Editing Rangers (section)

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
[[File:Carlo Bocchio Lost Ranger.JPG|thumb|A ranger [[beyond the Wall]], by Carlo Bocchio © Fantasy Flight Games]]
During a ranging [[beyond the Wall]], rangers [[Gared]], [[Will]], and Ser [[Waymar Royce]] encounter [[Others]]. Will and Waymar Royce are slain,{{Ref|AGOT|Prologue}} while Gared manages to escape south of the [[Wall]], where he is eventually beheaded as punishment for desertion.{{Ref|AGOT|1}}{{Ref|AGOT|2}}

A great number of rangers have gone missing.{{Ref|AGOT|19}}{{Ref|ACOK|6}} [[Benjen Stark]], the [[First Ranger]], goes out to search for Waymar with six rangers,{{Ref|AGOT|19}} but does not return. Other rangers are sent to find Benjen, but they return empty-handed.{{Ref|AGOT|26}} Upon the absence of Benjen, Ser [[Jaremy Rykker]] takes over command of the rangers.{{Ref|AGOT|48}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
Out of the two hundred brothers Lord Commander [[Jeor Mormont]] leads from [[Castle Black]] for the [[great ranging]], some hundred and fifty are rangers.{{Ref|ACOK|6}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
After the [[battle beneath the Wall]], [[Jon Snow]], the new Lord Commander, sends three parties led by [[Dywen]], [[Jack Bulwer|Black Jack Bulwer]], and [[Kedge Whiteye]] to range beyond the Wall.{{ref|ADWD|28}} Black Jack's party is eventually slain by the [[Weeper]].{{ref|ADWD|53}}