Godswood

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The godswood is usually a small wooded area enclosed by the castle walls throughout the Seven Kingdoms. It is primarily used as a place of worship by those who carry on the traditions of the First Men and pray to the Old Gods. However in those places that believe in the Faith of the Seven, it is little more than a private wooded area of solitude.[1] When the First Men took up the Old Faith, they created godswoods, groves within their castles and villages where a single Weirwood known as a heart-tree, was planted so the gods could be worshiped. In southern castles such as the Red Keep the hear-tree is not a weirwood but a common tree such as an oak.

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