For example, Nagga, whose skull and bones comprise the Seastone Chair and hall on Old Pyke, was a sea serpent. The sea serpents are the equivalent of water dragons. The World Book also mentions merlings and sea serpents. It also means that the Children and the heartwood trees are autumn, the “earth” element with the color red. As such, the weirwoods are albinos themselves.
Jojen also notes that “for every song must have its balance.” ( A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 34, Bran III) The heartwood trees’ leaves and sap are red (probably from blood sacrifice) and their bark is white. The greenseers of the Children receive either red or green eyes instead of the usual golden color.
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For men, it is one of a thousand who are skin changers, and one in a thousand of those who are greenseers. It is unclear from the text about whether the ratios Jojen lays out for greenseers and skin changers applies to both Children and men. They consider themselves earth’s caretakers, upload themselves upon death to the weirwood net, speak with animals, and have other telepathic abilities. We are most familiar with the Children of the Forest, or “those who sing the song of the earth” as they call themselves. Yet, she stays mum on what races she means thanks in part to Luwin, who, with a Valyrian link to his maester’s chain, should know better.įrom the World Book, we learn that there are three races that correspond to three of the four elements that make up what appears to be Martin’s version of the ancient cosmology of being and three of the four seasons along with their respective colors, that are in turn associated with the four women of the song, “Seasons of My Love”. It would reinforce her message for Bran to give to Robb that his forces should be going north, not south.
But, it would be strange for Osha not to mention them by name. We know from the destruction of many of the Night’s Watch in rangings large and small that the White Walkers are no myth. We learn from Tormund and Mance Rayder that the White Walkers have become active again after many, many years. Who could they be? The answer that immediately comes to mind is “the others” or White Walkers. Luwin must be denying the continued existence of the Children, the giants, and some other beings. There are two sitting in the room at the time. If she meant races like direwolves, she is clearly right. Keeping in mind Luwin tells her to keep her “folly” to herself, these other old races are a curiosity. That’s where the children went, and the giants, and the other old races.” ( A Game of Thrones, PB, 738, Bran) What did she mean by that? What “other old races”? When Bran recalls that Luwin had declared the Children gone, Osha states something curious: “Here they are. It is a fairly long tale that does not agree with Nan’s tale of the Last Hero, but that is what we have come to expect of the maesters and their official histories. (Shaggydog has bitten him.) Bran then gets Luwin to tell the history of the Children of the Forest.
Struck by nightmares and visions of their father’s ghost in the Winterfell crypts, Bran and Rickon seek comfort with Maester Luwin as Osha the Wildling tends to Luwin’s wounded arm.