Old Mint

The Old Mint in White Harbor is a large oak-and-iron building located in Fishfoot Yard, a cobbled square dominated by a stone merman fountain. During the War of the Five Kings, the Mint was converted into a refuge for the displaced smallfolk of the north. When Davos Seaworth visited the city, he found its doors standing open, with hundreds of women, children, and old men huddled inside on piles of furs, some with little cookfires going. The building had become a shelter for those who had no other place to live, including people from up the White Knife and Hornwood folk fleeing the Bastard of Bolton. The apple seller in the yard told Davos that most had turned up with no more than the rags on their backs, and that they survived by begging, stealing, or the young girls taking up prostitution. The Old Mint thus stands as a stark symbol of the human cost of the war, a place where the destitute and displaced gather in the shadow of the city's wealth and power.