The brilliant Chu culture created by the local ancestors,Chu People, affected the locals profoundly , which shaped the people’s character of enthusiastic but doughty, romantic but untrammeled.
" You assume Moat Cailin will fall quickly, Snow, " objected Justin Massey, " but the ironmen are doughty fighters, and I've heard it said that the Moat has never been taken" .
And so it was that a score of the fleetest and most doughty warriors of the tribe set out in pursuit of Korak and Akut but a few minutes after they had left the scene of The Killer's many depredations.