Post by stdaga on Jan 26, 2018 8:17:43 GMT
Well Whitetree village is just north of the Nightfort. Also directly south of the Nightfort is Queen's Crown. I think there is a connection between these three.
I have a crackpot notion that the Night's Watch was secretly sacrificing to the Others as part of a Pact between Humanity and the Others. Then the Targaryens ended up fucking that up and now the Others have come down since humanity broke the Pact.
We learn from the history's and certain characters that First Men/Northerns used to be a little more... hardcore when it comes to religion and sacrifice to the Old Gods. Bran's vision of sacrifice at the Heart Tree at Winterfell, Ser Bartimus telling Davos about the Wolf's Den before the coming of the Manderely's, Theon the Hungry Wolf invasion of the Andalos etc.
Now, to this idea of the Night's Watch sacrificing to the Other's, do you mean back in the time of the Thirteenth Lord Commander (ie the Night King) or do you mean much more recently, as it it stopped 200 years ago when Alysanne and Jaehaerys came north? If that was the case, maybe Craster, as the son of a Night's Watch member (possibly) was just keeping that tradition alive? But the Night's Watch were not making babies like Craster is, so who were they sacrificing? Themselves? I like tinfoil, and would love to hear more of this idea of yours.
As to Whitetree, and the Nightfort, I see how close they are, and both have great weirwoods (I am going with the idea that the Black Gate is actually part of a weirwood tree). But at Queen's crown, there is no weirwood, is there. Maybe that doesn't matter to your theory. Queen's crown is where Queen Alysanne stayed on her way north, probably to stay at the Nightfort. Do you think that Alysanne went north of the wall, and perhaps visited Whitetree village too?
I think it was more important when the Nightfort was the head of the Night's Watch. Then it was moved and village fell on hard times.
Maybe its Bran/Brynden/COTF trying to talk to him?