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PYCELLE:
Without question, Oldtown is the oldest,
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wealthiest and greatest city in Westeros.
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QYBURN: Though
King's Landing is more populous,
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and arguably, more powerful.
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PYCELLE: Ah. The city straddles
the mouth of the Honeywine River.
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And the bounty of the entire Reach
flows beneath its great stone bridges.
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To ports that are renowned
throughout the world.
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QYBURN: Thus
we needn't speak more of them.
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More interesting is the history of the city.
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For none can say when it was founded.
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Many centuries ago, a few bold maesters
sought out the Children of the Forest.
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Who claimed that men have lived
at the mouth of the Honeywine
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since the Dawn Age.
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PYCELLE: Nonsense.
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Maester Jellicoe proved that the city began
as a trading post.
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Where ships from Valyria,
Old Ghis and the Summer lsles
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put in to replenish their provisions
and make repairs.
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Hence, the most famous feature of the city,
the Hightower.
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Raised even before the city walls
as a beacon through the fog-covered waters.
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Originally built of wood
and standing a mere 50 feet
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above the ancient fortress of its foundation,
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it is now thick stone and rises even taller
than the Wall.
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Those born and raised in Oldtown can tell
the time of day by where its shadow falls.
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QYBURN: But no maester can tell why.
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Even in our oldest records,
the island on which it stands is called
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Battle lsle.
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What battle was fought there?
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And when?
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As for the ancient fortress
that forms the tower's base,
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its walls and interiors
are all of solid black stone
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with no hints of joins.
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Or mortar. And no chisel marks of any kind.
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We know it predates the tower itself
by thousands of years.
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But who built it? How?
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And against what?
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PYCELLE:
The maesters who have studied it
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declare it to be of Valyrian construction,
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akin to Dragonstone
and the black walls of Volantis.
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As is well-known,
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the dragonlords of Valyria could turn
stone to liquid with dragonflame
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to shape as they wished.
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QYBURN: Didn't one archmaester
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link the fortress to
the vanished mazemakers of Lorath?
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And another maester,
to the legendary Deep Ones
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who inhabited the lron lslands
before the ironborn?
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(PYCELLE SlGHS)
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PYCELLE: Both marginal opinions
without common support.
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But of more importance
than the origin of the tower
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is the family to which it gave its name.
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House Hightower.
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The ancient ruling family of Oldtown.
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Known for their prudence and love of peace.
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QYBURN: And pieces of gold.
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PYCELLE: During the Age
of Heroes, when Lymond Hightower
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saw the Gardener kings
conquering the Reach,
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he didn't beat them on the battlefield,
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but in the godswood.
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He bound his house to theirs by marriage.
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And transformed House Hightower
from wealthy but relatively minor kings
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to the greatest lords of the Reach.
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Thanks to Lord Lymond's foresight,
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Highgarden has always defended Oldtown.
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Allowing the Hightowers to focus
on higher pursuits
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such as learning and trade.
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QYBURN: On that we agree.
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When the Andals invaded Westeros,
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Lord Dorian Hightower
told his wife of 20 years
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that wars are bad for trade.
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And to make his point,
traded her for a young Andal princess.
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When Aegon the Conqueror
was earning his name,
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House Hightower traded its loyalty
to the Gardeners
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for his confirmation of their rights,
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welcoming him with open arms
and open gates.
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PYCELLE: House Hightower
bent the knee to Aegon
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to spare the city from his dragons.
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(CHUCKLES) l would think such insinuations
and insults beneath even you, Qyburn.
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Ah, then again, mockery of one's betters
is the trade of fools.
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QYBURN: l wouldn't know.
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Perhaps if l'd studied at the Citadel
as long as you, Grand Maester.
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PYCELLE: The Citadel is the greatest
seat of learning in the known world.
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Without it and the maesters it trains,
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Westeros would be a land of
superstition and ignorance.
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QYBURN: Like the ignorance
that shrouds the Citadel's own birth?
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PYCELLE: Even without records,
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we have more than enough reason
to believe that the Citadel began
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as a court of scholars and priests.
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Assembled by a second son
of House Hightower.
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When he died,
his elder brother raised the Citadel
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so that wise men would always
have a home in Westeros.
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And could continue the enquiries and debates
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that had given such joy
to his younger brother.
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QYBURN: His little brother's pets,
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as legend has it he called them.
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And so, the maesters have remained.
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Only their masters have changed.
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Now they serve every lord with a castle.
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For a fee, of course.
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Whilst the Citadel serves its own importance.
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(PYCELLE CHUCKLES)
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PYCELLE: Every word you speak
merely validates your own expulsion
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from our ranks.
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QYBURN: Knowledge is validation enough.
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l assume the world's greatest minds
would agree.
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And perhaps they would if l had met them.
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Oldtown is a city for old men and old beliefs.
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But the world is changing.
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No matter how high the tower,
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the clouds will not hold it up
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if the ground shifts beneath it.
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