters of the Tiger Party and Elephant Party will leave the army and join the Hand of the Holy Fire to fight for the King of Light.

During her journey from the Jade Sea to the mainland of Westeros, Meili Shanzhuo specially went to Valantis to meet the Pastor Benello. She was warmly welcomed by the people in Valantis. Because of the faith of the Lord of Light, she and Benello also formed close friends who talked about everything.

Valantis was threatened by Zogo Kao's army. Whether it was a war or a peace, the three consuls finally reached a unanimous decision: ask Priest Benello to give the most sacred decision.

If there is a battle, the Priest Benello will exert his powerful appeal, and the King of Light will also drop the light of divine power; if the peace is negotiated, with the participation of Priest Benello, the city will also be shrouded in the Lord of Light. Under the protection of divine power.

When Zogo Kao led an army to march on Valantis without a hassle, and when other cities in the territory of Valantis descended without a fight, the three consuls of Valantis were humble He came under the steps of the main entrance of the Lahlo Temple, and humbly asked a hand of the Holy Fire to send a message to the priest Benello, begging to see him.