

Ĭlubfoot Karl and Garth of Oldtown believe that Craster is keeping food in a secret larder. There are no attacks by wights or Others during their stay, and a number of black brothers practice archery in Craster's yard. Four die from their wounds, however, including Bannen, whose body is burned. His plans are interrupted by the fight at the Fist, however, and forty-four survivors of the Fist reach Craster's Keep. Plotting to mutiny against the Lord Commander, Chett decides he will claim Craster's Keep and wives for himself. Ghost, the direwolf of Jon Snow, scares the pregnant Gilly when he kills a rabbit. Craster claims he has not been visited by Benjen Stark. Waymar refused to stay overnight, however. Craster informs Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, that he had been visited by Ser Waymar Royce, Gared, and Will during their search for wildling raiders. The Night's Watch stays at Craster's Keep during their great ranging north of the Wall. There is a firepit in the center of the dirt floor, and dogs run around. Only Craster has a chair inside, and all others sit on the benches. The windowless hall is a single room, with a sleeping loft above reached by a pair of splintery ladders. The door to the hall is made of two flaps of deer hide. The keep itself is a daub-and-wattle hall that is long and low, made with logs and roofed with sod and big enough to hold thirty to fifty men at best.

Inside the dike, there is also a midden heap, a pigsty and a sheepfold. The gate is decorated with the skulls of a bear and a ram. There is at least one gate on the southwest side of the compound and a stream runs around the north end of the hill. 4 Chapters that take place at Craster's KeepĬraster's Keep sits in the haunted forest atop a low hill with an earthen dike around it.
