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Chapter 243

​"Chiu—"

The sound should have been crisp and sharp, yet it was so piercingly loud that it made everyone’s ears ache. Melisandre let out a muffled groan, lost her balance, and fell back...

Chapter 242

The wights tore down long stretches of the wooden barricades and began flooding into the camp from all sides. The living were forced back step by step, soon finding themselves relying on piles of d...

Chapter 241

"Ser Jaime... the portcullis... it's been lowered!"

"I saw it!" Jaime snapped, his voice laced with irritation as he turned to take in the seething throng of thousands of wildlings packed at...

Chapter 240

One by one, the wildling tribes gathered inside the wooden barricade at the Wall's gate. After surrendering their weapons, they queued to enter the tunnel. Truth be told, the scene bore an eerie re...

Chapter 239

The procedure for allowing the Free Folk to pass through the Wall was as follows: At the entrance to the ice wall in Castle Black, the Night's Watch erected a temporary wooden barricade surrounded ...

Chapter 238

"Then, I'll wait for your good news." Melisandre smiled at Aegor before turning to head back to her tower.
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What a sorceress. Teasing her really was asking for trouble. Watching h...

Chapter 237

In front of Mance Rayder, none of the Night’s Watch officers openly questioned the Lord Commander’s decision. Once the King Beyond the Wall was escorted out of the chamber to be taken atop the ...

Chapter 236

With one sharp statement, Aegor cut through Mance Rayder’s pretense. The King Beyond the Wall fell silent, his arms resting on the table as he brooded. After a moment, he spoke, his face grim. 2025-01-28 23:00:40 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 235

Throughout history, negotiations often required the weaker side to send representatives into the territory of the stronger. The same was true in the world of A Song of Ice and Fire. In the original...

Chapter 234

Storm's End itself was a massive tower, encircled by outer walls a hundred feet high and forty feet thick—on the seaward side, the walls were even double the thickness.

It was one of the s...

Chapter 233

Two lightly wounded wildlings were dragged out of the cells, fed a proper meal, and given the message they were to deliver. The Night’s Watch lowered them from the Wall, and once the prisoners re...

Chapter 232

Time was pressing. Now that Aegor was fully aware of the looming logistical crisis threatening the Wall, he dared not waste a single moment. Early the next morning, he departed Crown’s Rest with ...

Chapter 231

Talking to mystics always had its drawbacks—after a long conversation with Melisandre, Aegor felt like he'd gained plenty of useful information, yet couldn't tell how much of it was genuine insig...

Chapter 230

“Is putting on a show really that entertaining? Is it? Really?” Aegor’s patience was wearing thin. If he didn’t know that Melisandre truly possessed some mysterious powers, he might have be...

Chapter 229

“It’s not… a stomachache!” Arya wiped her tears and sniffled, her reddened eyes staring up at Aegor. “My father… he died in King’s Landing.”

Eddard Stark was dead? Aegor felt...

Chapter 228

Aegor had requested Samwell Tarly be assigned to New Crown's Rest a month ago to manage the ravens, but training birds to carry messages reliably was not an overnight task. The lack of an efficient...

Chapter 227

The Flint Clan settled into Nightfort with over 1,100 members. Being close to the Wall, their migration was swift. Following them were 800 members of the Wull Clan, and then over 400 of the Norrey ...

Chapter 226

News arrived from the west of the Wall: Mance Rayder had officially launched his full-scale assault. The wildlings were intensifying their efforts to cross the Gorge and had begun attacking Westwat...

Chapter 225

Aegor couldn’t reach a definitive conclusion based on observation alone, but he had both a sharp mind and a sharp tongue—he could ask questions and judge for himself.

“Why did Ser Rodr...

Chapter 224

The Wall stood a thousand leagues from King’s Landing, and Aegor, knowing the dangers of remote micromanagement, had no intention of repeating the mistakes of countless administrators before him....

Chapter 223

Regarding the mountain clans' overenthusiastic hospitality, Aegor had been warned beforehand, so he wasn’t particularly surprised. Out of respect for local customs and courtesy, he and Jaime acce...

Chapter 222

Jaime and the Westerland volunteers he brought to the Wall were well-equipped and highly trained. After their arrival, Mormont quickly arranged for them to join the Night’s Watch in a trial by fi...

Chapter 221

Aegor had thought that once he left the treacherous King's Landing and returned to the Wall, he could rely on the wealth of the Night's Watch's industries and his position in the corps to live with...

Chapter 220

The veins on Stannis’s forehead bulged, his face turning faintly red as an ominous silence filled the tent. Everyone braced themselves, wondering how the king would react to Melisandre’s public...

Chapter 219

“Whether this Aegon Targaryen is real or a fraud, the moment he chose Storm’s End as the starting point for his rebellion against the Iron Throne, he stepped into a death trap,” Stannis said,...

Chapter 218

As Ygritte was dragged away by Jon, her face full of defiance, the hall erupted into chaos once again.

Some cursed Jon for being blinded by lust, while others hurled insults at the wildling ...

Chapter 217

In the hall where Aegor had once been interrogated as a deserter and where generations of Night’s Watch commanders had held council, another emergency meeting was underway. Unlike his previous vi...

Chapter 216

The wildfire, mixed with a large amount of lamp oil and pitch, had lost its explosive properties. In a typical siege, a wall of fire wouldn’t prevent attackers from scaling other sections of the ...

Chapter 215

The Wall was an insurmountable monolith—so tall that no ladder or siege tower could ever reach its summit, so thick that any battering ram would shatter against it in futility. Arrows fired by or...

Chapter 214

“Why are they setting the forest on fire?”

“What else is fire for?” Aegor replied through gritted teeth. “To burn, to illuminate. One, it can incinerate the dead; two, it can signa...