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Game Of Thrones History & Lore of The North video on the history of the North , house Stark, the Wall, the Night's Watch , the Free Folk, the Children of the Forest, and many more. Watch this video to here a large amount information from characters in the show were they tell a deep history in there point of view. Video in full HD music from the show soundtrack House Stark theme. The North or the north is one of the constituent regions of Westeros and was a sovereign nation ruled by Kings in the North before the War of Conquest. The largest of the Seven Kingdoms' regions, the North covers the entire area south of the Wall and north of the Neck. The North has been ruled by House Stark for thousands of years from the castle known as Winterfell. Other notable houses of the region include Bolton, Karstark, Manderly, and Umber. Bastards of noble origin raised in the North are given the surname Snow. Dawn Age. The peoples of the North are nearly all descended from the First Men, who settled the land nearly 12,000 years ago. Little is known of that time, but cryptic runes carved in old stones and the barrows the First Men lived in can still be found in the barrowlands. Ancient forts of the First Men are scattered throughout the North, including a ringfort atop Seal Rock near White Harbor and ruins in Sea Dragon Point. The children of the forest also made weirwood circles. Kings of Winter. About 8,000 years ago, the Long Night occurred, when the Others invaded. The event defined and shaped the North, leading to the founding of the Wall, the order of the Night's Watch, the castle of Winterfell and the first Stark Kings of Winter. The Starks gradually defeated rival kings, such as the Barrow Kings to their south and the Red Kings to their east. When the Andals invaded Westeros, the Stark Kings of Winter resisted them successfully, stopping them at Moat Cailin and the eastern shores, the only kingdom in Westeros to do so. King Jon Stark founded the Wolf's Den at the mouth of the White Knife after driving out sea raiders. His son, Rickard Stark, conquered the Neck from the Marsh King and married his daughter. King Rodrik Stark is said to have won Bear Island from the ironborn in a wrestling match. Two thousand years ago the North warred with the Vale of Arryn after the Rape of the Three Sisters, with the Arryns eventually gaining control of the islands in this War Across the Water. For many centuries the Boltons were bitter rivals of the Starks of Winterfell. The practice of flaying their enemies gave the Boltons a sinister reputation. Approximately a thousand years ago, the Boltons finally swore fealty to the Kings in the North and agreed to abandon their practice of flaying their enemies. A thousand years before the Conquest, the Manderlys were driven from the river Mander by House Gardener of the Reach and fled to the North, where they were welcomed by the Starks of Winterfell as their own bannermen. The Manderlys received the Wolf's Den and developed White Harbor, one of the five cities of Westeros and the main northern port for commerce and naval transport. The Manderlys are the most prominent of the few northern noble houses to follow the Faith of the Seven instead of the old gods. For more information http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/North
