The Asshai's Bloodmage

 The relationship between the 4 Mages; Immortal, Countess, Esmer and Old Tian was not so simple. The 4 were not mortal enemies, but since they met they knew that one day they would end up killing each other. To better understand this story it is necessary to understand part of the conflicts of the 40 families. More necessarily two families whose names are Drovaryon and Nytaryen.

In the more than 10,000 years of rule of the 40 families in Valyria, there were two families of dragon lords who had the greatest conflict among all the others. It is not known how this conflict began or for how many thousands of years it lasted. But a good percentage of dragons killed along with their dragon lords were credited to the grudge between these two, their rivalry and cruelty in dealing with each other would easily remind one of the Starks and Boltons. Among the crimes committed were the murder of children, pregnant women, the destruction of dragon eggs, the poisoning of dragons and their lords, and every possible humiliation that could be inflicted was also used.

This went on for so long that the reason for it all to begin was no longer important and only the most recent grudges mattered. Their conflict had not been worse only because they no longer had their Blood Mages. But that changed 800 years ago, when the Drovaryons, using their deep legacy, finally gave birth to 2 new Blood Mages. These two mages were Old Tian and the Countess. This caused the balance between the two families to be broken, and the next 100 years were cruel for the Nytaryen side. During this time, Tian and the Countess earned infamous names among the Blood Mages for their cruelty and number of corpses, Countess in particular was known even today as the most powerful Flame Mage in all of Valyria.

The cruel period was called by the other families the Century of Slaughter, and everyone thought that the Nytaryen family would finally surrender. That was until the current Lord of the Nytaryens went on a journey around the world with his dragon and returned to Valyria with 2 mysterious new Mages who put an end to the Century of Slaughter and restored balance between the two eternal enemies. These mages were of course the powerful Immortal Necromancer (who had a different name at the time) and the Blood Mage Esmer. What few knew was that their contracts were very strict, each of the contracted mages received something very valuable that they needed, but due to necessity they had no choice but to agree to sign a blood contract to serve the Nytaryens for 1000 years. But as both were very cunning mages who had already lived for a long time, they found loopholes to "escape" from these contracts.

The contract of the Immortal, who at the time was called the Lord of the Dead, was to serve for 1000 years or until the day of his death. And Esmer had to serve for 1000 years or until the deaths of Old Tian and the Countess. And this opportunity only arose now 700 years later. With the death of the Immortal at the hands of the Faceless Men, he finally escaped 300 years earlier, and in addition, he helped contribute to the death of the Countess, allowing Esmer to also escape.

The reason these two worked together was that both magicians had an agreement as well, this contract was very simple: Immortal should help Esmer in the death of Tian and the Countess and Esmer should help in the next resurrection of the Immortal. This was because the Necromancer's method of resurrection was the safest, but the most problematic; without help, it would take him almost 200 years to do it alone. The fact that these two worked together for several centuries serving these dragon lords shows how terrifying the Countess was. They would never be able to kill her without using such meticulous plans. One of the tricks in all this was the name the Immortal used, he was the Necromancer Lord of the Dead and his Immortal name was only something Esmer knew, he was a Necromancer good at close combat and controlling corpses, and that was all he had shown the people of Valyria in his more than 700 years here. Even Esmer thought that he only had these abilities and his powerful resurrection method that gave him his illustrious name.

But the truth was that the Immortal would not have died so easily to ordinary men if he had fought with all his strength, during the entire fight against the faceless men he used the Fury spell silently to make Countess angrier than normal. , and during the initial attack, Countess felt nothing because the Immortal had been poisoning her clairvoyant senses for several years in that cave. Of course, Esmer would only know all this later.

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 When Esmer returned to his mansion after killing Old Tian, ​​he went to his laboratory where he had two more dragon eggs in a warm room like Old Tian's and also kept them in his bag. Just as Old Tian protected the Drovaryon family's eggs, Esmer was the guardian of the Nytaryen family's eggs. Since in the hands of Mages it was the safest place to prevent young dragons from dying while they were in their most fragile states. Esmer next called her most loyal servant and her only remaining apprentice since her daughter left. He gave his apprentice a letter along with 3 eggs to send to Lord Nytaryen, he then turned to his servant and told him to find a ship that went to Asshai in the harbor and buy the best cabin for them 3. The servant who He followed him since he was a 10-year-old boy and looked at him as if he were a God, since his appearance was the same for over 50 years.

"My lord, my grandson is the same age as I was when I began serving you, I would like your permission to take him with us on this trip and begin his training if you allow."

Esmer agreed to the man's request and waved him to go right behind a ship. While alone, he gave a huge smile as he watched the 4th dragon egg that now rested in his storage bag.

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