Castle Black - largest of the three occupied castles. The Watch was once highly regarded and their ranks were filled with volunteers from noble houses, as serving was a sign of selfless devotion to the protection of the realm. Men known as wandering crows, such as Yoren , travel around the Seven Kingdoms gathering recruits for the Watch, offering them escape on the Wall.
For some families, the Wall is a convenient place to exile embarrassing or disgraced family members. Samwell Tarly was disowned by his own father and ordered to join the Watch on threat of death, while Tywin Lannister had plans to exile his own son Tyrion to the Wall so as to avoid executing him for allegedly murdering King Joffrey Baratheon.
However, other families, such as House Stark , view the Night's Watch as an honorable and noble calling. Generations of Starks have joined the Night's Watch for the sake of honor. By the reign of King Robert Baratheon , the institution has fallen into disrepute and is largely ignored by the throne.
It is severely undermanned; dwindling numbers have led to all but three of the Wall's nineteen castles being abandoned. The Night's Watch is now led from its stronghold at Castle Black.
Meanwhile, trouble is stirring beyond the Wall. A large wildling army under a new King-Beyond-the-Wall , Mance Rayder , is advancing south, and there are rumors that the White Walkers, long since thought to be extinct, have returned.
Although joining the Night's Watch is often a punishment for many, it can also be a positive thing in the long run; the Watch is highly egalitarian compared to the rest of Westeros, and in a rigidly hierarchical society, joining can offer a rare chance at redemption and turning one's life around. At the Wall , every man is given what he earns, no matter their status, and even lowborn or bastard recruits can become high-ranking officers and commanders for their service.
However, the Night's Watch is not completely egalitarian; both noble-born sons and illegitimate sons of lords are typically favored for advancement over those with no noble blood, [9] though this may also be for the practical reason that recruits from noble households are generally more familiar with the duties required of the Watch, such as combat skill. This is clearly demonstrated when Jon easily defeats the other recruits in sparring practice, and Tyrion points out that none of the others have had the kind of training Jon received from Ser Rodrik.
Increased wildling activity beyond the Wall leads the Watch to send out several patrols to investigate. Some do not return.
A three-man scouting party consisting of Ser Waymar Royce , Gared , and Will is one of those sent out, but only Will returns - then frantically tries to desert the Watch by running south but was caught.
He rambles that the legendary White Walkers killed his companions, but he is disbelieved as a madman and beheaded by Lord Eddard Stark for desertion. They implore him to bring news to the king that the Night's Watch is severely undermanned and undersupported: they are down to under a thousand members, and barely have the resources to feed and support the few men they still have. Mormont warns Tyrion about disturbing rumors coming from beyond the Wall, about missing scouting parties, and the one man who did survive an attack say it was the White Walkers finally returning, just before he was executed.
Aemon warns that they have had a very long summer lasting for years, and that the coming winter may also be long and bitter - and only the gods can help them if they do not do more to prepare for what's coming.
Though Theon acknowledges his sins, he ultimately declines the suggestion partly out of fear that Jon Snow will try to kill him. The Night's Watch engages in the first open conflict between men and White Walkers in eight millennia when their position is assaulted in the Battle of the Fist of the First Men. They suffer heavy casualties, though a few dozen men led by Mormont manage to fight their way out, and retreat southwards. In response to the Night's Watch's calls for help, Tywin Lannister suggests that they allow the wildlings to destroy the Watch and settle in the North, hoping to use Mance Rayder as an ally to help them fight Robb Stark and Balon Greyjoy.
Alliser Thorne temporarily succeeds Mormont as acting Commander. Following the defeat of the wildling army and the execution of Mance Rayder, the Night's Watch elects Jon Snow as its new Lord Commander, [6] who attempts to rebuild the Watch and pay more attention to the growing threat of the White Walkers. Jon opts to make peace between the Night's Watch and the wildlings to save them from dying and becoming part of the White Walker army, [19] having come to feel sympathy for them as they are men, women, and children who were born on the other side of the Wall and are also fleeing the White Walkers.
This decision is met with harsh criticism by many of the black brothers, including Alliser Thorne, Othell Yarwyck and Bowen Marsh. Jon is later stabbed by his own brothers in a mutiny and left for dead. The mutiny against Jon Snow creates further tension between those loyal to Jon and the mutineers. Following a brief scuffle, Eddison Tollett summons the wildlings back to Castle Black and with their support places the mutineers under arrest for their betrayal.
A letter from Ramsay demands her return to Winterfell , threatening to massacre every wildling at Castle Black, let his men rape Sansa and feed Jon and Rickon Stark to the dogs if he should refuse.
Tormund asks how many men Ramsay has in his army and Sansa responds that she heard Ramsay say 5, Jon asks Tormund how many he has who can fight and Tormund responds the Free Folk have 2, fighters south of the wall, not enough to face House Bolton 's 5, soldiers alone. Sansa convinces Jon to try to unite the houses of the North behind him, as he is the son of a legitimate Warden of the North.
Jon agrees so they can rescue Rickon and save their home. As of the third episode of Season 6 , Jon is no longer part of the Night's Watch as he has resigned after his assassination, his death marking the end of his watch. He intends to rally as much of Westeros as he can, which will aid the Night's Watch in the imminent battle against the army of the dead.
After the Breaching of the Wall , the Night's Watch abandon their castles and travel south towards Winterfell to aid in its defense. Eddison perishes in the Battle of Winterfell. With the extinction of the White Walkers, the purpose of the Night's Watch has been served. The surviving members returned to the castles along with the wildlings after the battle.
In order to avoid a war between the Unsullied and Jon's supporters, Tyrion, as his position as Hand of the King to Bran, regretfully informs him that Bran has banished him to the Night's Watch again, which Jon accepts.
He leaves along with the Free Folk for the lands beyond the Wall, looking forlornly when the gate of the keep closes behind him. Men of the Night's Watch are divided between three different orders: the Rangers, the Builders, and the Stewards.
Each castle of the Night's Watch also has a maester assigned to it. These maesters take the oath of the Night's Watch and are considered full black brothers, but are not considered part of the three orders. Given that there were never more than nineteen castles along the Wall, there were never more than nineteen maesters in the Night's Watch at any one time.
Since there are only three active castles on the Wall in modern times, there are now only three maesters in the Night's Watch at a time. The leader of the Night's Watch is the Lord Commander. Each Lord Commander serves for life, and a new Lord Commander is democratically elected by other members of the Night's Watch in a Choosing.
It is unknown if there is any formal procedure to depose a Lord Commander and elect a new one, in cases where the current Lord Commander violates his oaths or is deemed medically unfit to lead, etc. Recruiters commonly known as " Wandering Crows " travel to the cities of southern Westeros to gather up new recruits to join the Night's Watch.
Beric grieves for his old friend, and burns his body with his flaming sword. They find blood but no corpses in the courtyard of the castle. Going deeper into the dark castle, they stumble upon Eddison Tollett and the survivors of the Night's Watch.
The group discovers Ned Umber dead inside the great hall, pinned against to the wall with a group of severed limbs in a spiral formation around his body.
Beric states that it is a message sent by the Night King. When Ned Umber reanimates as a wight with blue eyes and slashes at Tormund with a knife, Beric burns the wight with his flaming sword, and the entire spiral symbol is lit on fire.
On horseback, the Brotherhood reaches Winterfell along with the other survivors, eventually joining in the battle against the army of the dead.
Beric and several other members are killed in the ensuing conflict. In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, a group of soldiers, knights, and armed peasants known as the Brotherhood Without Banners forms to help protect the smallfolk in the Riverlands from the depredations of the war and abuses of military forces, particularly the Lannisters but also Stark forces. The core of the Brotherhood are formed from the force of soldiers, that Eddard himself sent out under the command of Beric Dondarrion to bring Gregor Clegane to justice, when news came that Gregor was raiding villages in the Riverlands.
In fact, it was Tywin's intention to goad Eddard into confronting him in order to use it as a pretext for war, and he knew Eddard's strong sense of justice would prevent him from letting Gregor's depredations of the smallfolk go unanswered.
Thus the Lannisters anticipated this response and laid a trap for the men sent by Eddard at the Battle of Mummer's Ford, in which most of the force was destroyed. The goal of the trap was actually to lure Eddard himself out of the safety of the capital city in order to kill or capture him during the ambush. However, Tywin was not aware at the time that Eddard was injured during a brawl with Jaime , thus could not lead the hunt for Ser Gregor in person, inadvertently thwarting the Lannister plan.
About a third of Dondarrion's force led by Thoros manage to cut their way out of the ambush, though Dondarrion himself was killed. His body was recovered, however, and when Thoros reflexively recited a prayer to the Lord of Light over his deceased friend, much to his surprise Dondarrion magically returned to life. The few survivors led by Dondarrion were cut off behind enemy lines, and decided to form the Brotherhood to continue to harass Gregor's forces, still following Eddard's orders to make the Lannisters answer for their crimes.
Eddard supplemented Beric's expedition with members of his own personal guard, thus several members of the Brotherhood are the last survivors of his household guard from Winterfell who accompanied him to King's Landing. One of them, Harwin, was even present when Eddard and his sons found the six direwolf pups in the first chapter of the first novel.
They continue to fight in memory of Eddard, but after seeing the suffering of the smallfolk as both Lannister and Stark forces burned out villages to deny them to the enemy, they began to fight for the ideal of protecting the smallfolk from both Lannister and Stark soldiers. It is stated that about one third of Dondarrion's original one hundred men died in the ambush at Mummer's Ford, thus the original core group of the Brotherhood consisted of about thirty to forty men it is unclear how many were from Eddard's personal guard , though this was later supplemented by smallfolk and deserters from different sides in the war.
By the second novel the same timespan as Season 2 in the TV series , the Brotherhood has become an irritant to the Lannister army at Harrenhal and Gregor Clegane's men are trying to find the Brotherhood's leaders. Many characters who later formed the Brotherhood were introduced at the Tourney of the Hand in the first novel. This tourney did occur in Season 1 of the TV series, but the characters were not introduced, because they would not really make a significant appearance until Season 3 - they are given cameos in the first novel but only reappear as "the Brotherhood" in the third novel though as in Season 2 of the TV series, in the second novel characters do mention that something called "the Brotherhood" is harassing Lannister supply lines.
At the Tourney of the Hand, Anguy won the archery contest and Thoros won the melee contest. This is why they arrived in King's Landing, and were available when Eddard ordered Beric to lead out a group of able knights to bring Gregor Clegane to justice - the soldiers who formed the original core of the Brotherhood. Thus the connection might be lost on the TV audience that one of the reasons the Brotherhood is such a disproportionately capable fighting force is because so many of its initial members were elite fighters who came to the capital city to participate in the Tourney of the Hand.
For example it might a bit contrived in the TV series that, as if by pure chance, the Brotherhood's lead archer Anguy just happens to be preternaturally skilled with a bow. The books actually do explain that he is a professional archer so skilled that he actively competes in tournaments, and indeed recently won first place at a royal-level archery tournament.
Moreover, he doesn't just happen to be wandering in the Riverlands, but the rational reason was given that he was in the capital for a major tournament, before being sent out with Dondarrion. Following the massacre of the Stark army at the Red Wedding , the Brotherhood is one of the few remaining pockets of resistance against Lannister control in the Riverlands.
The one or two dozen original members of the Brotherhood who used to be part of Eddard's personal guard such as Harwin are thus one of the only groups of Stark soldiers who managed to escape death or capture in the war. Although the Brotherhood claims to protect the smallfolk, they sometimes rob the same people they are supposed to protect, as they did to the Old woman prisoner.
She told bitterly that Beric "took two of my chickens and gave me a bit of paper with a mark on it. Can I eat a bit of raggy old paper, I ask you? Will it give me eggs? The Brotherhood members that encountered Arya, Gendry and Hot Pie intended to treat them similarly: take their horses and pay with a paper. To justify their acts, they claim that they will pay after the war is over, and that they can make better use of those items than their previous owners by fighting for the good of the realm.
Even if the Brotherhood intends to honor its obligations, it is not much of consolation to the poor people they rob. Following the Red Wedding, the Brotherhood finds Catelyn 's body. Harwin begs Thoros to give her the kiss of life, but Thoros refuses, since it has been too long.
Brynden's refusal to rule or marry, or to be courteous to the ruling lord, did not prevent him from having Tully pride. Throughout the Second Siege of Riverrun, he held the castle against the admittedly inept Freys, even when they held Edmure at the point of a knife. In this case, when the Freys switched between hanging the man and cutting his throat, Brynden called their bluff and challenged them to kill Edmure, suggesting that he knew that they wouldn't follow through with it.
He also proclaimed Riverrun his home and that he would continue holding it from the Freys and Lannisters. Unfortunately, the only thing that held him back from having full control of his men was the fact that he wasn't Lord of Riverrun, and thus when Edmure approached Riverrun, Brynden sensed a trap, but as he wasn't truly Lord of Riverrun, he could only watch as his lengthy defense of his family home fell apart.
Brynden was almost impossible to intimidate: he wasn't afraid of Jaime, one of the most reputable warriors in Westeros, and was assured of his own advantage.
Later, in his final moments, he expressed regret that he ran once before at the Red Wedding, and resolved to die fighting against the men invading his home. He even remarked that he would probably make a fool of himself as he hadn't fought with a sword in years. His death earned him some respect from Jaime, who rebuffed Walder Frey when the old man mocked Brynden's status as a legendary warrior who fell to foot soldiers.
Ultimately Brynden, for all his faults, was a good man in his own right. He is tall and clean-shaven, and dons a red and blue Tully cape, like his nephew Edmure. Brynden possessed the distinctive auburn hair of the Tully family in his youth, but it has now gone mostly grey.
He values his family above all else, but dislikes Jon Snow , perhaps because he reminds him of Eddard Stark's alleged infidelity to his niece Catelyn which he voices in " A Feast for Crows". Brynden is an experienced battlefield commander. He rose to particular distinction during the War of the Ninepenny Kings which was fought over the Stepstones , in which he fought alongside Ser Barristan Selmy.
The young Jaime Lannister highly revered him and was eager to hear of his exploits in the war; Jaime recalls that when he stayed at Riverrun for a time in his youth, ostensibly because Tywin was trying to negotiate a potential marriage with Lord Hoster between Jaime and Lysa , he all but ignored Lysa and badgered Brynden endlessly for stories of his exploits during the war.
Brynden took up the nickname "the Blackfish", after he refused to marry Bethany Redwyne, which would have advanced the family's fortunes. This led to years of bitter quarrels and estrangement with his brother Hoster. After one such quarrel with his elder brother, when Lord Hoster called him the "black goat of the Tully herd", Ser Brynden pointed out that their sigil was a fish, so he took the name "Blackfish", and changed the color scheme of his personal sigil to a jumping black trout which is normally silver in the Tully sigil.
So far, the books have never made exactly clear why Brynden has never married, i. As the younger brother of Hoster, Lord Paramount of the Riverlands, Brynden was certainly one of the more eligible bachelors in Westeros.
This has led to some fan speculation that Brynden may be a homosexual, and that this in-part caused the rift with his older brother when he refused to take part in a marriage-alliance he had brokered, but so far the books have given no particular hint that this is the case.
Others speculate that Brynden may have loved Minisa Whent, but after she married his older brother Hoster, he refused to ever love again. Whatever the reason why Brynden never married, it is something of an open secret among his immediate family members: at one point Catelyn comments in passing to Edmure, regarding Brynden's disagreements with her father, that they both know why he never married. George R. Martin was asked to shed light on the matter, but he refused. In the novels, he is introduced at much earlier point than in the show, when Catelyn arrives at the Vale of Arryn with her Lannister captive.
Brynden has been in service to House Arryn since the end of Robert's Rebellion , as neither he nor Hoster sought reconciliation. After Catelyn asks for his assistance and Lysa refuses to send aid after the Lannisters invade the Riverlands, Brynden resigns from his post and agrees to return to the Riverlands and help in the growing struggle against the Lannisters.
Along with Edmure, he becomes one of King Robb Stark 's most trusted lieutenants, his "eyes and ears". Theon Greyjoy references the Blackfish's talent for battle and strategy. The Blackfish is not present during the events of the Red Wedding, because Robb had left him holding Riverrun as "Warden of the Southern Marches" a new title that Robb created , overseeing the defenses of the Stark-loyal territories of the Riverlands, and protecting his Queen, Jeyne Westerling the book's counterpart of Talisa Maegyr , who also remained at Riverrun.
In sharp contrast to Cersei as shown in " The House of Black and White " , Robb had the right to create a new title since he was a king, and has not done it as a whim: in case Robb ran into troubles, the new title would give his great-uncle the authority to act as a supreme military commander, without hesitation or power struggles with other lords over command of the army.
Following the Red Wedding, Ryman Frey leads two thousand spears to take Riverrun, reinforced by Lannister troops led by Ser Daven Lannister, and the forces of some of the Riverlords that bent the knee after the Red Wedding. Brynden anticipates the siege. He gathers all the foodstuffs and goods he can within the castle, expels all the unnecessary mouths, and prepares for a long siege. After Jaime describes Edmure how he intends to conquer Riverrun, Edmure agrees to yield.
The next morning, Brynden is missing. Edmure admits that he helped his uncle escape, by raising the portcullis on the Water Gate. After dark, Brynden pulled himself beneath the spikes. Jaime, who knows well how dangerous Brynden is, sends men to search for him, but they fail to find him.
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