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The '''Children of the Forest''' are the original sentient inhabitant of [[Westeros]]. They are a mysterious and magical people who have not been seen by humans for thousands of years.
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==Appearance==
 
The appearance of the children is not definitively known. Tales describe them as diminutive humanoid creatures, dark and beautiful.
 
 
 
==History==
 
Approximately 12,000 years before [[Aegon's Landing]], the children ruled the entire continent of Westeros, worshiping nameless nature spirits that were later called the [[Old Gods]]. Around this time the [[First Men]] crossed into Westeros from the [[eastern continent]] via the Arm of Dorne. Their burning of the great weirwoods caused the children to go to war against them. The children wielded obsidian weapons and bows in battle, but also used powerful magic. They shattered the Arm of Dorne, forming the archipelago later known as the [[Stepstones]], but it was not enough to stop the advance of the First Men. Eventually, the war ended in a truce known as the Pact, which was made on the Isle of Faces in the midst of the lake known as [[Gods Eye]]. The children's [[greenseer]]s and wood dancers met with the First Men and terms were agreed: the Children retained the standing forests and the First Men were able to settle the open lands. Faces were carved on all the trees of the island to cement the agreement, with the sacred order of green men established to maintain it, and the Pact endured for some four thousand years.
 
 
 
Approximately eight thousand years before Aegon's Landing, during an extended period of winter known as the [[Long Night]], the Children of the Forest joined with the First Men, to fight against the [[Others]] in the [[Battle for the Dawn]]. Eventually the Others were driven back into the Lands of Always Winter.
 
 
 
The children of the forest taught the worship of the Old Gods to the First Men, but this was largely supplanted in the South by the [[Faith of the Seven]] after the [[Andal Invasion]]. Relations between the children and humans grew distant over the years, until they ceased altogether. By the time of Aegon's Landing, humans had not seen the children for thousands of years.
 
 
 
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