Craster was a wildling who lived north of the Wall in a fortified homestead, rather grandly called Craster’s Keep, along with his daughters and wives. When his daughters grew old enough he married them, and then incestuously fathered new children with them. At the time of the War of the Five Kings, he had nineteen wives. Although he was counted as an ally of the Night’s Watch, and allowed his keep to be used as a redoubt by the Watch on their rangings northwards, they considered him an unsavory character and his relationship with his daughters was regarded as sordid. The Watch had to grudgingly tolerate this, however, as Craster was one of their few sources of information and shelter beyond the Wall.
Craster was a cruel, domineering, lecherous, sadistic, and wicked man who was evidently completely devoid of compassion or empathy for other human beings, even towards his own daughters and baby sons. He had an intensive superiority complex, stating that he was a “godly man” and could not be killed by the members of the Night’s Watch. Extremely perverted, he sired dozens of illegitimate, incestuous children with his own daughters whom he raised until they were old enough to be wedded to create more generations of daughters, repeating the cycle over and over again. He also fathered ninety-nine ill-conceived sons all of whom he simply abandoned as a sacrifice to the White Walkers.
Craster was able to exploit an advantage to its full extent, throughout technically keeping his word whilst assuring that he received a greater benefit. He used this with his alliance to the Night’s Watch by providing Jeor Mormont with information regarding Mance Rayder’s movements beyond the Wall but only after being bribed to reveal such vital information and allowing a group of the Night’s Watch to stay under his Keep but feeding them less than his prized pig, simply letting them starve in the cold.
In the Song of Ice and Fire game context he is a Free Folk non combatant character that allows units to replace wounds. With the lack of armour amongst Free Folk units this makes him an essential if unsavoury addition.
Thzts a funky figure….funnily enough The place Craster is north of the wall in Northumberland. It is (or was) a small fishing village.
Fishing North of this wall would look a bit like:
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Great painting on one of the most despicable characters in the series, and that’s saying something with all the other foul wretches he is competing against.
Agree with Dave. This character was up there with Walder Frey as ones I wanted to see dead. Though in the series, it never made sense to me why the White Walkers wanted the sons or how that negotiation would have been worked out.
I am not a Song of Ice and Fire aficionado but I think Craster gives his sons to the White Walkers as payment for leaving him alone. Also the White Walkers wanted the children from beyond the wall that were promised them when they erected the wall, I guess as some form of payment. Of course this just maybe Guru BS.
I’ve not read the books just watched GoT until the utterly disappointing finale. As in all the seasons the White Walkers never spoke once, and as every time time they encountered living things they killed them, it does beg the question as to how their horrid business arrangement was worked out. I have the same problem that the motivation for the White Walkers is never really fleshed out. So much else was cool in the show, but I think opportunities were squandered for much better writing. Maybe the prequel will do better.
Great paint job- I’ve not seen/ read any of Game of Thrones so I was unaware of him. He doesn’t sound very pleasant at all.
Cheers,
Pete.
Nup, but he is a must for game play!
An unsavoury character but a nice mini! 🙂
Agreed!