Chapter I · The Gatekeepers
House Varrow
“We keep the gate.”
The oldest house on the wall. Varrow holds the only gate that still opens, and decides who comes through it.
Seat
Varrow Hold, the Eastern Gate
Words
We keep the gate
Arms
Sable, a pale glacier, a key or
Chapter
Chapter I · The Gatekeepers
03 · Who they are
What this house holds, and what it wants.
The gate that still opens
Nine hundred years ago there were eleven gates in the wall. Ten were filled with rubble and ice. Varrow Hold kept the last one, and the key on their banner is not a metaphor: the Warden of the Gate wears it on a chain and sleeps with it.
Varrow soldiers are the first to see anything that comes out of the north, and the first to be blamed when something gets through.
What they want
Order, quiet and a full granary. Varrow has never started a war on the wall. It has ended three.
04 · Told from this house
Chapters from their point of view.
Every house gets more chapters in book two.
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