Editing Children of the forest (section)

===Age of Heroes===
[[File:Children of the Forest greenseers.jpg|thumb|350px|A [[greenseer]] singing the song of earth. © HBO]]
The [[Age of Heroes]] followed the Pact between the children and the First Men, four thousand years of relative peace between the races.{{Ref|AGOT|66}} Eventually the enigmatic [[Others]] invaded from the uttermost north, bringing death and destruction to children and First Men, during an extended period of winter known as the [[Long Night]]. The children joined with the First Men, led by the [[last hero]], to fight against the Others in the [[Battle for the Dawn]]. Eventually the Others were driven back into the [[Lands of Always Winter]].{{Ref|TWOIAF|Ancient History: The Long Night}} [[Brandon the Builder|Bran the Builder]], the legendary founder of [[House Stark]], is said to have enlisted the [[magic]]al aid of the children during the construction of the [[Wall]].{{Ref|TWOIAF|Ancient History: The Dawn Age}}{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Wall and Beyond: The Night's Watch}}

The children began their slow withdrawal from the lands of men, retreating deeper into their forests and [[beyond the Wall]]. It was recorded by the [[Night's Watch]] that the children of the forest gave the black brothers a hundred [[obsidian]] daggers every year during the Age of Heroes.{{Ref|AFFC|5}} The [[free folk]] believe that [[Gendel]] and [[Gorne]] once mediated between rival children and giants.{{Ref|TWOIAF|Ancient History: The Dawn Age}}

Children and their [[greenseer]]s supported the [[Warg King]] at [[Sea Dragon Point]], but they were defeated by the Starks of [[Winterfell]], the [[Kings of Winter]].{{Ref|TWOIAF|The North: The Kings of Winter}} The [[Winged Knight]] in the [[Vale of Arryn|Vale]] is said to have wed one of the children, but she died during childbirth.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Vale: House Arryn}} Some legends claim that children helped [[Durran]] build the seventh castle of [[Storm's End]].{{Ref|ACOK|31}} Some [[maesters]] of the [[Citadel]], such as [[Jellicoe]], lived among the children.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Reach: Oldtown}}