Moat Cailin

Three crumbling towers commanding the causeway through the swamps of the Neck — the ancient lock on the door to the North.

The fuller tale

The ancient, crumbling lock on the door to the North does its one job through the Dance without ever being tested — nobody threatens the North by land during the civil war, and Moat Cailin’s three broken towers stand ready for an invasion that, this once, never comes up the causeway at all.

In the first season

Robb Stark's host masses here on its march south, where a handful of men can hold back an army.

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.