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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do we know (from books/TV) why the Children were fighting the First Men according to where GoT begins?  (I realize that Bran and/or others may have altered history ... and may continue to do so with every visit to the past, so it gets murky.)  My recollection of the First Men's relationship with the Children from Old Nan(?) was that the two groups coexisted peacefully.  Based on last week, we know they did until they didn't.

This show is beginning to feel like a medieval fantasy child of the Matrix and Lost.  I liked both ... but my mind is melting.[/quote]

Agree.  And I don't particularly like that.[/quote]

The Children lived throughout Westeros, and the weirwood forests also covered the continent, before the First Men arrived from Essos. The First Men started destroying the forests, and it was basically all out war between the First Men and the Children. Children were few in number compared to the men. The Children tried to stop the First Men several times using magic, breaking/flooding the land bridge between Essos and Westeros (in Dorne), and later flooding the Neck to try and stop the advance of men (the Neck is the boundary to the North, which is swampland in GoT, and there is only one way to pass through, and that is Moat Caitlin - which is why it is such an important castle.)

Apparently (according to the show, since this is not revealed in the books), the Children, out of desperation (since they were losing and men were pushing them further and further North), created the White Walkers using magic. This obviously backfired and they couldn't control them, since it was because of the White Walkers that the First Men and the Children allied themselves, somehow pushed back the army of the dead and built the wall (using Children magic and giants.) The First Men took the Children's religion as their own (the Old Gods.) Many generations later, a new wave of men came over from Essos, called the Andals, and they defeated and conquered the First Men, leaving them only in the North. They brought over their own religion, the Seven, from Essos, which mostly supplanted the Old Gods (except in the far North.)

Super nerdy...but long story short, the Children and men were only allies because of the White Walkers. They were at war before the WW were created.[/quote]

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