night's watch

Jon decides that he will accept Stannis’ offer and become Lord of Winterfell. But at that moment Ghost returns, reminding him of his belief in the old gods and his outsider status to the Starks. He joins his brothers for the vote for the new Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch and is surprised as anyone when he wins. Mackelly and Simon start drawing up a transition team.

Chapter Review:
Jon Snow spars in the yard of Castle Black with Iron Emmett. A ringing blow to the head brings back memories of Winterfell, sparring with Robb, and Catelyn’s enmity. When he is back in the present he discovers he’s viciously assaulted Emmett and is being restrained by several brothers.

Jon takes a bath to ease his muscles. While there he overhears Alliser Thorne, Bowen Marsh and a reluctant Orwell Yarwyck plotting to install Janos Slynt as Lord Commander. Jon heads north of Wall to consider Stannis’ offer of legitimacy, Winterfell, and Val’s hand in marriage. He admits to himself that it is all he ever wanted and that he’ll give up his vows and his gods for it. At that moment Ghost returns, his red eyes and white fur redolent of a weirwood. They reunite and Jon takes it as a sign that his decision was wrong.

He joins his brothers in the latest round of voting for the Lord Commandership. Stannis has promised to keep them sequestered until they have made a choice. Edd has put forward Jon’s name. Thorne invites Yarwyck to speak but is surprised when the First Builder advises every man to vote with his conscience. Jon’s case is bolstered by Mormont’s raven who lands on Jon’s shoulder announcing “Snow” over and over again. Jon wins in a landslide.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Jon Snow - Bastard son of Ned Stark. Member of the Night’s Watch.
Robb Stark - Jon’s dead half brother.
Catelyn Stark - Robb’s mother. Never a fan of Jon.
Maester Aemon - Elderly, blind maester of the Night’s Watch.
Castle Black - Headquarters of the Night’s Watch.
Ser Alliser Thorne - Senior member of the Night’s Watch recently returned from King’s Landing.
Janos Slynt - New recruit to the Night’s Watch. Formerly commander of the Gold Cloaks in King’s Landing and briefly Lord of Harrenhal.
Stannis Baratheon - brother of dead King Robert Baratheon, claims the Iron Throne because Cersei’s children are not Robert’s.

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Sam and the men vying for Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch attend an audience with King Stannis. Stannis wants a Lord Commander chosen tonight. Sam hatches a plan to consolidate the votes between the leading contenders. Both men agree a new candidate might suffice. Sam knows just the guy. Simon and Mackelly pick up what he’s putting down.

Chapter Review:
Samwell Tarly assists Maester Aemon to a summons by King Stannis Baratheon. They are accompanied by the current vote-getters for Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch. King Stannis has had enough of waiting for the brothers to agree on a leader. He wants this wrapped up today. When Janos Slynt suggests King Stannis offer guidance to the brothers, Stannis says anybody but Janos should suffice.

King Stannis has other needs from the Night’s Watch, and the Lord Commander should have a say in the matter. He wants the Gift and the abandoned castles. The brothers don’t take this news well. Stannis says he needs to rebuild the castles to garrison a force to stop the Others’ attack.

Before leaving, Maester Aemon asks to “see” Lightbringer. Sam describes the beautifully glowing sword to the blind maester. Afterward, Aemon finds it odd the sword gave off no heat. Later, Sam hatches a plan to stop Slynt from being voted Lord Commander. He asks Cotter Pyke to back Ser Deny Mallister. Pyke has no interest. Sam asks Ser Denys to back Pyke. Again, no interest. Sam suggests a different candidate. To Ser Denys he touts the mystery brother as well-educated, from old blood, castle trained, and highly trusted. To Pyke he describes the man as a good fighter but a bastard. Both men agree this unnamed candidate has potential.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Samwell Tarly - Brother of the Night’s Watch, friend to John Snow. Slayer of an Other.
Stannis Baratheon - Lord of Dragonstone, rightful King of the Seven Kingdoms.
Denys Mallister - Commander of the Shadow Tower.
Cotter Pyke - Commander of Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.
Janos Slynt - New recruit to the Night’s Watch. Formerly commander of the Gold Cloaks in King’s Landing and briefly Lord of Harrenhal.
Maester Aemon - 100 year-old maester of the Night’s Watch. 
The Gift - The lands south of the Wall that are owned by the Night’s Watch.

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Jon is summoned by King Stannis. The king offers Jon his dream come true; the title of Lord Stark of Winterfell. Stannis also plans to let the wildlings through the Wall, if they bend the knee. Jon agrees with the wildling plan but needs time to think about being legitimized and made lord of Winterfell. Simon and Mackelly consider shopping for castle-warming gifts.

Chapter Review:
Jon Snow spars in the yard of Castle Black with Satin. Melisandre interrupts; King Stannis wants a word with Jon. Stannis tells Jon he’s heard much about him. Jon confirms some facts and dispels some rumors. The bottom line is that he never turned his cloak. The king believes him. Stannis knows Janos Slynt and knew Ned Stark. Stannis reveals that he plans to let the wildlings through the Wall, as long as they bend the knee and take R’hllor as their true god. The king explains that he’s here to fight the true enemy: the Great Other. They will need the wildling’s help in that fight.

Stannis then tells Jon the primary reason he sent for him. The king doesn’t need another sword in the Night’s Watch. He needs the North. There’s no better way to rally the North than through a son of Eddard Stark. He plans to legitimize Jon, making him Jon Stark the Lord of Winterfell. It was a dream of Jon’s when he was young, but he never wanted harm to come to his siblings. However, he’s likely the last of them alive. But there’s another issue: he’s taken The Black. Melisandre says his vow is meaningless, since it wasn’t said to R’hellor. The final detail of the plan is that Stannis wants to marry Jon to the wildling Val. Jon asks for time to consider the offer.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Jon Snow - Bastard son of Ned Stark. Member of the Night’s Watch.
Stannis Baratheon - Brother of dead King Robert, claims the Iron Throne because Cersei’s children are not Robert’s.
Melisandre - Red Woman of Ashaii. Priestess of R’Hellor, the Lord of Light. 
Janos Slynt - New recruit to the Night’s Watch. Formerly commander of the Gold Cloaks in King’s Landing and briefly Lord of Harrenhal.
Mance Rayder - King Beyond the Wall, a former brother of the Night’s Watch.
Val - Sister to Mance's woman Dalla.

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Sam and Gilly have made to Castle Black. Gilly has taken on a second baby to feed. Sam has a crafty idea to ensure Gilly and son are cared for. Janos Slynt is making waves in the vote for Lord Commander. Mackelly and Simon consider voter fraud to keep Slynt out of the top spot.

Chapter Review:
Samwell Tarly, Gilly, and Gilly’s baby have finally made it to Castle Black. Gilly has begun feeding Mance and Dalla’s newborn son. Dalla’s sister Val has heard that Melasandre plans to burn Mance and asks that he be allowed to see his son first. Jon Snow says he’ll ask.

Later, Jon asks Sam about his feelings for Gilly. Sam says he knows there’s no future for them but tells Jon of a plan to send Gilly and the baby to Sam’s mother at Horn Hill. Sam will lie and say that the boy is his. Jon thinks it could work, but it depends on the type of man the boy grows up to be. It is killing Sam to keep a secret from Jon. Sam knows that Bran is alive but swore multiple times not to reveal it, and he holds true to his word.

That night the men vote on a new Lord Commander. Nobody is close to the two-thirds vote necessary to win. Denys Mallister and Cotter Pyke are the front-runners but Janos Slynt continues to climb in the voting. Sam knows that if Mallister and Pyke could agree on only one of the men running, they’d be very close to having the numbers. However, Sam is too craven to raise the idea to his superiors.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Samwell Tarly - Brother of the Night’s Watch, friend to John Snow. Slayer of Others.
Gilly - Wildling daughter/wife of Craster.
Jon Snow - Bastard son of Ned Stark. Member of the Night’s Watch.
Stannis Baratheon - Lord of Dragonstone, rightful King of the Seven Kingdoms.
Denys Mallister - Commander of the Shadow Tower.
Cotter Pyke - Commander of Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.
Janos Slynt - New recruit to the Night’s Watch. Formerly commander of the Gold Cloaks in King’s Landing and briefly Lord of Harrenhal.
Mance Rayder - The King Beyond the Wall, a former brother of the Night’s Watch.
Val - Sister to Mance’s woman Dalla.

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Jon gets a reprieve from the ice cell and noose that Thorne and Slynt had promised. Hooray! It's so he can go on a suicide mission to assassinate Mance Rayder. Boo! But at the last second redemption comes from an unlikely source. Simon and Mackelly consider the new power structures at the Wall.

Chapter Review:
Jon is lowered down the north face of the Wall in a cage. It beats the tiny ice cell in which he’d been held for the last 4 days. Thorne and Slynt’s plan to hang him had been foiled by Maester Aemon. But they’ve found a sure-fire alternative. He’s to go parlay with Mance Rayder, murder the King Beyond the Wall in the middle of his army, and then make it back alone to Castle Black - this will prove his loyalty.

Tormund guides him through angry faces - none are pleased to see the turncoat back in black. Mance’s woman Dalla is about to give birth. Mance himself is relatively sanguine about Jon’s return. He never trusted Jon enough to tell him that they had found the fabled Horn of Winter in the Frostfangs. Mance says that the Night’s Watch will let the wildlings pass through the Wall or the horn will be blown in three days, and they’ll pass through the rubble instead.

Jon concedes that the Night’s Watch might consider this, if Mance and his people bend the knee. But Mance won’t promise that. Seeing an impasse, Jon looks for ways to carry out the assassination. But before anything happens, an army attack the wildlings. It’s Stannis coming west from Eastwatch, and he routes Mance’s forces with ease. During the chaos, Dalla goes into labor. 

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Jon Snow - Bastard son of Ned Stark. Member of the Night’s Watch.
Maester Aemon - Elderly, blind maester of the Night’s Watch.
Ser Alliser Thorne - Senior member of the Night’s Watch. Recently returned from King’s Landing.
Janos Slynt - New recruit to the Night’s Watch. Former commander of the Gold Cloaks in King’s Landing.
Mance Rayder - King Beyond the Wall. Former brother of the Night’s Watch
Dalla - Mance’s pregnant partner.
Thormund Giantsbane - Wildling leader.
Stannis Baratheon - Brother of dead King Robert Baratheon, claims the Iron Throne because Cersei’s children are not Robert’s.

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Still no rest for the wicked. Jon and his Black Brothers continue to repel the wildlings. But reinforcements on this side of the Wall spell bad news for Jon. Simon and Mackelly share their fears.

Chapter Review:
Morale is running low for Jon Snow and his Night’s Watch brothers, as they defend the gate against the wildlings. The handful of brothers eat, sleep, and fight on top of the Wall, while Mance Rayder can throw limitless fresh troops against them. Mance's latest twist is a huge rolling shelter that can shield many wildlings from attacks from above. The Black Brothers named the contraption “the turtle.” Jon has his men drop barrels of ice and rocks on the turtle and send the wildlings scurrying back to the safety of the forest.

Jon then returns to his little chamber in the King’s Tower for some much needed sleep. When he wakes, four unfamiliar men stand over him. They lead him to Ser Alliser Thorne and Janos Slynt. Slynt says he’s taken control of Castle Black and says Jon has been accused of treason, listing all of the things Jon did while with the wildlings. Jon defends himself and says he was doing as Qhorin Halfhand commanded, but it falls on deaf ears. Slynt decides that Jon will hang for his transgressions.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Jon Snow - Bastard son of Ned Stark. Member of the Night’s Watch.
Pyp - Friend of Jon’s in the Night’s Watch.
Grenn - Large brother of the Night’s Watch. Friends with Jon.
Maester Aemon - Elderly, blind maester of the Night’s Watch.
Castle Black - Headquarters of the Night’s Watch.
Ser Alliser Thorne - Senior member of the Night’s Watch recently returned from King’s Landing.
Janos Slynt - New recruit to the Night’s Watch. Formerly commander of the Gold Cloaks in King’s Landing and briefly Lord of Harrenhal.

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No rest for the wicked. Jon and his black brothers mount the Wall to defend it from the thousands of wildlings of Mance’s army. It’s a long night. Simon and Mackelly flex their tired bow-fingers.

Chapter Review:
Jon Snow’s dream of walking in the Winterfell crypts is disrupted by two horn blasts. Wildlings are approaching. Jon limps his way to the cage winch and up to the top of the Wall. It’s night so only sounds can be heard from the northern side. Donal Noye has the men fire casks of burning oil into the darkness. With the fire from the casks, the Black Brothers see mammoths and giants charging the Wall. Noye takes a few men with him to protect the gate and leaves Jon in command on top of the Wall.

Jon and his brothers unleash arrows, rocks, and flaming casks on the huge wilding host below. When the wildlings finally retreat, Jon takes the cage winch back down to check on Noye and the gate. He discovers that Noye and the other brothers who accompanied him are dead, along with the giant Mag The Mighty. Mag destroyed the outer gate and killed the men. However, Noye killed the giant before he died.

Jon tells Maester Aemon about several steps that the new interim commander of the Night’s Watch needs to implement immediately. Aemon tells Jon there’s nobody left to fill the role but Jon. He was chosen and groomed for this. Until Bowen Marsh returns, the Wall is Jon’s.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Jon Snow - Bastard son of Ned Stark. Member of the Night’s Watch.
Ygritte - Wildling girl who Jon developed a romantic relationship with.
Mance Rayder - King Beyond The Wall. Leader who has united the wildlings groups. 
Donal Noye - One-armed blacksmith of the Night’s Watch.
Grenn - Large brother of the Night’s Watch. Friends with Jon.
Maester Aemon - Elderly, blind maester of the Night’s Watch.
Castle Black - Headquarters of the Night’s Watch.

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Jon and his Night’s Watch brothers prepare Castle Black for battle. The wildlings overwhelm the Black Brothers with their superior numbers. However, the Night’s Watch set a trap and the wildlings run right into it. After the fighting ends, Jon finds Ygritte. She’s in bad shape. Simon and Mackelly remove their helms in respect.

Chapter Review:
Jon Snow waits atop the King’s Tower with two of his Night’s Watch brothers and six scarecrows dressed as Black Bothers. He knows the wildlings are getting close, as Mole’s Town burns in the distance. Jon hopes Ygritte won’t come with the rest, but he knows better. He hopes he’ll get a shot at the Magnar of Thenn, an enemy he’ll have no qualms putting an arrow through.

The wildlings attack at night. Jon and his brothers in the towers rain arrows down on them. However, there are too many to stop. The wildlings overrun the barricade set up to protect the gate to the Wall and the steps up the Wall. The Night’s Watch men flee up the stairs and the wildlings follow. When the wildlings are fully committed to the stairs, Jon and the archers send fire arrows into flammables placed under the stairs. Donal Noye lights the stairs above the wildlings on fire, trapping the wildlings between the set of flames. The wildling force is extinguished when a huge slab of ice breaks off of the Wall and crushes them.

Jon, aided by a new brother named Satin, finds Ygritte lying with an arrow in her chest. Jon tells her that Maester Aemon will fix her up and she will see 100 real castles. She touches Jon on the face and tells him that he knows nothing, as she dies.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Jon Snow - Bastard son of Ned Stark. Member of the Night’s Watch.
Ygritte - Wildling girl who Jon developed a romantic relationship with.
Styr - Magnar of Thenn. Leader of the wildling group.
Donal Noye - One-armed blacksmith of the Night’s Watch.
Castle Black - Headquarters of the Night’s Watch.

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Jon returns to Castle Black to spread the word of the impending wildling attack. He discovers he was spotted riding with wildlings. Jon grapples with his feelings on Yigrette, while Maester Aemon repairs the damage the wildling arrow did to Jon’s leg. Finally, he gets news of some of his NIght’s Watch brothers' fate, from the Great Ranging. Simon and Mackelly hunt for a get-well-soon gift.

Chapter Review:
Jon Snow finally returns to Castle Black. He’s sick with fever from his infected leg wound. The castle is severely depleted of men. He finds Donal Noye who tells Jon that he was seen riding freely with the wildlings. Jon explains about his mission from Qhorin Halfhand.

Noye insists Jon go see Maester Aemon to have his wound tended to but Jon thinks there’s no time, as the wildlings are headed to Castle Black. However, Noye gets his way and Maester Aemon needs to cut out the infection and sear the wound with a hot knife. While Aemon is preparing for his work, he tells Jon of Lord Commander Mormont’s death at the hands of his own men. Jon then ponders the possibilities to succeed Mormont.

When the pain of the hot knife gets too intense, Jon passes out. He wakes to find two old friends waiting with him. They tell him who survived the mutiny at Craster’s Keep and of how they left a catatonic Sam Tarly. Aemon again is the bearer of bad news, informing Jon of the fate of Bran and Rickon and the sacking of Winterfell. Finally, Jon dreams of being in Winterfell with Yigrette. They’re in a hot pool together but he refuses to father a bastard with her and she melts into the water.

Characters/Places/Names/Events;
Jon Snow - Bastard son of Ned Stark. Member of the Night’s Watch. Acting as a traitor to spy on the wildlings.
Ygritte - Wildling girl who Jon developed a romantic relationship with.
Maester Aemon - Ancient maester of the Night’s Watch.
Donal Noye - One-armed blacksmith of the Night’s Watch.
Castle Black - Headquarters of the Night’s Watch.

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Sam and Gilly are lost, exhausted, and hungry. They find an abandoned wildling village for shelter but receive unexpected house guests. Sam wrangles the wight of an old friend. When all hope seems lost, a new friend emerges. Simon and Mackelly sing a song for the Stranger. (Really, we do.)

Chapter Review:
Samwell Tarly, Gilly, and Gilly’s baby come across a wildling village, on their trek back to Castle Black. Sam hopes it’s Whitetree, a village the Great Ranging stopped at on their way north. They hunker down in a hall for the night. Sam wonders what he’s going to do with Gilly when they reach Castle Black. However, he decides to put it out of his mind until the time comes.

While eating, he shares stories of his life at Horn Hill and even serenades Gilly with a children’s song. That night he dreams of hosting a great feast as the lord of Horn Hill. He wakes to a frigid cold temperature. The wight of Small Paul shambles into the hall. Sam fights Paul, while Gilly and the baby escape. Sam eventually destroys the wight and hurries out to give Gilly the good news. Instead, he faces with a horde of wights surrounding Gilly and the baby.

When it looks like there’s no way to save Gilly and baby, a large unkindness of ravens descends upon the wights. With the wights distracted by the ravens, Sam runs to Gilly. He’s unsure what to do next when he hears a voice call, “brother.” A man wearing Night Watch blacks and riding a huge elk calls for them. When he helps the trio onto the elk, Sam realizes the man’s hands are as cold, black, and hard as a wight’s.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Samwell Tarly - Brother of the Night’s Watch, friend to John Snow. Slayer of Others.
Gilly - Daughter/Wife of Craster.
Craster - Wildling who marries his daughters and disposes of newborn sons. Considered a friend of the Night’s Watch by some.
White Walker (Other) - Ice beings from north of the Wall. Able to reanimate the dead to their cause.
Castle Black - Headquarters of the Night’s Watch.
The Wall - 700ft wall across the continent. Manned by the Night’s Watch.

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Jon and his wildling friends take cover from a storm in a ruined village and discover an old man. The men hear voices coming from the old tower in the lake. Jon refuses to kill the old man, and when a direwolf attacks the group, Jon flees on the man’s horse. Simon and Mackelly think maybe they heard "Hodor" coming from that tower.

Chapter Review:
Jon Snow, Yigrette, and the wildling raiders ride south through The Gift, to avoid Night’s Watch patrols. The wildlings are amazed by the occasional “castle” that are actually nothing more than watchtowers. Jon and Yigrette debate the pros and cons of stealing women before Jon confides in Yigrette that the wildlings stand no chance at winning this war. The statement makes Yigrette concerned that she’s backed the wrong horse, vouching for him as a fallen crow.

Jon knows he has to beat this group to Castle Black or his brothers will be in serious trouble, as the castle has no defenses on the southern side. However, he worries about what will happen to Yigrette if he escapes.

When a bad storm rolls in, the group takes refuge in an abandoned village next to a lake. The lake has a ruined tower sitting in its middle. The wildling scouts find an old man occupying the village. Jon knows the man will die and leaves the scene. He tells Yigrette the history of the tower in the lake, and Yigrette tells him some men have heard voices coming from it. She thinks it’s ghosts.

Jon is called back to the old man and told to kill him to prove his loyalty to the wildlings. Jon refuses, so Yigrette does the deed. At that moment, a direwolf attacks the group and Jon uses the chaos to jump on the dead man’s horse and escape. Later he finds an arrow in his leg and wonders if it’s Yigrette’s. He cleans the wound and rides for Castle Black.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Jon Snow - Bastard son of Ned Stark. Member of the Night’s Watch. Acting as a traitor to spy on the wildlings.
Ygritte - wildling girl who has taken a shine to Jon.
Styr - Magnar of Thenn. Leader of the wildling group from Thenn.
The Gift - Lands owned by the Night's Watch.

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Bran, Hodor, and the Reeds take shelter in a tower in a lake. Strangers roll into the nearby abandoned village. Bran wargs into Hodor to shut him up. Mackelly and Simon break out the tin foil hats.

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Bran Stark, Hodor, and the Reed siblings discover an abandoned village at the northern edge of the New Gift. A storm blows in and the buildings offer little shelter. But a tower rises from the lake. Bran recalls it from Old Nan’s stories. There is a sunken causeway leading to it. Sure enough Meera finds it and guide them across.
Inside, they debate their next move. Bran wants to head to Castle Black, but Jojen wants to find a quieter way past the Wall. The storm intensifies. Jojen spots a rider coming into town. The man tries to get out of the weather in the tumble-down inn. Hodor shouts wildly with each crack of thunder.
A flash of lightning reveals that the small village is now overrun with armed men. Hodor must be silenced. Bran wargs into him and shuts him up. Next stop for Bran the brain-invader is Summer. He’s out there somewhere. He finds the direwolf cringing in the brush. The stench of human fear redolent in his mighty nostrils.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Brandon Stark - Prince of Winterfell. Paralyzed when pushed from tower by Jamie Lannister.
Hodor - Enormous but simple-minded helper of Bran.
Meera Reed - Daughter of Howland Reed.
Jojen Reed - Son of Howland Reed. Has green dreams that invariably come true.\
Summer - Bran’s direwolf.
The Gift - A strip of land south of the Wall that is farmed for the benefit of the Night’s Watch. It comprises the original Brandon’s Gift, and the New Gift which was bestowed by Queen Alysanne Targaryen to extend the wealth of the Night’s Watch.
Queenscrown - A small holdfast in the Gift where Queen Alysanne Targaryen spent a night during her visit to the North.

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Sam and the remnants of the Great Ranging find respite at Craster’s Keep. However, their host isn’t overflowing with generosity. Hunger and frustration eventually bubble over into mutiny. Sam finds himself without his friends but with two dependents, while the Others are set to enter stage right at any moment. Mackelly and Simon pack the diaper bag.

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Samwell Tarly attends to the ailing ranger Bannen, while he and many of the other Night’s Watch brothers shelter in Craster’s Keep. Craster gives them only a weak onion soup for sustenance, while Craster dines on a sausage. Sam eventually goes outside, where some of his brothers call him “Slayer” in a mocking reference to his claim to have killed an Other. While Sam chats with Grenn, Lord Commander Mormont arrives and pulls Sam aside.
Sam had told the Lord Commander about how he killed an Other with a dragonglass dagger. Mormont realizes that the Night’s Watch has forgotten their true purpose over the thousands of years. You don’t build a 700 foot wall to keep wildlings out. Unfortunately, they only have a few dragonglass weapons available to them. Most of the cache Jon found was left on the Fist during the fight with the wights.
Craster emerges from the hall with news that his daughter-wife Gilly has given him a boy. Later, Mormont announces they’re leaving in the morning. During a feast provided by Craster, using the dead horses of the Night’s Watch, a mutiny transpires. Craster and Mormont are killed. Two of Craster’s wives urge Sam to flee and take Gilly and her son with him. The Others will be here soon.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Samwell Tarly - brother of the Night’s Watch, friend to John Snow. Slayer of Others.
Jeor Mormont - Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch.
Craster - Wildling who marries his daughters and disposed of newborn sons. Considered a friend of the Night’s Watch by some.
White Walker (Other) - Ice beings from north of the Wall. Able to reanimate the dead to their cause.
The Wall - 700ft wall across the continent. Manned by the Night’s Watch.

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Jon Snow and his wildling associates get up-close and personal with the Wall. It’s a long, dangerous vertical journey, fraught with peril at every step. Jon ponders his future, and whether or not it includes Yigrette. Finally, he gets some of the intel he was tasked with acquiring. Simon and Mackelly wait for the ladder to be dropped.

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Jon Snow sees no sign of Ghost, when he emerges from the cave he and the wildlings have been using as a campsite. He does see the Wall looming ominously in front of him. Jarl and his climbers are tasked with getting to the top of the Wall, in order to help the rest of the group make their ascent. Styr has sent scouts east and west to watch for Black Brothers. However, there’s been no sign of the Night’s Watch thus far.
Jarl and his men make the slow, arduous climb up the Wall, aided by landscape and the forest’s encroachment on the Wall. While Jon watches the men climb, he wonders what comes next for him. Does he join the wildlings fully, run back to Castle Black at his first opportunity, or take Yigrette and run away from all they know.
Up on the Wall, disaster strikes when a large section of the Wall sloughs off, taking Jarl and several other men with it. Hours later the remaining climbers reach the top, drop down rope, and pull up huge ladders. The rest of the group climb the ladders to scale the Wall. When Yigrette reaches the top, she tells Jon of her frustration that they were unable to find the Horn of Winter in the Frostfangs to bring the Wall down.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Jon Snow - Bastard son of Ned Stark. Member of the Night’s Watch. Acting as a traitor to spy on the wildlings.
Styr - Magnar of Thenn. Leader of the wildling group from Thenn.
Jarl - Wildling raider. In a relationship with Val, the sister of Dalla who is the wife of Mance Rayder.
Ygritte - Wildling girl who Jon has broken his vow of celibacy with, time and time again.

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Jon Snow says a fond farewell to his best friend before meeting with the top brass on the wildling expedition. He gives up some inside information about the Night’s Watch but then gets called out when he tries to over-inflate their numbers. He meets up with Yigrette in a private cave and the pair do what they do best, twice. Mackelly and Simon can’t help but blush.

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Jon Snow knows he can’t take his direwolf Ghost over the Wall with him, when his wildling raider party starts their climb. He asks Ghost to meet him at Castle Black. The direwolf takes off, but Jon is unsure if it's to get a jump on their reunion or if he’s chasing prey.
He’s called to Styr and Jarl, the co-leaders of the raiding party. They ask him about the state of certain castles on the west side of the Wall and want to know how often Night’s Watch patrols inspect the length of the Wall. Jon reluctantly gives them the information. Styr next asks about the total numbers of the Night’s Watch. Jon exaggerates a bit and Jarl calls him out as a liar.
After he’s dismissed, he goes in search of Yigrette. The pair have been having sex on a very regular basis, and the guilt has weighed on Jon. However, with each time they’re intimate, he feels less and less guilty. He finds Yigrette in a hidden cave. The couple discuss Jon having stolen Yigrette. It’s a fact Jon disputes, claiming he didn’t even know she was a girl when he put the dagger to her throat, on the mountain. The couple get down to business twice before the torch goes out. Yigrette suggests they make their way deep into the cavern system and leave the rest of it all behind.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Jon Snow - Bastard son of Ned Stark. Member of the Night’s Watch. Acting as a traitor to spy on the wildlings.
Styr - Magnar of Thenn. Leader of the wildling group from Thenn.
Jarl - Wildling raider. In a relationship with Val, the sister of Dalla who is the wife of Mance Rayder.
Ghost - Jon’s direwolf and constant companion.
Ygritte - Wildling girl who has taken a shine to Jon.

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Sam and the remnants of the Great Ranging are high-tailing it back to the wall. They’ve been decimated by the Others and wights. Sam eventually falls behind, but with a dragonglass dagger he manages to kill a White Walker. Mackelly and Simon walk way less than a mile in his shoes.

Chapter Review:
Sam Tarly is sobbing with tiredness, pain, and cold. The reader, with annoyance at Sam’s bleating. But he has had it rough. He was rudely awaken by three blasts of the Night’s Watch horn. Said a cheery hello to his incontinent would-be assassin Chett. Failed in his mission to release ravens with the increasingly dire news of how the battle progressed between the Great Ranging and the army of Others that overwhelmed them. And finally fled on horseback.
That didn’t last. Lord Commander Mormont gathered the remnants together, enforced a circle of torch bearers to keep pursuit by the undead at bay, and made the able-bodied dismount in favor of the injured and supplies. Finally, he points them in the direction of the Wall.
Sam collapses. He can go no further. Grenn cannot move him, but Small Paul carries him for a while - on the promise of a talking raven. The trio fall outside the ring of torches and a White Walker upon an undead horse attacks them. Paul succumbs but his weight pulls the sword from the Other’s grip. Sam gropes for a weapon and finds the dragonglass dagger. He thrusts it at the assailant who incredibly melts into nothing at its touch.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Samwell Tarly - Brother of the Night’s Watch, friend to Jon Snow. Slayer of Others.
Grenn - Brother of the Night’s Watch.
Dolorous Edd - Brother of the Night’s Watch.
Jeor Mormont - Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch
Chett - Brother of the Night’s Watch. Has an axe to grind with Sam.
Small Paul - Simple-minded brother of the Night’s Watch. Carried Sam for a while before being killed by a White Walker.
White Walker - Monsters from north of the Wall. Able to reanimate the dead to their cause.
The Wall - 700ft wall across the continent. Manned by the Night’s Watch.
Castle Black - Headquarters of the Night’s Watch at the Wall.

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Jon Snow has a busy day. He discovers that the wildling host contains giants, and lots of them. He and Tormund discuss the pros and cons of Jon bedding Yigrette. Jon gets attacked by an eagle. Finally, he gets called out on his lie about how many of the Night’s Watch were north of the Wall. His day seems to be heading toward wrapping up with a tryst with Yigrette. Simon and Mackelly flip on the Do Not Disturb sign.

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Jon Snow and Tormund Giantsbane watch a procession of giants mounted on wooly mammoths ride by. After that, the pair make their way toward the front of the host. On the way, Jon tries in vain to explain to Tormund why he hasn’t touched Yigrette, despite her clear advances. The idea of a bastard child being an unwanted result of Jon bedding Yigrette is beyond Tormund’s comprehension.

They catch up with Yigrette. She and some of the other wildlings treat Jon to a rousing rendition of “The Last of the Giants.” After the song fades, Jon is attacked by an eagle that gouges his face with its talons. The eagle heralds the arrival of Rattleshirt, who announces that he’s to take Jon to Mance Rayder.

Yigrette accompanies Jon to the top of the First of the First Men, where Mance waits. Along the way, they discover the bodies of dead horses strewn about the slope of the hill. Mance wants Jon to tell him true how many Black Brothers there were and who led them. Jon hesitates but does as commanded. Three hundred men, led by Jeor Mormont. Mance thinks their war is won, if they get to the Wall before Mormont does. But there’s still the matter of Jon’s lying. Yigrette announces that she and Jon have been intimate under Jon’s new cloak. Mance decides to send the love birds along with Jarl and Styr over the Wall. Yigrette tells Jon that doing is better than saying, so Jon needs to find another place for Ghost to sleep tonight.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Jon Snow - Bastard son of Ned Stark. Member of the Night’s Watch. Acting as a traitor to spy on the wildlings.
Mance Rayder - King Beyond the Wall. A former brother of the Night’s Watch who defected and is now treated as a leader by the wildlings.
Ghost - Jon’s direwolf and constant companion.
Qhorin Halfhand - Killed by Jon as part of the ruse to prove his bona fides to the wildlings.
Ygritte - Wildling girl who has taken a shine to Jon.
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The next phase of Qhorin Halfhand’s plan begins, as Jon is marched through the enormous wildling encampment and meets Mance Rayder. They bond over not really belonging. Mackelly and Simon wonder if the old crow might be a bit too trusting.

Chapter Review:
Jon Snow and Ghost are escorted through the wildling encampment on the banks of the Milkwater. Jon cannot count the cookfires. The numbers are extraordinary. With his training he does notice that the structure and defenses are pitiful. Even 300 brothers of the Night’s Watch could inflict incalculable losses on the wildlings, unless they tighten things up.

He’s shown into Mance Rayder’s tent and mistakes Styr for Mance. The king-beyond-the-wall turns out to be the musician. Rattleshirt repeats his misgivings about Jon. Mance tells Jon that they’ve met before. Most recently when disguised as a singer, Mance entered Winterfell while King Robert Baratheon visited. Mance describes his desertion when he was saved by a wildling woman who repaired his tattered cloak with red silk. On arrival back at the Wall, he was reissued the regulation black cloak. So he left.

In return, Jon concocts a decent cover story, Mance would have seen where Jon was seated at the feast, a row after the dogs. Mance buys it and welcomes Jon into the fold.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Jon Snow - Bastard son of Ned Stark. Member of the Night’s Watch. Acting as a traitor to spy on the wildlings.
Mance Rayder - King Beyond the Wall. A former brother of the Night’s Watch who defected and is now treated as a leader by the wildlings.
Ghost - Jon’s direwolf and constant companion.
Qhorin Halfhand - Killed by Jon as part of the ruse to prove his bona fides to the wildlings.
Ygritte - Wildling girl who has taken a shine to Jon.
Tormund - Lieutenant of Mance Rayder.

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Chett’s plan to murder the Night’s Watch leadership is defeated by the arrival of the White Walkers. Simon and Mackelly check the temperature.

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Chett is trying to convince his canine charges to follow some bear prints. The Night’s Watch badly need some food. The dogs are not interested. Chett and his companions discuss the plan to murder Lord Commander Jeor Mormont and anyone who could track them. Chett’s plan is well thought through, but he’s worried about the reliability of the men he’s conspiring with.

They give up the hunt and return to the Fist of the First Men, where Grenn and Edd are giving Samwell Tarly archery lessons. Chett sticks around to heckle Sam, who he blames for his woes. Sam took the job that Chett used to hold, a time he thinks of as the best of his life. Sam is on the list of who dies tonight, partially to prevent ravens being sent to the Wall with word of their treachery, but mostly out of spite.

Chett’s plans crumble when snow falls. Even the least competent tracker can follow 14 traitors through fresh snow. Chett’s distraught, but decides to vent that fury on Sam. He finds him sleeping by the ravens. He pulls a knife but just before he can act, three horn blasts sound - The White Walkers are coming.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Chett - Member of the Night’s Watch, keeper of the hounds.
Sam Tarly - Member of the Night’s Watch, assistant to Maester Aemon.
Grenn - Friend of Sam and Jon Snow.
Edd Tollard - laconic friend of Sam and Jon Snow.
Jeor Mormont - Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch.
Fist of the First Men - Outcrop of rock north of the wall. In ancient times used a fort.
White Walkers - AKA The Others. Supernatural creatures of the far north, who can raise the dead to their aid.

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Jon and Qhorin cannot escape the pursuing wildlings. The Halfhand orders Jon to yield to the wildlings, to infiltrate, and to never forget his vows. Jon proves his loyalty by killing Qhorin, with considerable help from Ghost. Simon and Mackelly mourn his passing.

Chapter Review:
Qhorin Halfhand has sent Ebben on ahead with the fastest horse, and Stonesnake by foot separately, with news for Lord Commander Mormont of what Jon saw and how he saw it. The “old powers are awaking." Ebben suggests Jon Snow should go, as the youngest, but the Halfhand has a different plan for Snow. The situation seems hopeless. Qhorin orders a fire.

Jon prepares for death, but Qhorin has a plan. He wants Jon to yield to the wildlings, spy on them, do whatever necessary to convince them of his turned-cloak, but to never forget his vow. They backtrack to a secret tunnel behind a waterfall. The fire was to throw off pursuers. They spend the night and then take the tunnel through the mountain. The ruse hasn’t worked.

The chieftain Rattleshirt awaits them. Jon yields as instructed, and gets support from Ygritte who is a member of the party. Rattleshirt is skeptical. Qhorin feigns fury. Jon proves himself by killing Qhorin, with a bit of help from Ghost. Begrudgingly he’s welcomed into the wildling fold.

Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Night's Watch - Men who guard the Seven Kingdoms against threats from beyond the Wall.
Jon Snow - Bastard son of Ned Stark. Recently sworn brother of the Night’s Watch.
Ser Jeor Mormont - Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch.
Ghost - Jon Snow’s direwolf.
Mance Rayder - Leader of the wildlings, self-styled King-Beyond-The-Wall.
Qhorin Halfhand - Ranger of the Night’s Watch from the Shadow Tower.
Stonesnake - Ranger from the Shadow Tower. Best climber in the Night’s Watch.
Ygritte - Wildling girl captured by Jon but subsequently released.
Ebben - Ranger of the Night’s Watch from the Shadow Tower.
Squire Dalbridge - Ranger of the Night's Watch from the Shadow Tower.
Rattleshirt - Wildling chief.
Warg - Person who can enter the mind of, and control, an animal.
Frostfangs - Mountain range north of the Wall.
Skirling Pass - Series of passes into the Frostfangs.
Milkwater - River that runs north to south beyond the Wall.

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