Chapter Twenty-Three - Jon 3 - A Clash of Kings | A Song of Ice and Fire - a podcast by A Game of Thrones
from 2021-06-28T00:00
The Night’s Watch visit Craster’s Keep. Craster provides some information, but one of his pregnant daughter-wives recruits Jon to rescue her from her fate. Jon doesn’t think they can help. Simon and Mackelly ponder Gilly’s future.
Chapter Review:
The Night’s Watch arrive at Craster’s Keep. Lord Commander Jeor Mormont warns all not to interact with Craster’s wives. The keep is awful, little more than a midden heap. Jon Snow joins Mormont in the “hall.” The squalid building stinks, and Craster sits in the only chair.
Mormont quizzes Craster about Benjen Stark, but he’s not been through these parts. The last crows Craster has seen were Waymar Royce and crew. Their host knows why the villages are empty. Mance Rayder has been inviting wildlings to join him. He has intel about the King Beyond the Wall and trades it for a new axe.
Outside, Ghost terrorizes a young pregnant girl named Gilly. Jon calls him off. Jon then sets up a tent and makes his own food so that he owes Craster nothing. Later Gilly approaches Jon and ask him to take her when he leaves. If her baby proves to be a boy, Craster will give him to the Others. Jon feels bad, but he cannot help.
As the Night’s Watch leave for the Frostfangs following the map that Sam created with Craster’s help, Jon asks Mormont about Craster’s sons. Mormont admits that the Night’s Watch know that he gives the sons up to the woods. But they don’t have dominion over him.
Characters/Places/Names/Events:
Night's Watch - Men who guard the Seven Kingdoms against threats from beyond the Wall.
Jon Snow - Bastard son of Eddard "Ned" Stark. Recently sworn brother of the Night’s Watch.
Samwell Tarly - Brother of the Night’s Watch. Heavy-set and cowardly. Attendant to Maester Aemon. Friend to Jon Snow.
Ser Jeor Mormont - Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch.
Maester Aemon - One hundred year-old maester of the Night’s Watch.
Ghost - Jon Snow’s direwolf.
Craster - Wildling north of the Wall. He lives with 19 daughter-wives.
Gilly - Pregnant daughter-wife of Craster.
Mance Rayder - Leader of the Wildlings, self-styled King-Beyond-The-Wall.
Thoren Smallwood - Acting first ranger of the Night’s Watch.
Eddison Tollett (Dolorous Edd) - Unhappy member of the Night’s Watch.
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