The wildlings were too few to be a problem anymore; no White Walkers were left, and no quarrelsome kings-to-be dared to set foot in the North with Jon and his dragons sitting in Winterfell. Fewer and fewer recruits came each year after the Battle of Westwatch, be it because of the many deaths in the cruel winter or the fact that he had pulled out the wandering crows to prevent them from perishing in the tumultuous south.