Tag: a thousand eyes and one

Re: Bloodraven’s dead Greenseers: If it is supposed to be literal, and Bloodraven’s partial fault, then shouldn’t we see some evidence, demographically? Every Greenseer we know of is of high birth (BR himself, Brandon, Jojen, possibly Euron), and they’re generally from specific bloodlines (at least, not pure Andal). Shouldn’t we see a higher rate of unexplained deaths of young people in these groups? A few more lines ending than normally happens? Or perhaps we are seeing that?

There’s plenty of greenseers and wargs outside of high birth – you have the Green Men on the Isle of Faces, you have all of the wildling skinchangers (Orell, Varamyr, Haggon, Borroq, Briar, Grisella, etc.), there’s the Children of the Forest greenseers, there’s the Ghost of High Heart, and so on.

But in general, I think the reason that you don’t see evidence of the dead dreamers is that in a society with a high rate of child mortality, children who just die in their sleep aren’t unexpected, and if it’s a thousand across ~fifty years spread across an entire continent, it would be very hard to see the pattern.