A Dance with Dragons - George R. R. Martin
Jon Snow is elected the 998th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch and has sent Samwell Tarly to become a Maester at the Citadel in Oldtown, accompanied by aging Maester Aemon, the wildling mother Gilly, and Mance Rayder's newborn, whom he switched with Gilly's baby to save the wildling "prince" from sacrifice by the priestess Melisandre. Jon publicly gives Janos Slynt, who refuses to acknowledge his authority, three chances to do so, but Janos ignores all warnings, and Jon personally beheads him, solidifying his new position as Lord Commander.
Meanwhile, Bran Stark's search for the Three-eyed Crow beyond the Wall leads him to the last surviving Children of the Forest, the non-human natives of Westeros. In the Children's cave, they meet the "Three-eyed Crow", alias the "Last Greenseer": a former human member of the Night's Watch, seated on an underground throne of weirwood tree's roots united with his body, who appeared as the Three-eyed Crow in Bran's dreams to train him in greensight. Using this ability, Bran sees memories of his father Ned Stark at Winterfell's godswood in the past and communicates with Theon Greyjoy at the godswood in the present.
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