998: (this is too many feelings)
lord commander jon snow ([personal profile] 998) wrote 2019-04-27 05:06 am (UTC)

I wanted the coin for a good sword. I mean to earn it.

The Night's Watch is the army that holds the Wall. A massive wall of ice separating the Seven Kingdoms from the wild lands beyond it. I was the lord commander's steward, and after he died they made me lord commander. For years we fought the Free Folk from beyond the Wall. I lived with them a while to learn what they were planning. When I returned to Castle Black I helped to hold it against their attack. They only wanted it for shelter from the White Walkers--they are like men made of ice, and they march now after thousands of years to make war on the living with their army of the dead. When I was Lord Commander I was able to shelter them that couldn't fight in the Night's Watch own lands--the Gift--and garrison those that could.

Lord Commander Mormont gave me his sword after I saved him from a dead man, with fire. His quarters burned and the hilt melted. So he had a new one made in the form of my wolf Ghost, and made me a present of it. It had been a bear before, as it wasthe sigil of his house. He had left it to his son when he joined the Night's Watch, but his son was a criminal and a traitor and fled to the free cities rather than join him on the Wall. He left it for his aunt, the Lady Mormont of Bear Island, but she returned it to the Old Bear as she and her daughters preferred the mace.

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