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In the Dawn age of Westeros, before the coming of man and the raising of castles and cities, there were only the children of the forest. Little is known of them now but it is said they were small in stature dark and beautiful and no taller than children when grown to manhood. They lived in the depths of the forests and hidden villages chronics and caves. They hunted with weirwood bows and armed themselves with blades of obsidian.

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Their wise men were called Green says and the possessed of powerful magic. They worshipped nameless faceless gods of the forest stream and stone. According to legend, it was they carved faces in the great white trunks of the majestic weirwoods. Their deep cut eyes were red with sap and ever watchful.

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12,000 years ago the first man who came from the Eastern continent crossing a land bridge called the arm of Dorne, riding their great horses and welding weapons of bronze. They cut down the children’s forests and weirwoods, a terrible war raged between the children and the first men but lasted for centuries.

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At long last the two races sought an end to the years of horror and bloodshed. They met on a small Isle in the centre of a great lake called the God’s Eye, it was there they forged the pact. The first man would be granted dominion over the coastland, the mountains, the high plains in the bogs, but the deep forests would forever belong to the children and no weirwood tree would ever again fall to man’s acts. To seal the pact before the gods, the children carved a face and everywhere would tree on the island which came to be known as the Isle of faces.

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But the pact could not withstand the coming of the Andal a race of tall fair-haired warriors. They attacked with fire and weapons of steel. Slaughtering the children of the forest wherever they could find, burning out there where what groves hacking away at the faces of the old gods, spreading their own religion through the land. Centuries have more followed and the Andals conquered every Kingdom in Westeros save one, the north the kings of winter were able to withstand the Andal invasion, descendants of the first men dwell there to this day and continue to worship the old gods.

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As for the children of the forest those who survived the slaughter were said to have fled far north but have not been seen again, most have seen their long dead. But some don’t believe they ever existed, they live on only through song and legend and in the faces of the weirwood trees.

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