Dawn Age

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For the first few centuries, the First Men and the Children warred with each other. The former chopped swathes of weirwoods, slaughtered the Children, and claimed vast tracts of land throughout Westeros. The latter turned to their magics and their [[Greenseers]] to call on beasts to aid them, but as the conflict ground on, the Children realised they were slowly losing. As a last ditch effort their greenseers gathered and with their combined magics broke the Arm of Dorne, turned the [[The North#The Neck|Neck]] into a swamp<ref>Dave Hill. (2014). ''The North'' in ''Histories & Lore: Season 3''. Home Box Office.</ref>, and crumbled away the Iron Islands to a shadow of what it once was<ref name="FirstMen8">George R.R. Martin. (2014). ''The World of Ice and Fire - The Coming of the First Men''. London: HarperVoyager. p.8.</ref>.

Despite the near-apocalyptic disasters that befell the First Men, they were already too entrenched in Westeros to leave, and the war continued over many more generations for centuries, perhaps millennia. Eventually, the mightiest greenseers of the Children came to the realisation that this was a war they could not win, and made peace with the kings of the First Men, who had grown weary of the fruitless conflict. Both sides met on an island at the centre of the God's Eye, a large lake in the Riverlands, ~~the [[Isle of Faces]]~~ and there agreed to the [[The Pact|Pact]]. The Children would retreat to the deep forests, giving up all other lands to the First Men, and no more weirwoods would be cut down<ref name="FirstMen8">George R.R. Martin. (2014). ''The World of Ice and Fire - The Coming of the First Men''. London: HarperVoyager. p.8.</ref>. The Children, to seal the Pact in the eyes of the gods, carved a face into every weirwood tree on the island, and it was named the [[Isle of Faces]]<ref>Bryan Cogman. (2012). ''The Children of the Forest, the First Men, and the Andals'' in ''Histories & Lore: Season 1''. Home Box Office.</ref>.

Despite the near-apocalyptic disasters that befell the First Men, they were already too entrenched in Westeros to leave, and the war continued over many more generations for centuries, perhaps millennia. Eventually, the mightiest greenseers of the Children came to the realisation that this was a war they could not win, and made peace with the kings of the First Men, who had grown weary of the fruitless conflict. Both sides met on an island at the centre of the God's Eye, a large lake in the Riverlands, and there agreed to the [[The Pact|Pact]]. The Children would retreat to the deep forests, giving up all other lands to the First Men, and no more weirwoods would be cut down<ref name="FirstMen8">George R.R. Martin. (2014). ''The World of Ice and Fire - The Coming of the First Men''. London: HarperVoyager. p.8.</ref>. The Children, to seal the Pact in the eyes of the gods, carved a face into every weirwood tree on the island, and it was named the [[Isle of Faces]] thereafter<ref>Bryan Cogman. (2012). ''The Children of the Forest, the First Men, and the Andals'' in ''Histories & Lore: Season 1''. Home Box Office.</ref>.

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