Editing Citadel (section)

==Recent Events==
===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:Old IntriguesMF.png|thumb|350px|Old Intrigues, by Melissa Findley © Fantasy Flight Games]]
The [[Conclave]] meets to choose the new [[Grand Maester]] after [[Pycelle]]'s removal from the position. Although the deliberations are supposed to be secret, Lord [[Varys]] learns from spies at the Citadel that Maester [[Gormon Tyrell|Gormon]], born a [[House Tyrell|Tyrell]] of [[Highgarden]], has been selected. The [[master of whisperers]] informs the [[Hand of the King]], Lord [[Tywin Lannister]], who quickly reinstates Pycelle.{{Ref|ASOS|12}}

Maester [[Aemon Targaryen (son of Maekar I)|Aemon]] sends a [[raven]] to the Citadel in a plea for help to defend [[attack on Castle Black|Castle Black]] from [[wildlings]].{{Ref|ASOS|55}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
Half a year earlier, Archmaester [[Walgrave]] was found weeping in the [[Library (Citadel)|Library]] by acolytes after being unable to find his way back to his chambers.{{Ref|AFFC|Prologue}}

[[Pate (novice)|Pate]], a novice at the Citadel, gives Walgrave's [[personal key of Walgrave|archmaester's key]] to a man calling himself an [[alchemist]], and is killed by him afterwards.{{Ref|AFFC|Prologue}}

[[Jon Snow]], the new [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]], sends [[Samwell Tarly]] to the Citadel to study and become a maester, and sends Maester Aemon with him to protect the former prince from [[Melisandre]].{{Ref|AFFC|5}} Maester Aemon brings a chest of rare books from the vault of Castle Black to gift to the Citadel,{{Ref|AFFC|5}} but Sam gives them to [[Quhuru Mo]] to pay for passage on the ''[[Cinnamon Wind]]'' at [[Braavos]] and the aged Aemon dies en route.{{Ref|AFFC|35}} After Sam arrives at Oldtown, he is forced by the gatekeeper [[Lorcas]] to wait for the [[Seneschal]], Archmaester [[Theobald]]. [[Alleras]] brings Sam to meet Archmaester [[Marwyn]] at the [[Ravenry]]. Marwyn the Mage alleges that maesters of the Citadel helped to extinguish [[dragon]]s, and the archmaester departs the Citadel to find [[Daenerys Targaryen]].{{Ref|AFFC|45}}