Editing Standfast (section)

==Layout==
Standfast stands upon a hill and can be seen for leagues around. A single path leads to the tower, which can only be ridden single file. A daub-and-wattle stable sits at the base of the tower.{{ref|TSS}} Standfast has one entrance, an [[oak]] and [[iron]] door twenty feet above the ground, the stairs leading up to it consist of bottom steps made of blocks of smooth black stone, so worn that they are bowl-shaped in the middle. Higher up, they give way to a steep wooden stair that can be swung up like a drawbridge in times of trouble.{{ref|TSS}}

Standfast's size is deceptive. It is only four stories tall above ground, with the two upper floors having windows and balconies and the two lower floors having only arrow slits. The rebuilt north and west faces of the building are of pale grey stone above and old black stone below. Turrets were added during the rebuild, and two ancient [[grotesque]]s whose shape had been lost long ago stand on the other two corners. Its pinewood roof is flat, though warped and leaky from time. Underground, however, there is a complex of deep vaults and cellars cut into the hill that Standfast sits upon. The castle has its own well in the undercellar.{{ref|TSS}}

There is a blackberry thicket around back of Standfast's hill. The [[west way]] runs between Standfast and [[Coldmoat]].{{ref|TSS}}

During the rule of Ser [[Eustace Osgrey]], three small villages fell within the dominion of Standfast, with the largest of them having a one-room [[sept]]. A [[septon without a sept|septon]] would visit twice a year to forgive sins in the name of the [[Mother (the Seven)|Mother]].{{ref|TSS}}