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瓦兰提斯（Volantis）位于自由贸易城邦的东南角，争议之地东部，洛恩河的入海口，是距离瓦雷利亚最近的自由贸易城邦。
她是瓦雷利亚自由堡垒最早建立的殖民地，历史悠久且实力强大，被誉为“瓦雷利亚的大女儿”丶“洛恩河的女王”丶“夏日之海的女主人”。[1]
地理
瓦兰提斯是厄斯索斯大陆的南部沿海城市，在所有自由贸易城邦的最东南方，位于洛恩河入海口的三角洲地带。瓦兰提斯坐落在一个巨大的丶足以把整个布拉佛斯包容在内的海湾旁边，它的北方是洛恩河的支流瓦兰娜河。在洛恩河口至伤心领之间是瓦兰提斯的势力范围，[2]两岸立着大小城镇，例如是赛荷鲁镇丶维隆瑟斯等。[3]
瓦兰提斯是距离奴隶湾最近的自由城邦，它和弥林之间的直线距离大约有五百五十个里格远。所以瓦兰提斯公开地进行奴隶贸易。[4]从瓦兰提斯出发可以徒步沿着瓦雷利亚大道一直走到弥林，然而两地之间环境恶劣，过于危险，人们为此段大道冠上“恶魔之路”的称号。[5]
城市
瓦兰提斯坐落在一个极深的海港旁。市民常常自诩，即便把布拉佛斯的上百个岛屿放到自家的海港也会被吞没。港口集中无数来自世界各处的船只，使瓦兰提斯成为最繁华的港口。[6]
瓦兰提斯占据着洛恩河河口，沿着两岸向北延伸至内地的丘陵和沼泽。瓦兰提斯被洛恩河分成两个城区，东城属於古老血脉的贵族居住，西面是雇佣兵丶外邦人丶奴隶和平民等居住的地方，两个城区由长桥连接起来。[6]自从经历了征服战争前一个世纪的战争，瓦兰提斯虽然依旧繁华，但隐隐已有衰落之势。[1]
坐标
- 黑墙，黑墙是由浇熔在一起的黑色石块建成的两百尺高地椭圆形城墙。当瓦兰提斯不过是自由堡垒的一个前哨站时，由瓦雷利亚人所建造。城墙极厚，足以使六辆四匹马所拉的马车并排前行。为了庆祝瓦兰提斯的建城日，每年都会举行六辆马车并排赛跑的仪式。黑墙里的居民自称“古老血脉”，因为他们的祖先可以追溯到古瓦雷利亚时代，外地人丶自由人或外国人都不允许进入黑墙以内，除非住在里面的居民邀请他们。[6]
- 拉赫洛神庙，瓦兰提斯的拉赫洛神庙是一个巨大的建筑，它的梁柱丶台阶丶墙壁丶拱顶丶高塔和塔之间的空中走廊完美的连接在一起就好像整座建筑是由一块巨石挖空而造。上百种色调，红色丶黄色丶金色丶橙色，在神庙的墙上彼此渗入就好像日落时的云朵。细长的尖塔彼此缠绕，旋转上升，冻结的火焰像是在触摸天空。神庙大约有君临的贝勒大圣堂的三倍大。在神庙建起来之前，这里原本是大广场。神庙拥有自己的武装，被称为燃烧之手。
- 商人之屋，瓦兰提斯最好的酒馆，一个四层楼的庞然大物，俯临周围的码头丶船埠和仓库。它的大厅比维斯特洛大多数城堡的大厅都要大，中间的庭院铺着石板路，种植着许多葡萄架，周围的凉亭和洞穴让大厅看起来像个迷宫一样。它的房间都有非常坚固的锁。
- 长桥，横跨洛恩河口的长桥将瓦兰提斯的两个城区连接在一起。桥的跨度极长，由巨大的桥墩支撑，平坦仿佛大路，由瓦雷利亚人在他们鼎盛时期所建造。两端的入口是黑色巨石建造的拱门，门上雕刻着斯芬克斯丶狮身蝎尾兽丶龙和其他的怪兽。桥面足以供两辆四轮马车并排通过。长桥两边建起了各式各样的建筑，你可以在这里买到几乎任何东西。在桥中间，盗贼的双手和犯人的头颅被插在长矛上示众。
政府
像昔日的瓦雷利亚一样，瓦兰提斯也是一个自由堡垒，由执政官统治，执政官每年进行一次选举，每个自由出身丶拥有土地的瓦兰提斯人都有权投票。选举每次要持续十天，这十天也成为了瓦兰提斯人的狂欢节，有的候选人会做任何事以获得选票。
只有那些祖先可以一直追溯到瓦雷利亚的古老血脉可以成为执政官，执政官分为虎党和象党。象党由商人和债主们组成，虎党则主要是古老的贵族和战士们。象党提倡通商，而虎党倾向武力。从来没有孩子可以成为执政官（不像维斯特洛会出现不通世事的少年国王），如果其中一名行为疯狂（就像伊里斯二世），另外两位执政官会限制他的权力直到下一次选举到来。居住在黑墙之内的出身高贵的妇女也有权投票。
现任执政官
- 虎党的马拉乔
- 象党的奈西索
- 象党的多法斯
经济
由于地理位置靠近奴隶湾，瓦兰提斯是奴隶贸易链中的关键一环，商人们公开的与奴隶湾进行大规模的奴隶贸易。据说瓦兰提斯平均每个自由人拥有五个奴隶。[4]
瓦兰提斯使用的货币正面是一顶王冠，另一面是个骷髅头，被称作“辉币”，还没有维斯特洛所使用的铜币大。[7]
瓦兰提斯着名的商品是他们所酿造的红酒，[8]也会出产名贵的玻璃。[9]很少有来自维斯特洛的船只远航至瓦兰提斯这么远的地方，即使有，也是装满了从玉海搞到的丝绸和香料，然后运回国去。[6]
文化
在平民百姓中，纹身非常普遍。据半官方的消息，自由公民会用纹身来彰显自己的战斗中的武勇或是作为功绩的纪念。[10] 奴隶主们也常给自己的奴隶纹身防止他们逃跑，用不同的纹身区分奴隶的用途：双颊上的眼泪纹身代表了性奴，火焰则代表拉赫洛的奴隶，城市守卫的双颊纹着老虎斑纹，清理粪便的奴隶则纹着苍蝇等等。双颊纹着虎纹的奴隶卫队被称为Tiger Cloaks。
瓦兰提斯人喜欢甜食，城市周围种植了许多甜菜，这里的每道菜都加入甜菜，连酒也是甜的。[6]着名的席瓦斯棋就是起源于瓦兰提斯并藉贸易流传开去。[11]
所有有地位的瓦兰提斯人都不会徒步走路，因为他们认为这有损尊严，故此上等人会坐轿子，普通人则会乘坐矮象拉的车，热闹的城区中到处都有这种象车。[6]
历史
瓦兰提斯是最古老的自由贸易城邦，瓦雷利亚自由堡垒的第一个殖民地，他们以瓦雷利亚后裔而自豪，依然保留这许多瓦雷利亚传统。瓦雷利亚的末日浩劫之后，不少殖民地反抗瓦雷利亚的统治，流血之年过去之后，瓦兰提斯人将自己视为自由堡垒的继承人和世界的正统统治者。但是关于怎么样征服世界他们争论了数百年，虎党倾向于武力而象党则支持贸易。最初的一个世纪虎党占上风，瓦兰提斯的舰队征服了里斯，他们的陆军攻下了密尔。
瓦兰提斯人曾试图说服伊耿·坦格利安帮助他们重新夺回自由堡垒的土地。坦格利安拒绝他们之后，瓦兰提斯人决定单独攻打泰洛西。结果潘托斯和风暴王突然加入了泰洛西的一方，布拉佛斯借给里斯流亡者们一百艘战船，里斯和密尔也掀起了叛乱，最终伊耿骑着自己的龙“黑死神”贝勒里恩加入战斗，击溃了瓦兰提斯。
这场战争使里斯和密尔重获自由，争议之地成为无主之地。同时瓦兰提斯人派去重夺瓦雷利亚的舰队消失在烟海，科霍尔和诺佛斯打破了瓦兰提斯在洛恩河上流的权利，多斯拉克人从东方出现，烧杀抢掠。之后象党在争执中占了上风，将瓦兰提斯的多数统治权握在手中直到现在。过去的数个世纪中象党在执政官中往往至少占有两席，也就是虎党最多只能掌握执政官中的一个说话权。[2]
提利昂在瓦兰提斯的见闻，从北门至长桥
Many of the statues in Volantis lack heads - by Marc Fishman ©
After capturing Tyrion in the brothel in Selhorys Ser Jorah Mormont heads for Volantis, with the intent to gain sea passage to Meereen.
在Selhorys的 妓院里抓住了 提利昂后，乔拉.莫尔蒙 爵士去向瓦兰提斯，打算从那经水路到弥林。
Tyrion’s impressions of Volantis during his POV give a good account of the city.[1] On the day of their arrival it is the third day of the Volantene elections. Dusk is falling. Tyrion and his captor Ser Jorah enter the city through the northern gate, passing beneath the city’s massive walls. 提利昂在他的POV中的对瓦蓝提斯的印象算是对这个城市很好的描述。他们到瓦兰提斯那天整好是瓦兰提斯 人选举的第三日。这时黄昏降临。提利昂和抓扑他的乔拉.莫尔蒙 爵士通过城内重重的城墙从北门进入城中。
Inside the city they ride past guildhalls, markets, and bathhouses. Fountains splash and sing in the centers of wide squares, where men sit at stone tables, moving cyvasse pieces and sipping wine from glass flutes as slaves light ornate lanterns to hold the dark at bay. Palms and cedars grow along the cobbled road, and monuments stand at every junction. Many of the statues lack heads, yet even headless Tyrion thinks that they still manage to look imposing in the purple dusk. 城内，他们骑着马经过会馆，市场，和澡堂。喷泉在宽阔的广场中心喷出泉水而且清鸣，那里人们坐在石 桌上，动着cyvasse碎片，从长笛般的玻璃杯中和酒，奴隶们则点亮向导灯笼来把海湾里的黑暗驱除。 棕榈树和香柏木种在鹅卵石铺就的路面两旁，纪念碑矗立在每一个路口。很多雕像没有头，但即便没有头， 提利昂还是觉得他们在紫色的黄昏中看起来很雄伟。
As Ser Jorah’s warhorse plods south along the river, the shops grow smaller and meaner, the trees along the street become a row of stumps. Cobblestones give way to devilgrass beneath their horse’s hooves, then to soft wet mud the colour of baby’s nightsoil. The little bridges that span the small streams that feed the Rhoyne creak alarmingly beneath their weight.
Where a fort once overlooked the river now stands a broken gate, gaping open like a man’s toothless mouth. Goats can be glimpsed peering over the parapets.
Tyrion recalls what he knows of Old Volantis － revealing that it is a city in decline:
| “ | Old Volantis first daughter of Valyria, Proud Volantis, queen of the Rhoyne and mistress of the Summer Sea, home to noble lords and lovely ladies of Valyria the most ancient blood.[1] | ” |
Never mind the packs of naked children that roamed the alleys screaming in shrill voiced, or the bravos standing in the doors of wineshops fingering their sword hilts, or the slaves with their bent backs and tattooed faces who scurried everywhere like cockroaches.
| “ | Mighty Volantis, grandest and most populous of the Nine Free Cities.[1] | ” |
Ancient wars had depopulated much of the city, however large areas of Volantis have begun to sink back into the mud on which it stands.
| “ | Beautiful Volantis, city of fountains and flowers.[1] | ” |
But half the fountains are dry, half the pools cracked and stagnant. Flowering vines send up creepers from every crack in the wall or pavement, and young trees have taken root in the walls of abandoned shops and roofless temples.
And then Tyrion notes there is the smell. It hangs in the hot humid air, rich, rank, pervasive. There’s fish in it, and flowers, and some elephant dung as well. Something sweet and something dead and rotten. He announces to his captor Ser Jorah:
| “ | This city smells like an old whore … Like some sagging slattern who has drenched her privy parts in perfume to drown the stench between her legs.[1] | ” |
Farther south, signs of prosperity do begin to reappear. Abandoned buildings are seen less often, the naked children vanish, the bravos in the doorways seem more sumptuously dressed. A few of the inns they pass actually look like places where a man might sleep without fear of having his throat slit. Lanterns swing from iron stanchions along the river road, swaying when the wind blows.
The streets grow broader, the buildings more imposing. Some are topped with great domes of coloured glass. In the gathering dusk, with fires lit beneath them, the domes glow blue and red and green and purple. Even so there is something in the air that makes Tyrion uneasy. West of the Rhoyne, he knows, the wharves of Volantis team with sailors, slaves, and traders, and the wineshops, inns, and brothels all cater to them. East of the river however, strangers from across the seas are seen less seldom. We are not wanted here Tyrion realises.
As they draw closer to the Black Wall and the crowded districts near the Long Bridge, they see a dozen elephants. They slow to a crawl; the river road is thick with traffic, almost all of it flowing south. Tyrion eyes the passing throngs as notes that nine men of every ten bare slave marks on their cheeks. The slaves are on their way to hear Benerro speak.
Three blocks later the street opens up before them onto a huge torch lit plaza and there stands the Temple of the Lord of Light. Tyrion is stunned by its enormity and thinks the temple has to be at least three times the size of the Great Sept of Baelor. Ser Jorah forces their way through most of the press of the crowd at the back of the plaza and they enter an alley, leaving the crowd behind them, making their way to a stable. At the stable Jorah sells his horse and has Tyrion fitted with iron fetters.
The rest of the journey they make on foot. Tyrion notes that Volantis straddles one mouth of the Rhoyne where the river kisses the sea, its two halves joined by the Long Bridge. The oldest richest part of the city is east of the river, but sellswords, barbarians, and other uncouth outlanders are not welcome there, so they must needs cross over to the west. Tyrion and Ser Joran cross to the westside via the Long Bridge.
近期事件
魔龙的狂舞
黄金团取消了其与密尔的合约，并前往瓦兰提斯。昆廷·马泰尔和他剩余的两个同伴在瓦兰提斯寻找一艘船能带他们去弥林，不过运气不佳。他们最终加入在城市中招募人手的风吹团，以便能到达奴隶湾。[12]
本内罗宣扬丹妮莉丝·坦格利安是一位在拉赫洛照耀下的远古英雄再世，并鼓励人们支持她。
乔拉·莫尔蒙爵士将提利昂·兰尼斯特抓做俘虏，并在Merchant's House与水边寡妇相见安排他们去弥林的旅程。在那儿，分妮攻击了提利昂。在寡妇的建议下，乔拉在塞斯拉·科荷兰号，红袍僧[[马克罗]]所要搭乘的去弥林的船上为他自己，提利昂和分妮订了位置。而后塞斯拉·科荷兰号启程前往弥林。
While stopping in Volantis Victarion Greyjoy sees galleys heading to Slaver's Bay taking on provisions. The whole city had seemed drunk. Sailors and soldiers and tinkers had been observed dancing in the streets with nobles and fat merchants, and in every inn and winesink cups were being raised to the new triarchs. All the talk had been of the gold and gems and slaves that would flood into Volantis once the dragon queen was dead.[13]
Victarion thinks to himself that the storms the Iron Fleet encountered will have scattered the Volantenes even as they had his own ships and if fortune smiled, many of their warships might have sunk or run aground. But not all, the green galleys that survived by now could well have sailed around Valyria. They will be sweeping north toward Meereen and Yunkai, great dromonds of war teeming with slave soldiers. Victarion reckons than if the Storm God has spared them, by now they could be in the Gulf of Grief 300 ships, perhaps as many as 500.[13]
Later, in Meereen the Shavepate gives Ser Barristan Selmy the dread news that Volantis has launched its fleet against Daenerys Targaryen, and that Hizdahr means to open Meereen's gates for them. [14]
引语
| “ | I hate this city. [6] | ” |
- Ser Gerris Drinkwater
引用与注释
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 魔龙的狂舞，章节 27，提利昂。
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 魔龙的狂舞，章节 14，提利昂。
- ↑ 魔龙的狂舞，自由贸易城邦地图。
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 魔龙的狂舞，章节 5，提利昂。
- ↑ 魔龙的狂舞，章节 16，丹妮莉丝。
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 魔龙的狂舞，章节 6，商人的仆从。
- ↑ 魔龙的狂舞，章节 1，提利昂。
- ↑ 权力的游戏，章节 54，丹妮莉丝。
- ↑ 冰雨的风暴，章节 36，戴佛斯。
- ↑ 权力的游戏 RPG and Resource Book, Guardians of Order
- ↑ 群鸦的盛宴，章节 13，污点骑士。
- ↑ 引用错误：无效
<ref>标签；未给name属性为ReferenceB的引用提供文字 - ↑ 13.0 13.1 魔龙的狂舞，章节 56，铁岛求婚者。
- ↑ 魔龙的狂舞，章节 55，女王铁卫。
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