What's the point of Ulthos?

[Don Roberto]

Mostly this but I think we might get some references during the flashbacks on Asshai. After all, it's right south of it.

It doesn't seem to trade of any kind with other locations though.

Well, the path of water between it and Asshai is called the Saffron Straits...

There also seems to be an abandoned town at the island os Ulos, along its coast, which could indicate that at least used to have some trade around there.

[joluoto]

Ulthos was probably created to give a "this world is fucking huge" image. And to kill the idea that sailing west from Asshai and getting to Westeros that way would be a relatively short journey.

[Spilly]

Ulthos was probably created to give a "this world is fucking huge" image. And to kill the idea that sailing west from Asshai and getting to Westeros that way would be a relatively short journey.

Assuming Planetos is round.

[Ser Duncan of Flea Bottom]

Martin already confirmed that his planet is round

We maybe will hear about Ulthos, but I don't know if we'll see it in ASOIAF

maybe like I said before, in a tale (like Dunk and Egg)

[The Night's Prince]

Interesting...but what about Ulthos other continents? *bada ching!*

[Ser Duncan of Flea Bottom]

Interesting...but what about Ulthos other continents? *bada ching!*

I think there's still one more in the way of the Jade Sea

or it'll be 6 thousand miles of sea until you reach Westeros

Ulthos is some kind of Australia (Martin said it can be a Big Island or a Small Continent), and I think there will be some kind of America

[Maester Totoro]

George has stated that he likes the map to feel incomplete, like in medieval times, with the There Be Dragons and all of that. If only the places we see on the plot would appear on the map, that feeling wouldn't be possible. Nothing is ever going to happen there.

[Mrs.Grumpy]

hairy mouse pigs as big as cows- diprotodont from ??Ulthos??

tigers that carry their cubs in a pouch- thylacine from ??Ulthos??

terrible walking lizards with scythes for claws- velociraptor from ??Sothoryos??

I don't see marsupial mega-fauna cohabiting with dinosaurs or placental mammals such as dire wolves and mammoths found in Westeros and Essos, so perhaps Ulthos is their home, making it an analogue for Pliestocene Australia.

Makes sense to me. :laugh:

But I want to hear more about people of Ulthos. :dunce:

Warlocks drinks the shade of the evening and its made from dark trees with blue leaves, right ?

Oh, look at Ulthos :cool4:

[Pootie Tang]

Perhaps it is there for Dany to explore after she is done with what remains of Essos and Sothoryos?

[jentario]

To set up the next ASOIAF miniseries! The Adventures of Gerion Lannister! Gerion Lannister in: Lannisters of the Lost (story) Arc, The Temple of Retcon, and The Last Sequel. (Well what about the fourth movie? What fourth movie?)

Well, what did you think those creatures Nimble Dick talked about were? Aliens in Westeros! All will be explained in Gerion Lannister and the Crystal Bullshit.

By the way, that was hillarious XD

[The Black Hawk]

maybe it would be like Asia

[Yukle]

You know, I have the map collection at home and it never occurred to me until just now that Ulthos is a separate continent. I thought it was part of Sothyros. In any case, I think that the idea is to emphasise that this is a world that no one has explored in its entirety. This would be the case with our own world until very recently when people began collating maps and doing so more accurately.

Interestingly, on my map it's coloured dark brown and black, as is Sothyros. The other continents seem to be coloured according to their main geographic features so those places must be muddy rocks. :P

[Magic 8 Ball]

Ulthos is there to set up a Gulf Stream circulation with Essos that allows lemon trees to be cultivated in Braavos. :cool4:

[ckal]

Why does there have to be a point?

It's just another place in the world that we'll never seen nor will it have any sort of impact on the story.

[The last Greenseer]

It will be claimed as the seat by the first lord of Pie family, savior of humanity, AA reborn, protector of the realms of men, HOT PIE!

It is known!

[noSer]

The cynic in me says that it was created to make the buyers of the map-books feel good about their purchase.

Bullseye! And as someone who spent there money to buy the maps i am grateful for the effort!

" All will be explained in Gerion Lannister and the Crystal Bullshit."

LOVE IT!!!

[Ours if the Fury]

he is world building making his once smalled world of westros and same parts of Essos into the next big epic world he is creating it so things can be done with it i would really like to hear about it in a information book or in the map book coming out soon

[Mrs.Grumpy]

Maybe these purple forests are bioluminescenct... that would be lovely.

[Angmar]

Maybe it's where the Last Targaryens ^TM are living? That's where Dany, Jon, Aegon, and all the Lannisters will go to once the Walkers invade Westeros.

Or maybe it's just a stand in for America.

Since Westeros is Europe and Essos is North Africa-Middle East-Rennasaince Italy and Asshai is Asia and Sothroyos is South Africa...

[Athenian117]

I think it's where that Poets' City is located, according to him is beyond Asshai, well, maybe another story Martin may create in the future, or more tales like Dunk and Egg, maybe we can saw something about Ulthos

what is the city of Poets?

I forget.