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A Storm of Swords – Avalanche

A sudden avalanche wipes out Jarl and his team.

With visions of Tormund Giantsbane in the third season, I looked for good descriptions of the wildlings climbing the wall while rereading this chapter. Since this is all from the point of view of Jon looking up at them, there wasn’t anything I could work with. All I had were their failures.

Once again, I focussed on the scale of everything. With the Wall as a force of nature, the first thing I thought of was icebergs calving. It’s been around for thousands of years and it doesn’t care about anything or anyone around it.

As Ygritte says, it’s made of blood.

asoiaf a song of ice and fire storm of swords illustration pen and ink avalanche accident wall trees Jarl Wildlings — And then the air was full of shards and shrieks and falling men, as a sheet of ice a foot thick and fifty feet square broke off from the Wall and came tumbling, crumbling, rumbling, sweeping all before it. Even down at the foot of the ridge, some chunks came spinning through the trees and rolling down the slope.
Jon IV – PG 410

December 14, 2022

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