| abstract | - The Rat Cook is the subject of legends and myths in the Seven Kingdoms. According to this particular legend, a King once paid a visit to the Nightfort, then the chief castle on the Wall. Due to some offense by the king, (Bran Stark said he couldn't remember the exact reason when he recounts the tale) the cook killed the king's son and served his flesh in a pie to the unknowing king. The king enjoyed the pie so much he asked for a second helping. The gods cursed the cook by turning him into a fat, white rat which could only survive by feasting on its own young. He was condemned to run the halls of the Nightfort, eating his own offspring. The gods were not offended by the murder, nor even by cooking the son and feeding him to his own father, for a man has a right to vengeance. What the gods could not forgive and cursed the cook for was that he broke the laws of hospitality and protection, which are held to be sacred above all others.
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