Chapter 170: Dragon God Scripture

While Daenerys focused her energy on handling the internal affairs of Pentos, Alaric began addressing the issue of people's religious beliefs.

He prepared to establish the first Dragon God Church within the city of Pentos.

In Pentos—or rather, throughout the Free Cities—religious beliefs were very diverse, with various well-known and lesser-known deities having followers here.

Therefore, even though Alaric intended to establish the Dragon God Church, he could not completely deny other faiths or treat all non-believers as heretics; otherwise, Pentos would surely descend into chaos.

For now, he could only demonstrate the superiority of the Dragon God Church gradually, just like boiling a frog in warm water, in order to gradually drive out other religious institutions.

However, the Dragon God Church still had significant advantages.

For example, as a "divine messenger," Alaric could perform miracles; and he could provide some artifacts to prove the power of the Dragon God.

Although these were just some ordinary magical props he had used for practice before.

But these simple magic tricks and artifacts were highly welcomed in this world where magic was scarce.

Many ignorant citizens almost instantly decided to convert to the Dragon God faith.

Soon, the Dragon God Church experienced significant growth in Pentos.

Almost half of the citizens quickly converted to the Dragon God faith, while the rest mostly hesitated.

As long as Alaric could trigger greater miracles at any time, these remaining citizens would also become believers of the Dragon God.

With a certain number of believers as a foundation, Alaric's next task was to select individuals from among the believers to become the first clergy of the Dragon God Church.

Most of these clergy members were originally respected commoners or priests who had defected from other churches.

These priests who converted to the Dragon God faith possessed rich experience in preaching, and only by utilizing them could the church establish a basic foundation in a short period.

Furthermore, Alaric also spent time writing a book called the "Dragon God Scripture" for the Dragon God Church.

This "Dragon God Scripture" was the basic scripture and theoretical foundation of the Dragon God religion, describing how the Dragon God created the world, created the first batch of creatures, and other primordial history.

In addition, it added some fanciful mythical stories, allegories, and inspirational anecdotes—because Alaric had read the original book and had some understanding of the history of "A Song of Ice and Fire" from the ancient era, so he crafted these myths quite convincingly.

For example, historical events recorded only in runes carved by ancient people were all mentioned in the "Dragon God Scripture," and even the most learned scholars of Westeros couldn't find any faults.

In addition, he proposed commandments such as the Ten Commandments, the Seven Virtues, and the Seven Deadly Sins in the scripture, presenting them very convincingly.

It was much more sophisticated than those of other religions such as the Faith of the Seven and R'hllor.

As for where Alaric got these theories from?

There were plenty of scriptures in the adjacent monotheistic religions on Earth that could be referenced.

These religious theories, which matured with the progress of human history, were incomparable to the more primitive religions in this world.

Furthermore, Alaric added some personal touches to the scripture. '

For example, in the scripture, his own status was likened to that of Michael in a monotheistic religion, being the right hand of the Dragon God, the first divine messenger under the Dragon God.

The chief warrior by the Dragon God's side, and the supreme commander of the Dragon Legion.

And Daenerys became a figure similar to King David or King Solomon in the history of a monotheistic religion.

In addition, in order to explain his actions of unifying Westeros and the Essos continent, he also added prophecies for the future in the scripture.

The prophecy stated: "When the Dragon God returns, the messenger of the Dragon God will select a king to inherit the blood of the true dragon on the earth.

This king's ancestors have been betrayed, but the king will return.

And on the land ruled by the blood of the true dragon, the betrayer will eventually be betrayed by those around him, and the stag will be devoured by the lioness.

The old throne will be divided into five, but the true dragon will eventually unite them, melting them into a new throne with blood and fire."

For someone like Alaric, impersonating a prophet with spoilers was certainly a basic operation.

The so-called king inheriting the blood of the true dragon was, of course, Daenerys Targaryen, because the Targaryen family itself claimed to inherit the "blood of the dragon," and their family crest was a black background with a red single-headed fire-breathing dragon.

The betrayer and the stag referred to the current king of the Seven Kingdoms, Robert Baratheon.

Initially, he raised his rebellion out of jealousy towards Rhaegar Targaryen, the second prince, which led him to seize the throne.

The Baratheon family crest was a golden stag on a black background. The lioness and the one who betrayed Robert referred to his queen consort, Cersei Lannister.

Although she was Robert's queen consort, all three of Robert's princes and princesses were actually children of Cersei and her twin brother, Jaime Lannister.

So when the crown prince Joffrey inherited the throne, the Iron Throne actually became the property of the Lannister family.

The Lannister family crest was a roaring golden lion on a crimson field.

Finally, the division of the Iron Throne into five referred to the War of the Five Kings, which broke out after Robert's death, indirectly caused by the exposure of Joffrey's bloodline issues, leading to five claimants to the throne among the lords of the Seven Kingdoms.

Such a prophecy could be said to be straightforward.

In fact, anyone with a little understanding of the situation in the Seven Kingdoms could see what the prophecy was expressing; there was no ambiguity.

However, understanding was one thing, believing was another.

But once everything in the prophecy came true without the slightest deviation, the influence and legitimacy of the Dragon God religion would greatly increase.

And Daenerys would gain tremendous prestige through this—after all, if most of the prophecy had come true, then few would doubt the last sentence.

Alaric made extensive preparations to make the Dragon God religion the mainstream belief in this world.

However, Alaric couldn't always be responsible for maintaining the church.

After all, the Game of Thrones was just his pastime in this world; his true purpose was not to become a pope or something, but to study the blood of dragons in this world and, incidentally, explore the magic of this world.

So, he needed to find a suitable person to manage the church for him, just as Daenerys managed the government.

However, it was easy to find ordinary priests, but it was not so easy to find a bishop who could truly manage a nascent church and develop it.

Still, this didn't stump Alaric.

In fact, he had already had a candidate in mind for this bishop position—of course, he poached from other churches, after all, the position of bishop still required a certain level of experience; he couldn't teach from scratch like he did with Daenerys .

Now the only problem was how to lure him out? Alaric was prepared for this.

After arranging the initial affairs of the church, he locked himself in his room, enchanting and forging, all to prepare a miracle.

On one hand, it could ensnare the future bishop of the Dragon God religion, and on the other hand, it could increase Daenerys's prestige.

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