Zetetic Elench

One thing which bothers me about ASOIAF/GOT  is the height of the Wall and the fact that people have been able to cross over it. Not just stone-age Wildlings but that the (supposedly under-manned and under-funded) Night’s Watch were not only able to get to the top of the Wall but actually place defences on the top!  The Wall is actually so high that people would get blown off by the wind on a regular basis! It is established in the books that the Wall (which is 700 feet high and 300 miles long) protects itself, so perhaps this is more of a plot hole. OK, so let's imagine that the Wall is, actually (more like) 300 feet high and 150 miles long, while some parts of it have fallen down. At these parts the Night's Watch have their fortifications. Specifically Castle Black, Mole's Fort which basically contains a trebuchet and Eastwatch, where the Wall is a consistent 200 feet high and extends 60 feet into the Narrow Sea  There are a number of abandoned castles on the W...

The Children and the Wall The Giants of Westeros and the Small People war. At some point the Small People raise a wall of ice to stop the Giants entering the south of westeros. Many centuries later the First Men arrive in Westeros. They war with the last giants south of the Wall and the Small People over what little land there is. A thousand years later the Children of the Forest, as the First Men call the Small People, agree to raise land from the sea to provide farming land for the First Men. The Children then retreat to the forests allotted to them by the  pact . The First Men begin manning the Wall from this time, both to prevent the last giants from invading the south and to prevent migration to the north by men.   The Raising of the Land creates an imbalance in nature and the result is the Long Night  and the first appearance of the Others . A Rough Chronology Note PC=Pre-Conquest AC=After Conquest ...