The Glory of the Seven Gods of Ice and Fire

Chapter 163 He Changed the Great Grass Sea

Drogo returned after a great victory, so he also brought with him the tribes he had defeated.

With so many centaurs gathered there, Qohor was naturally filled with uneasiness. They increased the number of guards several times, and urgently repaired some gaps in the city wall, assuming a defensive posture.

The wedding was not held as soon as the Great Khal arrived, because Drogo wanted to summon all the tribes of the Great Grass Sea. He wanted to turn his wedding into a ceremony for the Dothraki to show their loyalty to him - as for those who did not come, their fate could be imagined.

As a result, more and more centaurs came to Cohor, and the centaurs' huts outside the city wall became larger and larger. More and more people in Cohor became worried, and the endless centaurs were really scary.

These centaurs were like locusts, eating everything around them. Kohor was reluctant to provide food to these barbarians, but if he didn't, these guys would probably start looting, and the loss would be more than just the food.

Finally, when most of the Dothraki tribes gathered on the Great Grass Sea, the wedding of the Great Khaa finally began.

Compared with those barbaric weddings in the past, Drogo's wedding was much more civilized. There was no brutal intercourse and no inexplicable death. This great Khariar, who grew up in blood and fire, had no respect for the traditional customs of the centaurs.

In his words, "These inexplicable rules are useless except for making my people look more like beasts. Anyone who dares to mention these things in front of me will die."

However, centaurs are ignorant of life and death after all, so at the wedding, Drogo killed many Dothraki and even wiped out an entire Dothraki tribe. Then, in order to impress his own brainless tribesmen, Drogo nailed the bodies of these people to crosses to form a "forest", under which the wedding was held.

The centaurs were finally frightened by Drogo's large-scale killing. When they realized that this great khal really dared to slaughter the entire tribe at once without caring about anything, they immediately became obedient.

Drogo did this because he insisted on one point, that is, the Great Grass Sea lacked everything except (horse) people. Since they were unwilling to change their mindsets and habits, he would just kill them all.

Even the fearless centaurs were frightened and obedient by Drogo's massive massacre, not to mention others.

The people of Qohor were almost scared to death, fearing that this killer would swing his knife at Qohor next. The other guests were not much better. It was the first time for them to see such a crazy Dothraki - no, it should be said that even the Dothraki were not that crazy.

As Drogo's purchased wife, Daenerys was frightened by her future husband's series of actions. She never expected that this man would do such a crazy thing. Therefore, Viserys met with her before the wedding and told her that if she didn't want to, the wedding could be cancelled. Viserys now regretted marrying his sister to this man. This centaur was really crazy.

However, Daenerys rejected her brother's proposal because she understood that once something started, it would not be so easy to end. If she refused to marry the Great Khair, and if the Great Khair became angry and attacked Qohor, they would still be captured by the Northern Confederation and handed over to the Great Khair.

She believed Viserys knew this and could see it, but he still chose to do it, which touched Daenerys.

After a series of wedding ceremonies that Daenerys could not understand at all and were said to be from the East, the union reached a critical stage. To the virgin's surprise, Drogo was very gentle. This Dothraki did not stir up a storm in bed as Daenerys had expected.

In this way, Daenerys became the Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea. Then her husband, who despised the traditions of the Great Grass Sea, abided by the tradition and assigned her a tribe, but the size of this tribe was far beyond Daenerys's expectations - because there were tens of thousands of people.

Daenerys cherishes this force very much. As an exiled princess, she is very sensitive to the military power she can command.

Next, the huge tribe of centaurs left Qohor and returned to the Great Grass Sea, and Daenerys was naturally among them.

As for Viserys, he also separated from his sister after he ascertained from her that the centaur treated her well.

Viserys will then return to Braavos with Jon Connington. He will use the gold and silver he gets from "selling" his sister to organize a mercenary army to meet the next challenge. After the usurper knows what happened here, he will definitely launch an expedition in advance, so Viserys must be prepared to deal with it early.

In this way, Daenerys, accompanied by a few Westeros servants, stepped into the vast sea of ​​grass.

Here, Daenerys saw another world, a world beyond her cognition, a world that was undergoing drastic changes.

After entering the Great Grass Sea, Daenerys' life changed a lot. She used to be a girl who stayed in the boudoir, waiting for her brother and ministers to arrange everything for her. But here, she has to take on the responsibility of managing her own tribe - after all, there are tens of thousands of people.

At first, Daenerys was not used to it, as a girl in the boudoir suddenly had to face such a heavy burden, but her husband taught her step by step how to do it. Drogo taught very well, and she learned quickly.

However, sometimes she was unwilling to accept her husband's decisions to execute hundreds or thousands of people at a time because it was too cruel - as a Khaleesi, she needed to see the execution with her own eyes.

But Drogo told her that this was the right decision. Killing now was to avoid killing in the future. If he was soft-hearted at this moment, countless people would die in the future. His father was defeated and died in the end because he was too soft-hearted.

Daenerys didn't understand what her husband said, so she just nodded ignorantly. She vaguely felt that there was some truth in it, but she couldn't tell what it was. She could only do it mechanically and keep everything in mind.

Apart from these unpleasant worries, Daenerys enjoys life on the Great Grass Sea.

At first, she was prepared to live the bestial life of the Dothraki as described in the books, such as having sex in broad daylight, but her husband did not do that and treated her very gently, and everything she worried about did not happen at all.

The Great Grass Sea was vast and boundless, especially when she was high up and watching the grass sea moving like waves in the breeze, Daenerys felt that her soul had been freed like never before.

And more importantly, she was no longer troubled by nightmares of the Usurper's lackeys suddenly rushing in.

Her husband Drogo is a man of integrity, a man that any woman wants, and the strongest man in the Great Grass Sea. Living under his protection, Daenerys feels unprecedented security. Her husband speaks very little, but whenever he stands there, everyone will consciously shut up and wait for him to speak. His awe-inspiring temperament is so charming in Daenerys' eyes.

And, more importantly, they were in the midst of a huge transformation, a transformation that her husband was personally manipulating.

Daenerys knew that her husband's father, the previous Dothraki Grand Lord Obal, died for change, and died at the hands of a usurper.

After the death of the Great Khaaul, his tribe immediately fell apart, and the young Drogo immediately faced pursuit from all sides. He was forced to flee far to the east, and was even forced to cross the Mountains of Bones and head to the unknown Far East.

On the grasslands of the Far East, Drogo experienced more tests, and the tribe was almost destroyed several times. The Jogsnai were not stupid Dothraki. They had fought against the Golden Empire for thousands of years and did not have the bad habit of not wearing armor. It was they who drove away the Dothraki and expelled them to the other side of the Mountains of Bones.

But Drogo still survived, and in the process, the former centaur Drogo died. After him came Khal Drogo the Great, and his tribe completely shed the Dothraki stupidity and began to accept various nationalities and all kinds of talented people.

When her husband mentioned this, there was a heaviness in his tone that Daenerys did not understand, but she understood the seriousness of it, so she just hugged her husband silently.

Because of these experiences, Drogo, who returned from the East, was determined to break with everything that the Great Grass Sea represented in the past, and thus this series of changes took place.

However, massacre alone is not enough. The Dothraki are the least afraid of death, so while destroying the old things with massacre, he must also build new things.

And Daenerys is the benchmark he intends to set up. Daenerys occupies a very important position in Drogo's reform. Drogo wants to start with the women on the Great Grass Sea as a node for changing the situation.

In Dothraki society, women have always been treated like livestock. Although they also participated in labor and even battles, their status was completely suppressed by the brainless Dothraki men. They could not participate in wars, nor could they obtain a share of the spoils. They could only exist as appendages of men, and were used by male warriors to vent their desires and give birth.

I have to say this is a very interesting point. The Great Grassland has never been a place with abundant resources. In order to survive, both men and women must participate in intensive labor. There is no question of who supports whom. Sometimes both men and women have to join in the battle.

But even in such circumstances, the status of Dothraki women is completely regarded as vassal of their husbands, and as objects that can be used for casual intercourse.

This was also true even among the powerful class. When a khal died, his wife, Khaleesi, could only go to Dosh Khaleen near Vaes Dothrak, and live as a widow there for the rest of her life. There was no possibility of her rising to a higher position. Of course, becoming a priest and influencing the centaur tribes by relying on her right to interpret religion was another matter.

There were no female warriors. Drogo discovered that the Dothraki were very averse to women fighting in battles. This aversion was so serious that they would actively attack tribes headed by widows.

But even so, there are still many cases where widows serve as warriors or even hold power. After all, there are frequent wars on the Great Grass Sea, and widows are produced every moment. Even if there are endless streams of centaurs emerging from somewhere in the Great Grass Sea, this cannot be changed.

Undoubtedly, Dothraki women are a force no less powerful than men, and they are obviously smarter than the brain-sick centaurs - the best among them are the priests eliminated by Drogo. When the initial centaur alliance collapsed, the priests took the opportunity to control the centaur city, and continued to influence the centaur tribes by controlling the centaur religious interpretation rights, constantly calling on devout khals to besiege the centaur leaders who tried to change, and finally made the Great Grass Sea maintain the primitive nomadic social characteristics of priests over kingship. Thanks to this, although they did not directly participate in the slave trade, the priests accumulated a lot of wealth with the offerings of the khals, which also gave them the capital to consolidate their status in turn - hiring assassins to assassinate enemies and reformers, and then preaching to the centaurs that this was a warning from God.

After carefully studying the legends of the centaurs and the records of the surrounding city-states, Drogo fully suspected that the inexplicable deaths and disappearances of the centaurs reformers in history were closely related to these old women, and that Balboa's reforms were even more restricted by the priests and the city-states. Therefore, after crossing the Mountains of Bones, he immediately attacked the city of the centaurs and slaughtered them before the priests could react, thus completely eliminating future troubles.

However, the priest group is ultimately a minority among the Dothraki women, and more women are still oppressed by this ignorant and barbaric "long-standing tradition", which makes them more or less dissatisfied with these so-called traditions. Drogo wants to take advantage of their resistance and promote his own reforms in turn.

Moreover, in the context of Drogo gradually changing the custom of group marriage among horsemen, these women can also influence men - when the wife at home asks her husband to wear armor and obey the big khal every day, when the husband finds that no matter how strong he is, he can never beat his armored wife with his bare chest, and is then ridiculed by others, Drogo's reforms will become more successful.

"Since Dothraki men are not smart, let's try to find smarter women." Guided by this idea, Drogo paid more and more attention to the female group of centaurs, and later issued a call to give women the rights they deserved - women can be in power, can also be warriors, they can get everything with their own hands, if they are worried about their unstable position, come to Drogo, the great khal will consolidate your authority.

Allowing Daenerys to own and rule her own tribe is the sign he uses to promote his reforms to the entire Grass Sea. To this end, Drogo gave her power far exceeding that of all the Khaleesi on the Great Grass Sea, and many khals could not match her power.

Moreover, Daenerys can even participate in Drogo's decisions and speak out at the Great Khair's council meetings - however, most of the time her remarks make the Great Khair's staff hold their foreheads.

After starting from here, the effect was immediately apparent. There was never a shortage of fighting women on the Great Grass Sea. When the current Great Kao expressed his support for them to take power, they responded immediately. Many tribes took the initiative to report to the Great Kao.

However, many more women were hesitant, and some tribes strongly opposed it.

In response, Drogo reacted quickly and slaughtered anyone who resisted. Daenerys watched her husband build a forest of the dead on the sea of ​​grass several times.

At first, she couldn't help vomiting when she saw these things, and then she thought Drogo was too cruel, but after seeing them many times, she got used to it and didn't care.

Drogo's iron-blooded actions undoubtedly demonstrated his position, so more tribes expressed their loyalty to Drogo, and Drogo's disbanding and reorganization of the centaur tribes went more smoothly. No one dared to resist Drogo, and facing the Great Khaar they had no choice but to obey.

Daenerys also changed in this process. She used to be an ignorant girl in the boudoir, but now she is like a real Khaleesi on the Great Grass Sea.

Daenerys likes this feeling very much, so she is extremely satisfied with this marriage. However, she is also aware of the huge challenges that will come in the future - the usurper on the other side of the Narrow Sea will not allow her husband to develop, and it is only a matter of time before the army of Westeros arrives again.

But she was not afraid, Daenerys had infinite trust in her husband.

(End of this chapter)