I have covered most about Craster already in What Use is a Night’s King and From Sandkings to Nightqueen. And in an unexpected way, we come to the realization that George uses incest amongst humans to mimic an inhuman lifeform’s ability to perform autogamy or parthogenesis.Ī follow-up essay is in the making, where I will go deeper into his legacy – sweet little monster. We also find them for other wives of Craster in the short moments that they are featured.

Maw references are not solely restricted to Gilly alone. This is very much a Sandking maw feature. She may be no sorceress or hivemind, but Gilly is a mother, leaking milk that she shares with adult men.

This was an obvious parallel to the corpse queen to pick up on, but almost so on the nose for a girl we have sympathy for that it is easily glossed over.

However, Gilly most certainly is repeatedly featured and cast in a corpse queen role by George in all the right locations: north of the Wall in an enchanted frosted forest, the Nightfort’s kitchens and the Wall’s lichyard. While most readers will recognize up to a level that Craster has a partial Night’s King role, his wives will hardly ever be recognized as a parallel to a corpse queen. This essay will focus on Craster and his wives, Gilly in particular, in terms of the elements that fit the patterns, functions and abilities insofar they match with the Night’s King as well as the corpse queen.

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