| Deepwood Motte | |
|---|---|
| Wooden castle | |
 Deepwood Motte by Yoann Boissonnet © Fantasy Flight Games | |
| Location | Westeros, the north |
| Government | House Glover, Feudal lord |
| Ruler | Master Galbart Glover |
| Religion | Old gods |
Deepwood Motte, also called simply Deepwood,[1] is the seat of House Glover in the north. The wooden motte-and-bailey castle lies in the northern wolfswood, east of Sea Dragon Point.[2]
Household
[edit]Deepwood has a steward and a maester.[3]
Layout
[edit]- See also: Images of Deepwood Motte
An old but not particularly strong castle, Deepwood Motte is located in the wolfswood at a wide, rounded hill with a flattened top. The castle's cavernous longhall sits atop the hill and has at one end a watchtower rising fifty feet higher, the tallest object this side of the northern mountains. Wooden steps lead to the bedchamber of the Master of Deepwood Motte, and the keep has an exterior stair.[3]
Below the hill is a bailey containing stables, paddock, smithy, well, and sheepfold. These are defended by deep ditches, a sloping earthen dike, and a log palisade. The kitchens are located in Deepwood's inner yard, and the castle also has a godswood and a cellar. Apple wine is available at Deepwood.[3] The castle also has dungeons.[4]
Deepwood's mossy, wooden outer walls make an oval about the hill and are protected by wallwalks. Gates located to the north and south each have two square wooden towers, with moss growing on the southern towers and palisade.[3] Deepwood has at least one postern gate, located on the eastern side.[3]
East and west of Deepwood are fields of oat and barley. Winter wheat is grown in a field to the south.[3]
North of the castle lie tidal flats[1] leading to the Bay of Ice. Deepwood is five leagues south of the Bay of Ice[3] and one hundred leagues (three hundred miles) northwest of Winterfell.[4] The dense forest by Deepwood includes soldier pines, sentinels, beech, ash, ancient oaks, chestnut trees, ironwoods, and firs.[3]
History
[edit]Deepwood Motte was the royal seat of the Glovers when they were kings in the Age of Heroes.[5]
Theon Greyjoy has visited Deepwood several times with Lord Eddard Stark.[1]
Recent Events
[edit]A Clash of Kings
[edit]
Larence Snow, the Bastard of Hornwood, is a ward of Galbart Glover at Deepwood.[6] With Galbart and Robett Glover fighting south of the Neck in the War of the Five Kings, Lady Sybelle Glover remains at Deepwood. The castle's steward visits Winterfell for the harvest feast.[7]
Asha Greyjoy is sent by her father Balon, Lord of the Iron Islands, to attack Deepwood Motte from the north,[1] and she captures it with a thousand ironborn after a moon's turn.[8] Balon declares himself first King of the Iron Islands[9] and then King of the Isles and the North.[10]
A Storm of Swords
[edit]At the Twins, Robb Stark, King in the North, tells Roose Bolton, Lord of the Dreadfort, that Robett will have to answer for the disastrous battle at Duskendale when they meet again. Roose plays into Robb's mistaken belief that the campaign came on Robett's initiative, suggesting that Robett acted out of grief and fear for his wife and children when he heard that Deepwood had been taken by the ironborn.[11] In actuality, Robett had been ordered by Roose to attack Duskendale.[12]
Maester Aemon sends a raven to Deepwood Motte and other northern seats in a plea for help to defend Castle Black from wildlings.[13]
A Feast for Crows
[edit]Asha brings Lady Glover and her children, Gawen and Erena, from Deepwood to Ten Towers on Harlaw in the Iron Islands.[14]
A Dance with Dragons
[edit]Following the selection of Euron Greyjoy as King of the Isles and the North at the kingsmoot on Old Wyk, Asha returns to Deepwood Motte with Lady Glover, whose children remain at Ten Towers. Sybelle spends most of her time in the castle's godswood.[3]
Asha and her followers abandon Deepwood Motte when Stannis Baratheon and the northern mountain clans loyal to Winterfell appear to retake the seat of the Glovers.[3] Asha is captured in the fight by Deepwood Motte,[4] and Stannis restores the castle to the Glovers.[15]
Ramsay Bolton desires to march on Deepwood from Barrowton to confront Stannis, but Lord Roose Bolton insists his son wait until after he is married.[15] Instead of Barrowton, Roose has Ramsay's wedding moved to Winterfell.[16]
In Deepwood's longhall, the northmen and Stannis's captains debate the merits of marching against Winterfell,[4] which has been claimed by Ramsay.[16] Lady Sybelle sends trackers and hunters to guide Stannis for his march on Winterfell.[4] She later releases six surviving ironborn to serve as escorts for Tycho Nestoris.[17]
Quotes
[edit]Bugger Deepwood. It's a wooden pisspot on a hill.[8]
Deepwood is a motte-and-bailey castle in the midst of thick forest, easy to creep up on unawares. A wooden castle, defended by an earthen dike and a palisade of logs.[18]
It was an old castle, but not a strong one.[3]
—thoughts of Asha Greyjoy
Asha: This is my castle.
Flint: Deepwood be Galbart Glover's seat. No home for squids.[3]—Asha Greyjoy and an unnamed Flint
Tall soldier pines and gnarled old oaks closed in around them. Deepwood was aptly named. The trees were huge and dark, somehow threatening. Their limbs wove through one another and creaked with every breath of wind, and their higher branches scratched at the face of the moon. The sooner we are shut of here, the better I will like it, Asha thought. The trees hate us all, deep in their wooden hearts.[3]
—thoughts of Asha Greyjoy
Robett: Robett Glover, if it please, my lord.
Davos: Glover. Your seat was Deepwood Motte.
Robett: My brother Galbart's seat. It was and is, thanks to your King Stannis. He has taken Deepwood back from the iron bitch who stole it and offers to restore it to its rightful owners.[19]
Chapters that take place at Deepwood Motte
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 24, Theon II.
- ↑ The Lands of Ice and Fire, Westeros.
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 26, The Wayward Bride.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 42, The King's Prize.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The North: The Kings of Winter.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Appendix.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 16, Bran II.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 56, Theon V.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 46, Bran VI.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 49, Tyrion XI.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 49, Catelyn VI.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 64, Arya X.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 55, Jon VII.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 11, The Kraken's Daughter.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 32, Reek III.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 37, The Prince of Winterfell.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 62, The Sacrifice.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 17, Jon IV.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 29, Davos IV.