![]() ![]() Maester Aemon sends ravens to the mountain fastnesses of the clans to request aid against Mance Rayder. The only person they meet is a Liddle taking shelter from freezing rain in a shallow cave. Bran explains the clansmen know of their presence, but will not bother them unless they try to take their goats or horses. They pass a granite upthrust as large as Winterfell. Rather than take the kingsroad to the Wall, Bran Stark and his companions travel through the northern mountains, which have no roads among their twisted valleys. Five days north of Winterfell, they see jagged, snow-covered mountains, blue and grey in color, forming a wall to the west. West of the road they see grey and rugged flint hills guarded with tall watchtowers. The party of Jon Snow and Tyrion Lannister travels on the kingsroad from Winterfell to Castle Black. The Starks of Winterfell have sometimes sent men into the mountains to settle disputes between clansmen. Songs about the mountains and their people include " Black Pines" and " Wolves in the Hills". The mountains are sometimes raided by wildlings from beyond the Wall, while the shores of the Bay of Ice have historically been raided by ironborn. Separate from the clans, the Umbers graze their sheep in the high meadows in summertime. The First Flints, the Knotts, the Liddles, and the Norreys dwell in the high places, with the Norreys living closest to the Gift. The Harclays reside in the hills near the wolfswood and Winterfell. The most powerful of the clans are the Wulls, who live to the west along the Bay of Ice. There are two score mountain clans, large and small, and they are proud followers of the old gods. The Northern mountains are inhabited by clans who live at fastnesses in the high valleys and mountain meadows. Separately Highpoint, the seat of House Whitehill in Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series, is located in the south of the mountains where they meet the northern wolfswood, north of Winterfell and west of Long Lake. The clans have lands and holdfasts throughout the region. There are no roads, with the only paths little more than goat tracks. Other animals include owls, eagles, and pale goats, as well as the herds and shaggy garrons of the clans. The hills contain fish in streams and small game, but wildlife is scarcer in the mountains. The foothills have russet and gold autumn leaves, but the mountains themselves have grey-green sentinels, spruce, fir, and soldier pines. The mountains have deep, blue lakes and numerous piney woods. The sources of the Last River and Long Lake are found in the mountains. The wolfswood extends west and east of the southern mountains. ![]() Farther south, the flint foothills of the eastern mountains roll past the kingsroad to the forest of the Last Hearth. In the west, the foothills of the mountains reach the Bay of Ice. A large forest separates the northernmost mountains from Castle Black to the east along the Wall. Beyond the Wall the mountains transition into the Frostfangs. The Lands of Ice and Fire depicts the spine of the mountains as extending north from Winterfell in the south through the Gift as far as the Shadow Tower and the Gorge. Jon Snow describes the mountains as located west of the kingsroad and south of the Gift.
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