Eastwatch-by-the-Sea

The Watch's port castle at the eastern end of the Wall, where its few ships put to sea.

The fuller tale

At the Wall’s eastern end, where the ice walks out to meet the Bay of Seals, Eastwatch is the Night’s Watch’s window on the world — its only port, its fishing fleet, its smugglers’ gossip and its grey-water trade. Supplies land here, ships patrol for raiders slipping around the Wall by sea, and the castle has always been a shade saltier and less regulation than its inland sisters.

The show hands Eastwatch the story’s hinge. It is the sally port for the maddest errand of the war — a handful of famous swords marching out to kidnap a dead man — and it is where the debt comes due: the Night King’s risen dragon takes the Wall down at Eastwatch in a storm of blue fire, and the castle that watched the sea for eight thousand years is the door the dead finally walk through.

Souls the story brings here

The fallen of this place — if any, they are named here. Spoilers.

No death the chronicle records has come to this ground — or none the maesters have set down.