Eddard started his journey to the Wall at the break of the dawn . With twenty men of honor guard , twice as many as horses to carry feed and camping tools it was quite a crowd , his Lord Father and siblings saw them off .
It was after twelve days of hard riding with minimal breaks that they were able to see the Wall on the horizon and they are still a days ride away from it . It was a wonder to even glimpse , three hundred miles long , seven hundred feet high and fifty feet wide at the top . These are facts read in books , it is something else to see it with eyes .
As they got closer and closer to the Wall , one thought kept repeating in his head , just hands of men couldn't have made this , it is not possible , it had to be work of gaints with the help of magic , for how is this still standing after eight thousand years of being made , how has a structure made of ice is still standing when it has seen a thousand summers , how hasn't it melted bit by bit , when a day as today where the sky is clear , sun is shining and temperature is above melting point for ice , it has to be magic .
Maesters tell that magic has died in the world , if it has how in the name of Seven Hells is there a seven hundred foot tall made of ice still standing in front of me ?? How is there a magic sword , which has never rusted , never needed sharpening , lighter than it has any right to be hanging in the Lord's solar for past four hundred years in Winterfell ?? No magic hasn't died , it is still in the world , if the Wall is monument of anything , it's a monument dedicated to magic .
But the Wall isn't a monument , it is exactly what it's named , a wall to keep things out . Not men out , you don't build a wall this size to keep men out , logically this means we didn't annihilate the Others , they are out there , and them being out there was enough of a threat that Brandon the Builder thought we need a Seven hundred feet high , three hundred mile long , coast to coast wall . And he built it .
Oh , Old God's and New , the Others are out there , with that thought a shudder travelled down his spine , Eddard thought he pissed his britches a little .