The King's Tower is one of the towers at Castle Black. It is reserved for honored guests.
Layout
A hundred feet tall, the King's Tower is a round tower with merlons atop it.[1] It has an oak door studded with iron[1] and spiral steps.[2]
The building overlooks the gate of Castle Black and the foot of the wooden stair along the Wall.[1]
History
Though named for kings, no king has visited the tower in over a hundred years.[3]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
Tyrion Lannister stays in the King's Tower when he visits Castle Black.[3]
Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, moves his quarters to the King's Tower after the Lord Commander's Tower burns.[4]
A Storm of Swords
From atop the King's Tower, Jon Snow sees smoke from the burning of Mole's Town by Styr.[1]
Jon, Satin, and Dick Follard defend the tower against Styr's wildlings during the attack on Castle Black.[1] Jon rests in the King's Tower amid Mance Rayder's assault on the Wall.[5]
King Stannis Baratheon occupies the King's Tower after his victory over the wildlings in the battle beneath the Wall.[6]
A Feast for Crows
Since Stannis has claimed the King's Tower, Jon, the new Lord Commander, makes his residence in Donal Noye's modest chambers behind the armory.[7]
A Dance with Dragons
Stannis has Val placed in rooms above his own in the King's Tower, though he allows the captive to walk the battlements. Jon sees Val staring at the Wall from the tower's roof.[8]
Stannis watches the beheading of Janos Slynt from the steps of the King's Tower.[9] Stannis meets with his captains in the tower's solar.[10]
After Stannis departs for the northern mountains, Bowen Marsh urges Jon to move into Jeor's old chambers in the King's Tower. Jon declines, however, and keeps his chambers near the armory.[11]
Melisandre invites Jon to her chambers in the King's Tower, where "Rattleshirt" is revealed to be Mance Rayder.[2]
The royal chambers in the King's Tower are prepared for Stannis's wife, Selyse Baratheon, when she arrives from Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.[12]
When Val returns to Castle Black after finding Tormund in the haunted forest, Lord Commander Snow has her quarters moved from the King's Tower to Hardin's Tower.[13]
Quotes
The Lord Commander had given him rooms in the King's Tower—so-called, though no king had visited it for a hundred years—and Lannister dined at Mormont's own table and spent his days riding the Wall and his nights dicing and drinking with Ser Alliser and Bowen Marsh and the other high officers.[3]
—thoughts of Jon Snow
The King's Tower was not the castle's tallest—the high, slim, crumbling Lance held that honor, though Othell Yarwyck had been heard to say it might topple any day. Nor was the King's Tower strongest—the Tower of Guards beside the kingsroad would be a tougher nut to crack. But it was tall enough, strong enough, and well placed beside the Wall, overlooking the gate and the foot of the wooden stair.[1]
—thoughts of Jon Snow
There was a king in the King's Tower for the first time in living memory, and banners flew from the Lance, Hardin's Tower, the Grey Keep, the Shieldhall, and other buildings that had stood empty and abandoned for long years.[6]
—thoughts of Samwell Tarly
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 55, Jon VII.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 31, Melisandre I.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 19, Jon III.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 60, Jon VIII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 69, Jon IX.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 75, Samwell IV.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 5, Samwell I.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 10, Jon III.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 7, Jon II.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 17, Jon IV.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 21, Jon V.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 44, Jon IX.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 53, Jon XI.