#THE LAND OF ALWAYS WINTER FREE#

в†‘ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 15, Jon II.

в†‘ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 35, Jon VII.

в†‘ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 23, Jon III.

в†‘ 7.0 7.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 48, Jon VI.

в†‘ 6.0 6.1 A Dance with Dragons, Prologue.

в†‘ 5.0 5.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 51, Jon VI.

в†‘ 4.0 4.1 4.2 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 39, Jon VIII.

в†‘ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 26, Jon III.

в†‘ 2.0 2.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 13, Jon II.

в†‘ 1.0 1.1 The Lands of Ice and Fire, Beyond the Wall.

Д¬oldhands leads Bran Stark, Hodor, Meera Reed, and Jojen Reed through the haunted forest to the cave of the three-eyed crow.

#THE LAND OF ALWAYS WINTER FREE#

Jon sends Cotter Pyke with ships to rescue free folk at Hardhome, but the free folk do not trust the Night's Watch and Maester Harmune writes of dead things in the water. Jon Snow, now Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, frees Val so she can find Tormund in the wilderness and negotiate the passage of his followers through the Wall. With Mance a captive of Stannis, the free folk host is broken, with some submitting to Stannis and the Night's Watch and others scattering. They are defeated by Stannis Baratheon in the battle beneath the Wall, however. Mance Rayder, the King-Beyond-the-Wall, leads the free folk into attacking the gate through the Wall at Castle Black. After the mutiny at Craster's Keep, Samwell Tarly, Gilly, and other survivors flee south for the Wall. Wights overwhelm the Night's Watch in the fight at the Fist.

Jon is captured by Rattleshirt in the Skirling Pass and fights Qhorin Halfhand to the death. The Night's Watch discover that Whitetree has been abandoned. Jon participates in the great ranging to investigate the conflict beyond the Wall. Jon says his vows for the Night's Watch in a grove of weirwoods within the haunted forest. Tyrion Lannister and Jon Snow view the northern lands from atop the Wall.

Benjen Stark, the First Ranger, searches for Waymar beyond the Wall, but Benjen also disappears. Ser Waymar Royce leads a ranging party in the haunted forest, but he is slain by Others and rises as a wight. Tyrion Lannister and Jon Snow take in the view beyond the Wall - by Marc Simonetti В© The Others are rumored to originate in the depths of the Land of Always Winter. A group of children of the forest reside within the cave of the three-eyed crow. Maesters believe that giants are extinct, but some still live beyond the Wall. Due to the impracticality of agriculture in the far north, many of them are hunters. Some free folk are little more than savage and primitive raiders, but other groups live in small, settled communities and villages. Other tribes include Nightrunners and men of the Frozen Shore. The Thenns are surrounded by cave dwellers, Hornfoots, giants, and the ice-river clans. The lands beyond the Wall are bitterly cold year round, but many free folk reside from the furthest reaches of the haunted forest to the hidden valleys of the Frostfangs, including the valley of Thenn. The people inhabiting the land refer to themselves as the ' free folk', but are known by the people of the Seven Kingdoms as 'wildlings'. Rangers of the Night's Watch battle free folk in the haunted forest, by Tomasz Jedruszek В© Fantasy Flight Games Trees include chestnuts, ironwoods, oaks, sentinels, soldier pines, and weirwoods, People ДЇlowers include coldsnaps, frostfires, piper's grass, and wildflowers. The haunted forest ends and gives way to these polar regions, which are unexplored.ДЄnimals living beyond the Wall include deer, eagles, elk, hares, rams, shadowcats, snow bears, and wolves. Д«eyond all of these areas, in the furthest north, is the Land of Always Winter. The easternmost region beyond the Wall is the forested peninsula Storrold's Point, which contains the ruins of the only free folk town, Hardhome. Along the east coast is the Antler River, which flows into the Shivering Sea. Southwest of the Frostfangs is the Frozen Shore, a narrow strip of land between the mountains and the Bay of Ice. Thenn is a hidden valley in the mountains. The Milkwater, the great river beyond the Wall, has its origins in the Frostfangs. Notable features include the Giant's Stair and the Skirling Pass. These inhospitable mountains extend an unknown distance to the north. The haunted forest extends from the eastern coast to a large mountain chain in the west, the Frostfangs. While no true roads exist, numerous game trails, paths, and old streambeds, called ' ranger roads', are used by the Night's Watch and free folk alike. The region immediately north of the Wall includes the haunted forest, a vast taiga-forest which covers most of the area, extending from the Wall to the furthest lands of Thenn. The climate is harsh and bitter, especially in the far north in the Lands of Always Winter. The lands beyond the Wall are primarily wild, untamed and uncharted. The Wall by Martina Pilcerova В© Fantasy Flight Games

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