In the morning sunlight, the calm lake glittered as though a vast sheet of copper foil had been inlaid into an enormous emerald. Gods Eye was so large that its shores were almost beyond sight.
At the center of the lake stood a great island called the Isle of Faces, now a sacred place for the Children of the Forest.
The island was one of the few places in southern Westeros where weirwoods still grew. Almost all the weirwoods elsewhere had been cut down and burned.
Only with Danyla's strong support over the years had weirwoods spread throughout Westeros again, though the vast majority were still saplings.
Toward the end of the Dawn Era, the First Men and the Children of the Forest had fought a war lasting hundreds of years. In the end, faced with the threat of the White Walkers, both sides had been forced to sign a pact on the Isle of Faces and end the war.
To celebrate their hard-won peace, a face had been carved into every weirwood on the island so that the Old Gods could bear witness to the signing of the pact.
After the treaty was signed, the Green Men, a sacred order composed of Children of the Forest, had formally been established to guard this southern island of weirwoods.
Thousands of years later, only a dozen or so Children of the Forest remained on the Isle of Faces.
Only after Danyla and Herb visited on dragonback and taught them several secret remedies to aid conception had new Children of the Forest begun to be born in recent years.
"Under Her Majesty's protection, even the Isle of Faces has changed!"
The Greenseer Blood Pact gazed down at the island with a sigh.
Riding the great dragon Myracis, Danyla was flying toward Crackclaw