Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 66 Main Quest II

After a fierce quarrel, after failing to obtain any even a symbolic concession from Ian, Sir Bailey and the knight of the Bulwe family finally couldn't bear Ian's almost humiliating arrogance, and chose to accept Ian took the people away after paying the reward in cash.

So far, among the mercenaries Wilde found, only two knights from the Fossoway family and their attendants remained.

Sir Wilder is not satisfied with this result, but considering the arrogance of the Lannister surname of 'Sir Lucian', he can still understand the behavior of 'Sir Lucian' not compromising with the blackmailers .

Moreover, under the circumstances that they have figured out the details of each other, the loss of these 10 or so cavalry will not affect their overwhelming advantage over the Whitewall City caravan, so Wilder did not accuse Ian in the end.

The trap of the abandoned fishing village was deployed by Wilde himself, but Ian, under the banner of learning experience, found out all the deployment of troops near the fishing village.

As night fell, just as Ian was about to end today's activities and start sleeping, he found that the system tasks had been updated.

Only then did he remember that a whole week had passed since he completed the main task one.

[Main task [-]: Legion

Mission description: To prepare for the coming war, you should accumulate your strength in advance

Mission goal: have more than 1000 soldiers

Task reward: 20 points, 3 attribute points, 3 skill points, 2 (in the area) self-selected A-level NPC]

【Accept】【Replace】

"1000 people? Is the pace so big?" Ian blinked, "Annie, is there any limit for the 1000 soldiers in this mission goal?"

"These 1000 people must be soldiers who are directly loyal to the player. If they are mercenaries, the player needs to sign an employment agreement with them for more than ten years." Annie replied.

Ian was silent. Hiring 1000 mercenaries for ten years was basically something a lunatic would do, and since he had no fief, there was no way or place to recruit 1000 soldiers.

Without much thought, Ian clicked [Replace]

[Main task [-]: Lord

Quest Description: Knights and nobles are everywhere in Westeros, maybe you should jump out of this class.

Mission objective: to obtain the title of lord
Mission reward: 20 points, 5000 golden dragons]

"Oh, does this count as sending it to my face?" Ian couldn't help showing a smile, this task coincided with his new plan.

Originally, the task of [Lord] was even more difficult than [Legion], because Westeros has a unique noble system.

There is a common misunderstanding that the noble titles of Westeros are sorted according to the ranks of Duke, Lord, Bo, Son, Male, Sir, and Knight, but this is actually caused by not reading the original English version.

In fact, in the world of A Song of Ice and Fire, the noble titles of Westeros (note that they are titles, not actual status) are only divided into 3 levels, king, lord and ser, namely king, lord and knight.

As for the titles such as "Duke Stark, Lord Frey, Earl of Hightower, Viscount Beesbury, and Baron Cowart" that Chinese people saw when watching original books or TV series.

It's just that the Chinese translator of the original book distinguishes the lords with the title of 'lord' according to their strengths and weaknesses. The purpose is to let readers see at a glance the level of strength and status of this nobleman.

In this aristocratic system, the two titles 'ser' and 'lord' below the king represent the two classes of knight nobility and lord nobility.

In the vast majority of cases, the transition between the two classes is impossible.

For example, the Pattenton family in Nine Star City, they are knight nobles directly loyal to the lord of the valley, the Aylin family, their strength is no less than that of many "Earls" in the valley, and their patriarch has the name of "Knight of Nine Star City", so they can easily They have assembled a legion of thousands of people, but their title is still the same as the most common Hedge Knight, 'Jazz'.

Another example is Davos Seaworth, the onion knight. He helped Stannis Baratheon through the most difficult years by delivering food to Storm's End, which was besieged until it ran out of ammunition. It's just a knight, but it has to be nicknamed "Onion Knight" by other nobles.

It wasn't until the outbreak of the War of the Five Kings that Stannis gave him the title of Earl of the Rainforest in order to make him his own Hand of the King, allowing him to complete the class jump.

It is worth mentioning that the 'rainforest' is not a true 'earl' fiefdom, and Davos' title of earl actually comes from the post of 'Hand of the King'.Stannis gave this fief to Davos together with this title. In fact, the place 'Rainforest' was favored by Davos, and it was upgraded to an earldom because of him.

Of course, the fact that the commander-in-chief of the golden robe helped Emperor Joe stab Eddard Stark in the back and was canonized as the Earl of Harrenhal is another matter, after all, it was "a contribution from the dragon".

Of course, Ian now has no way to make contributions like Davos or the Golden Robe Commander, but now he has a ready-made 'Earl' title to pick up, and that is the title belonging to the Darry family.

Just when Aris Hewen admitted last night that their plan was to go to Pentos to join Viserys, Ian came up with a very bold idea - pretending to be the illegitimate son of the Darry family to join Longma.

The complete story is: as the illegitimate son of the Darry family, he formed a bandit group with his two older brothers and the second son of Earl Grafson to plunder the riverlands.He wanted to gather a sum of money to form an army to defect to Viserys, but failed because he was spotted by the enemy for unknown reasons.Afterwards, the Darry family was destroyed due to treason, and he brought a small number of surviving men to Pantos to join the real king.

There are many obvious benefits to choosing such a story and identity.

One is that after 'the Dai Rui family was destroyed due to treason', the 'last illegitimate son of the Dai Rui family' who came to join the 'true king' could logically obtain the surname 'Darei' and the title that originally belonged to the Dai Rui family.

Although the current title of the Darry family is 'Sir', their title of Earl was deprived by the 'Usurper'. From a legal point of view, when Ian became a vassal of the Targaryen family again, it should naturally resume the title of Earl of the year. title.

The second benefit of this story is that when his 'illegitimate son' plan to form an army for Viserys fails, Illyrio doesn't have to worry about losing control of Viserys because Viserys has gained his own power. It was easier to accept Ian's pledge of allegiance to Viserys.

In fact, Ian suspects that in the original plot, Sir Darren Grafson and Sir Aris River did not appear beside Viserys because they brought too many people-there were 50 people The cavalry, after selling the wealth they plundered in the riverlands, can raise an army, which is almost equivalent to forming a guard for Viserys. Such a result does not support Aegon 'Bron' Absolutely unacceptable to Magister Illyrio.

The third is that this story is almost true. For a knight who claims to be the "illegitimate son of the Darry family", Illyrio will certainly not believe his one-sided words. thing.

The result of Varys' investigation can only be that such a robbery team formed by the Darry family did appear in Hejian, and these people were all executed for treason. Is Ian River, the illegitimate son of the Darry family, there? It has become a matter of no proof.

As long as Ian can manage to get Sir Darren Grafson to testify for himself at this time, then his identity as the "illegitimate son of Darry's family" can be completely confirmed.

The last advantage is that this can make those players who have been staring at Long Ma feel at a loss. After all, it is reasonable to say that an "illegitimate child" who did not appear in the original book appeared in front of Long Ma. This person will most likely be a player, but if this guy is The one with Earl Grafson's second son?They will only suspect that there is a deviation between the timeline of this world and the original work.

Of course, even if a player is eyeing him, Ian is not very afraid. With the power he has now, the opponent can hardly find any way to threaten him other than poisoning him.Therefore, as long as he arranges a drug tester for himself, he can basically guarantee that he will not be plotted against by other players.

ps: It suddenly became sunny yesterday, and I had a high fever as soon as I got home at night. I fell asleep until noon today, and I am still dizzy. Brothers, you must protect yourself!
(End of this chapter)