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The Night's Watch is an organization dedicated to defending the realms of Westeros in George R. R....

The Night's Watch is an organization dedicated to defending the realms of Westeros in George R. R. Martin's epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire. The Night's Watch guards the Wall, a massive fortification built primarily of ice located in the far north of Westeros. The Wall is 100 leagues or 300 miles (480 km) long and over 700 feet (210 m) high. It extends from the Frostfangs mountain range in the west to the Bay of Seals in the east. According to Westerosi legend, it was built after the period known as The Long Night by the nearly mythical Brandon the Builder over 8,000 years prior to the present setting, in an attempt forever to shut out the inhabitants of the far north (in particular the Others), who had overrun Westeros during that period, before being turned back by unknown forces. Several mentions in the text suggest that the Wall was much smaller at the time, having been built upon by the Night's Watch over the centuries to its present size. However, the severely reduced Night's Watch at the time of the books is limited to irregular maintenance duty. The greatest antagonist to the Watch has been the Others, a race of mystical creatures not seen for thousands of