![]() Its heart tree, a weirwood, appears to have a terrible visage full of hatred, with a twisted mouth and flaring eyes. The wood contains oaks, pines, and sentinels. The godswood is walled over twenty acres and has a small stream running through it.The mews are said to be haunted by the spirits of dead falcons.Hunter's Hall is another hall of the castle.It has twenty forges, stone water troughs, and a high roof. Adjoining the armory is the smithy, a long building in the shape of a tunnel.The Barracks Hall above the armory is where the men-at-arms take their meals.The kitchens are as large as Winterfell's Great Hall. The kitchens are located in a round stone building with a domed roof containing nothing but kitchens.Its floors are smooth slate and there are steps to two galleries above. It has only thirty-three or thirty-five hearths, but is said to be able to entertain an army. The Hall of the Hundred Hearths is the castle's great hall.The east gate is smaller than the main gate and is located near the Tower of Ghosts.The main gate has walls so thick that no less than a dozen murder holes are passed before one reaches the yard on the other side.It connects to the Widow's Tower via a stone bridge. Kingspyre Tower contains the castellan's chambers.Tower of Ghosts is near the postern gate and the ruined sept.Wailing Tower contains storerooms on the ground floor and cavernous vaults beneath.Underneath there is a great cell that is used to keep prisoners. ![]() Widow's Tower connects to the Kingspyre Tower via a stone bridge.Tower of Dread is near the middle bailey and the mews.Their original names were lost with the death of Harren the Black. Of the castle's five towers, the shortest is half again as high as the tallest one in Winterfell, yet none of the towers are proper, being bent, lumped, and cracked from the melting of the stone during the burning of Harrenhal by Balerion, the dragon of King Aegon I Targaryen, three centuries earlier. Harrenhal's walls and towers are made of black stone. ![]() From outside the gatehouse, only the tops of five immense towers can be seen because the height of the walls obscure the view of them. ![]() Harrenhal's gatehouse is as large as Winterfell's Great Keep, and its stone is discolored and fissured. Harrenhal is built on a gigantic scale its colossal curtain walls are sheer and high as mountain cliffs while atop the battlements the wood-and-iron scorpions seem as small as their namesakes when seen from the ground. Bats infest the tops of some of the towers. The Whents use only the lower thirds of two of the five towers, letting the rest go to ruin, and many places in the castle have not been entered in decades. However, much of Harrenhal has far gone into decay. Its stables can house a thousand horses, its godswood covers twenty acres, and its kitchens are as large as Winterfell's Great Hall. The castle covers three times as much ground as Winterfell and its buildings are so much larger that they can scarcely be compared. The Crown chose it as the location of the Great Council of 101 AC because it did not know how many would attend, and wanted a hall for at least five hundred lords and their entourages more than a thousand came. Harrenhal has the largest chamber in Westeros, even larger than the Red Keep's throne room. Ser Jaime Lannister thinks of the castle as Black Harren's folly. The walls are incredibly thick and its rooms are built on a scale that would be more comfortable for giants than humans. The castle has five towers of dizzying size, with equally monstrous curtain walls.
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