10 Things You Should Know about the Children of the Forest

We’ve heard a little bit about the Children through lore and hearsay. But ADWD Bran III is the ONLY chapter where we get to hear about the children and the old gods from the mouths of the children themselves. So here are 10 things that you should know from that chapter in "A Dance with Dragons"

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“The children of the forest, Old Nan would have called the singers, but those who sing the song of earth was their own name for themselves, in the True Tongue that no human man could speak.”

“‘What do the trees remember?’ ‘The secrets of the old gods”…”Truths the First Men knew, forgotten now in Winterfell"

“‘Never fear the darkness, Bran.’ The Lord’s words were accompanied by a faint rustling of wood and leaf, a slight twisting of his head. ‘The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother’s milk. Darkness will make you strong…’”

“‘Do all the birds have singers in them?’ ‘All,’ Lord Brynden said. ‘It was the singers who taught the First Men to send messages by raven…but in those days, the birds would speak the words. The trees remember, but men forget, and so now they write the messages on parchment and tie them round the feet of birds who have never shared their skin.’”

“‘Only one man in a thousand is born a skinchanger,’ Lord Brynden said one day, after Bran had learned to fly. ‘and only one skinchanger in a thousand can be a greenseer.’”

“‘A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies,’ said Jojen. ‘The man who never reads lives only one. The singers of the forest had no books. No ink, no parchment, no written language. Instead they had they trees, and the weirwoods above all. When they died, they went into the wood, into leaf and limb and root, and the trees remembered. All their songs and spells, their histories and prayers, everything they knew about this world. Maesters will tell you that the weirwoods are sacred to the old gods. The singers believe they are the old gods. When singers die, they become part of that godhood.’”

“‘Where are the rest of you?’ Bran asked Leaf, once. ‘Gone down into the earth,’ she answered. ‘Into the stones, into the trees. Before the First Men came all this land that you call Westeros was home to us, yet even in those days we were few. The gods gave us long lives but not great numbers, lest we overrun the world as deer will overrun a wood where there are no wolves to hut them. That was in the dawn of days, when our sun was rising. Now it sinks, and this is our long dwindling. The giants are almost gone as well, they who were our bane and our brothers. The great lions of the western hills have been slain, the unicorns are all but gone, the mammoths down to a few hundred. The direwolves will outlast us all, but their time will come as well. In the world that men have made, there is no room for them, or us.’” “She seemed sad when she said it, and that made Bran sad as well. It was only later he thought, Men would not be sad. Men would be wroth. Men would hate and swear a bloody vengeance. The singers sing sad songs, where men would fight and kill.”

“‘He heard a whisper on the wind, a rustling amongst leaves. You cannot speak to him, try as you might. I know. I have my own ghosts, Bran…The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it.’”

“‘A weirwood will live forever if left undisturbed. To them seasons pass in the flutter of a moth’s wing, and past, present, and future are one. Nor will your sight be limited to your godswood. The singers carved eyes into their heart trees to awaken them, and those are the first eyes a new greenseer learns to use…but in time you will see well beyond the trees themselves.’”

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