Editing Nightfort (section)

==History==
[[File:Nightfort.jpg|350px|thumb|right|The Nightfort by Yoann Boissonnet © Fantasy Flight Games]]
The Nightfort was the largest castle on the [[Wall]], and the oldest, being twice as old as [[Castle Black]].{{ref|ASOS|56}} Chronicles from the Nightfort described the ancient war at [[Sea Dragon Point]] of the [[Kings of Winter]], the [[House Stark|Starks]] of [[Winterfell]], against the [[Warg King]] and the [[children of the forest]].{{ref|TWOIAF|The North: The Kings of Winter}}

The Nightfort is remembered in scary stories of the [[north]] dating back thousands of years. It was there that the [[Night's King]] reigned before his name was wiped from the memory of man, and where the [[Rat Cook]] served an [[Andal]] king ([[Tywell II Lannister]] or [[Oswell I Arryn]]){{ref|TWOIAF|The North}} his prince-and-bacon pie. It is where the [[seventy-nine sentinels]] stood their watch, where brave young [[Danny Flint]] was raped and murdered, and where King [[Sherrit]] called down his curse on the Andals of old. The Nightfort is where apprentice boys faced the [[thing that came in the night]], where blind [[Symeon Star-Eyes]] saw [[hellhound]]s fight, and where [[Mad Axe]] walked the yards and climbed the towers to butcher his brothers in the dark.{{Ref|ASOS|56}} Some stories are described in Archmaester [[Harmune]]'s ''[[Watchers on the Wall]].{{ref|TWOIAF|The Wall and Beyond: The Night's Watch}}

Three hundred years before [[Aegon's Conquest]], the commanders of the Nightfort and [[Queensgate|Snowgate]] went to war with each other. Eventually, both lost their heads to the Stark in Winterfell.{{Ref|ASOS|55}} At some point rangers from the Nightfort sealed the tunnel of [[Arson Iceaxe]].{{ref|ASOS|26}}

With the dwindling of the [[Night's Watch]]'s power, the Nightfort had become three-quarters empty and too costly to maintain. [[Benton Glover]] escorted [[Alysanne Targaryen]] from Castle Black to the Nightfort during the queen's visit to the Wall in {{date|58}}. Alysanne convinced Lord Commander [[Lothor Burley]] that the Nightfort, which she found unpleasant, should be abandoned for a new and smaller castle. The new castle, [[Deep Lake]] seven miles to the east, was paid for by the queen's jewels. The Nightfort was abandoned during the construction of Deep Lake and its last brothers were reassigned to Deep Lake.{{Ref|ASOS|56}}{{ref|FAB|Jaehaerys and Alysanne - Their Triumphs and Tragedies}}