The fact that the entire franchise takes place mostly on Westeros when there is an entire continent 3x its size... the possibility of other stories is limitless. Even though it would never happen, I would love to see George write a story about Yi Ti or one of the other eastern parts of Essos. Could even CGI some Wyrms or Wyverns since Dragons are not the only "mythical" creatures in the GOT universe.
I'm sure George could pull it off, but from this video Yi Ti sounds like one of the most boring places in the world. It is literally just medieval China.
I love the copious inspiration George RR Martin took from real world prehistory and history and how he remixed it to create a world that feels familiar but magical. It hits the escapism sweet spot for me.
Sothoryos is literally so big its size is unknown except the coast. But this is all in consideration that Westeros and essos are just the northern hemisphere
you forgot to mention that the children of the forest also tried to destroy the neck (the south part of the north ) but their magic was weakend and the spell caused the region to become a swamp
7:19 Aegon’s conquest actually started in 2 BC, not 1 AC. The calendar starts after Aegon’s conquest ended, when he was officially crowned at the Starry Sept in Oldtown, two years after the conquest began
Makes you respect how much ground Daenerys has covered from the east of Essos to the west of Westeros, while still going to the north and south of these regions as well. All that travel and recruiting, impressive indeed of her! 😮
It's interesting how in Lord of the Rings magic is disappearing from the world while in Game of Thrones, magic comes back into the world after long being forgotten by the people. I'm personally invested in Bran's story more than anyone else cause it gets into the magic aspects more.
he takes everything from history, GRRM is huge history buff and it's easy when even looking at just the geography to see that he is remodling the old world into a fantasy one for his own enjoyment. He's got a lot of source material he picks from.
Dragonstone wasn't founded by House Targaryen. It was one of many valyrian fortress. it just happen to be on westero and was safe from the effects of the doom and the power vacuum that was left behind when the rest of the valyrian houses die.
@@teacherhomieg Velaryons ruled the Driftmark, not the Dragonstone. But they are neighbors to one another, and before the Targaryens came to Westeros - the Velaryons are the first from Essos to take refuge there. Though, unlike Targaryens who were minor Dragonlord, House Velaryon originate as commoner there. They're more similar to Celtigars.
The seven kingdoms are: The North, The Vale, The Reach, The Stormlands, The Westerlands, Dorne and the Kingdom of Isles and Rivers. Which is currently split in two and ruled separately as the Iron islands and the Riverlands.
you forgot about the neandrathals / dwarves of the north of essos, and the entirety of the continent of southeros (aswell as the mysterious lands further to the west)
The Riverlands is not considered one of the Seven Kingdoms. The Iron Islands is the seventh, as the Riverlands was under its control when Aegon landed.
yea its probable that the five forts in Yi Ti were built to defend from them similarly to the wall in westeros but it doesnt really make sense if white walkers were created by children of the forest unless they lived out there at one point in time
Yiti has it's own massive foritifcation protecting it's northern border called the five forts and there is talk of "demons" who follow the lion of night. We know that the last long night was a worldwide event because of other last hero myths told all over essos and westeros.
i know southeroys is not fully explored but its tip is still visible on the full map and so is the summer isles naarth and the rest of the small island they all have their own people and cultures
Yeah but in the case of Sothoryos at least its presence is somewhat inconsequential other than as cryptic background references and a specific in-universe historical anecdote of a failed attempt at exploring it. So not surprised it was omitted.
Essos seems huge but you wouldn't think it seeing as how Daenerys seems to always be in one part of the continent one day and then she's on the other by the next week even without her dragons.
I love how it seems everything just takes much longer to advance compared to our own history. Like established civilizations over 10,000 years old and older but stuck in the middle age close to 5,000 years
So basically G.R.R. recreated the world map, with Westeros being North and South Americas - the "New World" where everyone migrated to, the Free Cities - various European countries, Valyria - Italy (fallen Roman Empire), and even the Asian steppes with Mongols (Jogos Nhai), China (Yunkai) and Japan (secretive Ashai) are where they should be.
I believe he enlarged Britain to become Westeros and moved it from the north to where America is, but no Americans are actually present. North Wall is actually a Hadrian wall, with Scots being free folk and the War of Roses being the Hightower vs Targaryen fight (house of dragon storyline). Eurasia has being traslated to Essos condenced with mongol, China everything else + some of the mediterranean.
Yeah to me the lap looks like westeros is great Britain, the wall being exactly where Hadrian's wall lies today, essos is what Europe looks like minus Scandinavia and the Iberian peninsula
Doubt it. The wall is inspired by Hadrians Wall in the British Isles. The Celtics where considered "wild barbarians" by the Romans. The British Isles were also multiple kingdoms that were eventually united into one.
I discovered your channel with this video 🤩, it would be interesting to create a "format" with explanations of world maps from different fictional universes.
seems To me that places like Yi ti represent real life countries like China, Mongolia, the middle east represented by valyria, pentos, astapor, yunkai etc
Small correction at 8:06 , the Riverlands aren’t a kingdom, the Iron Islands are a kingdom. The seven kingdoms are the North, the Vale, the Iron Islands, the Westerlands, the Stormlands, the Reach, and Dorne. The Riverlands are their own region, but when Aegon conquered them, their king was the king of the Iron Islands.
I thought we didn’t know where the top of Essos ended. Weren’t there speculation that it connected to The Lands of Always Winter? There are stories very similar to the White Walkers happening in Essos a very long time ago
There’s a story about the beginning of the first Long Night. It was a prince or a king form the East side of Essos, they fought some kind of creatures from the north east in a place in the map called The Five Forts. Look it up, it’s pretty cool.
10/10 video. could u do a video just like this, from say, 5000 BC until idk, 1453 fall of constantinople of discovery of america (end of middle ages) ?? that'd be pretty cool
We need some series focusing the different areas of Essos. Also would be cool of a series set after the main events of the original show where they try to track down Drogon, bring the dragons back and exploring old Valeria.
There are theories that myths of this world are like myths in real world, they're not telling exactly what happened and the real reason why Arm of Dorne was broken was a natural disaster, that demolished a lot of places in the world. There's a reason why Pyke is as it is, why Neck is a very tight pass etc
They were doing pretty well before they started running out of book material and it was obvious that despite their conversations with George, they had no real grasp on where the story was ultimately heading.
Woah I didn't realized how big is the worldbuilding of this world. I thought Westeros was the only map it has. I hope we can explore those other locations in future Game of Thrones spin-off series.
The drama in Esos is 1000x more interesting than westeros. More cultures, more cities, more creatures, more magic etc... Pls make a spinoff stories mainly on essos
"but the city had a dark side ..." I watched Game of Thrones ... all 8 seasons / 73 episodes of it, and i could not spot a city that did not have an dark side. Infact all of it was dark. Cities, villages, towns, people, animals, dragons, giants, you name it. Was there even a "bright" city in the series?
There is also Sothoryos, a giant rainforest area said to be a land with no end, home to purple eyed lemurs called “little Valyrians”, giant King Kong like apes, Velociraptors, Wyverns (Smaller but fiercer and less fire breathing relatives of Dragons), The Summer Isles a chain of isles next to Sothoryos and Ulthos… nothing interesting to say about Ulthos
Where I have questions in the lore of GoT is why has technology not only had zero progression, but actually regressed? Thousands of years ago they had Valyrian steel, yet now almost no one can craft it? No other technological advances at all?
In the series it is mentioned by the three eyed raven under the tree that the children of the forest created the white walkers during the war. Did not see that mentioned. Seems pretty important.
whitewalkers were created by childer of the forrest to use the numbers of men against them, but they lost control of them and after that men and childer of the forest made peace to defeat whitewalkers - just to correct / fill in what you had in your vid.
Wow how much creativity and deep thinking is neended for building a whole new world in your thoughts. Writers like martin, Tolkien & Rowling are just incredible It makes me sad that currently there is huge lack of creativity in india. I just wish there was good literature and fantasy compared to this although historically india had a very interesting literary culture but now most of the writers and filmmakers are clown who just imitate and copy others work and have no originality
you should've mentioned that westeros is basically an inverted ireland below a great britian which is a bit deformed, but it's stil great britian and essos is basically turkey and the middle east.
It is not about size but the representation. Westeros is analog to the medieval Europe, while Essos is analog to the aprox. medieval Asia. When it comes to size, they may be big as you want, it's imaginary any way.
L children of the forest destroying the arm of drone only ended up helping the first men by making trade to southern Essos easier and preventing Dothraki from invading Westeros.
