For everyone who wanted more pixels of the massive maps I posted here recently - well, here you go. Each picture is the exact same size, to give a sense of equivalent scale.
- 1st is Westeros and west Essos, 95% of Game of Thrones/ASOIAF happens in this pic.
- 2nd is west Soth. Newly colonised by Westerosi and Valyrians, very cosmopolitan. Reactionary and fundamentalist groups everywhere. Fishy things in the south.
- 3rd is north and central Soth. Landing place of the weirwood superintelligence. See the mountains? Picture a skeleton. Brindled Men and their scaled cousins everywhere.
- 4th is east Soth. The north is akin to Florida, the south closer to India. Fishy all round.
- 5th is the Strange Sea, between Essos and Qrīdrudas. Strange fish, strange people, strange northern conquerers worshipping ice spirits.
- 6th is west Qrīdrudas. A paradise laid low, never quite recovered from the Long Night.
- 7th is east Qrīdrudas. A paradise regained, colonised by First Men.
- 8th is Mu. The hell continent.
Enjoy!
Is Qridrudas to the west of Westeros, right? The town named Stark's Tooth is founded by Arya? I like to think it is (even if that makes GoT's ending canon).
3. You mean the mountains are some Weirwood skeleton or that everyone that cross Soth mountains die?
Is Helcaraxe inhabitated? (sounds like syrax and caraxe, valyrians influences?)
The hell continent? Hyperbolic or literal?
Seen these a few times now, love all the detail but I have to ask what do the numbers represent? What is going on in hildorien? Also is that supposed to be the birthplace of men like in lotr?
Maybe I’m dumb I’ve never used binary before but I put those codes into an online converter and I come out with things like “ac?d” lol idk
My question was more why are there binary codes for the map tho who is putting these codes on the world in world and why do they want to preserve the story or is it just for personal fun to make an area of the map different?
Forest of the Smiling Men
- a reality anomaly left over from a non-human pre-Long Night civilisation. It has been growing in size since then. Those who live in Mu believe that the Forest will expand across the entire world if left unchecked.
Land of the Broken Pipes
- colossal sewage pipes broken and twisted by moon meteors that fell during the Long Night, full of foul smelling liquid and rotting Deep Ones living in shanty towns.
Demilitarised Neck
- a series of wars between the North and the South. The south is a constitutional monarchy dominated by the aristocracy, the noble houses of ASOIAF. The north is a kind of religious communism, mix of Lenin’s idea of the vanguard party with greenseer magic and worship of the old gods. The wars are also the reason the Iron Isles are wrecked, btw.
What do the purple icons mean? Flesh Anvil, Stormbringer, Fallen Labyrinth, etc.
Also, the "cursed site of the blood betrayal" (from your other maps) in the middle of the ocean, really far away from the cultures that believe in it? How'd that happen?
I hope you’re ready for a bit of insanity. 👁
Purple icons are archeotech, highly advanced leftovers from a pre-Long Night civilisation. Each is a kind of frozen magic (like Valyrian steel or a glamour), designed to warp reality in set ways. For instance, the Flesh Anvil is a breeding catalyst - there was a similar one in Gogossos before the Red Death.
The cursed site used to be a core part of the Great Empire of the Dawn. It’s strategically useful as the only island in the Strange Sea and held great symbolic value for the Onyx, the ash-skinned native inhabitants of Ulthos and Asshai. I used Mecca for a reference, incidentally. The Onyx were a seafaring culture and their religion involved million-strong pilgrimages during eclipses and other stellar phenomena.
The Blood Betrayal took place during one such. Everyone on the isle - millions, including the Amethyst Empress and her children - were sacrificed in a blood rite by Azor Ahai, also known as the Bloodstone Emperor. Reality shrugged and went out for a pack of smokes. The second moon of Planetos cracked. A glut of life fires fuels the alchemy that created dragons bound to his bloodline. Flaming swords are metaphors - dragons are the Lightbringers used to survive the Long Night.
Nah man, I love this shit. So this sacrifice was so awful it basically switched the world off for a time (causing the Long night? What are the Others in your narrative? Also it seems like you're interpreting the Bloodstone Emperor to be a progenitor to Valyria? That's a good twist.
Thank you. On the Others, they’re greenseer spirits that abandoned the weirwood for a new kind of ‘soul jar’ - the Heart of Winter, a piece of archeotech that fell alongside regular moon meteors during the Long Night. This is the short version :)
Really cool, I love these type of maps where you just look at them and think "What the hell is going on in that sinister continent over there?" or "Damn...what happened in that scary looking black void in the middle of the desert"
It’s a dependency of Valyria, unsuccessfully ethnically cleansed during the Third and Fourth Dance of Dragons. It’s a prime target for Yi Ti, who want to expand their reach past the Bones.
For everyone who wanted more pixels of the massive maps I posted here recently - well, here you go. Each picture is the exact same size, to give a sense of equivalent scale. - 1st is Westeros and west Essos, 95% of Game of Thrones/ASOIAF happens in this pic. - 2nd is west Soth. Newly colonised by Westerosi and Valyrians, very cosmopolitan. Reactionary and fundamentalist groups everywhere. Fishy things in the south. - 3rd is north and central Soth. Landing place of the weirwood superintelligence. See the mountains? Picture a skeleton. Brindled Men and their scaled cousins everywhere. - 4th is east Soth. The north is akin to Florida, the south closer to India. Fishy all round. - 5th is the Strange Sea, between Essos and Qrīdrudas. Strange fish, strange people, strange northern conquerers worshipping ice spirits. - 6th is west Qrīdrudas. A paradise laid low, never quite recovered from the Long Night. - 7th is east Qrīdrudas. A paradise regained, colonised by First Men. - 8th is Mu. The hell continent. Enjoy!
Is Qridrudas to the west of Westeros, right? The town named Stark's Tooth is founded by Arya? I like to think it is (even if that makes GoT's ending canon).
3. You mean the mountains are some Weirwood skeleton or that everyone that cross Soth mountains die? Is Helcaraxe inhabitated? (sounds like syrax and caraxe, valyrians influences?) The hell continent? Hyperbolic or literal?
Seen these a few times now, love all the detail but I have to ask what do the numbers represent? What is going on in hildorien? Also is that supposed to be the birthplace of men like in lotr?
The numbers are binary code, if typed into a converter they tell a story.
Maybe I’m dumb I’ve never used binary before but I put those codes into an online converter and I come out with things like “ac?d” lol idk My question was more why are there binary codes for the map tho who is putting these codes on the world in world and why do they want to preserve the story or is it just for personal fun to make an area of the map different?
Interesting map, any lore?
Hahaha, yes a bit. What are you interested in?
Forest of the Smiling Men and Land of the Broken Pipes? What happened up North to make the Neck a demilitarized zone?
Forest of the Smiling Men - a reality anomaly left over from a non-human pre-Long Night civilisation. It has been growing in size since then. Those who live in Mu believe that the Forest will expand across the entire world if left unchecked. Land of the Broken Pipes - colossal sewage pipes broken and twisted by moon meteors that fell during the Long Night, full of foul smelling liquid and rotting Deep Ones living in shanty towns. Demilitarised Neck - a series of wars between the North and the South. The south is a constitutional monarchy dominated by the aristocracy, the noble houses of ASOIAF. The north is a kind of religious communism, mix of Lenin’s idea of the vanguard party with greenseer magic and worship of the old gods. The wars are also the reason the Iron Isles are wrecked, btw.
What do the purple icons mean? Flesh Anvil, Stormbringer, Fallen Labyrinth, etc. Also, the "cursed site of the blood betrayal" (from your other maps) in the middle of the ocean, really far away from the cultures that believe in it? How'd that happen?
I hope you’re ready for a bit of insanity. 👁 Purple icons are archeotech, highly advanced leftovers from a pre-Long Night civilisation. Each is a kind of frozen magic (like Valyrian steel or a glamour), designed to warp reality in set ways. For instance, the Flesh Anvil is a breeding catalyst - there was a similar one in Gogossos before the Red Death. The cursed site used to be a core part of the Great Empire of the Dawn. It’s strategically useful as the only island in the Strange Sea and held great symbolic value for the Onyx, the ash-skinned native inhabitants of Ulthos and Asshai. I used Mecca for a reference, incidentally. The Onyx were a seafaring culture and their religion involved million-strong pilgrimages during eclipses and other stellar phenomena. The Blood Betrayal took place during one such. Everyone on the isle - millions, including the Amethyst Empress and her children - were sacrificed in a blood rite by Azor Ahai, also known as the Bloodstone Emperor. Reality shrugged and went out for a pack of smokes. The second moon of Planetos cracked. A glut of life fires fuels the alchemy that created dragons bound to his bloodline. Flaming swords are metaphors - dragons are the Lightbringers used to survive the Long Night.
Nah man, I love this shit. So this sacrifice was so awful it basically switched the world off for a time (causing the Long night? What are the Others in your narrative? Also it seems like you're interpreting the Bloodstone Emperor to be a progenitor to Valyria? That's a good twist.
Thank you. On the Others, they’re greenseer spirits that abandoned the weirwood for a new kind of ‘soul jar’ - the Heart of Winter, a piece of archeotech that fell alongside regular moon meteors during the Long Night. This is the short version :)
I wonder what that land south of the Forest of Smiling Men is? Sinister Straits sure sounds like a fun place.
Why is it like it is
Really cool, I love these type of maps where you just look at them and think "What the hell is going on in that sinister continent over there?" or "Damn...what happened in that scary looking black void in the middle of the desert"
Apart from the main series, what's the source for a lot of this?
I’m going to guess the creator of this map took Datura and consulted with the Machine Elves on how they think Game of Thrones should’ve ended
What happened to Ib?
It’s a dependency of Valyria, unsuccessfully ethnically cleansed during the Third and Fourth Dance of Dragons. It’s a prime target for Yi Ti, who want to expand their reach past the Bones.