Editing Jeor Mormont (section)

===''A Clash of Kings''===
[[File:Brittmartin Old Bear Night Watch.jpg|300px|thumb|Jeor speaks to the [[Night's Watch]], by Brittmartin ©]]
Jeor has [[Samwell Tarly]] look for maps in the [[vaults of Castle Black]], and he sends Ser [[Arnell]] as an envoy to [[Renly Baratheon]], a claimant of the [[Iron Throne]] as [[War of the Five Kings|war breaks out]]. With Robb having been declared [[King in the North]], Jeor informs Jon about the history of Maester [[Aemon Targaryen (son of Maekar I)|Aemon]], who had once been in the [[House Targaryen|Targaryen]] line of succession.{{ref|ACOK|6}}

The Lord Commander leads two hundred men from [[Castle Black]] north of the [[Wall]] in a [[great ranging]],{{Ref|ACOK|13}} and the first seven [[wildling]] villages they pass have all been abandoned.{{ref|ACOK|23}} At [[Craster's Keep]], however, Jeor learns that Mance is gathering his people at the [[Frostfangs]], preparing to launch an assault on the Wall. In return, Jeor gives [[Craster]] his fine axe and a crossbow as gifts.{{ref|ACOK|23}} Jeor admits to Jon that he and all of the [[rangers]] know that [[Craster's sons]] are [[Others|given to the woods]].{{ref|ACOK|23}}

Jeor leads the expedition to the [[Fist of the First Men]], a good defensive position located on Mance's only route to the Wall, and waits for the arrival of [[Qhorin Halfhand]] with a hundred men from the [[Shadow Tower]]. Jeor hopes that the missing Benjen Stark will be able to find the large encampment.{{ref|ACOK|34}} Jon Snow finds a cache of [[dragonglass]] buried near the Fist,{{ref|ACOK|34}} and the steward makes a dagger for the Lord Commander.{{ref|ACOK|43}} Once the Shadow Tower men arrive, Qhorin informs Jeor that Mance and his wildling host intend to somehow break the Wall. The Lord Commander agrees with the Halfhand's suggestion to send scouting parties to the [[Milkwater]], the [[Skirling Pass]], and the [[Giant's Stair]], and he allows Jon to join Qhorin's group.{{ref|ACOK|43}}

Qhorin's party is hunted by wildings in the Skirling Pass, and Qhorin instructs Jon to join [[Rattleshirt]]'s band as a spy and learn what he can from the wildlings so that the Lord Commander can later be informed. When they are eventually overtaken, Qhorin attacks Jon and forces the youth to kill him to ensure that Jon will be accepted by the wildlings.{{ref|ACOK|68}}