History Characters / ASongOfIceAndFireTheNightsWatch

* DueToTheDead: [[spoiler:In a world like this where most people die screaming, it's significant that not only does Aemon have a peaceful and painless death, but he gets an honorable funeral besides, attended by Sam, Gilly and the Summer Islanders aboard the ''Cinnamon Wind.'']]

* BaldOfAwesome: As a coot, but that doesn't stop him being actually pretty good at what he does.

* BaldOfAwesome: He has lost all his hair to old age, and while he is too old (and blind) to fight, Maester Aemon's awesomeness comes through his helpful advice, reasonableness, and over a century of knowledge, little of which he has forgotten.

** This trait gets even more ridiculous when he arrives at the Wall and seems to think that everyone there should be automatically bowing down before him due to being a "lord" and continues to call himself Lord of Harrenhal, even though he never saw it and has lost all claim to it. He even claims that Mance asking for terms is because he heard Janos arrived on the Wall and now knows he has no chance of defeating the Night's Watch with someone like him in charge. [[spoiler:He even threatens that Tywin Lannister will punish the Watch severely if they execute him (unaware that Tywin is A) dead and B) despised Slynt)]].

* YouAreInCommandNow: He is temporarily placed in command of Eastwatch when Cotter Pyke journeys to Eastwatch, troubling Jon due to his open animosity towards Jon and friendship with his enemies.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: He distrusts Jon and is described as the closets thing to a friend Alliser Thorne has and a crony of sorts to Janos Slynt.

* OldSoldier: Described as tall and seasoned.

* KnightInSourArmor: Argues with Jon's strategies but does work with him to try and keep things functioning. At least so far.

* NonActionGuy: Observing him fight makes Jon reflect he's probably destined for the stewards.
* RedRightHand: His clubfoot gets noted a lot.

* TheWorfEffect: One of the three best fighters among the current recruits, Jon fights him and the other two (Aron and Emrick) at once as a combat lesson.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: His first chapter has him commenting how easily his ship could break up and kill them all if it hit a rock.
* LargeAndInCharge: An authoritative captain with a large belly.

* BadassBeard: Has a sparse, rough beard.

* BadassBeard: Albeit, one that has lice in it.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler:Koss]] and [[spoiler:Qyle]] try to surrender to the approaching Lannister's after the group is overrun and being defeated. [[ObligatoryWarCrimesScene It doesn't work]].

* NumberTwo: He is second to Cotter Pyke during the expedition to the Wildlgin village of Hardhome.

* FantasticRacism: Towards giants, and he wrongly believes they eat human flesh when they are actually vegetarians.
* JerkassHasAPoint: He isn't wrong about how difficult it is for the Watch and the Free Folk to work together, although he isn't; too interested in working past that either.
* KneelBeforeFrodo: He gracefully accepts that he isn't the man to lead the Night Watch (reason gin that if he was more people would have voted for him) and supports Jon as the right man for the job. ''After'' Jon takes over though, their relations get a little less tranquil.
* KnightINSourArmor: Argues with Jon's strategies but does work with him to try and keep things functioning. At least so far.

* IShallTauntYou: After an arrow fired at him merely this his wooden leg he yank it out and waves it mockingly at the enemy

* ForgottenFallenFriend: Downplayed, but Arya has yet to think back on any of them since the end of the second book, despite all of the time they spent surviving together, even as she continues to remember Lommy Greehands, a DirtyCoward {{Jerkass}}.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler:Koss]] and [[spoiler:Qyle]] try to surrender to the approaching Lannister's after the group is overrun and being defeated. It doesn't work.

* OhCrap: Dobber Quickly deduces a village is being burned with a glance at the horizon, seeing a red spot burning in the distance.

* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:Reysen, Dobber, Murch, Gerren and Urreg]] aren't specifically noted as dying but don't escape with Arya and the other survivors.

The Maester of the Shadow Tower.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: He's described as the closets thin to a friend Alliser Thorne has and a crony of sorts to Janos Slynt.

* DarkIsNotEvil: He dress all in black, as befits a man of the Night's Watch, and has dark hair, an unkempt appearance, surly attitude, and genuinely appears fairly thuggish, but is one of the more honorable and noble men of the Night's Watch who cares for his recruits does whatever extra good he can.

* GoodIsNotNice: While he may be willing to bend the rules of the Night's Watch to aid House Stark, Yoren is a cynical, abrasive, and blunt individual.

* LastOfHisKind: Aemon ''thinks'' he is this because has spent much of the latter portion of his life unaware that Viserys and Daenerys still live. [[spoiler: [[WhamEpisode And also so does Aegon.]] [[TearJerker He actually does not find out until right before his death he still has living relatives.]] Though, if you buy into the popular fan theory about Jon being Rhaegar and Lyanna's son, the scene where he explains the tragedy of House Targaryen and [[DramaticIrony how he is the last of the line]] becomes slightly humorous, as he would have been explaining this all to his long-lost great, great, grand nephew]].

* BigBrotherMentor: Although not much older than Aegon and certainly not the eldest of Maekar's sons, Prince Aemon Targaryen was the nearest any of Egg's brothers came to being this before he was made to start training in the Citadel and had to break most ties -- but, he didn't manage to break them ''all''. Which goes to show: he started being a reasonable person a ''very'' long time ago. Heck, Egg even ''liked'' the nickname big brother Aemon gave him, as it was given with warmth and not as a taunt. How far would Aemon go to look after his little brother? He went to the Wall so Egg's right to the throne wouldn't fall into any dispute. ''That's'' how far. And, no guesses which member of his long-dead family he [[spoiler: started talking to when his mind started to wander towards the end: [[TearJerker little bro]].]]
-->'''Aemon:''' [[FamousLastWords Egg, I dreamed that I was old]].

* OldSoldier: Young Henly is pushing sixty but both are at the front lines making barricades against Mance's army and then fighting them.

* ArcherArchetype: Koss carries a longbow and can look intimidating when threatening gold cloaks with it and later kill four attackers.

* DeadpanSnarker: Reysen quips that he'd rather join the City Watch due to how cold the Wall is, and when told to surrender in the name of the king, calls out which king's name?

* DropTheHammer: Cutjack is a former stonemason who carrie his hammer as a weapon.

* EvilPoacher Subverted. While Koss and Kurz are being sent to the wall for poaching both seem like decent guy.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:Tarber]] and [[spoiler:Cutjack]] eventually take the food that's left and abandon the others as things get especially desperate. Also might count as TookALevelInCynic and/or TookALevelInJerkass, considering that both had been pretty decent up to that point. Arya feels deeply betrayed by this, although not enough to include them among the list of enemies she starts praying for to die within her next few pov chapters.

* StoutStrength: Cutjakc and Woth are bot ha bit stout but tough.

* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:Reysen, Dobber, Murch, Gerren and Urreg]] aren't specifically noted as dying bu don't escape with Arya and the other survivors.

* FriendToAllChildren: Gilly's notes that he's wonderful at handling Dalla's baby.

* SnubByOmission: While he's dying, he mentions wanting to see each of his siblings once more... except AxCrazy Aerion.

* LongLived: At the start of the series he is 100 years old.

* AmbiguouslyGay: He seems to be close with the ranger Garth Greyfeathe,r anxiously enquiring after him while saying he's too smart to have died, then grieving when he is stated as being one of the dead.

A Steward at Castle Black

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:Tarber]] and [[spoiler:Cutjack]] eventually take the food that's left and abandon the others as things get especially desperate. Also might count as TookALevelInCynic and/or TookALevelInJerkass, considering that both had been pretty decent up to that point.

!!Builders

[[folder:First Builder Othell Yarwyck]]
!!First Builder Othell Yarwyck
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/othell_yarwyck_by_joshua_cairos.jpg]]

Hailing from the Westerlands, Othell is in charge of the builders, who maintain the Wall and the forts of the Night's Watch.

* AlmightyJanitor: Yarwyck and the builders are often overlooked until the crisis becomes more pronounced and they ae needed to repair parts of the wall and ready more forts to be garrisoned.
* CommanderContrarian: Practically any decision Jon makes after becoming Lord Commander is opposed by Yarwyck, although he is less confrontational than Bowen Marsh.
* CommutingOnABus: During ''A Dance With Dragons'', he comes in and out of the story as he divides his time between Castle Black and overseeing the rebuilding of other castles along the Wall.
* FantasticRacism: Towards giants, and he wrongly believes they eat human flesh when they are actually vegetarians.
* JerkassHasAPoint: He isn't wrong about how difficult it is for the Watch and the Free Folk to work together, although he isn't; too interested in working past that either.
* KneelBeforeFrodo: He gracefully accepts that he isn't the man to lead the Night Watch (reason gin that if he was more people would have voted for him) and supports Jon as the right man for the job. ''After'' Jon takes over though, their relations get a little less tranquil.
* KnightINSourArmor: Argues with Jon's strategies but does work with him to try and keep things functioning. At least so far.
* LanternJawOfJustice: He has a firm jaw and tends to side on what he thinks will mean more order and getting things done.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: To Jon after he becomes Lord Commander.

[[folder:Halder]]
!!Halder
!!!Stone Head
-->''"It's the builders for me. What use would rangers be if the Wall fell down?"''

A apprentice stonemason before being sent to the Wall, Halder trained alongside Jon and several other recruits. After training he was assigned to the builders.

* DemotedToExtra: Unlike some of Jon's other friends, Halder doesn't remain as prominent after the first book.
* CurbStompBattle: Him versus Samwell Tarly on Sam's first day of training, and Ser Alliser makes him continue it even after it is clear that Sam cannot stand up. Halder really did not want to do it though and is grateful that Jon's protests gave him reason to stop.
* InSeriesNickname: Ser Alliser mocks him as Stone Head during training.
* NiceGuy: He is friendly and affable, and supports Jon immediately alongside Pyp to convince the other recruits to not follow Ser Alliser's orders to abuse Sam.
* PutOnABus: Near the start of ''A Dance With Dragons'', Halder is sent with Toad to the Shadow Tower by Jon.
* TrueCompanions: With Jon, Sam, Grenn, Pyp, and Todder.
* UnskilledButStrong: He can put a lot of power behind his blows, but doesn't have very good technique and tires quickly. He gets a little better after some training from Jon, but is still assigned to the builders because his stonemason skills trump his strength and fighting skills.

[[folder:Hareth]]
!!Hareth
!!!Horse

A stablehand from Moletown, Hareth fled to the Wall when Wildlings struck south of the Wall. He ended up joining the Night's Watch and was assigned to the Builders.

* InSeriesNickname: Horse, due to being big and having buck teeth.
* JumpedAtTheCall: After coming to the Wall, he was one of the handful of people from Moletown who stayed to defend it after it became safe to leave Castle Black and began expressing immediate interest in joining the Night's Watch.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Jon Snow.

[[folder:Dareon]]
!!Dareon

A singer accused of raping a nobleman's daughter, although he insists that it had been consensual and that she only claimed rape after her father caught them. He becomes a steward at Eastwatch-By-The-Sea, but later gets assigned to become a recruiter, with the hope his singing ability will draw in recruits.

!!Sailors

[[folder:Old Tattersalt]]
!!Old Tattersalt
Captain of the Night's Watch galley ''Blackbird''.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: A couple chapters after he heads out for Hardhome. Maester Harmune's letter says that Tattersalt's ship was lost with all hands and doesn't even describe the circumstances.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: His first chapter has him commenting how easily his ship could break up and kill them all if it hit a rock.
* LargeAndInCharge: An authoritative captain with a large belly.
* NumberTwo: He is second to Cotter Pyke during the expedition to the Wildlgin village of Hardhome.
* TheQuietOne: He talks very little.

[[folder:Russ Barleycorn]]
!!Russ Barleycorn
Captain of The Night's Watch vessel ''Storm Crow''.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: His ship is attacked and nearly swamped by the Wildings they're trying to save.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: His ship loses six men repulsing Free Folk boarders and it is unknown if he was one of them, or what kind of situation he (and the rest of the expedition) are in even if they survived that.

!!Night's Watch Animals

[[folder:Ghost]]
!!Ghost
-->''"He's not like the others. He never makes a sound. That's why I named him Ghost. That, and because he's white. The others are all dark, grey or black."''
--->--'''Jon Snow to Benjen Stark'''

Jon Snow's pet direwolf, who is his near constant companion. Ghost is named so due to being albino and mute.

* ActionPet: Ghost is more of a scouter than a killer: but, don't think that makes him less action-orientated. He's helped Jon take down several enemies.
* AlbinosAreFreaks: Alluded to when Theon tries to kill him when he is discovered. Jon compares his [[BastardAngst conflicted feelings about his illegitimacy]] to Ghost's albinism, and takes him because they are both outcasts.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: Ghost's pure white fur and red eyes resemble the faces on heart trees, white weirwood and red sap.
* BondCreature: Even after learning the nature of wargs/skinchangers and their animal thralls, Jon recognizes the connection between him and his direwolf goes deeper than that. Ghost is a part of him.
* ChameleonCamouflage: White fur, white snow -- and, one vanishing Ghost.
* TheDreaded: None of the Wildlings will touch Jon whenever Ghost is around, a fair few having seen what happened to [[spoiler: Qhorin Halfhand]], but mainly because wargs and their wolves are still generally remembered and dreaded. With just cause. Janos Slynt is likewise terrified of Ghost and uses his presence to accuse Jon of being an abomination.
* EvilDetectingDog: Although he is silent, Ghost is a handy-dandy wight-and-Other detector, along with other types of danger. When Jon bothers to stop and listen, that is.
* HeroicMime: Unlike the other direwolves, Ghost doesn't vocalize at all. [[spoiler:So, when he does let loose with a howl... you ''know'' it's big.]]
* MeaningfulName: Ghost is also well-named: he quietly turns up [[StealthHiBye without warning quite a lot]]. Even Jon doesn't always know exactly where he is even when he knows he's somewhere close. And, he sometimes even fudges the "somewhere close" thing, too.
* NotNowKiddo: When Ghost becomes increasingly uncontrollable to the point of going berserk, Jon leaves him locked in his quarters and attributes it to his desire to fight a huge boar owned by a wildling warg. [[spoiler:It's because his several of his Night's Watch brothers are about to betray him]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Ghost stops being silent the day [[spoiler:Jon is betrayed by his brothers]].
* SilentSnarker: Ghost manages, upon occasion, to give the impression of snarking a little at Jon in a friendly manner. His stealth appearances ''do'' have a tendency to be about when Jon has said he's not exactly sure where he is, for example. Some of his disappearances do the opposite, too.
* StealthHiBye: All Stark direwolves can all be pretty hard to keep track of when they wish to be (just ask the Ironborn and Bolton trackers), but Ghost is the best of the bunch at pulling this trope. White fur + ice and snow = Cheshire wolf.

[[folder:Mormont's Raven]]
!!Mormont's Raven
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jeors_raven.jpg]]

Lord Mormont's pet talking raven, which displays an unusual tendency to say apropos things. After Mormont's death, Jon Snow cares for the raven.

* TheBusCameBack:He reappeared dramatically during the Lord Commander elections. It could just as easily have just flown off to somewhere slightly warmer and less likely to wind up pinnion-deep in Others, but it didn't.
* CleverCrows: This particular corvid is not just clever, but suspiciously insightful and rather appropriately ironic and sardonic for a bird. His rather unsettling habit of saying the right word at the right moment may have to do with [[spoiler: Bloodraven's habit of warging crows to spy around Westeros.]]
* PollyWantsAMicrophone: Has a disturbing habit of repeating chilling words during tense conversations. It also asks for corn a lot... often at points where an ice-breaker would be used by a good Fool.
* PutOnABus: The raven vanishes after the mutiny during the Great Ranging.
* SnarkyNonhumanSidekick: To Jeor and later to Jon, some of its lines count as snarks.
* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Corn.

!!Historical Members

[[folder:Danny Flint]]
!!Danny Flint
!!!Brave Danny Flint

-->''"A girl who dressed up like a boy to take the black. Her song is sad and pretty. What happened to her wasn't."''

A brave young girl, who joined the Night's Watch by disguising as a boy. It did not turn out well for her, as she was discovered and subsequently raped and murdered by her former brothers. Her ghost is said to be one of the many things wandering the Nightfort.

* ActionGirl: Joined the Night's Watch to fight for their cause.
* FamousAncestor: Or rather an infamous, unfortunate ancestor to House Flint.
* {{Foil}}: Much like Arya, she [[SweetPollyOliver dressed up as a boy]] and headed to the Wall. Unlike Arya, she found ''zero'' TrueCompanions and the moment her "brothers" discovered the truth they raped her to death.
* InUniverseNickname: "Brave Danny Flint" is the title of a song about her fate.
* RapeAsDrama: Getting gang raped to death by the guys who were your colleagues mere hours ago? Fairly dramatic, yes.
* SweetPollyOliver: Deconstructed; she joined the Night's Watch by posing as a boy but got discovered and was raped and killed as a result.
* TooDumbToLive: ''Not'' a good idea for a woman to join a group with rapists as members.

[[folder:Mad Axe]]
!!Mad Axe

-->''Mad Axe had once walked these yards and climbed these towers, butchering his brothers in the dark.''
-->--'''Bran Stark's''' thoughts on reaching the Nightfort.

A member of the Night's Watch famous for murdering his sworn brothers at the Nightfort.

* AxeCrazy: A crazed killer that murders his sworn brothers, with a literal axe to boot.
* BeardOfEvil: Had a red beard.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: He took off his boots and silently prowled the halls of the Nightfort at night to murder his brothers.
* EvilRedhead: A redhead SerialKiller.
* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: His real name is unknown.
* SerialKiller: Of Night's Watch members.

[[folder:The 79 Sentinels]]
!!The 79 Sentinels

-->"They left their posts in life, so in death their watch goes on forever."
-->--'''Bran Stark'''

Seventy nine brothers of the Night's Watch who deserted their post at the Nightfort and were entombed at the Wall as punishment.

* BuriedAlive: Were bricked up inside the Wall so their watch would never end.
* DangerousDeserter: They deserted the Night's Watch, becoming outlaws.
* KarmicDeath: BuriedAlive within The Wall for deserting their posts.
* HellIsWar: Have to spend their afterlives serving the Watch.
* HonorBeforeReason: Lord Ryswell delivered the seventy nine deserters back to the Wall, including one who was his youngest son.
* TogetherInDeath: Lord Ryswell joined the Watch so he could be buried close to his son.

[[folder:The Rat Cook]]
!!The Rat Cook

Another infamous figure of the Night's Watch. As the name suggests, he was a cook of the Night's Watch who was supposedly offended by an Andal King, who then visited the Nightfort. As revenge, the Rat Cook served him a delicious pie of bacon... and his own son's flesh. The king enjoyed the pie so much he asked for a second helping. The gods cursed the cook by turning him into a fat, white rat which could only survive by feasting on its young. He was condemned to run the halls of the Nightfort. Rather than because of the murder or the forced cannibalism, they did it because he broke the rules of SacredHospitality.

See the [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireLegendaryFigures Legendary Figures]] page.

!!Sailors

[[folder:Old Tattersalt]]
!!Old Tattersalt
Captain of the Night's Watch galley ''Blackbird''.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: A couple chapters after he heads out for Hardhome. Maester Harmune's letter says that Tattersalt's ship was lost with all hands and doesn't even describe the circumstances.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: His first chapter has him commenting how easily his ship could break up and kill them all if it hit a rock.
* LargeAndInCharge: An authoritative captain with a large belly.
* NumberTwo: He is second to Cotter Pyke during the expedition to the Wildlgin village of Hardhome.
* TheQuietOne: He talks very little.

[[folder:Russ Barleycorn]]
!!Russ Barleycorn
Captain of The Night's Watch vessel ''Storm Crow''.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: His ship is attacked and nearly swamped by the Wildings they're trying to save.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: His ship loses six men repulsing Free Folk boarders and it is unknown if he was one of them, or what kind of situation he (and the rest of the expedition) are in even if they survived that.

!!Night's Watch Animals

[[folder:Ghost]]
!!Ghost
-->''"He's not like the others. He never makes a sound. That's why I named him Ghost. That, and because he's white. The others are all dark, grey or black."''
--->--'''Jon Snow to Benjen Stark'''

Jon Snow's pet direwolf, who is his near constant companion. Ghost is named so due to being albino and mute.

* ActionPet: Ghost is more of a scouter than a killer: but, don't think that makes him less action-orientated. He's helped Jon take down several enemies.
* AlbinosAreFreaks: Alluded to when Theon tries to kill him when he is discovered. Jon compares his [[BastardAngst conflicted feelings about his illegitimacy]] to Ghost's albinism, and takes him because they are both outcasts.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: Ghost's pure white fur and red eyes resemble the faces on heart trees, white weirwood and red sap.
* BondCreature: Even after learning the nature of wargs/skinchangers and their animal thralls, Jon recognizes the connection between him and his direwolf goes deeper than that. Ghost is a part of him.
* ChameleonCamouflage: White fur, white snow -- and, one vanishing Ghost.
* TheDreaded: None of the Wildlings will touch Jon whenever Ghost is around, a fair few having seen what happened to [[spoiler: Qhorin Halfhand]], but mainly because wargs and their wolves are still generally remembered and dreaded. With just cause. Janos Slynt is likewise terrified of Ghost and uses his presence to accuse Jon of being an abomination.
* EvilDetectingDog: Although he is silent, Ghost is a handy-dandy wight-and-Other detector, along with other types of danger. When Jon bothers to stop and listen, that is.
* HeroicMime: Unlike the other direwolves, Ghost doesn't vocalize at all. [[spoiler:So, when he does let loose with a howl... you ''know'' it's big.]]
* MeaningfulName: Ghost is also well-named: he quietly turns up [[StealthHiBye without warning quite a lot]]. Even Jon doesn't always know exactly where he is even when he knows he's somewhere close. And, he sometimes even fudges the "somewhere close" thing, too.
* NotNowKiddo: When Ghost becomes increasingly uncontrollable to the point of going berserk, Jon leaves him locked in his quarters and attributes it to his desire to fight a huge boar owned by a wildling warg. [[spoiler:It's because his several of his Night's Watch brothers are about to betray him]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Ghost stops being silent the day [[spoiler:Jon is betrayed by his brothers]].
* SilentSnarker: Ghost manages, upon occasion, to give the impression of snarking a little at Jon in a friendly manner. His stealth appearances ''do'' have a tendency to be about when Jon has said he's not exactly sure where he is, for example. Some of his disappearances do the opposite, too.
* StealthHiBye: All Stark direwolves can all be pretty hard to keep track of when they wish to be (just ask the Ironborn and Bolton trackers), but Ghost is the best of the bunch at pulling this trope. White fur + ice and snow = Cheshire wolf.

[[folder:Mormont's Raven]]
!!Mormont's Raven
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jeors_raven.jpg]]

Lord Mormont's pet talking raven, which displays an unusual tendency to say apropos things. After Mormont's death, Jon Snow cares for the raven.

* TheBusCameBack:He reappeared dramatically during the Lord Commander elections. It could just as easily have just flown off to somewhere slightly warmer and less likely to wind up pinnion-deep in Others, but it didn't.
* CleverCrows: This particular corvid is not just clever, but suspiciously insightful and rather appropriately ironic and sardonic for a bird. His rather unsettling habit of saying the right word at the right moment may have to do with [[spoiler: Bloodraven's habit of warging crows to spy around Westeros.]]
* PollyWantsAMicrophone: Has a disturbing habit of repeating chilling words during tense conversations. It also asks for corn a lot... often at points where an ice-breaker would be used by a good Fool.
* PutOnABus: The raven vanishes after the mutiny during the Great Ranging.
* SnarkyNonhumanSidekick: To Jeor and later to Jon, some of its lines count as snarks.
* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Corn.

!!Historical Members

[[folder:Danny Flint]]
!!Danny Flint
!!!Brave Danny Flint

-->''"A girl who dressed up like a boy to take the black. Her song is sad and pretty. What happened to her wasn't."''

A brave young girl, who joined the Night's Watch by disguising as a boy. It did not turn out well for her, as she was discovered and subsequently raped and murdered by her former brothers. Her ghost is said to be one of the many things wandering the Nightfort.

* ActionGirl: Joined the Night's Watch to fight for their cause.
* FamousAncestor: Or rather an infamous, unfortunate ancestor to House Flint.
* {{Foil}}: Much like Arya, she [[SweetPollyOliver dressed up as a boy]] and headed to the Wall. Unlike Arya, she found ''zero'' TrueCompanions and the moment her "brothers" discovered the truth they raped her to death.
* InUniverseNickname: "Brave Danny Flint" is the title of a song about her fate.
* RapeAsDrama: Getting gang raped to death by the guys who were your colleagues mere hours ago? Fairly dramatic, yes.
* SweetPollyOliver: Deconstructed; she joined the Night's Watch by posing as a boy but got discovered and was raped and killed as a result.
* TooDumbToLive: ''Not'' a good idea for a woman to join a group with rapists as members.

[[folder:Mad Axe]]
!!Mad Axe

-->''Mad Axe had once walked these yards and climbed these towers, butchering his brothers in the dark.''
-->--'''Bran Stark's''' thoughts on reaching the Nightfort.

A member of the Night's Watch famous for murdering his sworn brothers at the Nightfort.

* AxeCrazy: A crazed killer that murders his sworn brothers, with a literal axe to boot.
* BeardOfEvil: Had a red beard.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: He took off his boots and silently prowled the halls of the Nightfort at night to murder his brothers.
* EvilRedhead: A redhead SerialKiller.
* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: His real name is unknown.
* SerialKiller: Of Night's Watch members.

[[folder:The 79 Sentinels]]
!!The 79 Sentinels

-->"They left their posts in life, so in death their watch goes on forever."
-->--'''Bran Stark'''

Seventy nine brothers of the Night's Watch who deserted their post at the Nightfort and were entombed at the Wall as punishment.

* BuriedAlive: Were bricked up inside the Wall so their watch would never end.
* DangerousDeserter: They deserted the Night's Watch, becoming outlaws.
* KarmicDeath: BuriedAlive within The Wall for deserting their posts.
* HellIsWar: Have to spend their afterlives serving the Watch.
* HonorBeforeReason: Lord Ryswell delivered the seventy nine deserters back to the Wall, including one who was his youngest son.
* TogetherInDeath: Lord Ryswell joined the Watch so he could be buried close to his son.

[[folder:The Rat Cook]]
!!The Rat Cook

Another infamous figure of the Night's Watch. As the name suggests, he was a cook of the Night's Watch who was supposedly offended by an Andal King, who then visited the Nightfort. As revenge, the Rat Cook served him a delicious pie of bacon... and his own son's flesh. The king enjoyed the pie so much he asked for a second helping. The gods cursed the cook by turning him into a fat, white rat which could only survive by feasting on its young. He was condemned to run the halls of the Nightfort. Rather than because of the murder or the forced cannibalism, they did it because he broke the rules of SacredHospitality.

See the [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireLegendaryFigures Legendary Figures]] page.

[[folder:Old Henly and Young Henly]]
!!Old Henly and Young Henly
A pair of builders who work at the wall.

* OldSoldier: Old Henly is pushing eighty and Young Henly is pushpin sixty but both are at the front lines making barricades against Mance's army and then fighting them.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted, hence their nicknames.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Both fall to Mance's army with little characterization.

%%* CoolOldGuy

%%* LanternJawOfJustice

* AnimalMotif: Men of the Watch are often referred to as "crows", particularly by the Wildlings. Master Aemon notes that crows are smart but willing do scary things, like eating carrion, so they are hated and misunderstood. It's not only literally due to their black cloaks and clothes, but also pejoratively, because the Wildlings consider them as untrustworthy and sneaky as crows.

* CoolOldGuy: Hanging out with Master Aemon doesn't exactly come across as the greatest hardship you could ever face on the Wall. He's full of all sorts of interesting information, if you're willing to listen to his sound advice he tailors to your problems, that is.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Before Jon is elected Lord Commander, Mallister had twice been passed over for the position; he justified this to himself by saying that his time would come, eventually. After dropping out in favor of Jon, [[DarkHorseVictory and to prevent Slynt from becoming commander]]. he returns to the Shadow Tower knowing that his time will never come. He takes it quite well, considering, but warns Jon not to make him regret backing his election.

-->'''Aemon:''' [[FamousLastWords Egg, I dreamed that I was old.]]
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Passes away of old age in ''Feast''. He was 102.]]

** [[spoiler: Gilly also plans to name Dalla's son Aemon.]]

* LastOfHisKind: Aemon ''thinks'' he is this because has spent much of the latter portion of his life unaware that Viserys and Daenerys still live. [[spoiler: [[WhamEpisode And also so does Aegon.]] [[TearJerker He actually does not find out until right before his death he still has living relatives.]] Though, if you buy into the popular fan theory about Jon being Rhaegar and Lyanna's son, the scene where he explains the tragedy of House Targaryen and [[DramaticIrony how he is the last of the line]] becomes slightly humorous, as he would have been explaining this all to his long-lost great, great, grand nephew.]]

* OldMaster: He was blind with age and in very poor health, but his hands were steady and his mind sharp, and when he spoke the Night's Watch listened.

* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:When Jon chooses to spare Slynt from being hanged and decides to behead him himself in accordance to the ways of the First Men.]]

* PunchClockVillain: When compared with the likes of King Joffrey, Queen Cersei and [[spoiler:Littlefinger.]]

** This trait gets even more ridiculous when he arrives at the Wall and seems to think that everyone there should be automatically bowing down before him due to being a "lord" and continues to call himself Lord of Harrenahl, even though he never saw it and has lost all claim to it. He even claims that Mance asking for terms is because he heard Janos arrived on the Wall and now knows he has no chance of defeating the Night's Watch with someone like him in charge. [[spoiler:He even threatens that Tywin Lannister will punish the Watch severely if they execute him (unaware that Tywin is A) dead and B) despised Slynt)]].
* SmugSnake: Thinks really high of himself because he has attained lordship and a seat in the Small Council. His smugness leads him to openly defy his Lord Commander before the entire Night's Watch. [[spoiler:He gets sentenced and [[OffWithHisHead beheaded]] by Jon Snow, the son of the man he had betrayed, for disobedience. It also doubles as KarmicDeath.]]