Wellington Wells must be too remote to need much defense, but if it had forts to begin with, that cannot always have been the case. It must have been raided by sea at some point, like the Stepstones had often tended to be.
"Do you have a king? A lord? Someone you can petition? It does much for people to feel that they have a place of safety, even if it may not be needful." A moment of consideration, then he adds, "Back in the Night's Watch, most of the castles on the Wall had been abandoned. The Watch was no longer what it had been. We didn't have the men for them, so we only manned Eastwatch and Castle Black and the Shadow Tower. It left the North in a bad way, when it came to defending from what was beyond the Wall."
His voice has become very quiet towards the end, there.
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Wellington Wells must be too remote to need much defense, but if it had forts to begin with, that cannot always have been the case. It must have been raided by sea at some point, like the Stepstones had often tended to be.
"Do you have a king? A lord? Someone you can petition? It does much for people to feel that they have a place of safety, even if it may not be needful." A moment of consideration, then he adds, "Back in the Night's Watch, most of the castles on the Wall had been abandoned. The Watch was no longer what it had been. We didn't have the men for them, so we only manned Eastwatch and Castle Black and the Shadow Tower. It left the North in a bad way, when it came to defending from what was beyond the Wall."
His voice has become very quiet towards the end, there.