BY THE VARIOUS GODS! Reddit user HotbrownDoubleDouble has created a series of maps based on the known history of the world of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire which tracks the movement of the various groups and Houses in the series, from the millennia-old Children of the Forest and the First Men all the way to present day.
The whole thing is pretty bad-ass and is totally spoiler-free, so anyone curious about the series or the Game of Thrones TV show can dive in and wonder at the various back and forths of the families and beings that come in to play throughout the story.
It also provides a wonderful illustration of the cyclical nature of the characters and societies within the series, where vengeance seemingly piles on top of vengeance and peace never truly arrives. What is Daenerys’ claim to power against the Others, or the Children of the Forest? What is anyone’s claim to power, really? It’s a question that stands at the heart of the books and show, and it’s fascinating to see how that question has been answered continually throughout the history of Westeros and the Lands Beyond.
You can see the entire progression of maps here.
You can also combine this map geek-out with this geographical geek-out for some ultimate Game of Thrones geeking out.
I like this because some of the information plays into my theories.
Very good and very interesting. It makes me want to buy the books detailing ASOIAF history and the world.
@2. Yeah, at first I thought this might be a peek of October’s The World of Ice and Fire but no way would this much of it pop up on the internet before pub date.
I love the simplicity of the data in these maps. And the lost Houses of yesteryear. It really underscores that we may be reading the twilight of the Stark and Targaryen lines, despite how much we’re rooting for them as readers.
@1 – I was just thinking that! I was like, “ooooh, this totally plays into the ‘reason for the Wall’ theory Aeryl has talked about!”
Also, I love maps.
Hmmm… That’s really cool but I had always imagined Dorne as being some kind of isthmus connecting the 2 continents that was broken later somehow. May just be all in my head.
No, the Neck is the isthmus on Westeros, Dorne is the furthest south, and once was connected to Essos by a landbridge.
I wish it had at least gone up to the Conequest of Aegon and the new Houses that came out of that, which basically gets you to present day Game of Thrones (could also have possibly included Robert’s Rebellion).
Nitpick – they keep misspelling ‘Rhoynar’.
I can understand why they didn’t, but also some of the information hasn’t been revealed yet.
@5 Yeah, the Arm of Dorne was broken by the Children of the Forest after the First Men arrived over the land bridge. You can see it in the first map, even.
The maker of these maps has uploaded new ones, taking the total up to 16. These extra 7 maps show Aegon’s conquest!
The link: http://imgur.com/a/9itLf#0
WOOOO!
I was wondering if those would be considered spoilery/incomplete, but I was re-reading the appendices recently and there IS a decent amount of information in them. I hope he/she continues to update them as the books go on and we get more info!
Your links to the maps are still broken…. two years later astill.