Editing Breaking (section)

==History==
Thousands of years ago, during the migration of the [[First Men]] to [[Westeros]], the [[Arm of Dorne]] broke into the [[Stepstones]], the [[Disputed Lands]] of [[Essos]], and the [[Broken Arm]] of [[Dorne]]. [[Maesters]] are not in agreement as to its causes, however, or whether it occurred in a single night or over centuries.{{ref|TWOIAF|Dorne: The Breaking}}

Songs tells that the [[greenseers]] of the [[children of the forest]], unable to [[War of the First Men and the children of the forest|stop the First Men]], gathered at [[Moat Cailin]]{{ref|TWOIAF|Ancient History: The Coming of the First Men}} or the [[Isle of Faces]]{{ref|TWOIAF|Dorne: The Breaking}} and called upon their [[old gods]] around twelve thousand years ago.{{ref|AGOT|66}} Some stories claim the greenseers sacrificed captive men to [[weirwood]]s, while others state the children sacrificed their own young. The [[hammer of the waters]] broke and cracked the land, collapsing hills and mountains. The Arm of Dorne fell into the sea, leaving behind the Stepstones. The greenseers' action failed to halt the spread of humans in Westeros, however.{{ref|TWOIAF|Dorne: The Breaking}}

Instead of attributing the Breaking to [[magic]], scholars such as Maester [[Yandel]] believe it was a natural event possibly caused by natural sinking of the land.{{ref|TWOIAF|Ancient History: The Coming of the First Men}} In ''[[Song of the Sea: How the Lands Were Severed]]'', Archmaester [[Cassander]] suggests that the land bridge did not break, but instead was overcome by rising waters caused by the melting of once-frozen lands.{{ref|TWOIAF|Dorne: The Breaking}}