A Storm of Swords – Mutiny

A Storm of Swords – Mutiny

Night Watch members mutiny against their host. Furious, Lord Commander Jeor Mormont curses them in an act of defiance that will last for about fifteen seconds longer.

This was another paragraph that there was way too much going on. The fight scene would have been a mess. So I decided to give Mormont his last stand.

Just as well, since I realized in my last drawing of Craster in A Clash of Kings I had drawn him clean-shaven. Reading this chapter was the first time I realized he had a full beard.

Asoiaf a song of ice and fire storm of swords night's watch illustration pen and ink Craster's keep wives Lord Commander Jeor Mormont
The Lord Commander stood over Craster’s corpse, dark with anger. “The gods will curse us,” he cried. “There is no crime so foul as for a guest to bring murder into a man’s hall. By all the laws of the hearth, we—”
Samwell  II-PG 458