vintage 1980s dark fantasy novel cover art of a forty year old medieval nightswatch ranger warrior with medium-length white hair and a beard with a rough stern face clad in thick black leather armor and furs suited for cold weather and combat. The king holds a sword aloft in a triumphant gesture and stands surrounded by a disorganized horde of his wildling barbarian warriors wearing a wide variety of furs, hides and armor with various different weapons with the monumental black Wall and its Castle Black covered in ice looming hundreds of feet high in the background