Game of Thrones: The Legend of Jon Arctic - ASOIAF/GOT

Chapter 143 - Second King Beyond the Wall.

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Thrid Person POV

Westeros, 296 AC.

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Many miles above Artica, passing through various plains, fields, and frozen lakes, proceeding through enormous fogs and mountains, situated in an area much colder than the south, with forests petrified by the low temperature, a huge encampment was concentrated there at this moment.

The camp was crowded with tents everywhere, while men wearing leather clothes patrolled the entire region; there were two races, the giants who lived bringing logs to the camp and the Free Folk, with more than 400 giants and 110,000 people of the Free Folk gathered there, among the men, there were 200 wargs.

This camp has been in this northern region for almost a decade, gathering everything they could save from the cold shadows, the darkness, or death gods as many used to say.

However, the enemy is beginning to move; in the last moons, the camp started receiving attacks while their scouts began to disappear, never a direct attack, just picking off one here and there, as if they were waiting for something bigger to come.

Seeing the camp starting to be attacked from all sides, the people there began to worry as those monsters were becoming increasingly aggressive.

The pressure on the leader began to build, Mance, the declared King Beyond the Wall, started to move the camp, seeing that in the north only death remained, and it was time for them to head south in search of a way to cross the Wall.

In the main tent of the camp where Mance usually held his meetings with the camp's top leaders of the Free Folk, he was making the last one before they really left the north.

"As you know..." Mance began. "We lost all contact against all the last northern tribes we tried to recruit, but even our scouts are not returning, which ends up showing us that they are dead..." He commented while the group looked grim.

"These fools chose not to come to this camp when they were called, now let them die; let's go south and dominate the Wall of the crows." The leader of the Thenns, Styr, the Magnar of Thenn, spoke in a serious tone.

"I've heard some quite strange things about the south... I think you should know, Mance..." A woman with a huge scar on her face spoke.

"It's been 16 years since I've been to the south... Morna White Mask. I've heard things, too, but just very strange rumors to believe..." Mance commented.

"Mance, if you need information from the south, I have a person from my tribe who fled from the south and was part of the Lunar tribe many years ago..." One of the other leaders informed him.

"Isn't that one of the biggest tribes in the southeast...? I heard it was destroyed many years ago, but I didn't believe it..." He said curiously, he hadn't heard of them for almost a decade, when he had been in that region, just some people with rumors, but nobody from the tribe.

"It was, Mance, when he showed up at my camp, he said the tribe was decimated 7 years ago." Said the leader.

"Did the darkness eliminate them?" He asked sadly.

"No Mance, it's hard to explain... but it's better if you hear it directly from him." The Leader said in a calm tone and went out to call this man; it didn't take long for this leader to enter the tent while greeting everyone with some fear.

"So you're from that tribe... I thought you guys had at least 2,000 men to fight with you..." Mance said, waiting for the man to continue this mystery.

"Yes, I belonged to the tribe, and we were at our peak, however, more than 7 years ago in the south... a new group began to patrol the southern region near the coast, recruiting tribes, they called themselves the Artican tribe, our wargs started to watch them and we saw the large tribe with a group of giants, a number larger than in this camp, the tribe was made of giants, men, and even many animals, we spotted many giant wolves, at least about 50 of them roaming the nomadic tribe... They were a group of 4,000, we were interested in them, they had food and weapons we had never seen before, there were giants and animals covered in strange metal that shone in a green hue, but we were much smaller than them..." He spoke, pausing while everyone looked curious about what they had just heard, it seemed that the south was quite bustling while they were in the north.