Hardhome

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Hardhome is a community of Wildlings north beyond the Wall. It is on the tip of the peninsula Storrold's Point on the Shivering Sea.[1] Hardhome sits on a sheltered bay and has natural harbor deep enough for the biggest ships afloat. Woods and stone are plentiful near there. The waters teem with fish, and there are colonies of seals and sea cows close at hand.

History

Hardhome was close to becoming the only true town north of the Wall. But about 300 years before Aegon's Landing the town was attacked, with it's people carried off into slavery or slaughtered for meat. Their homes were said to have burned with flames so high and hot that the watchers on the Wall were said to have thought that the sun was rising in from the north. Traders reported only devastation at the site.

The wildlings never settled the site again, and rangers roaming north of the Wall told tales of ghouls, demons and burning ghosts haunting the overgrown ruins and thirsting for blood.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

Mother Mole lead thousands of wildlings to Hardhome after the force led by Stannis Baratheon and the Night's Watch defeated the wildling force trying to get south of the Wall. Mother Mole preached to the wildlings that they would find salvation where they once found damnation and she had a vision of ships coming to Hardhome to sail them south.[2]

Lord Commander Jon Snow sent Cotter Pyke with eleven ships from Eastwatch-by-the-sea to bring the wildlings south from Hardhome. Many ships were wrecked by storms during the voyage. When Cotter Pyke arrived at Hardhome with six ships left, the situation had grown very bad. Wildlings were eating their own dead and there were presumably wights in the forest and in the sea. Slavers had already taken some of the wildlings to Braavos, and the wildlings tried to take Storm Crow by force which cost Cotter Pyke six of his crew. Cotter Pyke sent a raven to plead help via land from Jon Snow, since traveling by the sea was far too dangerous.[3]

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