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Jul 3, 2024 · The brothers of the Night's Watch appear in the book series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin, with the batch of characters represented by a stellar cast in the HBO show Game of Thrones (commonly abbreviated to GoT).
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Structure
1. Main articles: Stewards, Builders, and Rangers The Night's Watch consists of three orders: stewards, builders, and rangers. All are subject to the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, and each of the three orders is led by its own officer, the Lord Steward, the First Builder, and First Ranger, respectively. These officers are appointed by the lord commander. 1. Stewards are responsible for an assortment of critical functions, providing vital day-to-day services. They hunt and farm, tend ho...
Leadership
The Lord Commander of the Night's Watchis the final authority and oversees the entire order. A lord commander serves in office until the day he dies, when a replacement is elected by the men of the Watch. Any man of the Night's Watch can be nominated to be the lord commander. At Castle Black, Lord Commander Jeor Mormont is advised by First Ranger Benjen Stark, First Builder Othell Yarwyck, and Lord Steward Bowen Marsh. He also entrusts leadership to Ser Jarman Buckwell, Ser Mallador Locke, Se...
Recruitment
Once, serving on the Wall was honor and a sign of selfless devotion to duty, with many knights, honorable men, and nobles taking the black voluntarily. The Night's Watch is now often seen only as a way to avoid punishment, suitable less for knights than for the dregs of Westeros. These men are salvaged from dungeons by traveling recruiters known as wandering crows.Disgraced nobles, bastards, and the unwanted legitimate offspring of nobles can be encouraged to take the black, making many of to...
Castles of the Night's Watch
The Night's Watch raised nineteen castles to guard the hundred leagues of the Wall, although they have never manned more than seventeen at one time. Today only three of them are maintained by an ever dwindling force. The castles themselves are closer to garrisons, composed mostly of barracks, stables, storehouses, towers and out-buildings, as they have no walls of their own (other than the Wall itself). They were purposefully built this way so the Watch could man only the Wall itself and focu...
The Gift
The Gift, consisting of Brandon's Gift and the New Gift, is land south of the Wall. Twenty-five leagues were given by a Brandon of House Stark, commonly believed to have been Bran the Builder, to the Night's Watch for their sustenance. For years the Watch farmed the Gift, but as their numbers dwindled there were fewer hands to plow the fields, tend the bees and plant the orchards, so the wild reclaimed much of the area. Wishing to restore the Night's Watch and reward its loyal service in defe...
Equipment
Sworn Brothers are attired all in black, with roughspun wool being common, so new recruits are said to "take the black". Officers and brothers who come from wealthier origins might wear velvet, crisp leathers, moleskin,or sable. The black garb has earned the Watch the nickname "crows", particularly among the free folk, who often call them "black crows." While some use this name derogatorily, many in the Night's Watch have adopted the term for their own use. They are also called the "black bro...
The Long Night
The Night's Watch is one of the oldest orders in the Seven Kingdoms, as it survived the fall of the kingdoms of the First Men, the coming of the Andals, and Aegon's Conquest. It was founded over eight thousand years ago, at the end of the Long Night. Under cover of an endless night that lasted for a generation, the Others invaded from the Lands of Always Winter, laying waste to much of Westeros. The Others were finally defeated by the Night's Watch at the Battle for the Dawn, which is recalle...
Hundred Kingdoms
The Night's Watch built nineteen castles along the hundred leagues of the Wall. At the zenith of its power, the Watch had seventeen of the castles manned, with at least ten thousand men between them. Castle Black alone once quartered five thousand fighting men with all their horses, servants, and equipment. The highborn of the north have traditionally considered it an honor to serve on the Wall. Many younger sons of northern houses, low in the line of succession, gladly took the black. Shield...
House Targaryen
The Seven Kingdoms of Westeros were invaded by the Targaryens during Aegon's Conquest. Although Lord Commander Hoare was the brother of Harren the Black, King of the Isles and the Rivers, the lord commander maintained the neutrality of the ten thousand black brothers under his command, even when Harren died during the burning of Harrenhal. King Aegon I Targaryen became Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and ruled from the Iron Throne in King's Landing. Aegon's sister-wife, Queen Visenya Targaryen, mo...
A Game of Thrones
While ranging in the haunted forest, Ser Waymar Royce is slain by Others. After rising as a wight, Waymar's body slays Will. Gared flees south of the Wall but is executed for desertion by Lord Eddard Stark, the Warden of the North. Jon Snow and Samwell Tarly join the Night's Watch as stewards, while First Ranger Benjen Stark, Jon's uncle and Eddard's younger brother, disappears beyond the Wall. The lord commander, Jeor Mormont, asks Tyrion Lannister for aid from the Iron Throne. Two slain bro...
A Clash of Kings
Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, personally leads the great ranging of two hundred men from Castle Black, which is joined by a hundred men from the Shadow Tower. After visiting Whitetree and Craster's Keep, they fortify the Fist of the First Men within the haunted forest as their base. Jon Snow is part of a ranging party attacked by wildlings, and Qhorin Halfhandconvinces Jon to kill him and thereby infiltrate the wildlings. The wandering crow Yoren leads a party of recruits...
A Storm of Swords
Jon Snow is spared by Mance Rayder, the King-Beyond-the-Wall, and the youth begins sleeping with a wildling, Ygritte. Chett conspires against Lord Commander Mormont at the Fist. An army of wights overwhelm the Watch in the fight at the Fist, and the survivors retreat to Craster's Keep. Jeor and Craster are slain during the mutiny at Craster's Keep, however.Of three hundred men sent on the great ranging, only fourteen survive and return to the Wall. Jon escapes the wildling raiding party and i...
Recent Lords Commander
1. See also: Lord Commander of the Night's Watch 1. Lord Jeor Mormont, 997th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, known as "the Old Bear." Towards the end of his tenure, he becomes increasingly worried as more rangers are lost beyond the Wall, including First Ranger Benjen Stark. Also, there are more reports coming in of wildlings either fleeing south or gathering in large numbers to escape or meet some threat. After an attempt to investigate in force, most of the brothers who go with him are...
Past Lords Commander
1. The Night's King, the thirteenth Lord Commander, who converted the Night's Watch into his own personal army and led it in battle against Brandon the Breaker, the King in the North, and Joramun, the King-Beyond-the-Wall. 2. Lord Commander Crowl, served as Lord Commander over a thousand years ago. 3. Osric Stark, a brother or son of a King in the North. He was chosen Lord Commander when he was ten, making him the youngest Lord Commander of the Night's Watch. He served for sixty years. 4. Rod...
Brothers
1. See also: Members of the Night's Watch, for a complete list 1. Benjen Stark, First Ranger and younger brother to Lord Eddard Stark. Missing beyond the Wall and thought dead. 2. Blane, a senior ranger of common blood, scout and second to Qhorin Halfhand. Killed while in command of the Shadow Tower men during the fight at the Fist. 3. Bowen Marsh, Lord Steward of the Night's Watch. Leads a successful but costly defense in the fight at the Bridge of Skulls. 4. Chett, former steward to Maester...
George R. R. Martin's experiences from a snowstorm while studying at Northwestern University influenced his creation of the Night's Watch and the Wall.
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The Night's Watch is organized in three departments: the Rangers, who fight, defend the Wall and patrol the Haunted Forest; the Builders, who maintain the Wall and the castles; and the Stewards, who support and feed the members of the Watch.
The Night's Watch is an organization of soldiers on Westeros that protect the Wall on the north end of the continent. They are responsible for keeping wildlings, the Others, and other creatures that live beyond "The end of the world" out. At the start of the tale, Jeor Mormont is Lord Commander...
This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total.
May 26, 2024 · The members of the Night's Watch are sorted into one of three roles : Stewards, Builders, and Rangers. Overseeing the entirety of the Night's Watch is the Lord Commander, who is the highest-ranking member of the organization.
The Night's Watch is organized in three departments: the Rangers, who fight, defend the Wall and patrol the Haunted Forest; the Builders, who maintain the Wall and the castles; and the Stewards, who support and feed the members of the Watch.
