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[@Vhagar]

Well... really it just makes the Northmen look strait up incompetent.
I understand the wish to make your men be badasses but there are better ways to show that than just having you and your men carve through guards who don't appear to be able to fight back in any way. I know you will win, and I understand you have the drop on them, but it seems odd that you don't lose even one man, and that you manage to keep 30 roudy iron islanders, experienced Raiders or not, to keep fighting quiet enough for 0 alarms to be sounded. Like... there's no fight AR ALL, it's just you and your men murdering incompetent guards. Like, this

"He opened one man's throat with his own knife, and drove his axe into the skull of two more"

Like... we're ALL three either asleep or half wits? Murder makes noise, and three dudes all of whom are trained night guards can't all be asleep or stupid. I just feel like there would be a fight... it would make the post WAY cooler as well...

That's just my two cents
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Ah, this is where I feel like my writing leads to misinterpretations. Like, in the example given above, in my mind these three guards are far, far apart. These men are scattered around the battlements of a motte. But that quite clearly doesn't come across in my writing, and that's entirely my fault. 

In terms of the guards... I mean, in the GoT world, household guards have never exactly been competent. It's not like these are the soldiers, but just household guards. The one example that springs to mind is Eddard Stark's guards and Jory Cassel. I mean, they were there, but the second they ended up against the city watch they were absolutely massacred. Jory went up against a superior fighter (admittedly it was Jaime Lannister... nowhere near a fair match up) and the fight didn't last 10 seconds. I felt like Ironborn warriors would make fairly short work of household guards. But, you have raised the point that I totally overlooked the Mormont soldier garrison on the Island. And that most definitely needs to be addressed.