The Gods Eye town is located on the southern shore of the great lake called the Gods Eye in the southern riverlands, where a river flows south. The town's name has not been published.
Layout
The town is a cluster of white houses around the walls of a holdfast. It contains a large sept with a shingled wooden roof and a lord's towerhouse on a small hill to the west. There is a rambling inn built on heavy wooden pilings atop the Gods Eye, as well as a long pier and other docks further east. Boathouses and sheds are found along the lakefront.[1]
The holdfast is sturdy, with rough unmortared stone walls ten feet high and a wooden catwalk inside the battlements. There is a hidden tunnel leading from a ramshackle barn to the lake. The town's haven is low, long, and built of stone. The holdfast contains a big kitchen.[1]
Recent Events
A Clash of Kings
Yoren brings his recruits for the Night's Watch, including Arya Stark, to the town, planning to sail to Harrentown on the northern shore of the Gods Eye. They find the town completely abandoned amidst the War of the Five Kings, and the only remaining boat is rotted out.[1]
The group decides to spend the night in the holdfast, but they are woken by the arrival of Ser Amory Lorch, who is burning the town in his search for the brotherhood without banners. When Yoren refuses to open the gates, Amory has his men storm the holdfast. Before escaping through the barn's tunnel, Arya frees Jaqen H'ghar, Rorge, and Biter.[1]
When Arya, Lommy, Hot Pie, and Gendry return the next night they find blackened stones, shells of houses, the sacked holdfast, and dead bodies. After burying Yoren in a grave, they discover that Cutjack, Kurz, and Tarber survived in the lord's towerhouse.[2]
Quotes
Finally the town came into view; a cluster of white houses spread out around the walls of the holdfast, a big sept with a shingled wooden roof, the lord's towerhouse sitting on a small rise to the west ... and no sign of any people, anywhere.[1]
—thoughts of Arya Stark
This empty town frightened her almost as much as the burnt holdfast where they'd found the crying girl and the one-armed woman. Why would people run off and leave their homes and everything? What could scare them so much?[1]
—thoughts of Arya Stark
Chapters that take place at the Gods Eye town
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 14, Arya IV.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 19, Arya V.