![]() Some stories are described in Archmaester Harmune's Watchers on the Wall. The Nightfort is where apprentice boys faced the thing that came in the night, where blind Symeon Star-Eyes saw hellhounds fight, and where Mad Axe walked the yards and climbed the towers to butcher his brothers in the dark. It is where the seventy-nine sentinels stood their watch, where brave young Danny Flint was raped and murdered, and where King Sherrit called down his curse on the Andals of old. It was there that the Night's King reigned before his name was wiped from the memory of man, and where the Rat Cook served an Andal king ( Tywell II Lannister or Oswell I Arryn) his prince-and-bacon pie. The Nightfort is remembered in scary stories of the north dating back thousands of years. ![]() Chronicles from the Nightfort described the ancient war at Sea Dragon Point of the Kings of Winter, the Starks of Winterfell, against the Warg King and the children of the forest. ![]() The Nightfort was the largest castle on the Wall, and the oldest, being twice as old as Castle Black. The Nightfort by Yoann Boissonnet © Fantasy Flight Games I am the shield that guards the realms of men." The door will open then, saying, "Then pass." The door's lips open wider and wider still until nothing remains but a great gaping mouth in a ring of wrinkles. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers. They are white and blind, and then the door asks, "Who are you?" A man of the Night's Watch must repeat a part of his vow, "I am the watcher on the walls. When someone approaches the Black Gate, the eyes open. The face is old, pale, shrunken, and wrinkled with white eyes. It is set deep in a wall of the well at the center of the kitchens and is made of white weirwood with a face on it. The magical Black Gate is a hidden subterranean gate that allows passage to the other side of the Wall and is as old as the Wall itself. The gate through the Wall is sealed with frozen stone and rubble. Its yards have become small forests, a twisted weirwood grows through a hole in the kitchen, and there are also trees growing in the stables. The kitchen is a stone octagon with a domed roof and contains a stepped well. The rat-filled great hall only has one remaining wall. Buildings include a bell tower, a rookery, a brewhouse, a library, a dungeon capable of holding five hundred prisoners, a bathhouse, an armory, and a forge. The abandoned Nightfort has broken towers and a maze of tunnels connecting its vaults and tunnels. ![]() 5 Chapters that take place at the NightfortĪccording to maesters who served at the Nightfort, the castle was rebuilt many times over thousands of years, with only deep stone vaults remaining from its first form. ![]()
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