Land of Always Winter

The Land of Always Winter, also called the Lands of Always Winter, is a colloquial term referring to the north-most regions of the continent of Westeros. They are so-named as snow falls in these lands even in the warmest summers. The wildlings controlled some of this territory, but it also extends into subarctic wastelands that are inhospitable to human life. These lands are said to lie north of even the Haunted Forest and the Frozen Shore, beyond the Wall. The land was not always so, having once been a lush, forested land inhabited by the Children of the Forest in ancient history which they used to perform rituals and turn a captured human into the first of the White Walkers. Thereafter, the land became an icy tundra, birthplace of the Walkers and their last stronghold to which they retreated after the War for the Dawn.