What is a world of ice and fire?
Welcome to A World of Ice and Fire, a modification for Mount&Blade: Warband and Bannerlord based off of GRRM’s A Song of Ice and Fire. Be prepared to create your own House and challenge the Seven Kingdoms in this adaptation of A Game of Thrones. A gritty world awaits you full of treachery and traitorous Kings, Lords and Knights.
What is the setting of a song of ice and fire?
The fictional world in which the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin take place is divided into several continents, known collectively as The Known World. Most of the story takes place on the continent of Westeros and in a large political entity known as the Seven Kingdoms.
Is there a companion book to a song of ice and fire?
For the 2017 A Song of Ice and Fire companion book, see The World of Ice & Fire. The fictional world in which the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin take place is divided into several continents, known collectively as The Known World.
What is Westeros like in a song of ice and fire?
At the beginning of A Song of Ice and Fire, Westeros has enjoyed a decade-long summer, and many fear that an even longer and harsher winter will follow. George R. R. Martin set the Ice and Fire story in an alternative world of Earth, a " secondary world ", such as that which J. R. R. Tolkien pioneered with Middle-earth.
Who burned the northern shipyards?
Thousands of years before Aegon's Conquest, King Brandon the Shipwright attempted to sail across the Sunset Sea, but never returned back home. His son, also named Brandon, burned the northern shipyards in his grief. The north has since lacked strength at sea.
What do the lords of the north store away?
Once autumn is declared by the Citadel, the lords of the north store away a part of the grain they have harvested. How much is a matter of choice; between one fifth and one fourth seems prudent, however. Additionally food is smoked, salted, and otherwise preserved ahead of winter.
Where are the lakes in Wolfswood?
South of the wolfswood is hilly terrain with several large lakes. Torrhen's Square, seat of House Tallhart, is by the largest of these lakes. Farther west along the Sunset Sea is the Stony Shore, which contains fishing villages. Southeast of the Stony Shore and north of Blazewater Bay is the Rills, plains which are ruled by House Ryswell. East of the Rills and south of Winterfell are the barrowlands, hilly plains dotted with the barrows of the First Men. House Dustin rules the large town of Barrowton. There are unnamed rivers which flow south from Barrowton and near Torrhen's Square into the Saltspear, while another unnamed river divides the Stony Shore from the Rills.
Where is Winterfell in the Seven Kingdoms?
Winterfell, the ancestral seat of House Stark, is a large castle at the centre of the north. Nearby is the winter town. The vast wolfswood, the largest forest of the Seven Kingdoms, extends northwest to the Bay of Ice and Sea Dragon Point. Deepwood Motte, the seat of House Glover, lies in the western wolfswood. House Mormont rules Bear Island in the Bay of Ice. The northern mountains extend from the wolfswood to the Wall and are inhabited by northern mountain clans.
What are the two major land barriers in the North?
The north has two major land barriers, the Wall to the north and the Neck to the south. The north is bound on each side by major seas, the Shivering Sea to the east and the Sunset Sea to the west. Winterfell, the ancestral seat of House Stark, is a large castle at the centre of the north. Nearby is the winter town.
Why is the North affected by the winter?
The north is strongly affected during the long winters, with thousands of people killed and famine a common occurrence due to poor harvests before winter or the inability to raise crops during the longer winters that last for years on end.
Who led the North to war?
The Starks led the north to war during Aegon's Conquest. After the Field of Fire, however, King Torrhen Stark knelt to Aegon the Conqueror rather than face his dragons. The north was included in the Seven Kingdoms and owed allegiance to the Iron Throne of House Targaryen. The Stark Kings in the North became the Lords of Winterfell and Wardens of the North. Some northmen who refused to bend the knee fled into exile in Essos and formed the Company of the Rose.
What is the known world?
Known world. Map of the known world based on The Lands of Ice and Fire. The known world is composed of at least three continents ( Westeros, Essos, and Sothoryos ), a large landmass ( Ulthos ), and a number of many smaller islands. None of the four major landmasses have been completely mapped. The known world is part of a round planet, which might ...
How old is the world according to Perestan?
The maesters of the Citadel have speculated on the age of the world. According to Archmaester Perestan, the world is forty thousand years old, and Archmaester Mollos instead suggests five hundred thousand years, while Maester Yandel asks whether it might be older than either figure, and points out that no accounts of its beginnings exist, as its origins predate written history, meaning that no-one can know for certain.
What is the name of the sea in the western part of the continent?
The western edge of the continent is controlled by the nine Free Cities, while the city-states of Slaver's Bay are in the south-central region. Much of the continental interior, known as the Dothraki sea, is grassland ruled by the tribal warriors known as the Dothraki. Further east is Qarth and the fabled Jade Sea.
What is the largest island in the world?
The largest island in the known world is Great Moraq, between the Summer Sea and the Jade Sea to the south of Qarth. The second largest appears to be Ib in the Shivering Sea north of the Kingdoms of the Ifeqevron, followed by the largest of the Summer Isles, Jhala. See also various other islands .
Where is Westeros located?
Westeros. Main article: Westeros. Located in the far west of the known world, the continent of Westeros is long and relatively narrow, extending from Dorne in the south to the Lands of Always Winter in the far north. The Wall, the border between the Seven Kingdoms and lands beyond the Wall to the north, is 300 miles long, ...
Who attempted to sail across the Sunset Sea?
King Brandon the Shipwright of House Stark attempted to sail across the Sunset Sea, but never returned.
Is the world round?
The known world is part of a round planet, which might be a little larger than Earth. There might still be smallfolk who believe the world to be flat. On the whole, however, wise men and scholars from various civilizations ( Valyria, Qarth, Yi Ti, and the Maesters of Westeros) have known for centuries that the world is a round globe. Based on observations from Astronomy, these scholars each determined that the only way the motion of the stars makes sense is if the world is round. It is therefore understood that it is possible, in principle, for a ship to circumnavigate the globe, though despite the efforts of several explorers no one has ever succeeded in the attempt.
Overview
Westeros
The story takes place primarily on an elongated continent called Westeros, which is roughly the size of South America. The continent is home to the Seven Kingdoms, also known as "the Realm" or the "Sunset Kingdom", located to the south side of the Wall, a massive man-made ice wall (allegedly fused with magic) 700 feet in height and spanning east–west for 300 miles from coast t…
Maps
A Game of Thrones, the first installment of the A Song of Ice and Fire series, has two maps of Westeros. Each new book has added one or two maps so that, as of A Dance with Dragons, seven maps of the fictional world are available in the books. Martin said in 2003 that complete world maps were not made available so that readers may better identify with people of the real Middle Ages who were uneducated about distant places. He also did not "subscribe to the theory put for…
Summer Sea
East of Naath, the Basilisk Isles have been a festering sore of the Summer Sea, and a safe haven for pirates, slavers, sellswords, and outlaws. Ruins have been found on the Isle of Tears, the Isle of Toads, and Ax Island. The Isle of Tears is the largest island, with steep valleys and black bogs. It was conquered by the Ghiscari and it was called Gorgai for two centuries, until the dragonlords of Valyria captured it and renamed it Gorgossos. It was used as a prison by the Freehold, a place w…
Essos
Part of the narrative in A Song of Ice and Fire lies across the Narrow Sea from Westeros, an area comprising the large eastern continent named Essos. Being roughly the size of Eurasia, Essos has geography and climate that vary greatly. The western coastline is characterized by green rolling hills, the massive Forest of Qohor, and extensive island chains such as Braavos and Lys. The middle of …
Sothoryos
To the south of Essos is the continent of Sothoryos (mistakenly spelled Sothoros in early novels). Sothoryos is the third continent of the known world, and is vast, plague-ridden, covered in jungles, and largely unexplored. It is reported to be as large as Essos and described as a "land without end" by Jaenara Belaerys, a Valyrian dragonlord from before the Doom of Valyria.
The continent is first named on a map in A Storm of Swords (2000), showing the cities of Yeen a…
Ulthos
The map collection The Lands of Ice and Fire also shows the north tip of a landmass named "Ulthos" to the south of Essos and east of Sothoryos. Asked whether this was another continent, Martin replied, "Well, it's a large landmass. I am a little unclear on the formal definition of 'continent' as opposed to 'big island.' Also on the size of Ulthos, which after all sits at the edge of the known world. Terra incognita and all that."
External links
• Wiki of Ice and Fire, Geography