Night's Watch

The United States Military.

The Crusader military orders.

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>>2242345
Probably this. After the initial plunder and glory of the crusades, a few guys were left behind to fend off the Muslim savages.

>>2242327
Historically a lot of cultures put their fuckup kids in monasteries.

>>2242327
literally every elite force

Nights watch: pretext westerns from barbarians.

Black watch: protect protestent scots/english from northern catholics.

They are more like some of the crusader factions, though they were mostly knights/aristocracy.

In truth in many times and location armies where made up of societies dregs.

>>2242463
Night watch isn't really that elite. They do make up one of the only peacetime profesional militaries though.

Wasn't this based on Hadrian's wall?

>>2242469
Fml *protect westeros

>>2242327
Probably the Roman legionaries on Hadrian's wall or other frontiers.

Offa's dyke may be another one but I don't know if that was guarded or not.

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Hadrian's Wall was the largest Roman structure ever built. Construction was finished in 128, and was abandoned (along with the rest of Britain) by the Romans in 410.

Once its construction was finished, it is thought to have been covered in plaster and then whitewashed: its shining surface reflected the sunlight and was visible for miles around.

>>2242489
Samefag here.

I read that actually most of the defenders on Hadrian's were static, and not legionaries that would eventually move on. So even more like the Night's Watch.