Crossposted from r/asoiaf, all credits to u/wildrussy

We've all heard the tales, and all the Maesters agree.

There was once a great land bridge that connected the "heel" of Essos to Dorne, called the Arm of Dorne. The first men crossed this land bridge into Dorne, and from there migrated into the rest of Westeros.

The old tales say the first men were led by a great King, sometimes called the First King, sometimes called High King of the first men, Garth.

But these tales must be folly, for they contradict themselves. They say that everywhere Garth walked, the land bloomed, but Dorne is famously barren. Dornish tales make no mention of the Greenhand at all. It seems that Garth never set foot in Dorne.

More mysteries abound, because the oldest runic records of the First Men appear in the Stormlands, leading Maesters to believe that the First Men must have taken one look at Dorne and kept walking. This seems plausible enough, but something st

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