The journey of the film and television world is endless [continued]

Through Praxite Cassinesi's narration, Liu Yuan was presented with a completely different history of Braavos.

The Valyrians became the absolute overlords of the western part of Essos, and it was the Fourteen Fire Peaks that really made them successful. The Valyrians not only discovered the dragon's lair in the Fire Peaks, but also mined the ore to make Valyrian steel, and even dug out red gold, gold, silver and other rare and precious mineral materials! Faced with such tempting wealth, the Valyrians did not hesitate to send the slaves they had captured from various countries to the mysterious and dangerous Fourteen Fire Peaks to mine ore.

The ancient Valyrian mines were extremely hot, especially as the shafts went deeper underground, the temperature rose steadily. These poor slaves worked hard as if they were in a huge oven, and the surrounding rock walls were so hot that they could not be touched. Sometimes, in order to explore precious ore resources, they had to break through the hard cave walls, but what awaited them was often not the treasure they dreamed of, but billowing steam, boiling water and deadly lava flows.

In the cramped and short shaft, the slaves could not stand up straight and could only crawl or bend forward with difficulty. What was even more terrifying was that the endless darkness enveloped the entire mine, and ferocious and terrifying fireworms often appeared in it. Once they encountered such monsters, the slaves would be devoured by the raging fire in an instant, and in the end, not even a complete corpse would remain, only charred and carbonized remains.

Despite such harsh and cruel conditions, miners continued to dig deeper day after day, and countless lives were lost here. However, the greedy and selfish slave owners did not care about this, and they only saw the endless wealth. For those slaves who had lost their ability to work, they were even more cruel and ruthless and threw them into the dark abyss with a red glow underground, leaving them to fend for themselves.

These suffering slaves came from all corners of the world, with different ethnic backgrounds and religious beliefs: Andals, Rhoynar, Qohor, Yiti, Asshai, Ghis, Summer Islanders, etc. They prayed to their different gods, all asking for the same thing, to be relieved and end their suffering. For the gods, this was an extremely common little thing, but no god responded to them.

Until one night, in the red darkness at the bottom of the volcanic mine, the first nameless person had an epiphany, and he gave a gift to some desperate slaves. This gift was death. For the slaves trapped in the underground mines day and night and living in despair, death was a merciful relief.

"All men must die, all men must serve."

No one knows the true identity of the first Faceless Man. Some say he is a slave, some say he came from the Free Fortress, and some even say he was originally a supervisor who sympathized with the slaves, but it doesn't matter. As the Faceless Man organization began to grow and hope spread in the mines, the Faceless Man led the slaves to start a rebellion. They can disguise their identities and travel in and out of the mines.

Eight hundred years ago, they took advantage of the conflict between the Valyrians and the Asshai fire wizards and successfully concluded an alliance. With the help of the fire wizards, some people escaped from the mines. Under the leadership of the Faceless Men, they instigated the rowing slaves to rebel. They controlled a fleet and came to the north to secretly establish Braavos.

At the same time, the Iron Bank was also established. The original founders were sixteen men and seven women, most of whom were Faceless Men. They used their powerful military force to ensure that the interests of the Iron Bank were not violated. With the financial resources of the Iron Bank, the House of Black and White and the Faceless Men organization quickly grew to the point where they could threaten the royal power. Over the past few hundred years, the Iron Bank and the Faceless Men have used capital and military deterrence to infiltrate every corner of Braavos. As for the publicly elected Sea King, he is just a puppet in the open.

The Supreme Triumvirate is the real master of Braavos. One represents the Iron Bank, one represents the House of Black and White, and the other represents the Invincible Armada. The Admirals, the Faceless Men, and the Iron Bank are already indistinguishable from each other in secret.

There is another amazing secret, the Doom of Valyria was actually related to these guys. After the existence of Braavos was made public, the Faceless Men used nearly two hundred years to infiltrate the garrisons, guards and slave groups of the Fourteen Fire Peaks, and secretly collected a large number of wild dragon eggs.

They united with the Church of R'hllor and injected the holy power bestowed by the Lord of Light into dragon eggs, with the goal of hatching a group of giant dragons that obeyed the church. A large number of faceless men dressed in black threw thousands of dragon eggs injected with holy fire into the volcano on a dark night.

But beyond everyone's expectation, their actions caused extremely terrible consequences. The super volcano belt including the Fourteen Fire Peaks was awakened within a radius of 150 leagues around the city of Valyria. The mountains cracked like eggs, and the rivers, lakes and seas boiled! Flames, ashes and smoke gushed from the ground into the air like fountains! The hot lava was scattered, and even the dragons flying in the sky were burned.

The earth broke apart, the seas surged back! In a matter of hours, the greatest city ever built was gone.

The disaster tore the entire peninsula in two, forming the Sea of ​​Sighs in the north; the middle area became hot and became a land of long summer; the southern part sank and was flooded by sea water, emitting poisonous steam and thick smoke, which was called the Sea of ​​Smoke.

To this day, this area is still considered a devilish place shrouded in doom. No one who dared to enter the coast returned alive, and no sailor dared to approach the ruins of Valyria.

The Doom of Valyria had a profound impact on Essos. Except for the Targaryens and the Velaryons, all the old nobles of Valyria were killed. (The Celtigars were lower-class Valyrians, not even nobles.) Many secrets of technology and magic were lost, and no one could forge Valyrian steel anymore.

Although there were some unexpected events, the results were unexpectedly good. The collapse of the empire left a huge power vacuum, and the Free Trade Cities fell into war and turmoil for more than a hundred years, which was called the "Bloody Century".

Braavos united with other city-states to shatter Volantis' ambition to rebuild the empire and dominate Essos. In the war, it completely defeated Pentos and achieved a real rise, becoming one of the most powerful forces in western Essos. It also used its financial tentacles to infiltrate various city-states, including various regions in Westeros.

After listening to this, Liu Yuan was still restless for a long time. He realized that behind this seemingly prosperous Braavos, there was such a huge conspiracy and power struggle.

As for why the Red God Church participated in the mysterious actions of the Faceless Ones, with some fragments of the Green Prophet's memories, he could guess a little. R'hllor and the bodies of the Ancient Gods were suppressed under the Fourteen Fire Peaks. Only by causing such a devastating catastrophe could the seal above be loosened and more divine thoughts and power be released.

Liu Yuan pressed his palm on Placidia's head, and with a burst of force, his head exploded like a watermelon. Then he took out a palm-sized iron key from his arms. This was the key to the Iron Vault. To his surprise, the material was Valyrian steel.

Following Placidia's instructions, the mechanism on the wall was opened, and a deep passage appeared, leading directly to the underground secret vault.