Supplies can thus brought from Sky to the Eyrie's winch room, as can visitors unable or unwilling to climb the chimney ladder. Alternatively, wicker baskets and six great oaken buckets are drawn on long iron chains between the Eyrie and Sky. Using handholds carved into the rock within the Giant's Lance, visitors can climb a ladder-like chimney which leads from Sky up to the castle's undercellar. The Eyrie is located six hundred feet above a waycastle, Sky.Many prisoners, driven mad by the cold and howling wind, commit suicide rather than remain imprisoned. They are shelves on the side of the mountain's sheer cliffs, left open to the cold sky, with slightly sloping floors to unnerve the prisoners. Sky cells are the Eyrie's infamous dungeons.The garden, which is overlooked by Lady Lysa Arryn's apartments, instead contains blue flowers, grass, shrubbery, thin dark trees, and statuary, including a depiction of a weeping Alyssa Arryn in its center. It was intended to be a godswood, but no weirwood heart tree would take root in the stony soil. The garden is encircled by the castle's towers.The bedchamber's window has small diamond-shaped panes. The Moon Tower contains the bedchambers of Lord Arryn, which is protected by an oaken door four inches thick and has curtains of plush blue velvet.From a balcony on the tower, one can see the Vale and the Giant's Lance. The Maiden's Tower is the easternmost of the seven towers of the Eyrie.The Morning Hall is located above the kitchens and is where people can break their fast.The Lower Hall is a hall in which food and wine can be served.The chamber is decorated with a Myrish carpet and has enough room for a trestle table and at least eight heavy oak-and-leather chairs. The solar is located at the end of the arcade.The portcullis atop the stairs leads to an arcade decorated with tapestries. A flight of steep marble stairs from the Crescent Chamber bypasses the Eyrie's undercrofts and dungeons and is protected by three murder holes.Here, guests are given refreshments and warmed by the fire after making the climb up the Giant's Lance. The Crescent Chamber is the Eyrie's reception hall.Most executions at the Eyrie use this door, which opens onto a six hundred foot drop to the stones of the valley below. A crescent moon is carved into the door, which opens inward and is barred by three heavy bronze bars. The Moon Door is a narrow weirwood door that stands between two slender pillars halfway in the High Hall.
Entrance to the High Hall is through carved wooden doors. It has narrow, arched windows, between which are torches mounted on high iron or silver sconces. At the end of it sit two thrones carved of weirwood, one the high seat of the lord and the other a lesser throne for a consort. The High Hall is decorated with rows of slim fluted pillars and a blue silk carpet. The High Hall is a long and austere hall, with walls made of blue-veined white marble.The castle's household guard wear sky-blue cloaks. The Eyrie lacks stables, smithys, and kennels, but its granary is as large as those found in much larger castles, like Winterfell. The waterfall known as Alyssa's Tears can be heard from the Eyrie, and falcons fly near the castle. Its seven slim, white towers are bunched tightly together and can hold up to five hundred men. The Eyrie is the smallest of the great castles, being no larger than Maegor's Holdfast. I don't know if I am or not.The Eyrie by Thomas Denmark © Fantasy Flight Games And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep.
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