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Chapter 2: The Wall & The GiftSmall PaulAbilitiesAthletics 6 Strength 4Animal Handling 3 Charm 2Endurance 6Fighting 4 Brawling 3Will 1CombatDefense10(7 in armor)AttributesIntrigueDefenseHealth 18 Composure 3Destiny1 PointBenefits: Brother of the Night’s Watch (Ranger), MassiveDrawbacks: Naive6Arms & ArmorMail Armor: AR 5 ❂ AP -3Bulk 2 (Movement 3, Sprint 10)Cudgel 4D 5 damage Off-hand +1Fist 4D+3B 3 damage Grab, Off-hand +1Personal Gear: Stout wooden cudgel, black woolen garb and cloak,black mailhis hand was enough to drive off, even kill, the wolves that menaced theherds from time to time.Some of the local boys took to taunting Paul for entertainment.Bergot Miller was their leader, son of a prominent man in the districtand as rotten as rye left to mold. Paul made an easy target forthe much smaller Miller boy. Words did little to rile Paul, but whenBergot decided to push the bigger boy around a little, Paul got angryand Bergot got dead. One blow from Paul’s fist drove Bergot’s jawright into his brain and landed Paul himself in a stone cell with nowindows.Paul went north soon after, at least smart enough to know that theWall was a better choice than the gallows.PersonalityPaul isn’t a violent man by nature, being a little too dim to form viciousintent. He is, however, malleable and easily manipulated—and in thesedays, there is no shortage of unscrupulous men among the black brothers.All it would take is for one to find the right handle on him to makePaul a weapon deadly to the men around him.Paul likes animals, they don’t confuse him. Paul does what he’s told. Onthe Wall he moves pig iron for Donal Noye, crushes gravel for the walkways,and hauls stone for the builders. If someone has something big andheavy they need moved or lifted or broken, Paul is the man for the job.AppearanceSmall Paul is enormous. He towers over most of his Brothers with shoulderslike a bull and hands big enough to make a normal man’s tools looklike toys. He wears a shaggy beard, mostly because he’s never got theknack of shaving. His nose is broken and his eyes are dark and deep set.Eastwatch-by-the-SeaHard by the Bay of Seals, Eastwatch-by-the-Sea stands sentinel overthe eastern end of the Wall and the gray water passage between it andthe isle of Skagos.Eastwatch is a collection of long halls, stout timber keeps, and lowstone buildings gathered around a single, central tower of mortaredstone. Cotter Pyke, commander of the castle, runs a tight ship. Thecourtyards are clean, the buildings in good repair, but there is no escapingthe fact that a hundred and seventy men live in a castle built tosupport three times that number.The RedoubtThe central tower, called the Redoubt, is a broad, square tower some seventyfeet high and forty feet to a side. There is but one entrance, a broad doorof oak, bound in iron, and wide enough for two men to pass abreast. Itopens on a small entry, blocked by an iron portcullis. A pair of murder holes,covered by iron grates, open in the ceiling permitting men in the chamberabove to pour oil in on anyone trapped between the inner and outer portals.The commander of Eastwatch-by-the-Sea keeps his chambers in theupper floors of the Redoubt. Below the commander’s suite are smallapartments for the captains of the Watch’s war galleys and below that,cells for the Stewards that attend them all. The tower boasts a modestdining hall, a solar and study, its own well, and cellars stocked with asmall store of provisions in case of emergency.51