![]() ![]() The godswood at Storm's End in the stormlands, including its solemn-faced weirwood heart tree, is burned by Stannis Baratheon as an offering to the Lord of Light. Its heart tree is a slender weirwood with a sad face. Full of birds and flowers, it consists of tall redwoods and old elms overlooking streams. The godswood of Riverrun in the riverlands is a bright and airy garden. Unlike the weirwoods of older godswoods, the Red Keep's heart tree is a great oak covered in smokeberry vines. It is an acre of elm, alder, and black cottonwood. The godswood of the Red Keep, the castle of King's Landing in the crownlands, overlooks the Blackwater Rush. The godswood also contains a statue of Melissa Blackwood. Hundreds of ravens have roosted on the tree at night for thousands of years. Its weirwood heart tree, although dead, is colossal and can be seen from leagues away. The godswood of Raventree Hall in the riverlands contains trees said to be as old as the castle's towers. The godswood of Raventree Hall, with its enormous weirwood and hundreds of ravens - by Elena María Vacas The lush godswood contains three weirwoods that have grown together, called the Three Singers, said by some to have been planted by Garth Greenhand. ![]() HighgardenĪlthough Garth IX Gardener, King of the Reach, built the first sept of Highgarden, he continued to pray within the castle's godswood. Besides a weirwood heart tree with a terrible face, it contains pines, sentinels, and a little stream. ![]() The godswood of Harrenhal in the riverlands covers twenty acres. Instead, there is a statue of a weeping Alyssa Arryn at its center. It is more garden than godswood, as the ground is too thin and stony for a weirwood to grow. The godswood of the Eyrie in the Vale of Arryn contains a godswood but no heart tree. The godswood of Deepwood Motte in the north is frequented by the pious Lady Sybelle Glover. Shortly before winter is declared, the godswood at Darry in the riverlands contains bare trees with black branches reaching the sky. It contains a twisted weirwood, whose tangled roots have almost filled the cave, choking out all other growth. In the westerlands, Casterly Rock's godswood is a cave within the mountain, called the Stone Garden. There is a significant number on the Isle of Faces, however, and many southron castles still have weirwoods within their godswoods. South of the Neck, however, most weirwoods were cut down or burnt years ago. In the north every castle has a weirwood heart tree with a face. When the First Men took up the old gods of the children of the forest, they created godswoods, groves within their castles and villages where a single weirwood, known as a " heart tree" and carved with a face, was planted so the gods could be worshipped. Godswood attendant - by artist Rafal Hrynkiewicz © Fantasy Flight Games ![]()
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