The Kingsroad
The kingsroad was built in the reign of King Jaehaerys the First, to bind the Seven Kingdoms together. It begins at Castle Black on the Wall and ends far in the south at Storm’s End, with King’s Landing on the way. In the North it is the one road that matters.
North of the Neck it grows quiet, and the inns stand far apart. It climbs out of the bogs on a long causeway past Moat Cailin, passes the White Knife and comes to Winterfell. Beyond Winterfell it thins to a track between scattered farms, and so goes on to the Wall.
Lords of the North go south by it to war. Men sent to the Wall come north by it, and most of them never come back.
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Wintertown
The town outside Winterfell’s gates, four houses in five empty in summer, full when the snows drive the smallfolk in.
Moat Cailin
The ruined stronghold of the First Men where the Neck opens into the North; three towers still hold the causeway.
The Neck
The wet country between the North and the south, bog and drowned forest, held by the crannogmen of House Reed.
Castle Black
Seat of the Night’s Watch, a castle with no curtain wall, its towers backed against the ice where the kingsroad ends.
In the journey: The Gates