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The '''Children's Tower''' is one of the three towers that remain at [[Moat Cailin]].
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[[File:Dimitri Bielak The Children's Tower.jpg|The Children's Tower. © FFG|thumb|400px|right]]
==About==
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The '''Children's Tower''' is one of the three towers that remain at [[Moat Cailin]], the others being the [[Gatehouse Tower]] and the [[Drunkard's Tower]].
It is tall, slender and green with moss.  It has only half of the crenelations of its crown, it looks as if some great beast has taken a bite out of the crenellations along the tower top, a spit the rubble across the bog. {{Ref|aGoT|55|p 597}} It's shattered top is open to the wind and the rain. Legend has it that the [[children of the forest]] called upon their gods from the top of the tower to send the [[hammer of the waters]] and shatter [[the Neck]] <ref>[[A Game of Thrones]], [[A Game of Thrones-Chapter 55|Chapter 55]], Catelyn</ref> {{Ref|aDwD|20|p 255}}
 
  
==Recent Events==
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==The Tower==
===A Game of Thrones===
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The Children's Tower is tall, slender and green with moss. It has only half of the crenelations of its crown, it looks as if some great beast has taken a bite out of the crenellations along the tower top, and spit the rubble across the bog. Its shattered top is open to the wind and the rain.{{Ref|aGoT|55}}
[[House Umber]] took this tower as his seat during the Northern host's stay at [[Moat Cailin]].
 
===A Dance with Dragons===
 
[[Theon Greyjoy]] travels to [[Moat Cailin]] under a peace banner to present [[Ramsay Bolton]]'s terms of rendition to the [[Ironborn]] garrison guarding its three towers.  When Theon looks up he can see pale faces peering through the broken masonry that crowns the Children's Tower. Once inside the gatehouse a guard tells Theon that [[Dagon Codd]] went over to the Children's Tower a few days ago, there were only two men left alive, and they were eating the dead ones.  Codd killed them both. {{Ref|aDwD|20}}  The pale faces that Theon saw peering through the broken masonry may therefore have been the faces of the [[bog devils]].
 
==References and Notes==
 
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[[Category:Places in the North]]
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==History==
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Legend has it that the [[children of the forest]] called upon their gods from the top of the tower to send the [[hammer of the waters]] and shatter the [[Neck]].{{ref|AGOT|55}}{{Ref|aDwD|20}}
  
[[es:Torre de los Niños]][[fr:Moat Cailin]][[zh:森林之子塔]]
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==Recent events==
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===''A Game of Thrones''===
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[[House Umber]] takes this tower as its seat during the [[north]]ern host's stay at [[Moat Cailin]].{{ref|AGOT|55}}
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===''A Dance with Dragons''===
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During the [[siege of Moat Cailin]], [[Ramsay Snow|Ramsay Bolton]] sends [[Theon Greyjoy]] to offer the [[ironborn]] garrison of Moat Cailin food and safe passage if they surrender to [[House Bolton]] unarmed. As he passes the tower on the way to the [[Gatehouse Tower]], he sees pale faces peering through the broken masonry crowning the structure. He is later informed by a guard that all of the ironborn within the Children's Tower are dead after [[Dagon Codd]] went over a few days ago and discovered two survivors eating the corpses of the deceased and killed them both. The pale faces signal the [[crannogmen]] retaking the tower.{{Ref|aDwD|20}}
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==References and notes==
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{{references|}}
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[[Category:Moat Cailin]]
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[[Category:Towers]]
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[[es:Torre de los Niños]]
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[[fr:Moat Cailin]]
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[[zh:森林之子塔]]

Revision as of 10:12, 15 April 2018

The Children's Tower. © FFG

The Children's Tower is one of the three towers that remain at Moat Cailin, the others being the Gatehouse Tower and the Drunkard's Tower.

The Tower

The Children's Tower is tall, slender and green with moss. It has only half of the crenelations of its crown, it looks as if some great beast has taken a bite out of the crenellations along the tower top, and spit the rubble across the bog. Its shattered top is open to the wind and the rain.[1]

History

Legend has it that the children of the forest called upon their gods from the top of the tower to send the hammer of the waters and shatter the Neck.[1][2]

Recent events

A Game of Thrones

House Umber takes this tower as its seat during the northern host's stay at Moat Cailin.[1]

A Dance with Dragons

During the siege of Moat Cailin, Ramsay Bolton sends Theon Greyjoy to offer the ironborn garrison of Moat Cailin food and safe passage if they surrender to House Bolton unarmed. As he passes the tower on the way to the Gatehouse Tower, he sees pale faces peering through the broken masonry crowning the structure. He is later informed by a guard that all of the ironborn within the Children's Tower are dead after Dagon Codd went over a few days ago and discovered two survivors eating the corpses of the deceased and killed them both. The pale faces signal the crannogmen retaking the tower.[2]

References and notes