NWHS: The Wall (Military) Academy

by ThomE.Gemcity-06

Arya was sick of standing on the sidelines so when females were finally allowed, she didn't miss her chance to join The Wall Military Academy. She never expected it to be easy, in fact, she relished the challenge. Excelling in her first-year class unit, she's moved up with the third-year recruits and partnered with a boy named Jon who reminds her of home. Set in muted modern NWHS.

1. Preface

a/n: Includes a brief history that is a mixture of truths and altered facts.

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Twelve thousand years ago, the First Men arrived on the huge continent of Westeros and settled. But they were not alone. The Children of the Forest had lived on Westeros for thousands of years before. The two peoples fought over land rights and the cutting of the sacred weirwood trees that the Children of the Forest worshiped; until finally the Children of the Forest brought the First Men to a standstill and both parties agreed to sign a Pact of mutual peace and cooperation. It gave the Children of the Forest the rights to the deep forest land, and gave the First Men ownership of all other land in Westeros.

Under the promise that the First Men would never cut another weirwood, the Pact held firm for four thousand years in which the First Men adopted the Children of the Forest's religion of the Old Gods of the Forest.

Eight thousand years ago a great war took place during The Long Night, a season of winter that lasted a generation. Savages called White Walkers from the far North in the polar regions called The Land of the Always Winter, moved south and invaded Westeros. The peoples of Westeros rallied together and in a clash known as War of the Dawn, which lasted a generation and a night, where able to defeat the White Walkers and drive them back to the outermost North.

A powerful man called Brandon Builder constructed the Wall, a fortification that eventually would expand the complete 300 miles along the northern boarder of what became known as the Seven Kingdoms. North of the Wall became known as The Beyond.

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*{author's note: unlike the Wall in the series, this one is not made of ice but stone, as well as not even close to height, maybe as tall as the Wall of China. It was not built in one-night but probably took a hundred years to complete. It was a simple wall, acting as a blockade between the Seven Kingdoms and the North Beyond the Wall.}*
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The Children of the Forest slowly died out by the time six thousand years ago with the Invasion of the Andals, implanting their own religion Faith of the Seven by cutting down the sacred weirwoods of the Old Gods. But the First Men fought back and eventually the Andals claimed the land in the south, and the First Men kept the north with the last of the weirwoods. After centuries of religious wars and stifles they eventually settled into a — sometimes uneasy — coexistence.

By this time several fortifications had been added to the Wall. 19 towers had been built spanning the whole 300 mile length of the Wall, five of those strongholds, each with their own names. Starting east of the Wall was Eastwatch(-by-the-Sea)[the main port and re-supply post/shipyard], Castle Black [The Wall's main headquarters], Deep Lake, The Night Fort, and Shadow Tower [watch on the west].

Granted by the ruling power of the Seven Kingdoms, the Wall was granted 150 miles of land immediately south of the Wall to provide the men with food and provisions. This group of men became known as the Sworn Brothers of the Night's Watch.

As the centuries passed, the Wall developed into the number one Military training depot in the Seven Kingdoms. The Gift became more than just food supply and provisions, but housed the officers and recruits with all their needs and as well as training grounds. 150 miles on the north side of the Wall was military land also used for training exercises, and beyond that was restricted area and fenced off to prevent recruits from going out of bounds and the people classified as "wildling" came no further. The wildings were a people that did not follow the laws of the Seven Kingdoms; the were essentialy a cult—a self-identified group of people who share a narrowly defined interest or perspective, outcasts.

And today, it still functions as a training facility, where recruiting officers known as Wondering Crows go to all the high schools and colleges in the Seven Kingdoms once a year to recruit boys and men for what is now known as the Wall Military Academy.

And this year, is the first year that they are excepting female recruits.

-tbc-
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I swear, this took me forever to write. I hope it was a comprehensive and interesting read. Don't worry, the story begins next.

Thanks for Reading!

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