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{{Canonicity|Canon}}
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{{OtherUses|geographical area|Beyond the Wall (disambiguation)}}
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| Image = Beyond the Wall.png
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| Location=[[Westeros]]
  
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| Location = North of the [[Kingdom of the North]], [[Westeros]]
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| Geography=Sub-arctic taiga forest (east)<br>freezing mountains and glaciers (west),<br> subarctic tundra, to uninhabitable polar waste (extreme north)
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| Geography = Sub-arctic taiga forest <small>(east)</small><br>Freezing mountains and glaciers <small>(west)</small><br>Subarctic tundra, to uninhabitable polar waste <small>(extreme north)</small>
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| Population=[[Wildling|Free Folk]]<br/>[[White Walkers]]<br/>[[Giants]]<br/>[[Children of the Forest]]
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| Population = [[Children of the Forest]]<br>[[Giants]]<br>[[White Walkers]] <small>(formerly)</small><br>[[Wight]]s <small>(formerly)</small><br>[[Free Folk]]
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| Rulers= Usually various factions and tribes, occasionally united by an over-chief known as the [[King-Beyond-the-Wall]].
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| Rulers = [[Night King]] <small>(formerly)</small><br>[[King-Beyond-the-Wall|Kings-Beyond-the-Wall]] <small>(formerly)</small>
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| Culture = [[Children of the Forest]]<br>[[Giants]]<br>[[White Walkers]] <small>(formerly)</small><br>[[Free Folk]]
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| Religion=The [[Old Gods of the Forest]]
  
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| Culture=[[Free Folk]]<br/>[[Giants]]<br/>[[White Walkers|White Walker]]<br/>[[Children of the Forest]]
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| Religion = [[Old Gods]]<br>[[White Walkers]]
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| Villages=[[White Tree]] • [[Cave of the three-eyed raven]]
  
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| Castles=[[Craster's Keep]]
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| Villages = [[White Tree]]
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| Places=[[Fist of the First Men]] • [[Frostfangs]] • [[Frozen Shore]] • [[Haunted Forest]] • [[Lands of Always Winter]] • [[Skirling Pass]] • [[Milkwater]] • Valley of [[Thenn]] • [[Storrold's Point]]
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| Places = [[Fist of the First Men]] {{*}} [[Frostfangs]] {{*}} [[Frozen Shore]] {{*}} [[Haunted Forest]] {{*}} [[Land of Always Winter]] {{*}} [[Milkwater River]] {{*}} [[Skirling Pass]] {{*}} [[Storrold's Point]] {{*}} [[Thenn]] {{*}} [[Cave of the Three-Eyed Raven]] <small>(destroyed)</small> {{*}} [[Craster's Keep]] <small>(destroyed)</small>
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{{Quote|We don't kneel for anyone beyond the Wall.|[[Mance Rayder]]|Valar Dohaeris}}
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[[File:The Wall.jpg|thumb|300px|The north side of the Wall.]]'''Beyond the Wall''' is a generic term employed by the people of the [[Seven Kingdoms]] to refer to the large area of [[Westeros]] that lies north of [[the Wall]]. It is the only part of the continent that is not part of the realm, and thus the only place where particular attention is given to the difference between "Westeros" (the continent), and "the Seven Kingdoms" (the realm to the south of the Wall ruled by the [[Iron Throne]]).
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'''Beyond the Wall'''{{Ref|GOT102}} and '''north of the Wall'''{{Ref|GOT103}} are generic terms employed by the people of the [[Seven Kingdoms|Six Kingdoms]] and the [[Kingdom of the North]] to refer to the large area of [[Westeros]] that lies north of the [[Wall]]. It is the only part of the continent that is not part of a realm, and thus the only place where particular attention is given to the difference between "Westeros" (the continent), and "the Six Kingdoms" and the Kingdom of the North (the two realms to the south of the Wall).
   
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It is inhabited by tribes that refer to themselves as the "[[Free Folk]]", known by the people of the [[Seven Kingdoms]] as '''wildlings'''. The wildlings themselves are not politically unified but consist of numerous and diverse groups. Many are semi-nomadic hunters, due to the impracticality of agriculture in the far north. Some wildlings are little more than savage and primitive raiders, but other groups live in small settled communities and villages.
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It is inhabited by tribes that refer to themselves as the "[[Free Folk]]", known by the people of the [[Seven Kingdoms|Six Kingdoms]] as wildlings. The wildlings themselves are not politically unified but consist of numerous and diverse groups. Many are semi-nomadic hunters, due to the impracticality of agriculture in the far north. Some wildlings are little more than savage and primitive raiders, but other groups live in small settled communities and villages.
   
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The Free Folk sometimes refer to these lands as '''"the Real North"'''.
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The Free Folk sometimes refer to these lands as "the real North", because they are actually located north of the northernmost kingdom of Westeros, which is named simply "the [[North]]" - and they think it odd to say that "the north" is ''south'' of where they live.
   
 
==Geography==
  
==Geography==
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[[Image:Wildling territories.PNG|thumb|right|200px|A map showing the territories north of [[the Wall]].]]
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[[File:The Wall.jpg|thumb|300px|The north side of the Wall.]]
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[[Image:Wildling territories.PNG|thumb|right|200px|A map showing the territories north of the [[Wall]].]]
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{{Dialogue a-b|Davos Seaworth|This is Stannis Baratheon, the one true king of the Seven Kingdoms.|Mance Rayder|We're not ''in'' the Seven Kingdoms.|Mance points out that the lands beyond the Wall might be on the same continent, but they're not part of the Seven Kingdoms.|The Children}}
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{{Dialogue a-b|Davos Seaworth|This is Stannis Baratheon, the one true king of the Seven Kingdoms.|Mance Rayder|We're not ''in'' the Seven Kingdoms.|Mance points out that the lands beyond the Wall might be on the same continent, but they are not part of the Seven Kingdoms.|The Children}}
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The lands Beyond the Wall are mostly uncharted. The region immediately north of the Wall includes the [[Haunted Forest]], a vast taiga-forest which covers most of the area, extending from the Wall to the furthest uncharted north.
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The lands beyond the Wall are mostly uncharted. The region immediately north of the Wall includes the [[Haunted Forest]], a vast taiga-forest which covers most of the area, extending from the Wall to the furthest uncharted north.
   
 
The forest extends from the eastern coast to a large mountain chain in the west known as the [[Frostfangs]]. The Frostfangs extend an unknown distance to the north and are quite inhospitable. However, there are rumors that even the northern Frostfangs contain hidden valleys, heated by volcanic activity, which are actually the most hospitable regions north of the Wall, and heavily settled by the wildlings.
  
The forest extends from the eastern coast to a large mountain chain in the west known as the [[Frostfangs]]. The Frostfangs extend an unknown distance to the north and are quite inhospitable. However, there are rumors that even the northern Frostfangs contain hidden valleys, heated by volcanic activity, which are actually the most hospitable regions north of the Wall, and heavily settled by the wildlings.
   
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Southwest of the Frostfangs there is a narrow strip of land between the mountains and the sea known as the [[Frozen Shore]], a harsh area inhabited by fierce and primitive warriors who frequently cross the [[Bay of Ice]] to raid the lands in [[the North]] sworn to [[House Stark]]. This small area is totally enclosed by the Frostfangs, which run southeast to northwest, and the ocean.
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Southwest of the Frostfangs there is a narrow strip of land between the mountains and the sea known as the [[Frozen Shore]], a harsh area inhabited by fierce and primitive warriors who frequently cross the [[Bay of Ice]] to raid the lands in the [[North]] sworn to [[House Stark]]. This small area is totally enclosed by the Frostfangs, which run southeast to northwest, and the ocean.
   
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Beyond all of these areas, in the furthest north are the [[Lands of Always Winter]]. The forest ends and gives way to these truly polar regions, which are unexplored. The [[White Walkers]] are rumored to originate in the depths of the Lands of Always Winter.
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Beyond all of these areas, in the furthest north are the [[Land of Always Winter]]. The forest ends and gives way to these truly polar regions, which are unexplored. The [[White Walkers]] are rumored to originate in the depths of the Land of Always Winter.
   
 
==Economy==
  
==Economy==
   
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The [[Free Folk|wildlings]] living north of [[The Wall]] have a hardscrabble, survival-based economy, with little settled agriculture. Most of their economic activity is fixated on hunting and gathering: they live to catch what they can eat, and they eat whatever they can catch. They use no official [[currency]], as they are more interested in obtaining things that are directly useful to them, and thus function on the barter system.<ref>"[[The North Remembers]]"</ref>
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The [[Free Folk]] living north of the [[Wall]] have a hardscrabble, survival-based economy, with little settled agriculture. Most of their economic activity is fixated on hunting and gathering: they live to catch what they can eat, and they eat whatever they can catch. They use no official [[Money|currency]], as they are more interested in obtaining things that are directly useful to them, and thus function on the barter system.<ref>"[[The North Remembers]]"</ref>
   
 
However, the wildlings do engage in at least some long-distance trade: the heavy furs of local animals adapted to the harsh cold of the extreme north are fairly valuable, and they often trade them to passing smuggler ships in exchange for iron weapons, which they cannot forge on their own. In past centuries the Night's Watch tried to stop the fur-for-iron trade along the coasts, but in recent centuries as their numbers dwindled they abandoned any attempts to prevent passage around the Wall by sea.
  
However, the wildlings do engage in at least some long-distance trade: the heavy furs of local animals adapted to the harsh cold of the extreme north are fairly valuable, and they often trade them to passing smuggler ships in exchange for iron weapons, which they cannot forge on their own. In past centuries the Night's Watch tried to stop the fur-for-iron trade along the coasts, but in recent centuries as their numbers dwindled they abandoned any attempts to prevent passage around the Wall by sea.
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* The [[Frostfangs]]
  
* The [[Frostfangs]]
 
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* The [[Milkwater]]
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* The [[Milkwater River]]
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* [[Lands of Always Winter]]
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* [[Land of Always Winter]]
 
* [[Frozen Shore]]
  
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* [[Hardhome]]
   
 
==Notable inhabitants==
  
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* [[Mance Rayder]], the [[King-Beyond-the-Wall]], leader of the Free Folk and feared opponent of the Night's Watch. Now a prisoner of [[Stannis Baratheon]].
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* {[[Mance Rayder]]}, the [[King-Beyond-the-Wall]], leader of the Free Folk and feared opponent of the Night's Watch. Sentenced to death by fire by [[Stannis Baratheon]], but shot with an arrow as mercy by [[Jon Snow]].
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* [[Tormund]], called Tormund Giantsbane, a wildling leader and one of Mance Rayder's most trusted lieutenants. After the [[battle for the Wall]], was once a prisoner of the Night's Watch, now living freely.
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* The {[[Lord of Bones]]}, a wildling leader and a fearsome raider. Killed by Tormund in [[Hardhome]].
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* [[Tormund]], called Tormund Giantsbane, a wildling leader and one of Mance Rayder's most trusted lieutenants. After the [[Battle of Castle Black]], he's now a prisoner for the Night's Watch.
  
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* The [[Lord of Bones]], a wildling leader and a fearsome raider. Whereabouts unknown.
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* {[[Styr]]}, [[Magnar]] of Thenn, a notorious and brutal wildling leader. Killed by [[Jon Snow]] during the battle for the Wall.
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* {[[Styr]]}, [[Magnar]] of Thenn , a notorious and brutal wildling leader. Killed by [[Jon Snow]] during the Battle of Castle Black.
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* {[[Mag Mar Tun Doh Weg]]}, called Mag the Mighty, king of the [[Giants]], killed by [[Grenn]] and five other members of the [[Night's Watch]] during the battle for the Wall.
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* {[[Mag Mar Tun Doh Weg]]}, called Mag the Mighty, king of the [[Giants]], killed by [[Grenn]] during the Battle of Castle Black.
  
 
* {[[Orell]]}, a wildling raider and a [[Warg]], killed by Jon Snow.
  
* {[[Orell]]}, a wildling raider and a [[Warg]], killed by Jon Snow.
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* {[[Ygritte]]}, a Free Folk [[Spearwife]] and lover of Jon Snow. Killed by [[Olly]] during the Battle of Castle Black.
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* {[[Ygritte]]}, a Free Folk [[spear wife]] and lover of Jon Snow. Killed by [[Olly]] during the battle for the Wall.
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* [[Jon Snow]], Lord commander of the Night's Watch who was seen traveling north with Tormund and his company.
   
 
At [[Craster's Keep]]:
  
At [[Craster's Keep]]:
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* {[[Craster]]}, an unsavory ally of the [[Night's Watch]], killed by [[Karl]] during a [[Mutiny at Craster's Keep|mutiny]].
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* {[[Craster]]}, an unsavory ally of the [[Night's Watch]], killed by [[Karl Tanner]] during a [[Mutiny at Craster's Keep|mutiny]].
 
** [[Gilly]], his wife and daughter.
  
** [[Gilly]], his wife and daughter.
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*** [[Gilly's baby|Sam]], their son. Named after [[Samwell Tarly]].
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*** [[Sam]], their son. Named after [[Samwell Tarly]].
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* {[[Karsi]]}, a female wildling, killed by wights.
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* {[[Loboda]]}, a Thenn, killed by a White Walker
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* [[Dim Dalba]], a wildling chieftain
   
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In a hidden [[Cave of the three-eyed raven|cave]]:
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In a hidden [[Cave of the Three-Eyed Raven|cave]]:
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* The [[Three-eyed raven]], a greenseer.
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* The {[[Three-Eyed Raven]]}, a greenseer. Killed by the [[Night King]].
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* [[Leaf]], a [[Children of the Forest|child of the forest]].
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* {[[Leaf]]}, a [[Children of the Forest|child of the forest]]. Sacrificed herself to wights so [[Bran Stark]], [[Meera Reed]] and [[Hodor]] could escape the cave.
   
 
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''The World of Ice and Fire'' companion book features a map of Westeros and western Essos that shows a significant amount of land north of the Wall, possibly extending further east and west as well, backing up the suggestion that the lands beyond the Wall are vast.<ref>[http://24.media.tumblr.com/ddd579fdf10fb72658d43f003dd62bb4/tumblr_n5igo1nnHW1sybxk4o3_1280.png ''The World of Ice and Fire'' preview]</ref>
  
''The World of Ice and Fire'' companion book features a map of Westeros and western Essos that shows a significant amount of land north of the Wall, possibly extending further east and west as well, backing up the suggestion that the lands beyond the Wall are vast.<ref>[http://24.media.tumblr.com/ddd579fdf10fb72658d43f003dd62bb4/tumblr_n5igo1nnHW1sybxk4o3_1280.png ''The World of Ice and Fire'' preview]</ref>
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Latest revision as of 11:30, 18 March 2024

This page is about the geographical area. For other uses, see: Beyond the Wall (disambiguation)
"North of the Wall" redirects here. For track, see: North Of The Wall

"We don't kneel for anyone beyond the Wall."
―Mance Rayder[src]

Beyond the Wall[1] and north of the Wall[2] are generic terms employed by the people of the Six Kingdoms and the Kingdom of the North to refer to the large area of Westeros that lies north of the Wall. It is the only part of the continent that is not part of a realm, and thus the only place where particular attention is given to the difference between "Westeros" (the continent), and "the Six Kingdoms" and the Kingdom of the North (the two realms to the south of the Wall).

It is inhabited by tribes that refer to themselves as the "Free Folk", known by the people of the Six Kingdoms as wildlings. The wildlings themselves are not politically unified but consist of numerous and diverse groups. Many are semi-nomadic hunters, due to the impracticality of agriculture in the far north. Some wildlings are little more than savage and primitive raiders, but other groups live in small settled communities and villages.

The Free Folk sometimes refer to these lands as "the real North", because they are actually located north of the northernmost kingdom of Westeros, which is named simply "the North" - and they think it odd to say that "the north" is south of where they live.

Geography

The Wall

The north side of the Wall.

Wildling territories

A map showing the territories north of the Wall.

Davos Seaworth: "This is Stannis Baratheon, the one true king of the Seven Kingdoms."
Mance Rayder: "We're not in the Seven Kingdoms."
— Mance points out that the lands beyond the Wall might be on the same continent, but they are not part of the Seven Kingdoms.[src]

The lands beyond the Wall are mostly uncharted. The region immediately north of the Wall includes the Haunted Forest, a vast taiga-forest which covers most of the area, extending from the Wall to the furthest uncharted north.

The forest extends from the eastern coast to a large mountain chain in the west known as the Frostfangs. The Frostfangs extend an unknown distance to the north and are quite inhospitable. However, there are rumors that even the northern Frostfangs contain hidden valleys, heated by volcanic activity, which are actually the most hospitable regions north of the Wall, and heavily settled by the wildlings.

Southwest of the Frostfangs there is a narrow strip of land between the mountains and the sea known as the Frozen Shore, a harsh area inhabited by fierce and primitive warriors who frequently cross the Bay of Ice to raid the lands in the North sworn to House Stark. This small area is totally enclosed by the Frostfangs, which run southeast to northwest, and the ocean.

Beyond all of these areas, in the furthest north are the Land of Always Winter. The forest ends and gives way to these truly polar regions, which are unexplored. The White Walkers are rumored to originate in the depths of the Land of Always Winter.

Economy

The Free Folk living north of the Wall have a hardscrabble, survival-based economy, with little settled agriculture. Most of their economic activity is fixated on hunting and gathering: they live to catch what they can eat, and they eat whatever they can catch. They use no official currency, as they are more interested in obtaining things that are directly useful to them, and thus function on the barter system.[3]

However, the wildlings do engage in at least some long-distance trade: the heavy furs of local animals adapted to the harsh cold of the extreme north are fairly valuable, and they often trade them to passing smuggler ships in exchange for iron weapons, which they cannot forge on their own. In past centuries the Night's Watch tried to stop the fur-for-iron trade along the coasts, but in recent centuries as their numbers dwindled they abandoned any attempts to prevent passage around the Wall by sea.

Notable locations

Notable inhabitants

  • {Mance Rayder}, the King-Beyond-the-Wall, leader of the Free Folk and feared opponent of the Night's Watch. Sentenced to death by fire by Stannis Baratheon, but shot with an arrow as mercy by Jon Snow.
  • Tormund, called Tormund Giantsbane, a wildling leader and one of Mance Rayder's most trusted lieutenants. After the battle for the Wall, was once a prisoner of the Night's Watch, now living freely.
  • The {Lord of Bones}, a wildling leader and a fearsome raider. Killed by Tormund in Hardhome.
  • {Styr}, Magnar of Thenn, a notorious and brutal wildling leader. Killed by Jon Snow during the battle for the Wall.
  • {Mag Mar Tun Doh Weg}, called Mag the Mighty, king of the Giants, killed by Grenn and five other members of the Night's Watch during the battle for the Wall.
  • {Orell}, a wildling raider and a Warg, killed by Jon Snow.
  • {Ygritte}, a Free Folk spear wife and lover of Jon Snow. Killed by Olly during the battle for the Wall.
  • Jon Snow, Lord commander of the Night's Watch who was seen traveling north with Tormund and his company.

At Craster's Keep:

At Hardhome:

  • {Karsi}, a female wildling, killed by wights.
  • {Loboda}, a Thenn, killed by a White Walker
  • Dim Dalba, a wildling chieftain

In a hidden cave:

In the books

Author George R.R. Martin has stated that the land-area inhabited by the Free Folk beyond the Wall is vast, roughly the size of Canada: "There's actually quite a lot of Westeros north of the Wall, it's a large expanse of land, probably as large as Canada."[4]

The World of Ice and Fire companion book features a map of Westeros and western Essos that shows a significant amount of land north of the Wall, possibly extending further east and west as well, backing up the suggestion that the lands beyond the Wall are vast.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 2: "The Kingsroad" (2011).
  2. ↑ Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 3: "Lord Snow" (2011).
  3. ↑ "The North Remembers"
  4. ↑ HBO Behind-the-scenes featurette, Game of Thrones Season 3: Inside the Wildlings"
  5. ↑ The World of Ice and Fire preview

External links


v • d • e
Westeros

Beyond the Wall (Land of Always Winter) · Crownlands · Dorne · Gift · Iron Islands · North · Reach · Riverlands · Stormlands · Vale of Arryn · Westerlands

Essos

Bone Mountains · Dothraki Sea · Footprint · Free Cities (Andalos · Axe · Braavosian Coastlands · Disputed Lands · Forest of Qohor · Golden Fields · Hills of Norvos · Orange Shore · Stepstones) · Ghiscar · Hyrkoon · Leng · Lhazar · Red Waste · Sarnor · Shadow Lands · Slaver's Bay · Valyrian peninsula · Yi Ti

Sothoryos

Basilisk Isles · Naath

Other

Great Moraq · Ibben (Ib) · Summer Isles · Ulthos

v • d • e
Beyond the Wall
Settlements

Cave of the Three-Eyed Raven · Craster's Keep · Hardhome · White Tree

Geographic features

Fist of the First Men · Frostfangs (Skirling Pass) · Frozen Shore · Haunted Forest · Land of Always Winter · Milkwater River · Mountain like an arrowhead · Osric's Hill · Storrold's Point · Thenn

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