Editing Haunted forest (section)

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Patrick McEvoy nights watch.jpg|thumb|Man of the [[Night's Watch]] guarding the [[Wall]], by Patrick McEvoy © Fantasy Flight Games]]
While ranging in the haunted forest, Ser [[Waymar Royce]], [[Will]], and [[Gared]] are attacked by [[Others]], who had been believed extinct.{{ref|AGOT|Prologue}}

[[Benjen Stark]], the [[First Ranger]], leads a ranging party into the forest, but he does not return as expected.{{ref|AGOT|19}}{{ref|AGOT|21}}

[[Jon Snow]] and [[Samwell Tarly]] swear the vow of the [[Night's Watch]] in a [[weirwood grove]] just north of the [[Wall]] and [[Castle Black]].{{ref|AGOT|48}} The corpses of [[Othor]] and [[Jafer Flowers]], members of Ben's party, are found near the Wall. After being brought back to Castle Black, the bodies rise as [[wights]] and attack the Night's Watch.{{ref|AGOT|52}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
[[Jeor Mormont]], [[Lord Commander of the Night's Watch]], leads a [[great ranging]] northwest from Castle Black into the haunted forest in search of [[Mance Rayder]]'s [[free folk|wildling]] host and the missing [[Benjen Stark]]. [[Samwell Tarly]] is frightened of the forest,{{ref|ACOK|6}} and even veteran brothers become more somber as they travel deeper into the wood.{{ref|ACOK|13}}

Each [[wildling]] village found by the ranging has been abandoned, and foragers find little game in the forest.{{ref|ACOK|13}} The Night's Watch stop at [[Craster's Keep]], and [[Craster]] explains that the villages have been emptied because Mance has been gathering the wildlings in the [[Frostfangs]].{{ref|ACOK|23}}

Lord Commander Mormont has the Watch encamp at the [[Fist of the First Men]], and foresters cut down trees for firewood. [[Jarman Buckwell]]'s sharpest-eyed men hide in trees as scouts. Near the base of the hill, [[Ghost]] leads Jon to a buried cache containing [[dragonglass]] knives, spearheads, arrowheads, and an old warhorn.{{ref|ACOK|34}} When [[Qhorin Halfhand]]'s men from the [[Shadow Tower]] arrive at the Fist, Qhorin explains they had been delayed by [[Alfyn Crowkiller]]'s band.{{ref|ACOK|43}} Jeor sends ranging parties led by Qhorin, Jarman, and [[Thoren Smallwood]] to scout in the nearby mountains.{{ref|ACOK|43}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:Brittmartin Haunted Forest.jpg|thumb|[[Rangers]] encamped in the haunted forest, by BrittMartin © Green Ronin Publishing]]
The Night's Watch encamped at the solitary hill amidst the snowy forest are suddenly attacked by [[wights]] and overwhelmed in the [[fight at the Fist]].{{ref|ASOS|Prologue}} The scattered survivors make their way back to Craster's Keep, but many die from wounds or attacks by Others and wights along the way.{{ref|ASOS|18}} After an Other kills [[Small Paul]], [[Samwell Tarly]] kills the strange creature with a dragonglass dagger.{{ref|ASOS|18}} The brothers of the Night's Watch disperse further after the [[mutiny at Craster's Keep]], with only a few making it back to [[Castle Black]].{{ref|ASOS|48}}

Sam and the wildling [[Gilly]] flee from Craster's through the haunted forest. After being saved from wights by [[Coldhands]],{{ref|ASOS|46}} they reach the [[Nightfort]] in safety.{{ref|ASOS|56}}

Meanwhile, [[Mance Rayder]] has gathered the [[free folk]] and moves his host along the [[Milkwater]] through the forest toward Castle Black.{{ref|ASOS|Prologue}} [[Jon Snow]], having joined the wildlings by claiming to be a deserter, is part of the raiding party of [[Jarl]] and [[Styr]]. Jon sleeps with [[Ygritte]] during the journey south to the [[Wall]], including in a [[cave near Greyguard|cave grotto]],{{ref|ACOK|26}} and they climb the Wall{{ref|ASOS|30}} at [[Greyguard]].{{ref|ASOS|41}} Mance's host besieges the Wall,{{ref|ASOS|64}} but they are defeated in the [[battle beneath the Wall]] when the army of [[Stannis Baratheon]] unexpectedly attacks from the east through the forest.{{ref|ASOS|73}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Mance's wilding host collapses after being defeated by Stannis and the Night's Watch. Those who are not captured at Castle Black flee throughout the regions [[beyond the Wall]],{{ref|ADWD|Prologue}}{{ref|ADWD|10}} but many free folk succumb to hunger, the cold, sickness, and [[wights]].{{ref|ADWD|Prologue}} [[Queen's men]] imprison "Mance", actually [[Rattleshirt]],{{ref|ADWD|31}} in a cage at Castle Black made from the forest's trees.{{ref|ADWD|10}}

Jon Snow, now Lord Commander, sometimes watches the forest from atop the Wall.{{ref|ADWD|7}} He sends three groups of rangers led by Ser [[Alliser Thorne]], [[Jack Bulwer|Black Jack Bulwer]], and [[Kedge Whiteye]] to scout north of the Wall;{{ref|ADWD|28}} Black Jack's group is killed by the [[Weeper]],{{ref|ADWD|31}} while nothing is known of the other two groups.

Jon leads recruits to swear their vows at the same [[weirwood grove]] where he swore his. Two of them, [[Jax]] and [[Leathers]], are wildlings who grew up in the forest. They find a small group of peaceful wildlings and the giant [[Wun Weg Wun Dar Wun]] at the grove.{{ref|ADWD|35}}

[[Val]] volunteers to search the forest for [[Tormund]],{{ref|ADWD|39}} and she eventually brings Tormund and his followers back to Castle Black.{{ref|ADWD|53}}{{ref|ADWD|58}} Tormund is to lead the Night's Watch in a ranging to rescue [[Cotter Pyke]] and the wildlings at [[Hardhome]]. Before they depart, however, Jon is attacked in the [[mutiny at Castle Black]].{{ref|ADWD|69}}

[[Bran Stark]] travels with his companions toward the [[cave of the three-eyed crow]], and he observes the stillness of the snowy forest. While Bran shelters in the longhall of an abandoned village, Coldhands kills the [[mutiny at Craster's Keep|mutineers]] from [[Craster's Keep]].{{ref|ADWD|4}} The party eventually arrives at the hillside cave, a cleft between weirwoods. Wights attack them as they climb, but they are saved by [[Leaf]].{{ref|ADWD|13}} While Bran learns from the [[three-eyed crow]], [[Jojen Reed]] sometimes spends hours looking out over the forest from the cave's mouth.{{ref|ADWD|34}} [[Summer]] finds no living game during his hunts.{{ref|ADWD|34}} As a [[skinchanger]], Bran enters a [[raven]] and flies over the hill.{{ref|ADWD|34}}