Each of these acts bring players increased power and recognition through the awarding of victory points. Players take on the role of Brothers of the Night’s Watch and use these resources to strengthen their hold on the north by building roads, settlements, and keeps recruiting guards for their patrol or buying Development Cards. The barren Ice Fields, however, produce nothing. In game, each of these areas supplies one of five resources: lumber, brick, wool, grain, and ore. By right, this area belongs to the Watch to supply provisions to the stalwart brothers who guard Westeros from the north.
House Stark bestowed the Gift to the Night’s Watch when the Order was first founded thousands of years ago.