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“Why are you fighting us?” she asks pointedly.
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“Your lot just came along and put up a big wall and said it was yours!” They argue about who has been invading whom-the people in Westeros look at the wildlings as savages and raiders, but the free folk have more of a “this land is our land” approach. As Ygritte complains to Jon, the land should be available to all of them. But it’s also what prevents a mass exodus of wildlings fleeing the far North, stemming the tide of would-be illegal immigrants trapped beyond the Wall who want to find safer ground. If it weren’t for the Wall, the White Walkers could migrate that far south, too, as the Wall is Westeros’s protection against them. There aren’t no White Walkers down in Dorne.” “Piss on Mance Rayder and piss on the North,” one of them tells her. Some joined Mance’s army others like Osha and her former traveling companions tried to flee South on their own. These various wildling tribes - the Thenns, the Hornfoots, the Ice River Clans, the Cave People, and more-know that the White Walkers have woken up. “Do you know I got moon worshippers, cannibals, and giants to march together in the same army? I told them we were all going to die if we don’t get South, because that’s the truth.” “You know what it takes to unite 90 clans, half of whom want to massacre the other half over one insult or another?” he asks. “We chose Mance Rayder to lead us.” And as Mance tells Jon Snow-it seems everyone’s having to tell Jon Snow something!-it’s not easy leading a massive group of people who define themselves by their very freedom from leaders. “We don’t go serving some shit king who is only king because of who his father was,” Ygritte tells Jon Snow. Their own, the King Beyond the Wall, is not a king at all, but the closest thing to an elected official you might find in this world. In turn, they call those in Westeros “kneelers,” because they look down on those who would serve a king. And while we’re at it, they prefer not to be called wildlings - they call themselves the free folk. Most wildlings, however, refuse to serve anyone.

You don’t believe that nonsense.” Only Bran Stark seemed to delight in hearing his Old Nan’s stories, stories about the Long Night thousands of years ago, “a night that lasted a generation … In that darkness, the White Walkers came for the first time … riding their dead horses.” “Grumpkins and snarks and all the monsters your wet nurse warned you about,” Tyrion tells Jon Snow. Most refer to the very idea that there could be dangerous mystical creatures on the other side of the Wall with derision. No one believes him, and in fact, everyone seems to believe that any tales of White Walkers are just that-fairy tales. “I should have gone back to the Wall and warned them. “I know I broke my oath ,” the deserter told him.
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In the series pilot, when a deserter from the Night’s Watch ventures into Ned Stark’s territory, after his ranging party is killed by the Others (the … other name for the White Walkers) and he flees South, Ned sentences him to death. As the audience of the show, we know what a lot of the people in Westeros don’t- the White Walkers are back. It might help to understand the actual purpose of the Night’s Watch, which sometimes only the North remembers. Why then, some viewers might ask, are there so few manning the Wall? Why are the wildlings so determined to break on through? And why do they hate each other so much, when no one else in the Seven Kingdoms seems to care? And it’s perhaps the most important battle on the show to date, given that the entire fate of Westeros depends on it. Of all the wars and battles depicted thus far on Game of Thrones, this conflict between the men of the Night’s Watch and those they guard Westeros against has been inevitable since day one. Especially since, as their maester once pointed out, those 102 men aren’t all fighters-some are stewards, some are builders, and some are just “tired old men.” How, indeed. “How do 102 men stop 100,000?” wonders one of Jon Snow’s brother crows. This post originally appeared on Vulture.Īs a small but fierce group of wildlings approach Castle Black from the South, and Mance Rayder’s army bears down from the other side of the Wall, the men of the Night’s Watch prepare for battle-or try to.
