Common hall
The common hall[1][2] or Common Hall[3] is a great timbered feast hall for the Night's Watch at Castle Black.[4]
Contents
Layout
The immense common hall is drafty even when a fire burns in its great hearth. Crows nest in the lofty ceiling timbers.[1] Hobb prepares meals for the members of the Night's Watch,[5] and black brothers often drink mulled wine in the hall.[6][7]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
Jon Snow takes his meals in the common hall.[1][6] Jon introduces Samwell Tarly to Ghost in the hall.[6]
Jon learns from Pypar about the death of King Robert I Baratheon. When Ser Alliser Thorne mocks Jon about the arrest of Eddard Stark, Jon leaps onto a table and has to be restrained from attacking Alliser by his friends.[5]
A Storm of Swords
During the attack on Castle Black by wildlings, Jon sees the common hall's doors on fire, and then the timbered keep itself burns.[4]
A Dance with Dragons
Since the common hall has burned to the ground, the Night's Watch take their meals in the stone cellar below Castle Black's armory.[8]
Quotes
They'll be serving some vile stew in the common hall by now, and I could do with a bowl of something hot.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 19, Jon III.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 21, Jon V.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 3, Jon I.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 55, Jon VII.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 52, Jon VII.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 26, Jon IV.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 48, Jon VI.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 10, Jon III.