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Revision as of 19:44, 26 January 2012

Battle for the Dawn
Conflict The Long Night
Date End of the Age of Heroes
Result Defeat of the Others
Combatants
Children of the Forest
First Men
Night's Watch
the Others
Commanders
Azor Ahai
Strength
unknown unknown
Casualties
heavy unknown

The Battle for Dawn was first war against the Others during the Long Night.

History

In the midst of this darkness a race of apparent demons, called the Others emerged from the uttermost north, wielding razor-thin swords of ice and raising the dead to fight the living. The Children of the Forest and their allies, the First Men, fought valiantly against them, but were driven southwards by their advance.[1] The Others were eventually checked when it was discovered that weapons made of dragonglass could kill them. A great hero, who in the eastern tradition is known as Azor Ahai, led the war against the Others wielding his sword of fire, Lightbringer. Eventually the Others were driven back into the Lands of Always Winter.

Brandon Stark, known as Bran the Builder, raised a great Wall of ice, gravel and magic, stretching one hundred leagues from the Gorge to the Shivering Sea to prevent the Others coming again. Brandon Stark was declared the First King in the North. The fortress of Winterfell (and possibly Storm's End in the south) was built at this time, and the Night's Watch founded to maintain a watch on the Wall. A later prophecy claimed that the Others would return and Azor Ahai, the Prince that was Promised, would be reborn to lead the fight.[2]

References and Notes