Editing Wall (section)

===Appearance===
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of the Wall|Images of the Wall]]''
[[File:The WallSabin Boykinov.jpg|thumb|left|The Wall by Sabin Boykinov © Fantasy Flight Games]]
The Wall stretches for three hundred miles{{Ref|AGOT|48}} and is approximately seven hundred feet tall.{{Ref|AGOT|26}} It is made of solid ice, stone, and earth,{{Ref|ASOS|30}} and can be seen for miles round. It appears grey or blue depending on the weather and time of day. The top is wide enough for a dozen mounted [[knight]]s to ride abreast and it is thicker at the base.{{Ref|AGOT|19}} The top is wider in man places than the [[kingsroad]], and crushed stone is spread on walkways to aid with footing.{{Ref|AGOT|21}} Led by [[Othell Yarwyck]], the [[First Builder]], the [[builders]] of the Watch monitor and repair the Wall.{{Ref|AGOT|41}} According to myth, there are old [[magic|spells]] woven into the Wall, to strengthen it and keep creatures of a [[magic]]al nature such as the [[Others]] from passing it.{{Ref|aSoS|56}}<ref>[[So Spake Martin]]: [https://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/The_Wall/ The Wall (September 09, 2000)]</ref>

The Wall is straight like a sword from [[Castle Black]] to [[Eastwatch-by-the-Sea]], but runs like a [[snake]] between Castle Black and the [[Shadow Tower]]. This is because west of Castle Black the Wall runs through the foothills of the Frostfang mountains, and Bran the Builder tried to place the foundations on geographic heights whenever possible. Thus there are some parts of the western Wall which are actually closer to 800 feet above sea level, technically the same elevation as the [[Hightower]] in Oldtown, though the height from the base is the same because these sections are built atop hills.{{Ref|aSoS|30}} The zig-zagging path of the western Wall becomes particularly notable on maps from [[Greyguard]] to the Shadow Tower, with a large southern bend at Greyguard itself. 

[[File:Patrick McEvoy nights watch.jpg|thumb|Man of the [[Night's Watch]] guarding the Wall, by Patrick McEvoy © Fantasy Flight Games]]

Windblown dirt covers the Wall like film, and it often appears pale grey{{ref|AGOT|19}} or dull white.{{Ref|ADWD|69}} The Wall shines blue and crystalline in sunlight,{{Ref|AGOT|19}}{{Ref|ASOS|30}} glimmers palely in moonlight,{{Ref|AGOT|21}}{{Ref|AGOT|26}} and glows pink and purple at dawn.{{Ref|AGOT|48}} The Wall sparkles from melting ice on sunny days, with rivulets of water being compared to weeping.{{Ref|AGOT|48}}{{Ref|AGOT|52}}

Tunnels have been cut through the Wall at each castle of the Night's Watch. They are sealed with ice and stone wherever castles have been abandoned or in times of danger.{{Ref|ASOS|41}} [[Ice cell|Cells]] chiseled from the ice at the foot of the Wall are used as storerooms{{Ref|AGOT|52}} or prisons.{{Ref|ASOS|69}}{{Ref|ADWD|49}}

While [[Benjen Stark]], the [[First Ranger]], believes the Wall is the largest structure built by man,{{Ref|AGOT|19}} others say the [[Hightower]] in [[Oldtown]] is even taller,{{Ref|ASOS|41}} and that the Wall can allegedly be seen from the tower's top.{{Ref|AFFC|Prologue}}