Editing Skinchanger (section)

==History==
[[File:Woodrow Hinton SkinchangerII.png|thumb|350px|Wildling skinchanger with his owl. Art by Woodrow Hinton © Fantasy Flight Games]]
The [[greenseers]] of the [[children of the forest]] inspired the first legends about skinchangers.{{ref|TWOIAF|Ancient History: The Dawn Age}} [[Septon]]s and [[maesters]] serving with the [[Night's Watch]] at the [[Wall]] recorded stories of skinchangers among the [[free folk]] found [[beyond the Wall]].{{Ref|TWOIAF| Ancient History: The Dawn Age}}

According to ancient ballads, [[Gaven Greywolf]] was a skinchanger defeated by the [[Kings of Winter]] in the [[War of the Wolves]]. [[House Stark]] also defeated the [[Warg King]] in a war for [[Sea Dragon Point]].{{ref|TWOIAF|The North: The Kings of Winter}} [[Rose of Red Lake]], one of the legendary children of [[Garth Greenhand]], supposedly could turn into a crane.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Reach: Garth Greenhand}}

[[Varamyr]] slew and devoured his mentor, [[Haggon]], and came to rule a dozen free folk villages as a lord of sorts.{{Ref|ADWD|Prologue}}