How did Gared manage to get south of the wall, alone? Why wouldn't he just head back to the wall and tell the Watch what he had seen?
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Gared - prologue Question
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Krakenheart
, May 27 2012 05:35 AM
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Landed Knight
Posted 27 May 2012 - 06:13 AM
Well he was crazy, he had no sense.
The Watch doesn't stop anyone deserting them too. That's their choice and they'll suffer for it I guess.
The Watch doesn't stop anyone deserting them too. That's their choice and they'll suffer for it I guess.
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Sellsword
Posted 27 May 2012 - 06:18 AM
He was scared probably. If he'd gone back to the wall, he'd have to fight those creatures at some point...
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Freerider
Posted 27 May 2012 - 08:33 AM
In the books, he was running and lost his mind totally. In Bran Chapter where they bran see his dad give Gared the king justice goes over why he ran.
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Freerider
Posted 27 May 2012 - 09:52 AM
Likely quite disturbed over what happened with Will and Ser Waymar, Gared likely fled South to escape the burgeoning threat emanating from the Heart of Winter in the uncharted North. Yes, the sensible choice would have been to report to the Wall what he saw transpire, but who is to say anyone at Castle Black would beieve him without proof or evidence? Once it was reported to Lord Eddard that there was a deserter afoot, Gared's fate was essentailly sealed, although he did manage to report what he witnessed before he was executed.
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Posted 27 May 2012 - 09:53 AM
I think he did return to the Wall first. Before deserting it later.
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Posted 27 May 2012 - 11:37 PM
I always thought that he might have run around the wall at the shadow tower or eastwatch-by-the-sea.
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Posted 01 July 2012 - 08:04 PM
What intrigues me is Gared's lost sanity.
Aye, seeing your dead buddies corpses trying to reach you, trying to kill you, with sinister blue eyes is something terrible, but did he truly saw them?( I suppose he did, but I don't have evidences).
Gared was one of the most experienced man of the NW.
And Gared seemed to have some knowledge of the Others or the wights. When Ser Waymar Royce forbade him to make fire, he answered that "there are other things a fire keep away" or sthg in these lines.
Of course, this could be the knowledge from the legends of the wall, but, still...
It's just more strange when the Old Bear told Tyrion rather naturally that the fisherfolk were seeing the white walkers, as if it was something completely normal.
I have this impression that the Others are quite masochists, and enjoyed their time torturing Gared in his flee, pretending to be going to kill him. Or maybe they really were going to.
Aye, seeing your dead buddies corpses trying to reach you, trying to kill you, with sinister blue eyes is something terrible, but did he truly saw them?( I suppose he did, but I don't have evidences).
Gared was one of the most experienced man of the NW.
And Gared seemed to have some knowledge of the Others or the wights. When Ser Waymar Royce forbade him to make fire, he answered that "there are other things a fire keep away" or sthg in these lines.
Of course, this could be the knowledge from the legends of the wall, but, still...
It's just more strange when the Old Bear told Tyrion rather naturally that the fisherfolk were seeing the white walkers, as if it was something completely normal.
I have this impression that the Others are quite masochists, and enjoyed their time torturing Gared in his flee, pretending to be going to kill him. Or maybe they really were going to.
