The Great Hall is the main hall of the Gates of the Moon in the Vale of Arryn.[1]
Layout
The back of the Great Hall has a pillared gallery which connects to tower stairs. A staircase built into the thick western wall leads from the gallery to the inner ward of the castle.[1]
Recent Events
The Winds of Winter
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The Gates of the Moon hosts a tourney to determine the Brotherhood of Winged Knights. Serving men set up trestle tables for the evening feast, and their wives and daughters sweep up old rushes and scatter fresh ones. Alayne Stone sees Lord Nestor Royce showing to Lady Waxley tapestries which once belonged to the late King Robert I Baratheon.[1]
Since sixty-four men are to compete in the upcoming tourney, sixty-four dishes are served in the feast. After the meal is completed, the trestle tables are removed so that the guests can dance in the hall.[1]
Quotes
Sixty-four dishes were served, in honor of the sixty-four competitors who had come so far to contest for silver wings before their lord. From the rivers and the lakes came pike and trout and salmon, from the seas crabs and cod and herring. Ducks there were, and capons, peacocks in their plumage and swans in almond milk. Suckling pigs were served up crackling with apples in their mouths, and three huge aurochs were roasted whole above firepits in the castle yard, since they were too big to get through the kitchen doors. Loaves of hot bread filled the trestle tables in Lord Nestor's hall, and massive wheels of cheese were brought up from the vaults. The butter was fresh-churned, and there were leeks and carrots, roasted onions, beets, turnips, parsnips. And best of all, Lord Nestor's cooks prepared a splendid subtlety, a lemon cake in the shape of the Giant's Lance, twelve feet tall and adorned with an Eyrie made of sugar.[1]
—thoughts of Alayne Stone