For the people of Redemption Town, the Stone Giant's daily patrols were no longer a rare sight; only outsiders who had recently arrived in Redemption Town still found these things strange, exclaiming in various ways when the Stone Giant walked past them. The people of Redemption Town, and even other cities in Summerhall, had long grown accustomed to the Stone Giant.
However, the Stone Giant that appeared in the town these past two days still attracted a lot of attention, because the Stone Giant patrol team did not appear alone. Standing on their shoulders were short people with three fingers, golden eyes, large ears, and a stature as small as a dwarf. Many learned people recognized these little dwarves as the Forest Children, long lost and considered only a legend.
Although there were some legends about the Stone Giant among the common folk of Westeros, most of the Stone Giants in those legends were clumsy monsters, prey for knights to hunt. Their reputation was not as overwhelmingly imposing as their size.
But the Forest Children were different. Stories and legends about the Forest Children have always been enduring in Westeros, with far more types and numbers of legends than the Stone Giant, or even other mysterious creatures. Countless folk tales involve the Forest Children.
For example, the most popular folk tale in Westeros is about a woodcutter who entered the forest to chop wood. When he was about to cut down a weirwood, he met a Forest Child. The Forest Child gave the woodcutter endless wealth in exchange for his promise not to cut down weirwood again. Later, the greedy woodcutter, after gaining money, broke his promise and cut down a weirwood, and the axe marks on the weirwood simultaneously appeared on his body, and he died beneath the weirwood.
There are many similar legends, and even some ancient heroes are linked to the Forest Children in legends. For example, Lann the Clever, the founder of the Lannister, gained the blessing of the Forest Children after completing their trial, receiving superhuman wisdom, an eloquent tongue, and a long life.
And in the past decade, among the legends related to the Forest Children, the most talked about is naturally the story of Lynd and the Forest Children. In the story, Lynd met a Forest Child in Kingswood, passed the Forest Child's trial, and gained powerful strength and a mutated Shadow Lynx.
Interestingly, Lynd did not deny this legend. Instead, when asked about it at certain banquets or similar occasions, he would admit the truth of the story.
However, everyone only thought Lynd was joking, so they didn't pay too much attention. But now, the legendary Forest Children have appeared in Summerhall and joined Lynd's armed forces, which makes people think of that legend again.
Throughout all related legends, the Forest Children have always been incredibly mysterious and magical creatures possessing powerful magical abilities, because in legends, Dornes Arm was destroyed by the Forest Children.
Even though for the past several thousand years, the Citadel has consistently propagated that the Forest Children do not exist, and that the destruction of Dornes Arm was due to warming weather, melting ice in the north, and rising sea levels, which caused the low-lying areas of Dornes Arm to be submerged and become ocean.
However, no matter how reasonable the Citadel's arguments were, they could not explain why, when the weather entered a long winter and the northern seawater froze, the submerged areas of Dornes Arm in the south did not emerge from the water.
Now that the Forest Children, whom the Citadel claimed did not exist, have appeared in Summerhall, many people have begun to believe that the past legends about the Forest Children are true, including the legend of destroying Dornes Arm with magic.
Many people even followed the Stone Giant's patrol teams after the Forest Children appeared, making various noises to attract the Forest Children's attention, hoping to undergo the Forest Children's trial as in the legends and gain powerful strength or wealth bestowed by the Forest Children.
"Lynd, you should control the people in your territory. They are going too far." On the sixth day of the Forest Children's migration to Summerhall, Graystone, the leader of the Forest Children, rushed into the castle in a fit of pique and complained, "It's bad enough that they make strange noises when we patrol with the Stone Giant, but they even tried to steal our clothes, saying these leaves have magic. Lynd, are the people in your territory all crazy?"
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