King of The Wall

2020-11-02

Chapter 17 Tyrion Lannister

Igor was left behind in the hall, and the cold wind was blowing, The empty courtyard was extraordinarily silent. The guards on the battlements of the inner wall tightened their cloaks to resist the cold, and Night's Watch turned around, found the silhouette of the teenager, and walked towards him.

"Boy." A strange voice sounded, Igor didn't see where the speaker was, but knew that oneself's memory was correct, and this step was right. "The guy next to you is a wolf?"

"It's Direwolf, his name is Bai Ling." Jon turned around to find the speaker, and at the same time he saw Igor walking out the door. They see tears of oneself. "What are you doing there? Why aren't you in there for a dinner party?"

Igor walked around the post by the door, and in the direction Jon had subconsciously looked in, he saw Tyrion Lannister too. dwarf was sitting on a ledge protruding from the front door of the hall overlooking the two of them, perhaps disguised as a statue if he could stay still.

"It's too hot and noisy inside, so I drank a little more." dwarf answered Jon's question, "I learned a long time ago that throwing up on oneself's big brother is a bad thing. Not polite. Can I get a closer look at your wolf?"

Jon hesitated, then slowly nodded: "Can you oneself come down? Or do you want me to get a ladder? "

"Go, look down on me?" said the little man. He pushed back with both hands, and the whole person tossed into the midair. Delicately shrink in the air, land on the ground lightly, and then do a backflip to stand up.

Little Direwolf took a few steps back subconsciously, and even Igor had to admit that Tyrion's hand was pretty good for his size.

dwarf patted the dust on his body and said with a smile: "I think I must have scared your little wolf. I'm sorry."

"He wasn't scared. "Hey." Jon said, bending over and calling, "Bai Ling, come here, come here, darling."

The little wolf strolled over and rubbed Jon's cheek with his nose affectionately, but he kept looking at Tyrion Lannister all the time. keep alert. When dwarf reached out to touch it, it drew back immediately, baring its teeth and roaring silently. "Are you afraid of life?" Lannister said.

"Bai Ling, sit down," Jon ordered. "That's it, sit and don't move." He looked up at Tyrion, "You can touch him now. Unless I tell him to move, He won't move. I'm training him."

"so that's how it is." Lannister scratched the snow-white down between Bai Ling's ears, "Good wolf wolf."

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Igor stood by, looking for a way to interject and quickly get dwarf's attention. Tyrion shut up and rubbed Direwolf's head. He finally got a chance to speak: "Jon...I don't know if I can call you that, but I have to tell you that Uncle doesn't want you to join, it's for your own good."

"For my good?" The boy was still a little angry. "For my sake, he should have taken care of his brother back then, and don't let me be born!"

"Ah..." Tyrion on the side listened to the conversation between the two, crookedly. Passing the over-proportioned head, he showed an expression of sudden realization. I looked Jon up and down, "You are the illegalimate child of Ned Stark, you want to be Night's Watch, but Benjen rejected you?" , The speed of thinking is not unpleasant, but unfortunately the words are like rubbing salt on the wound. Jon pursed his lips and stood up, and his little wolf avoided Tyrion's touch almost at the same time.

"Uh...if I offended you, I apologize." The little Lannister immediately realized something, "But why...Wall doesn't see that he only values his ability, and a deal with—er, me I mean, a good place for illegal children."

"Wait until you see the sprawling group of tents erected by the hundreds of thousands of wildlings gathered to attack the Wall, tall enough to tear people apart with their hands Giants in two, pale Others with blue eyes piercing comrades with Ice Sword, killed people standing up after being cold...you don't think it's a good place."

"Somewhat attractive introduction." Tyrion also stood up, looking back towards Igor. "First of all, I have to express my attitude. I respect the Night's Watch Legion very much, and admire you for sacrificing your oneself to defend the kingdom... Although I will never make your oath, I do admire you."

dwarf paused, then continued: "But, I don't believe those legends about Giants, ghouls, etc. demons and ghosts, the difference between wildling and us is that when Wall rose, they were unlucky. It's just north of the Wall."

"Lord Tyrion, have you been to the Wall. Did you know that The Wall is the largest building ever built by humans?"

"This is An accepted fact." Tyrion shrugged: "Not only is it the biggest, it's undoubtedly the most useless building."

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"The most useless building? Igor resisted the urge to hum with disdain. The dwarf in front of him may be friendly and easy to talk to, but in this world where there is no concept of equality for everyone, the gap between oneself and oneself is too great. On the first day of acquaintance, it was still Be cautious: "Your lord knows, how big is the Wall?"

Tyrion glanced at Igor eccentrically, thinking that the way the Night's Watch spoke was strange: "One hundred leagues long, seven hundred Feet tall and wide enough at the very top to allow twelve fully armed Knights to pass side by side... As for how wide this is, I don't know."

Igor nominates: "Yes, this is the Chief Craftsman Official figures given. But I bet adults have never seen a wall a hundred leagues long, nor a building seven hundred feet high... Hightower in Oldtown is also tall, but taller than Wall After all, there are still some gaps. If you have a chance, you should go and see it for yourself and measure it. But if you don’t have a chance, it’s okay, I can now let you understand what kind of building the Wall is through a more intuitive calculation and comparison.” Igor said with certainty He said: "Seven hundred feet high and about one-tenth the width of the height, let's say it is seventy feet wide. And now we are in front of the inner city wall of Winterfell, the highest part is a hundred feet high, about It's ten feet thick. I've heard adults are very smart, so did you know that The Wall is seven times the height and thickness of the Winterfell city wall, what does that mean?"

What does it mean? Tyrion frowned, he was rarely asked, and after thinking about it, he understood what the other party meant: "This shows that, to build The Wall and Winterfell city wall of the same length, the amount of materials required for the former is seven times seven of the latter. Forty-nine times."

"Your mind is really name is not in vain," Igor dwarfed a flattery without a trace, "then The Wall is a hundred leagues long, which means What?"

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dwarf's brows furrowed even more, while Jon Snow watched the two of them doing calculations in a confused manner, completely speechless. In terms of swordsmanship and riding, he may be stronger than the two in front of him combined, but he is not even better than Tyrion, let alone Igor, who has received a higher education in another world.

"Let me tell your lord, this means that if The Wall were torn down and rebuilt into a wall the height of the interior of Winterfell, it would be five thousand leagues in length. Encircling the entire North with ease, or separating the entire Kingsroad from King's Landing to Winterfell from the fields on both sides, the Wall weighs more than the walls of all the cities of Westeros combined."

"But The Wall is made of giant ice blocks." dwarf made a rough estimate and realized that the Night's Watch in front of him was not nonsense, but still protested unconvincingly: "Winterfell's city wall is made of stones."

"The weight of the same volume of stone is about twice as much as ice, but considering the difference in construction difficulty and quantity between a 700-foot-high wall and a 100-foot-high city wall, I suggest that the two sides even out." Igor quickly turned his brain and quickly brought the topic back to the oneself line: "Just now, the adults said that the difference between wildling and us is only on the north and south sides of the Wall, and I agree with this statement. To borrow your ideas , can I say that the difference between North and South is only on the north and south sides of The Neck?"

"Most people in North have First Men bloodline flowing in their bodies."illegitimate child He had long forgotten the grievances of being "humiliated" by Uncle in the hall. He felt that oneself was listening like a fool for a long time, and he finally found a chance to interject.

"'First Men' means the first humans to arrive at Westeros, neither a separate race nor older than any other race." Tyrion corrects Jon's misconception, "From the racial From the point of view, First Men and Andals or Rhoynar are very close, there is no essential difference, so, 'First Men bloodline' this thing is actually meaningless, not so much bloodline, but rather inheritance and cultural beliefs."

"Agree." Igor agrees. "Lord Tyrion, I read the literature and learned that the Wall was not built in a generation, Brandon Stark the Builder eight thousand years ago only built the stone base of Winterfell and The Wall, the latter seven hundred feet The amazing height of the Haunted Forest is the result of thousands of Night's Watch craftsmen building up slowly with large ice blocks in the Haunted Forest glacial lake over tens of hundreds of years."

"The Wall is not entirely made of ice. Is it built?" Tyrion raised his eyebrows. "Looks like I didn't read it carefully enough...but it makes sense."

"It doesn't have much to do with what it's made of." Igor said nonchalantly, "I don't understand the military, but I also We know that such a huge fortification, built to The Neck, even if the southern princes have a magnificent army with thousands of men and horses will not threaten the North. But the builders chose to build it in the northernmost... Even the first generation Wall The builder is out of his mind, but why are his children and grandchildren continuing this project? Are the northerners' brains faulty, or is there another reason?"

"Hmm..." dwarf touched Touch your chin.

"Furthermore," Igor continued without hesitation: "According to the records, at the height of Night's Watch, Castle Black alone had more than 5,000 soldiers stationed, and the entire Legion light combat troops exceeded 10,000. Not counting the servants squire... That was 8,000 years ago, the population inside and outside the Wall was far less than today, and the number of wildlings living north of the Wall at that time might not have been as many as Night's Watch. What is it, let North People build and keep raising the Wall, and at the same time send such a large standing army to guard it?"

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(end of this chapter)