4/19/2023 0 Comments The dark woods haunted forest![]() The scattered survivors make their way back to Craster's Keep, but many die from wounds or attacks by Others and wights along the way. The Night's Watch encamped at the solitary hill amidst the snowy forest are suddenly attacked by wights and overwhelmed in the fight at the Fist. Rangers encamped in the haunted forest, by BrittMartin © Green Ronin Publishing Jeor sends ranging parties led by Qhorin, Jarman, and Thoren Smallwood to scout in the nearby mountains. When Qhorin Halfhand's men from the Shadow Tower arrive at the Fist, Qhorin explains they had been delayed by Alfyn Crowkiller's band. Near the base of the hill, Ghost leads Jon to a buried cache containing dragonglass knives, spearheads, arrowheads, and an old warhorn. Jarman Buckwell's sharpest-eyed men hide in trees as scouts. Lord Commander Mormont has the Watch encamp at the Fist of the First Men, and foresters cut down trees for firewood. The Night's Watch stop at Craster's Keep, and Craster explains that the villages have been emptied because Mance has been gathering the wildlings in the Frostfangs. Įach wildling village found by the ranging has been abandoned, and foragers find little game in the forest. Samwell Tarly is frightened of the forest, and even veteran brothers become more somber as they travel deeper into the wood. Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, leads a great ranging northwest from Castle Black into the haunted forest in search of Mance Rayder's wildling host and the missing Benjen Stark. After being brought back to Castle Black, the bodies rise as wights and attack the Night's Watch. The corpses of Othor and Jafer Flowers, members of Ben's party, are found near the Wall. Jon Snow and Samwell Tarly swear the vow of the Night's Watch in a weirwood grove just north of the Wall and Castle Black. īenjen Stark, the First Ranger, leads a ranging party into the forest, but he does not return as expected. While ranging in the haunted forest, Ser Waymar Royce, Will, and Gared are attacked by Others, who had been believed extinct. Man of the Night's Watch guarding the Wall, by Patrick McEvoy © Fantasy Flight Games Queen Alysanne Targaryen was escorted into the haunted forest by Lord Commander Lothor Burley and a hundred rangers in 58 AC. In 50 AC, Lord Walton Stark was killed by giants while pursuing Ser Raymund Mallery's rebels in the forest. Six hundred years ago, ashes from Hardhome rained down on the haunted forest and the Shivering Sea for near six months. King Theon Stark joined the Night's Watch for an expedition beyond the Wall which broke the power of the wildlings for a generation. Historyīlocks of ice from the haunted forest's lakes are said to have been used in the construction of the Wall centuries ago. The Fist of the First Men, a great hill isolated near the Milkwater in the western part of the forest, contains an abandoned ringfort of the First Men. The haunted forest contains numerous free folk villages and settlements, such as Whitetree, Craster's Keep, and perhaps Ruddy Hall. ![]() The woods are thinner near the Shivering Sea], with more flatlands, rolling hills, and salt marshes than in the west. Unlike in the Seven Kingdoms, there are no ferries or bridges across the lakes and rivers beyond the Wall. Major rivers in the haunted forest include the Milkwater and the Antler River,, and the wood also contains streams, brooks, deep lakes, flint ridges, and hills. Few rangers have traveled further than fifty leagues into the haunted forest, however. "Ranger's roads" are game trails and streambeds used by the rangers of the Watch to traverse the silent wood. ![]() The haunted forest is the only known location where one can find more than two or three weirwoods in a single place. ![]() Types of trees in the forest include ash, broadleaf, chestnut, fir, ironwood, oak, sentinel, soldier pine, and weirwood. įrom atop the Wall, the haunted forest appears as a vast green expanse when not covered in snow. As the number of black brothers has diminished over the centuries, however, the treeline has crept closer to the Wall, aside from the inhabited forts of Castle Black, the Shadow Tower, and Eastwatch-by-the-Sea. The wood is named the haunted forest by the brothers of the Night's Watch, who traditionally have cut all trees within half a mile of the Wall. The haunted forest, by Juan Carlos Barquet © Fantasy Flight Games ![]()
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