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Three hundred years before the [[Aegon's Landing]], the commanders of the Nightfort and [[Queensgate|Snowgate]] went to war with each other. Eventually, both lost their heads to the Starks of Winterfell.{{Ref|aSoS|55}}  
 
Three hundred years before the [[Aegon's Landing]], the commanders of the Nightfort and [[Queensgate|Snowgate]] went to war with each other. Eventually, both lost their heads to the Starks of Winterfell.{{Ref|aSoS|55}}  
  
It is remembered in many scariest stories of the North, although doubtlessly many of them are false. It was there that [[Night's King]] reigned before his name was wiped from the memory of man, and where the [[Rat Cook]] served the Andal king his prince-and-bacon pie, where the 79 sentinels stood their watch, where brave young [[Danny Flint]] had been raped and murdered, where King [[Sherrit]] had called down his curse of the Andals of old, where the apprentice boys had faced the thing that came in the night, where blind [[Symeon Star-Eyes]] had seen the Hellhounds fight, and where [[Mad Axe]] had walked the yards and climbed the towers to butcher his brothers in the dark.{{Ref|aSoS|56}}
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It is remembered in scary stories of the North, although doubtlessly many of them are false. It was there that [[Night's King]] reigned before his name was wiped from the memory of man, and where the [[Rat Cook]] served the Andal king his prince-and-bacon pie, where the 79 sentinels stood their watch, where brave young [[Danny Flint]] had been raped and murdered, where King [[Sherrit]] had called down his curse of the Andals of old, where the apprentice boys had faced the thing that came in the night, where blind [[Symeon Star-Eyes]] had seen the Hellhounds fight, and where [[Mad Axe]] had walked the yards and climbed the towers to butcher his brothers in the dark.{{Ref|aSoS|56}}
  
 
==Recent Events==
 
==Recent Events==

Revision as of 05:30, 11 January 2012

The North and the location of the Nightfort
The North and the location of the Nightfort
The Nightfort
The North and the location of the Nightfort

The Nightfort is one of the castles along the Wall. It is the only castle along the Wall where the steps up the side of the Wall were carved into the ice. It was abandoned by the Night's Watch two hundred years before the War of the Five Kings. The last brothers to inhabit the castle were reassigned to Deep Lake.[1] It sits between Icemark to the west and Deep Lake to the west.[2]

Black Gate

The Black Gate is a hidden gate, that allow passage to the other side of the wall and is as old as the Wall. It is set deep in a wall of the well at the center of the kitchens and is made of white weirwood with a face on it. The face is old, pale, shrunken and wrinkled with white eyes. The door glows.

When someone approaches the Black Gate, the eyes open. They are white and blind, and then door asks, "Who are you?" A man of the Night Watch must repeat a part of his vow,"I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers. I am the shield that guards the realms of men." The door will open then, saying, "Then pass", and its lips will open wider and wider still until nothing remains but a great gaping mouth in a ring of wrinkles [1]

History

It was the first castle on the Wall, and the largest. With the dwindling of Night's Watch power it became three-quarters empty and too costly to maintain, after Good Queen Alysanne Targaryen suggested to pay for a new smaller castle, the Watch agreed to abandon it. The new castle, Deep Lake, was paid for by the queen's jewels and built by men that King Jaehaerys I sent north. Once the new castle was completed, the Nightfort was abandoned.[1]

Three hundred years before the Aegon's Landing, the commanders of the Nightfort and Snowgate went to war with each other. Eventually, both lost their heads to the Starks of Winterfell.[3]

It is remembered in scary stories of the North, although doubtlessly many of them are false. It was there that Night's King reigned before his name was wiped from the memory of man, and where the Rat Cook served the Andal king his prince-and-bacon pie, where the 79 sentinels stood their watch, where brave young Danny Flint had been raped and murdered, where King Sherrit had called down his curse of the Andals of old, where the apprentice boys had faced the thing that came in the night, where blind Symeon Star-Eyes had seen the Hellhounds fight, and where Mad Axe had walked the yards and climbed the towers to butcher his brothers in the dark.[1]

Recent Events

A Feast for Crows

Lord Commander Snow gave the Nightfort to Stannis I after Stannis demanded it.

A Dance with Dragons

After Jon Snow ceded the Nightfort to Stannis, it was discovered that it would take half a year to make it fit for habitation.[4]

References and Notes