Editing Skinchanger (section)

==Recent Events==
===''A Clash of Kings''===
[[Bran Stark]] has [[wolf]] dreams of his [[direwolf]], [[Summer]].{{Ref|ACOK|4}} While Maester [[Luwin]] is skeptical, [[Jojen Reed]] encourages Bran.{{Ref|ACOK|28}}

[[Robb Stark]], the [[King in the North]], avoids the [[Golden Tooth]] by following a goat track found by his direwolf, [[Grey Wind]].{{Ref|ACOK|39}} Robb is said to have led an army of wargs in the [[Battle of Oxcross]].{{Ref|ACOK|32}}

During the [[great ranging]], [[Jon Snow]] slays the wildling skinchanger [[Orell]]{{Ref|ACOK|51}} and has dreams of his direwolf, [[Ghost]].{{Ref|ACOK|53}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[File:Elena-maria-vacas-varamyrsixskins.jpg|400px|thumb|right|[[Varamyr Sixskins]] and his animals, by Elena María Vacas]]
Bran briefly slips into the mind of [[Hodor]] when his simple-minded friend is scared by thunder at [[Queenscrown]].{{Ref|ASOS|40}}

Part of Orell lives on in his [[eagle]], which attacks Jon.{{Ref|ASOS|15}} [[Varamyr]] claims the eagle, and when the bird is later burned by [[Melisandre]] during the [[battle beneath the Wall]].{{Ref|ASOS|73}} Varamyr is almost driven mad.{{Ref|ASOS|76}}

Although [[Arya Stark]] had chased away her direwolf, [[Nymeria (direwolf)|Nymeria]], the girl dreams of the death of [[Iggo]].{{Ref|ASOS|3}} Arya later dreams of a wolf recovering [[Catelyn Stark|a body]] from the [[Green Fork]].{{Ref|ASOS|65}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
When they are surrounded by [[wights]], Varamyr attempts to take control of [[Thistle]] but the spearwife resists. The humans are killed by wights, but Varamyr begins his second life by entering one of his wolves, [[One Eye]].{{Ref|ADWD|Prologue}} Bran's direwolf, Summer, later forces One-Eye to submit.{{Ref|ADWD|4}}

In order to save his own life and the lives of his companions, Bran enters Hodor so that he can fight wights more effectively.{{Ref|ADWD|13}} Bran furthers enters Hodor in the [[cave of the three-eyed crow]], using him to explore the cavern. Meera and Jojen are unaware of Bran's actions, and Hodor hides deep within himself.{{Ref|ADWD|34}} Under the tutelage of the [[three-eyed crow]], [[Brynden Rivers]], Bran learns to enter a [[raven]] and later the great [[weirwood]] in the [[godswood of Winterfell]].{{Ref|ADWD|34}}

Jon's wolf dreams intensify,{{Ref|ADWD|3}} but he declines [[Melisandre]]'s offer of guidance at [[Castle Black]].{{Ref|ADWD|28}} Jon is wary of the wildling skinchanger [[Borroq]].{{Ref|ADWD|58}}{{Ref|ADWD|69}}

At [[White Harbor]], Ser [[Jared Frey]] claims that Robb and his northmen were wargs who turned into wolves during the [[Red Wedding]].{{Ref|ADWD|19}}

[[Alysane Mormont]] tells [[Asha Greyjoy]], perhaps jokingly, that [[House Mormont]] women are skinchangers who turn into [[bear]]s and find mates in the woods.{{Ref|ADWD|42}}

Having been blinded at the [[House of Black and White]], Arya dreams of being [[Nymeria (direwolf)|Nymeria|the night wolf]] and sees through the eyes of a [[cat]].{{Ref|ADWD|45}}