Archmaester Ebrose's legendary "take as much as you can carry" resulted in the first crisis of the Citadel. On the morrow, not a single book was left in the library or the locked vaults that were considered impenetrable; Jon Stark had somehow taken every single book and scroll and gotten away with them with none the wiser. Later calculations showed that the King of Winter somehow did away with at least three tones of knowledge. That was not all; before leaving, the Dragonwolf had left a gift - every single isle that the Citadel stretched across was frozen in a ring of ice, somehow chilling the Citadel and only the Citadel. The sun rays did nothing to thaw the unusual phenomena, and any other attempts to break it away were met with failure-'