[Dragaera] floating castles

[Howard Brazee]

On 7/5/2007 Jon Lincicum wrote:
>  > Sorry if I have missed something here.
>  > > 
>  > > Before the Interregnum teleportation was not in common use.
>  > > 
>  > > There were floating castles before the Interregnum.
>  > > 
>  > > How did people get to the castles without teleportation?
>
>  An excellent question. I can think of three likely possibilities:
>
>  1) The castles themselves would float up and down to allow
>  entry/egress
>  of guests and material. (Hence, they were not as "fixed" in the sky
>  as Castle Black seems to be.)

The whole idea of a castle is to make it difficult for people to enter 
freely.    Requiring someone to use some provided transportation has 
some element of safety.