Location from A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
The vast frozen wilderness north of the Wall — a haunted expanse of frozen forests, ice lakes, and tundra where Wildling tribes survive alongside ancient horrors that have slept for millennia.
Beyond the Wall is where the maps end and the stories begin — and most of the stories end with death. The Free Folk survive here through sheer stubbornness, living in scattered villages and ranging across territory that would kill any southerner within a week. They've never bent the knee to any king, and they view the Wall not as protection but as a prison wall built to keep them out of lands they consider rightfully theirs. But the Free Folk are not what the Wall was built to stop. In the deepest north, where the Frostfangs give way to the Lands of Always Winter, something ancient is stirring. The White Walkers and their army of the dead are moving south for the first time in eight thousand years, and the frozen dead are rising from the snow. The Children of the Forest once lived here in harmony with the Old Gods, and their remnants still hide in caves beneath weirwood roots. This is the oldest part of the known world, and it is waking up.
An endless wilderness of dark pine forests blanketed in snow, frozen rivers, and windswept tundra stretching toward the Lands of Always Winter. The haunted forest presses close to the Wall, and beyond it the Frostfangs rise — jagged, ice-sheathed mountains where the sun barely reaches. Weirwood groves stand like bone-white sentinels.
Also known as: beyond the Wall, the true North, the lands beyond