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The sept at Castle Black is a sept located beneath the Wall at Castle Black.
Layout
The sept is a small building run by the oft-drunk Septon Cellador.[1] It has an altar and at least a south-facing window.[2]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
With the high officers of the Night's Watch in attendance, new recruits come to the sept so that Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, can announce which order of the Watch the newcomers will join. The recruits then take their oaths in the sept at evenfall. Jon Snow and Samwell Tarly instead choose to swear their vows at a weirwood grove in the haunted forest.[2]
After his father, Lord Eddard Stark, is arrested in King's Landing, Jon's friends ask Septon Cellador to light a candle for Eddard.[3]
A Clash of Kings
Jon hears voices singing in the sept before the great ranging departs Castle Black.[4]
A Storm of Swords
After the attack on Castle Black, Cellador informs Lord Janos Slynt that Jon chose to take his vows before a heart tree north of the Wall instead of in the sept.[5]
A Dance with Dragons
When new recruits who follow the old gods want to take their oaths before heart trees, Bowen Marsh tells Jon, who is now Lord Commander, that they can easily take their vows in the sept. Jon agrees to lead the recruits to the weirwood grove, however.[6]
Melisandre, a red priestess of R'hllor, officiates the wedding of Sigorn and Alys Karstark at Castle Black. Septon Cellador briefly emerges from the sept to watch the proceedings, but he goes back inside once Melisandre begins praying.[7]
Quotes
Inside the sept, the great crystal caught the morning light as it streamed through the south-facing window and spread it in a rainbow on the altar.[2]
—thoughts of Jon Snow
As they passed the sept, he heard voices raised in song. Some men want whores on the eve of battle, and some want gods. Jon wondered who felt better afterward. The sept tempted him no more than the brothel; his own gods kept their temples in the wild places, where the weirwoods spread their bone-white branches.[4]
—thoughts of Jon Snow
References
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 19, Jon III.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 48, Jon VI.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 52, Jon VII.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 6, Jon I.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 69, Jon IX.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 35, Jon VII.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 49, Jon X.