Editing Children of the forest (section)

==Culture==
The children may have lived in clans.{{Ref|TWOIAF|Ancient History: The Dawn Age}} They did not use metal, weave cloth, or build cities. The children lived off the land, using stone and [[obsidian]] implements, wearing bark leg-bindings and shirts of woven leaves, dwelling in caves, crannogs, and hidden tree villages. Males and females both hunted side by side{{Ref|AGOT|66}} as [[wood dancers]],{{Ref|TWOIAF|Ancient History: The Coming of the First Men}} using obsidian weapons, [[weirwood]] bows, and flying snares made with grasses.{{Ref|TWOIAF|Ancient History: The Dawn Age}} The children had no books, no ink, no parchment and no written language.{{Ref|ADWD|34}} They were a people with a deep connection to the land.{{Ref|AGOT|66}} The children used their weirwood hunting bows and obsidian weapons in battle, but also used powerful [[magic]].{{Ref|TWOIAF|Ancient History: The Dawn Age}}

Legends say the children of the forest were gifted with supernatural powers. These included having power over the beasts of the wood, the ability to [[Skinchanger|wear an animal's skin]], the skill to create music so beautiful as to bring tears to the eyes of any who heard it, the [[greensight]] ability and the ability to speak to the dead.{{Ref|ACOK|13}} It was the children who carved faces on weirwoods to keep watch over the woods.{{Ref|ACOK|28}} The children of the forest believed that the weirwood trees were gods, and when they died they became a part of them.{{Ref|ADWD|34}} Septon [[Barth]] believed that the children could communicate from afar with [[raven]]s.{{Ref|TWOIAF|Ancient History: The Dawn Age}}

It is unknown if there is a connection between the children of the forest and the [[Ifequevron]], or "woods walkers", of northern [[Essos]]. There is a ruined settlement of carved trees and haunted grottoes, called by the [[Dothraki]] [[Vaes Leisi]], in the [[Kingdom of the Ifequevron]].{{Ref|AWOIAF|Ifequevron}}{{Ref|TWOIAF|Beyond the Free Cities: Ib}}