Raymun Redbeard

Raymun Redbeard was a King-Beyond-the-Wall of the Free Folk, living roughly a hundred years ago.
==Biography==
===Background===
Raymun Redbeard assumed the title of King-Beyond-the-Wall and led an invasion of the North. He figured that the Wall's massive size was both its greatest advantage and its greatest flaw, making it impossible to patrol the entire fortification day and night. So when the patrols passed, he sent his climbers to scale the Wall and leave ropes and ladders for his army to follow after.
The Night's Watch did not even know of his passing until his force was already cornered and destroyed by the combined efforts of House Stark and House Umber.
===Game of Thrones: Season 3===
Jon Snow tells Ygritte that in the past thousand years, six Kings-Beyond-the-Wall unsuccessfully attempted to invade the lands south of the Wall; Raymun Redbeard is presumably one of those six kings.
==In the books==
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Raymun Redbeard was King-Beyond-the-Wall in the time of Lord William Stark, the grandfather of Lord Rickard Stark. Having seen the decline of the Night's Watch under the leadership of Lord Commander Jack Musgood, Raymun and his raiders crossed over the Wall and invaded the North. Eventually, the invading force engaged in battle against the Northerners led by William Stark and Lord Harmond of House Umber, "the Drunken Giant". Lord William was slain and his younger brother, Artos Stark, "the Implacable", slew Raymun. Raymun's younger brother fled back beyond the Wall and became known as "the Red Raven", for having fled from battle, "Red" for the color of his hair and "Raven" because it rhymed with "craven".
The Night's Watch arrived too late to fight so Artos, grieving over the headless corpse of his brother, assigned them the shameful task of burying the dead. Lord Commander Musgood was forever after known as "Sleepy Jack".
The wildling raider Gerrick Kingsblood boasts direct descent from Raymun Redbeard but is actually descended from the Red Raven, a fact most Free Folk are aware of and use to disparage him.
The Dunk & Egg novellas begin in 209 AC, and while the three currently published ones only extend to the year 211 AC, future installments are intended to stretch forward to over the next fifty years of history, using time jumps. Raymund Redbeard led his attack over the Wall in 226 AC, meaning that he is the current King-Beyond-The-Wall during the Dunk & Egg novellas.
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Category:Free Folk
Category:Individuals from Histories & Lore
Category:Kings-Beyond-the-Wall
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