ここで話題にするのはその内のゲームオブスローンズの世界観代表＝ナイツウォッチに関するもの。
「Night’s Watch Oath」
～『ナイツウォッチの誓いの言葉』
「History and Lore The History of the Night’s Watch – House Stark」
～『ナイツウォッチの歴史と言い伝え－スターク家編』
「History and Lore The History of the Night’s Watch – House Lannister」
～『ナイツウォッチの歴史と言い伝え－ラニスター家編』
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night’s Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.
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History and Lore The History of the Night’s Watch – House Stark
語り手：学匠ルーウィン
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Joining the NightsWatch or taking the black is a singular honor for any northerner. For it was in the north some 8,000 years ago, that the first man drove back the white walkers, erected the wall and established the sworn Brotherhood that would guard the realm at its people from dangers beyond.
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Regrettably the NightsWatch no longer commands the widespread respect and admiration it once did. While House Stark and other houses and the northern regions continue to recognize its vital importance to the safty and stability of the realm, this view is not shared by the powerful houses of the southern kingdoms or their subjects. Most regard the Watch as a misguided obsolete order made up of useless outcasts.
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Admittedly the current NightsWatch is a shadow of its former glory. The numbers have dwindled to less than a thousand, as the 19 castles along the Wall only three are functional, the Shadowtower, Castle Black and East watch by the sea. And the Watch’s madate of adding to the Wall has been abandoned entirely. There are barely enough resources to maintain it.
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Recruiting officers known as “wandering crows” scour the dungeons and slums of the realm in hope of finding men to fill the ranks. While there is still the occasional highborn volunteer, the newest recruits are almost entirely made up of lowly criminals, thieves, rapists and murderers sentenced to the Wall as punishment for their crimes.
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The decline of this once fabled order is troubling as the danger of guards against is all too real while the Whitewalkers haven’t been seen or heard from in ages and may very well be the stuff of myth. Barbarian tribes that well beyond the Wall known as wildlings have been a menace to the north and its people for generations. At critain points in history the disparate wildling tribes have united behind a single leader as “King beyond the Wall”. And attempted large scale attacks against the realm.
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But thanks to the resourceful and courageous man of the NightsWatch these so called kings were soundly defeated. While many have lost faith in the NightsWatch, the people of the north are steadfast in their belief that the black brothers will answer the call of duty. But with winter coming, diminished numbers and a lack of widespread support will they be ready.
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History and Lore The History of the Night’s Watch – House Lannister
語り手：タイウィン・ラニスター
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Long ago in the wintry north, an army of demons emerged from beneath the icy ground and spread darkness and despair across the land. Astride thier monstrous spiders, flanked by giants, they wreaked havoc on the innocent slaughtering thousands. All hope was lost until the fearless warriors of the first Night’Watch drove them back into the wintry mountains and built a mattock wall to keep them from ever invading again. These stalwart brothers in black continue to protect us even this day from the evils that lurk in the shadows.
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An absurd lie, a fairy tale spun by many a wet nurse in the north, to be sure a giant wall does exist the triumph of engineering perhaps but not of magic.
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As for the Night’s Watch, there may have been a time centuries ago when there was prestige and honor in the miserable monastic life of a black brother. But now, the wall has become a glorified penal colony full of outcasts criminals and assorted ne’er-do-wells. Today, a typical man of the Night’s Watch most likely started out a lowly beggar or a rapist or a village idiot. As for the few highborn Watchmen, they either fought on the losing side of a war or were disowned by their parents for one reason or another.
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Those who persist in defending the Night’s Watch will claim the Seven Kingdoms need protection from the Wildling tribes of the far north. But there’s little to fear from those primitives. There are nuisance but not sophisticated or powerful enough to be a significant threat to the realm. And any talk of WhiteWalkers returning with their armies of the Dead and their gaint spiders and their snarks is just that talk.
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