Night's Watch Doesn't Work

[Aldarion]

Night’s Watch Doesn’t Work

Night’s Watch has many problems. And the biggest one is that it shouldn’t exist in the manner it exists in right now. To put it simply, the Night’s Watch is a bastard love child o…

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Night’s Watch has many problems. And the biggest one is that it shouldn’t exist in the manner it exists in right now.

To put it simply, the Night’s Watch is a bastard love child of a monastic military order, border patrol and a prison complex.

Yet all of these have significant issues which mean that they cannot be combined.

 

[Finchbearer]

The lack of religious element does make it rather fraying at the seams, although maybe those vagabonds and low-born types could think of it as a noble profession, or a way to escape whatever poverty they grew up in, which differs from the Knights Templar being required to be of noble birth.

 

[pmmg]

I didn't know it was a problem. Something like that I might think unlikely, but go with it...so long as it was still 'in the rule' of the story world.