A lake so wide a man cannot see across it, sunk in the heart of the riverlands and older, the septons insist, than the Seven who now bless it. At its center broods the Isle of Faces, and on its northern shore stands Harrenhal, which learned the hard way that a lake does not care how tall a man builds beside it.
The lake predates every reckoning the Citadel keeps, and was already old when the First Men and the children of the forest met upon the wooded island at its center to swear the Pact that ended two thousand years of war between them — the Isle of Faces, which the God's Eye has guarded like a moat ever since. Some archmaesters murmur that the same island was where the children called down the Hammer of the Waters against the invading First Men, though the surviving tales cannot agree whether that working was wrought here or at Moat Cailin, and the lake keeps its own counsel on the matter.
Millennia later a different kind of monument rose on its northern shore, when Harren the Black raised Harrenhal in defiance of both good sense and dragonflame; the castle burned within a lifetime, and the lake did not so much as ripple. In 101 AC the fire-blackened halls beside the God's Eye hosted the Great Council that settled a disputed succession without a single sword drawn, the lake bearing silent witness to a peace bought with parchment rather than steel.
In the timeline
SourcesTWOIAF · The RiverlandsAGOT · CatelynAGOT · Bran VII
Where is The God's Eye?
A lake so wide a man cannot see across it, sunk in the heart of the riverlands and older, the septons insist, than the Seven who now bless it. At its center broods the Isle of Faces, and on its northern shore stands Harrenhal, which learned the hard way that a lake does not care how tall a man builds beside it.
Is The God's Eye from the books or the show?
Book canon. This entry follows George R. R. Martin's novels and histories, and notes where the television series diverges rather than following it.