>>23970471
>I can't imagine the Children of the Forest originating in a land of darkness and evil.
The mountains are so high that the land is plunged into darkness and its full of caves. This lack of light means that the fish are blind.

The Children live in caves, in total darkness, they can see in the dark. In ADWD, the river that flows through the cave is full of blind fish.

>>23970693
>asshai is probably not where the COTF came from.
I didn't say Asshai, I said the Shadow Lands, Asshai is a city at the tip of that region. Their legends mentions an ancient people from the Shadows that disappear and had no name. The Children went extinct, men can't pronounce their names hence a people without name.
>george has said that the landmasses of westeros and essos don't touch/meet off of what is visible on the map, and they don't seem to be seafaring, so to get to westeros, they would have had to trek all the way around yi ti, through the desert, past slaver's bay, through the dothraki, the free cities to get to the arm of dorne. seems unlikely, although i'm not sure if all of that, the human settlements especially, would have been there when they may have migrated.
there is another type of humanoid creature that is possibly related to the COTF called the ifequevron, who lived in the forest south of ib. they are described as being very similar but not the same - for example, the ifequevron built and inhabited a city (vaes leisi, corlys visited it); there is no known instance of the COTF doing that. they may be extinct by now. it's possible creatures like this sprang up on their own without migration, but asshai specifically for the COTF seems like a mismatch, they aren't lovecraftian enough.
The Children appeared long before humans and had time to spread throughout the world. The Ifequevron are just another name given by men to designate them in this region and Vaes Leisi is describe as a settlement "of carved trees and haunted grottoes", caves and carved trees, sign of the Children.

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