The Septry still existed, and even as the septons in it accepted the somewhat odd belief of Laerys, first of the Celtigars, it became the vehicle for the contact between the new inhabitants of the Isle, and the Most Devout. It was not too much of a jump for Laerys, the old head of the house who began work on the keep of Claw Isle, to come to the conclusion that the Andal Seven and the Valyrian Fourteen were simply two different ways of looking at the same deity, even more so when, at least in some interpretations of the old religion, the Fourteen kinda fit well enough -not perfectly of course, but it worked well enough- into the roles of the Seven. Since my ancestors had left Valyria in disgrace -the last scions of an older and noble Dragon-riding house that went extinct in one of the Civil Wars that the chronicles seldom mention- and since they did not keep many ties to their old homeland -even if they soon began to act as intermediaries for the trade between the realms of the Blackwater and the cities of Pentos and Myr- the earliest Celtigars took on the local faith… With a spin of their own.įourteen Gods Valyria had, and in the period when the first Celtigars set sail west, some thinkers theorized that these fourteen were aspects of a single deity… Stumbling, unknowingly -or rather, unintentionally- into the same core doctrine that Hugor had run into. Upon arrival, they’d found the island mostly deserted thanks to pirates in the bay, but there was a Septry on the Island, and a few clans of men, of mixed Andal and First Men stock, who lived around it and helped the Septons protect themselves from pirates. House Celtigar had been in Claw Isle for eight-hundred years. “Septon Ronnel, His Grace may have sent you, but Septon Rennifer has been in the service of my house since the days of my Grandfather, coming from a community of Septons that has been recognized by the High Septons and Most Devout for near a thousand years that is in this very Isle… I expect you have proof of your accusation, beyond differences in interpretation that three different High Septons have ruled to be within the bounds of the Faith.” It would be a long day, at the very least. “Rennifer is a heretic!” Ronnel exclaimed, and I sighed. Of course, I… imagined why such a thing was. But appearances needed to be kept, and Rennifer was understanding and intelligent. Now, sure, I was… not particularly pious to the Seven. “Quite a lot of attention by His Grace to this small Isle, Septon, however, since I see that you have Septon Rennifer with you, I assume that you want to do more than introduce yourself to me,” I told him. “My Lord! I was sent by His Grace” One of them spoke, “My name is Ronnel, from Gulltown, and I was sent by His Grace to… ensure that no heresy may take hold in the Isle.” I made my way down the Keep and towards the great hall. And in general, even since my betrothal, it was often beneath the King’s attention. “Maester Gwayne, how will future generations know to debunk him, if his arguments are lost to history?”Ĭlaw Isle was, in most regards, too insignificant to be expected to be the place where such a book remained. To a man like Gwayne, it was fairly simple to talk past that objection. Of course, one had to know how to talk to those around you. “My Lord, the book is bound once more, and its cover replaced by one that will hide it but… Why go to such lengths to preserve it? Septon Barth, while intelligent, was no Maester and his… approach to the mysteries was reprehensible at best, foolish at worst.” I also had to be thankful that, while Maester Gwayne was not too fond of the higher mysteries, he did not believe in destroying knowledge, even if he thought it was not quite truthful. And as much as I’d sought to save such books, this one had come into my possession almost by accident. The book in my hands was, perhaps, the last of its kind. resolution to this particular situation, which will be mentioned soon enough) truth is, Baelor's reign is hard to write in, because it's so incredibly easy to turn Baelor into an evil antagonistic zealot, and I don't want that, so I try to come up with ways to keep the story moving until the point where things actually kick off again without making things seem too abrupt. I do hope not to leave some of the issues presented here without being touched upon further ahead (beside the.
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