Being able to track the vast swaths of territory that individual characters have traversed, conquered, or ceded respectively speaking should be a worthy expenditure of leisure time for many, and stands as another piece of the vast puzzle that makes the fantasy series so singularly compelling. As the premiere date for season 7 looms ever farther away, fans of Game of Thrones will just have to make do for now with supplementary material like this one while they await the final two seasons of the hit HBO drama.
Benioff and Weiss may be taking a little longer than anticipated in the making of their follow up to season 6, making the study of the fantasy realm which they have claimed their own a more than worthwhile endeavor to engage in during the interim. Game of Thrones season 7 will premiere sometime in the spring of on HBO. Cureton is a born and raised Jersey Boy. Having received a B. Tolkien stated that his fantasy stories were meant to have actually occurred in our world, during a lost historical era roughly six thousand years ago; Tolkien's authorial conceit was that he simply found and "translated" a copy of the saga, similar to how the Anglo-Saxon saga Beowulf was lost for centuries until it was rediscovered.
Meanwhile, McCaffrey's Pern fantasy series is really set in the far future, with the twist being that it's actually a colony planet that regressed to medieval technology levels and in which dragons do exist, but created by the original colonists through genetic engineering.
Similarly, Terry Brooks' Sword of Shannara series or Pendelton Ward's Adventure Time are also set in what appear to be medieval fantasy settings, but actually take place in post-apocalyptic futures after technological human civilization has fallen, allowing magic to come back into the world. Martin, however, has adamantly denied that Westeros is set in either the past or future of real life Earth.
The unnamed world on which Westeros is located experiences erratic and extremely long seasons, which usually last at least several years and have been known to last a decade. It is vaguely implied that this was not always so, as characters still refer to a "year" as a twelve month period, etc.
Martin has stated that the ultimate cause of these long seasons is magical, and not technological unlike the Pern series, which ultimately revealed scientific or technological explanations to seemingly magical phenomena in the story. Most of the storyline is centered in the continent of Westeros, thus the worldview given to the audience is only the narrow perspective of the medieval population living there.
Their society has not explored and mapped out the entire world. Much of the eastern continent of Essos is known fairly well to them through trade contact, but even so, the edges of their maps are simply blank space waiting to be filled in. George R. Martin has stated that his medieval fantasy world is based on specifically medieval Europe , thus most of the continents and inhabitants are loosely analogous to Europe in the Middle Ages. The basic conceit of the setting is, "what if the British Isles were the size of South America?
Martin has stated that the continent of Westeros is specifically based on an over-sized British Isles, and that it is roughly the size of South America. The North is intended to be loosely analogous to Scotland.
Centuries later, the Andals were themselves conquered by the Targaryens, in a loose equivalent of the Norman Conquest. Essos is loosely based on Eurasia: it was once dominated by Valyria , their equivalent of the Roman Republic, which fell several hundred years ago. Valyria's surviving colonies went on to become the Free Cities, which share several features with medieval Italy or other medieval urban areas in Western Europe. The Dothraki from the central-eastern plains of Essos are loosely based on steppe nomads such as the Mongols with some additional elements of Amerindian plains peoples.
Qarth is somewhat like Constantinople or India, though Martin has said that racially the pale white Qartheen aren't based on any real life group.
The audience shares the perspective of the characters, because of Martin's narration shifting third-person limited style, and thus we only know what they know. It's a thematic point that the lands north of the Wall are unexplored and poorly mapped, just as they would be to a Roman soldier standing on Hadrian's Wall looking north to the edge of the known world. Martin has stated that he therefore will never reveal an omniscient map of the entire world his stories take place in:.
Also, Martin has stressed that it should not be assumed that his fantasy world even has an equivalent to the Americas or Australia, just waiting to be discovered. They might simply not exist, or have no direct analogues. If the analogous situation holds that Westeros is their word's equivalent to the British Isles, Yi Ti is the equivalent to China, and only the north coasts of Sothoryos have been explored, this would mean that only less than a fourth of the entire globe is known to men living in Westeros the northern half of their eastern hemisphere above their equator.
Martin has also stated that the storyline in his books is partially and loosely inspired by the War of the Roses, the civil war that occurred in England in the late s following its defeat in the Hundred Years' War. The technology level in their society more or less matches Late Medieval Europe, i. Martin responded that they would probably just call it "Earth"—there is no more elaborate name such as the fan nickname "Planetos". In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the world is presented much as in the series, although information about it was revealed much more slowly.
No map of Essos existed at all until the publication of A Storm of Swords in , which featured a map of Slaver's Bay. The opening credits only briefly depicted Pentos and Vaes Dothrak in such a way as to make their surrounding geography vague. HBO then released a larger world map on their website in when Season 2 began airing, based an early draft map of these eastern lands that George R.
Martin provided them. However, Martin subsequently changed his conception of much of the eastern part of the world roughly from east of the Dothraki Sea and the Red Waste, including Qarth and all the Jade Sea subsequent to HBO creating their own map.
The new, canon-for-the-books world map first appeared in The Lands of Ice and Fire , published in late The Lands of Ice and Fire revealed that Vaes Dothrak is in the northeast corner of the Dothraki Sea, and Qarth is roughly straight south from it along the same line of longitude, though on the opposite side of Essos.
East of both Vaes Dothrak and Qarth are the largest mountain chain in the known world, the massive Bone Mountains, which form a nearly impenetrable spine stretching from the southern coast to the northern coast of the continent. There are only a few passes between the Bone Mountains, forming a major barrier for west-east travel. Thus "everything east of the Bone Mountains" and "everything east of the Dothraki Sea and Qarth" are interchangeable phrases. Knowledge of lands east of this clearly defined dividing line is very limited, though the maesters of the Citadel do have a rough map of it.
The lands around the Jade Sea are in contact with Qarth through regular sea trade routes, such as the great empire of Yi Ti. Asshai is located at the far eastern edge of the Jade Sea and is little visited, due to its ill repute. The major difference between the early-draft map that HBO has been using for the TV series since Season 2 and Martin's finalized map in The Lands of Ice and Fire is that the Jade Sea curves to the north in the early draft, but it curves sharply to the south in the final draft.
Yi Ti is located on the northern coast of the Jade Sea, so the early draft map that HBO uses places it at a much more northerly latitude than in Martin's final draft version.
This would substantially alter Yi Ti's climate, which is actually sub-tropical in the final draft map. In the final draft, the Hyrkoonian cities of Bayasabhad , Shamyriana , and Kayakayanaya are oasis-cities in vast rain-shadow desert on the eastern shoulders of the Bone Mountains. Ever since the break between Season 2 and Season 3, therefore, it has been unclear if the HBO world map would be updated to the Lands of Ice and Fire book-canon world map.
As of the end of Season 5, it has not been updated. This has virtually no impact on the narrative within the TV series itself, because the Dothraki Sea and Qarth are the farthest east that the narrative has ever gone, and hardly anything east of those locations has even been mentioned in the TV series. These locations do clearly appear in the opening credits sequence, however—from Seasons 3 to 4 onward—just not in official HBO guide maps. Naath and Sothoryos appear where they do in the books and in accurate detail—given that they first appeared in the "Map of Slaver's Bay" and its surrounding first released with the third novel in Prior to Seasons 1 and 2, the novels already gave the general indication that the Summer Islands are south of the Narrow Sea southeast of Westeros and southwest of Essos , but west of Sothoryos.
Because the TV series already had this information, the appearance of the Summer Islands in the Season opening credits generally matches this—but an official map of the Summer Islands was not released until The Lands of Ice and Fire , so their brief appearance in the opening credits is often at the edge of the map, and more vaguely representational.
This is not a "change", so much as the TV series has simply avoided using the official map detail of the Summer Islands from The Lands of Ice and Fire. Considering how often HBO's Game of Thrones jumps from one location to another, it's easy for viewers to get lost in knowing where everything is on the Game of Thrones map.
And understanding the fundamental layout of Game of Thrones ' map of Westeros and Essos will undoubtedly be important when Game of Thrones season 8 premieres in April.
Here's the full Game of Thrones map, including Westeros and Essos, with hints of the uncharted regions to the far east and south that haven't been expanded upon even in George R. Martin's books. We'll now break down each area, how it's important to the show, and what other secrets they may hold. The North is the largest continuous region in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros and the least populous. The Starks serve as Wardens of the North and operate out of Winterfell , as they have for nearly years.
Other major families hailing from the region include the Reeds, the Karstarks, the Umbers, and the Boltons, though Houses Bolton, Umber, and Karstark are in shambles after losing roundly at the Battle of the Bastards.
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