


The snow never melts, the ice never breaks and even in the warmest and longest summers the lands are still freezing, cold and inhospitable. The Lands of Always Winter are so-called because they lie in the shadow of permanent cold, ice and snow. The Lands Beyond the Wall, which are divided into three general regions: the Lands of Always Winter in the far north and extending for over a thousand miles to the north pole the Ice River and Frozen Shore regions on the open, cold plains west of the Frostfangs and the better-populated lands of the Milkwater Valley and the Haunted Forest to the east.
