Editing Long Night (section)

===Westeros===
[[File:Long night wight.jpg|thumb|350px|Raising the dead to fight the living, from ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' Blu-ray]]
According to [[Westeros]]i legends, in the midst of this darkness a race of apparent demons, called the [[Others]], emerged from the uttermost north of Westeros, the polar regions of the [[Lands of Always Winter]]. They wielded razor-thin swords of ice and raised [[wight]]s to fight the living. The [[children of the forest]] and their allies, the [[First Men]], fought valiantly against them, but were driven southwards by their advance.{{Ref|AGOT|24}} 

The Others were eventually checked when it was discovered that weapons made of [[dragonglass]] could kill them.{{ref|ASOS|33}} Legends from the [[north]] claim that the [[last hero]] made contact with the children.{{ref|TWOIAF|Ancient History: The Long Night}} The first members of the [[Night's Watch]] drove the Others back in the [[Battle for the Dawn]].{{ref|ACOK|21}}

Steps were taken to ensure that the people would never be caught off guard by an invasion from the north again. [[Brandon the Builder|Bran the Builder]] supposedly raised the [[Wall]],{{ref|AGOT|24}} an imposing structure of solid ice and [[magic]], stretching one hundred leagues from the [[Gorge]] in the west to the [[Shivering Sea]] in the east, cutting off the Lands of Always Winter from the remainder of Westeros. The Night's Watch guarded the Wall and protected the people from threats [[beyond the Wall]].

It is said that the enmity between Houses Stark and [[House Bolton|Bolton]] goes back to the Long Night.{{ref|TWOIAF|The North: The Kings of Winter}}