Was thinking about House Blackwood and I got to thinking about the unusual configuration of Raventree Hall itself with the stone walls and wooden inner keep and ridicuhuge weirwood tree. It just seems like all that wood is a massive vulnerability if people are going to be chucking flaming stuff over those nice stone walls at the place where your family is sleeping. Is there a historical precedent of wooden structures being a large component in castles?-

It happens with older castles – your original motte-and-bailey castles were all wood. Stone castles are hella expensive, and take a long time to build, whereas wooden castles can be made from materials close at hand, they require less skilled labor to build, etc. 

The Blackwoods I’m guessing initially built a wooden bailey and then built a stone wall around it later on when they were richer and could afford to. 

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