World of A Song of Ice and Fire. The fictional world in which the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. Martin take place is divided into several continents. Most of the story takes place on the continent Westeros, in a large political entity known as the Seven Kingdoms. It actually consists of nine regions (the North, the Iron Islands, the Riverlands, the Vale, the Westerlands, the Stormlands, the Reach, the Crownlands, and Dorne). The vast continent of Essos lies to the east of Westeros, across the Narrow Sea. The closest foreign nations to Westeros are the Free Cities, a collection of independent city- states along the western edge of this eastern continent. This post contains discussion of Season 6, Episode 2 of Game of Thrones titled “Home.” If you want to leave, now is your chance. Did Jon Snow Come Back Wrong? ![]() ![]()
No Archive Warnings Apply; Jon Snow/Robb Stark; Jon Snow; Robb Stark; Catelyn Tully Stark; Ned Stark; Stannis Baratheon; Alliser Thorne; Samwell Tarly; Davos. Game of Thrones is an epic fantasy series set in the fictional land of Westeros where a number of individuals and noble houses vie for control of the "Iron Throne. The lands along the southern coastline of the eastern continent, collectively called the Lands of the Summer Sea, include Slavers Bay and the ruins of Valyria, the former home of Westeros' Targaryen kings. To the south of Essos lie the continents of Sothoryos and Ulthos, which in the narrative are largely unexplored. Martin set the Ice and Fire story in an alternative world of Earth, a . Tolkien pioneered with Middle- earth. Each new book has added one or two maps so that, as of A Dance with Dragons, seven individual maps of the fictional world are available in the books (see table). Martin said in 2. Middle Ages who were unilluminated about distant places. Ward, depending on the books. The old maps were redone to match the style of the new ones. The maps are drawn by illustrator and cartographer Jonathan Roberts based on drafts by George R. The twelve maps in the set are: The Known World, The West, Central Essos, The East, Westeros, Beyond The Wall, The Free Cities, Slaver's Bay, The Dothraki Sea, King's Landing, Braavos and . Martin. Genre. High fantasy. Type. Continent. Notable locations. King's Landing, Seven Kingdoms. Notable characters. Tyrion Lannister, Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen, Eddard Stark, Catelyn Stark, Sansa Stark, Arya Stark, Bran Stark, Cersei Lannister, Jaime Lannister, Theon Greyjoy. First appearance. A Game of Thrones. The story takes place primarily on a continent called Westeros, which is roughly the size of South America. The continent is home to the Seven Kingdoms and lands beyond the great Wall, which makes up a large chunk of Westeros, being roughly the size of Canada, with most of it largely unmapped and unexplored. Martin here drew inspiration from medieval European history. Some time later, the First Men's attempts at cultivating the land led to a war with the Children and was eventually settled by an agreement known as . During that time, the First Men adopted the Children's gods, that later became known in Westeros as the Old gods. Eight thousand years before the events of the novels, an enigmatic species called the Others emerged from the furthermost north, accompanying a winter named . Only the North remained unconquered and the Children disappeared from Andal lands. Over time seven kingdoms were forged across Westeros: The North, The Iron Islands, The Vale, The Westerlands, The Stormlands, The Reach, and Dorne. Their powerful dragons overwhelmed six of the Seven Kingdoms through conquest or treaty, but Dorne remained independent for another two hundred years until it was absorbed through marriage- alliance. The Targaryens made the Iron Throne from the swords of the defeated rulers, fused by dragonfire, establishing King's Landing as their capital city, and remained the ruling power on the continent until deposed by Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon. The North . Martin compared the North of Westeros to Scotland. The North is nearly as big as the other six kingdoms combined, but only sparsely populated. Martin compared the North to Scotland. The region's northern border is the New Gift, a stretch of land 5. Night's Watch. An isthmus of swampland named the Neck separates the North from the South; it is home to small, marsh- dwelling crannogmen and ruled by House Reed of Greywater Watch, bannermen of House Stark. The Neck's narrowness and difficult terrain along with the almost impenetrable Moat Cailin make it a natural border for the North, protecting it from invasion. The city of White Harbor is described as a thriving port. Illegitimate children born of a noble parent in the North are given the surname Snow. Winterfell. It is built over a natural hot spring and the scalding water runs through the castle walls, warming halls and rooms. There are several open pools where heated water collects within the godswood. The hot spring also prevents the ground from freezing both in summer and winter. The castle has deep catacombs where the bodies of Starks are entombed behind statues in their likeness with a direwolf at their feet and their swords left in their hands. The tombs range back all the way to the old Kings of the North, called the Kings of Winter, who ruled before Aegon the Conqueror and the arrival of the Andals before that. The pilot and Season 1 of the TV adaptation used the 1. Clearsky Adventure Centre located at Castle Ward in County Down, Northern Ireland, for Winterfell. Cairncastle, meanwhile, served as the location where Ned Stark beheads the deserter Will south of the Wall. It is home to the Night's Watch, a brotherhood sworn to protect the realms of men from the threats beyond the Wall. The Wall was inspired by Martin's visit to Hadrian's Wall, in the North of England close to the border with Scotland. Looking out over the hills, Martin wondered what a Roman centurion from the Mediterranean would feel, not knowing what threats might come from the north. The top is wide enough for a dozen mounted knights to ride abreast, (approximately 3. Wall's gates are more like tunnels through the ice. The novels' legends claim that the First Men, or more specifically Brandon the Builder with the possible help of giants, constructed the Wall some 8,0. The Wall has since been maintained by the Night's Watch to guard the realms of men against the threats from beyond, originally the Others and later against the wildling raids. A strip of land known as . In A Game of Thrones, out of the nineteen castles built along the wall, only three are still manned: Castle Black with 6. Shadow Tower and Eastwatch- by- the- Sea with 2. Parts of Castle Black have fallen into ruins. The TV series' Castle Black and the Wall were filmed in the abandoned Magheramorne Quarry near Belfast, Northern Ireland. They also made a functional elevator to lift the rangers to the top of the Wall. Martin was surprised by the height and thought, . It is wet and rainy, and the mud is thick. The TV adaptation used Iceland as filming location for the lands Beyond the Wall. Martin, who has never been to Iceland, said Beyond the Wall was . And then as you get further and further north, it changes. You get into tundra and ice fields and it becomes more of an arctic environment. You have plains on one side and a very high range of mountains on the other. Of course, once again this is fantasy, so my mountains are more like the Himalayas. Benioff said, . It's all real. It's all in camera. We're not doing anything in postproduction to add mountains or snow or anything. Ruled by House Greyjoy of Pyke, the isles are described as bare and barren, and the local weather as . The members of this seafaring nation are known in the rest of Westeros as Ironmen, and to themselves as Ironborn. Illegitimate children born in the Iron Islands are given the surname Pyke. For fierce raids, the Ironmen are titled the . They worship the Drowned God, who . The appendix of A Game of Thrones summarizes that the Ironmen once ruled over the Riverlands and much of the western coast of Westeros. When Aegon the Conqueror extinguished Black Harren's line, he chose House Greyjoy as the new rulers of the Ironmen. The television adaptation filmed the scenes of Pyke's port at Lordsport Harbour in Ballintoy Harbour, in Northern Ireland's County Antrim. Pyke's throne is the Seastone Chair. Lordsport is a village on the far end of the island, overlooked by the castle of House Botley. It is where Kingsmoots are held, and where the Grey King slew Nagga, a sea dragon, and made a court of his bones. The Riverlands. While they form one of the nine regions of Westeros, the Riverlands' central location and geographic features made the region an inter- kingdom battle zone that changed hands rather than becoming its own 'eighth' kingdom of the Seven Kingdoms. The Durrandons conquered the Riverlands, but lost rule of it to Harwyn . At the time of Aegon's conquest, the Riverlands were ruled by Harwyn's grandson, Harren the Black, king of the Iron Islands, and the Tullys were local nobles who rebelled against him by joining Aegon the Conqueror. Harrenhal was built by Harren the Black. The castle has been described as so large that an entire army was needed to garrison it. The Great Hall had 3. Shortly after the castle was completed, Aegon the Conqueror's dragon slew Harren, his sons, and his entire army by setting the castle alight. Since then, the ruins of the castle have been occupied by a variety of houses, all of which eventually became extinct. As a result, the people of Westeros believe the castle is cursed. At the start of the War of the Five Kings, the castle was in ruin, with only a fraction habitable, and held by Lady Shella Whent, the last of her House, who is stripped of Harrenhal when the Lannisters seize her castle. The castle changes hands repeatedly over the course of the novels, many of those holding it meeting unpleasant ends. Riverrun. The castle is bordered on two sides by the Tumblestone River and the Red Fork. The third side fronts on a massive manmade ditch, which is flooded to create a moat when the castle is under siege. By the end of the A Feast for Crows, Brynden Tully surrenders the castle to Jaime Lannister to spare further bloodshed. Riverrun then passed into the hands of Emmon Frey, an ally of House Lannister. Because the Freys are both wealthy and numerous, they are one of the most powerful houses sworn to House Tully. Game of Thrones / Funny In the series pilot, co- creators Benioff and Weiss mocking Arya's obviously dubbed- in exposition about Jaime as . And also invoking Twincest, while discussing Cersaime. And the Dothraki take slaves like a hound taking a bitch. Only to cut themselves off and introduce themselves as Maisie Williams, Sophie Turner and Isaac Hempstead- Wright. And then go right back to singing along with the main theme. And they actually do a very good job! Martin's obsession with the main characters not wearing helmets in the . He starts on it as soon as the battle begins and refuses to let it go for the rest of the episode. Two very goofy people who hold nothing about the show sacred, feeling free to let loose. Put it away. Harry: No, no! This next line here! I'm going to win. And you wait too long to eat it and it melts and it falls off the stick? The disappointment that that encapsulates would suit 'Oh for god's sake' quite perfectly. Although, to go into battle with that on a banner, you've lost the battle already, psychologically, I think. Emilia and Lena: Aww.. To their disappointment, instead of getting upset, he was willing to go along with it. It wasn't until he read a part about Theon rising as a wight that he realized they were pulling a prank on him. Martin was asked to name Westeros' Sexiest Man Alive, his reply was. If you were a straight woman, well again you might say Loras Tyrell! And the motto? Go hard, or go home! Bryan Cogman admitting that Selyse keeping her stillborn sons in jars was just a random idea he had in the middle of the night that he put in the . When HBO released a promo still of Rickon for Series 3, Art Parkinson joked on Twitter about how even he had to run and check that he'd actually been in it! More from GRRM's appearance on Conan: he talks about growing up in New Jersey, looking out across the river and seeing this glittering city and wondering just what kind of people lived there and what kind of adventures there were to be had. Of course what he was seeing was Staten Island, much to everyone's (including grown- up Martin himself) amusement. Like when they show . Rheon says that it is fiction, and that Allen still has a penis. At one point he crashes a Comic Con, shouts, . Highlights include. On the Season 3 commentaries, Gwendoline Christie's shock and grief at learning that, due to a broken ankle, Kit Harrington had to use a butt double in . Now, now, now, please. Plus, cheerfully calling out to his dad whenever Roose is onscreen. Iain Glen is left utterly confused, thinking he's talking about the actors. Shortly following that, he begins to imitate Bane, much to Lena's confusion. I suppose you don't have many options when you live in the Riverlands. Even Kristian Nairn's face turned beet red when he realized what the crowd were chuckling at. Gethin's expression could be read as, . And I sent him a Jelly Baby as a gift to his trailer with a little note telling him what he should be doing, and he sent it back with the head bitten off. I was fully dressed up in my lovely little outfit from Season 1 and it was rainy outside. The costume department very kindly gave me an umbrella, ! It splashes all over me, and I just stood there going, . Some have suggested that Finn should host next year's event, as he's much more fun and dynamic than the reporter from Facebook Live. We have a Mother of Dragons. Um, if I had sword.. No, all I can think about is my dick! Sword, sword, sword, sword, if I had a sword.. Uh, I don't know, all I can think about is my penis. You know, for the size. His response to this was to say . She simply said . Weiss and David Benioff being interviewed and Charles Dance as the narrator. They thought I would make a good narrator. Weiss: Mostly because we're terrified of him. You don't want a call from Charles Dance in the middle of the night. By the look of things, he's been waiting for this episode for a long time. Then Meera gave him a Mercy Kill instead, and he figured he could at least come back next season as a Wight. Then the Child of the Forest blew up his body with a . Turns out it was to play his corpse. Sex, not necessarily loving. Jon Snow progressively gets more upset. Emilia Clarke: Blood, death, boobs. Blood, death, boobs. Daenarys Wins! Maisie Williams: Death, death, death, revenge, death, death, death, revenge, death, and revenge. Peter Dinklage: Tyrion is a science chemistry teacher at a high school, he finds this guy Jesse Pinkman and they get a Winnebago and then they get involved with some fried chicken place. He reflects about it with a final piece of sage advide: . Special mention to his description of the whole series as . Remember, these are days long before How To Train Your Dragon. His actor made hilarious tweets about it when his character is absent in Season 4 and 5. Naturally, many of the attempts to translate . After the events of ! The Season Six blooper reel is about seventy- five percent composed of Peter Dinklage failing to pronounce the word . When she mentions the word . After getting entangled with the shenanigans of the nominees, he prays to the heavens (okay, it's Oprah) for a way to get to the show on time. And then, Daenarys shows up with Drogon. While they were riding towards the studio, Drogon roasted Ryan Seacrest. See ya in July. The HBO promo which featured some of the characters saying . Jon Snow/Sansa Stark. She felt powerless in her nightmares, defenseless, wishing she could feed him to his dogs again, wishing naively for some golden knight to strike him down. But she wasn't a child anymore, and golden knights were rotten inside. She knew that now. So instead she daydreamed about the way Jon had broken Ramsay's face, about the blood and snow, about the sound of bones crunching.“Teach me,” she told Jon.
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