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On their Verse-specific Powers and Abilities page, skinchangers have Multilocation and Hive Mind:
It refers to this:
I misinterpreted this feat, it's not multilocation, it's a speed feat. Varamy's spirit traveled throughout the haunted forest to find the wolf he wanted to possess (One Eye).
So multilocation and hive mind should be removed and speed should be given for the spirits of skinchangers (Children of the Forest, Bloodraven, Varamyr and the Stark childrens.)
But I don't know how fast is this feat. For the size of the haunted forest, it can perhaps be measured from the official map of Beyond the Wall, as was done for this calculation.
For the time it took for Varamyr's spirit to accomplish this feat, we know that it was night when he entered One-Eye's body:
And when his spirit left his body, it was also night:
We don't have anything specific, but we know from this that Varamyr's spirit crossed the entire forest in the same night.
Keep in mind that Varamyr didn't just cross the forest, he entered in all the living beings that lived there (animals, plants and even animals that live underground) and even in the snow and the clouds. This is potentially a huge speed feat
Skinchangers should therefore have Astral Projection because Varamyr's feat proves that skinchangers possess others by projecting/separate their spirits from their bodies.
Greenseers should have Type 2 Self-Sustenance:
Multilocation (Type 1) and Hive Mind (Type 2): Skinchangers' consciousness can be, in a particular case, in all living beings, animals and plants, clouds and snow in a entire forest
It refers to this:
The white world turned and fell away. For a moment it was as if he were inside the weirwood, gazing out through carved red eyes as a dying man twitched feebly on the ground and a madwoman danced blind and bloody underneath the moon, weeping red tears and ripping at her clothes. Then both were gone and he was rising, melting, his spirit borne on some cold wind. He was in the snow and in the clouds, he was a sparrow, a squirrel, an oak. A horned owl flew silently between his trees, hunting a hare; Varamyr was inside the owl, inside the hare, inside the trees. Deep below the frozen ground, earthworms burrowed blindly in the dark, and he was them as well. I am the wood, and everything that's in it, he thought, exulting. A hundred ravens took to the air, cawing as they felt him pass. A great elk trumpeted, unsettling the children clinging to his back. A sleeping direwolf raised his head to snarl at empty air. Before their hearts could beat again he had passed on, searching for his own, for One Eye, Sly, and Stalker, for his pack. His wolves would save him, he told himself.
A Dance with Dragons - Prologue
I misinterpreted this feat, it's not multilocation, it's a speed feat. Varamy's spirit traveled throughout the haunted forest to find the wolf he wanted to possess (One Eye).
So multilocation and hive mind should be removed and speed should be given for the spirits of skinchangers (Children of the Forest, Bloodraven, Varamyr and the Stark childrens.)
But I don't know how fast is this feat. For the size of the haunted forest, it can perhaps be measured from the official map of Beyond the Wall, as was done for this calculation.
For the time it took for Varamyr's spirit to accomplish this feat, we know that it was night when he entered One-Eye's body:
The white world turned and fell away. For a moment it was as if he were inside the weirwood, gazing out through carved red eyes as a dying man twitched feebly on the ground and a madwoman danced blind and bloody underneath the moon, weeping red tears and ripping at her clothes. Then both were gone and he was rising, melting, his spirit borne on some cold wind. He was in the snow and in the clouds, he was a sparrow, a squirrel, an oak. A horned owl flew silently between his trees, hunting a hare; Varamyr was inside the owl, inside the hare, inside the trees. Deep below the frozen ground, earthworms burrowed blindly in the dark, and he was them as well. I am the wood, and everything that's in it, he thought, exulting. A hundred ravens took to the air, cawing as they felt him pass. A great elk trumpeted, unsettling the children clinging to his back. A sleeping direwolf raised his head to snarl at empty air. Before their hearts could beat again he had passed on, searching for his own, for One Eye, Sly, and Stalker, for his pack. His wolves would save him, he told himself.
That was his last thought as a man.
True death came suddenly; he felt a shock of cold, as if he had been plunged into the icy waters of a frozen lake. Then he found himself rushing over moonlit snows with his packmates close behind him. Half the world was dark. One Eye, he knew. He bayed, and Sly and Stalker gave echo.
And when his spirit left his body, it was also night:
When Varamyr pushed at it, the snow crumbled and gave way, still soft and wet. Outside, the night was white as death; pale thin clouds danced attendance on a silver moon, while a thousand stars watched coldly. He could see the humped shapes of other huts buried beneath drifts of snow, and beyond them the pale shadow of a weirwood armored in ice. To the south and west the hills were a vast white wilderness where nothing moved except the blowing snow. "Thistle," Varamyr called feebly, wondering how far she could have gone. "Thistle. Woman. Where are you?"
We don't have anything specific, but we know from this that Varamyr's spirit crossed the entire forest in the same night.
Keep in mind that Varamyr didn't just cross the forest, he entered in all the living beings that lived there (animals, plants and even animals that live underground) and even in the snow and the clouds. This is potentially a huge speed feat
Skinchangers should therefore have Astral Projection because Varamyr's feat proves that skinchangers possess others by projecting/separate their spirits from their bodies.
Greenseers should have Type 2 Self-Sustenance:
One day I will be like him. The thought filled Bran with dread. Bad enough that he was broken, with his useless legs. Was he doomed to lose the rest too, to spend all of his years with a weirwood growing in him and through him? Lord Brynden drew his life from the tree, Leaf told them. He did not eat, he did not drink. He slept, he dreamed, he watched. I was going to be a knight, Bran remembered. I used to run and climb and fight. It seemed a thousand years ago.
A Dance with Dragons - Bran III
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