KOM Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 I really don't see how seeing a randomly drawn coastline with some weird names written on it could have any kind of interest. It's clear that GRRM has imagined Asshai and the Shadow as the "Far East" and has not bothered to think what's further. Even those lands are just only sketched as a "hic sunt dracones" equivalent.that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joluoto Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 It bugs me that we didn't get all of Essos in the Lands book. I find it hard to believe that with Asshai being a well known city, that nobody would've charted just a little further up the coast. If it extends much further east then it would be the most suspiciously long and rectangular naturally occurring thing EVER, so the end can't be far. I can completely understand Sothoryos and Ulthos, given the rumours of disease and what not (though you'd think the Jade Sea would be completely charted, coasts of aforementioned continents an all). But just zoom out ever so slightly and give us an east coast to Essos? Is that too much to ask?Ha, do you really think Asshai is even close to the edge of Essos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcon2908 Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 I want to see what's east of asshai because those lands are not rumored to be full of disease like sothoryos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhaenys_Targaryen Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 I want to see what's east of asshai because those lands are not rumored to be full of disease like sothoryos Where is it rumoured that sothoryos is full of disease? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RumHam Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 Where is it rumoured that sothoryos is full of disease? Yezzan got his strange disease there, that must be what he was thinking of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChildOfTheForest Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 I hope we would see and hear more of Asashi and the rest of the eastern lands and the mysterious stuff going on there..The thing that im most intrigued about is the land of always winter, i would like to see more of its nature and features and of course what is inhabited there...I realy like the adaptation Hbo made of it..(season 4 episode 4 ending- the other getting deeper into the land with the baby) it was so fantasy like enviroment and eveything was dark and there was a mysterious green light in the sky.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcon2908 Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 Where is it rumoured that sothoryos is full of disease?Tyrions slaver master, Yezzam, had gone to sothoryos and contracted a disease there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhaenys_Targaryen Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 Tyrions slaver master, Yezzam, had gone to sothoryos and contracted a disease there That doesn't make Sothoryos "full" of disease, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Varys Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 Well, it is supposed to be a tropical environment, isn't it? If the real world serves as a model, both the climate and the diseases there should be tough to handle for people who are not accustomed to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzureOwl Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 The first line in the app's entry on Sothoryos says... "Sothoryos is the continent south of Essos, said to be infested with disease and dangers of all kinds." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhaenys_Targaryen Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 My speculative world map. The big island in the west is the place the Farwynds found, Sothoryos is pretty huge and Ulthos I tried to keep to that big island/subcontinent size. It probably needs to be bigger though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urraxbane Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 To be honest, I'm a lot more interested in a potential complete map of Westeros, one with all major castles and locations. That was my biggest disappointment with LOIAF. Where's Raventree Hall? Willow Wood? Castamere? If that isn't in TWOIAF, I'll call it a ripoff. It'd cost them much less than artwork and take just a few pages to make one for each region. Doesn't even have to be coloured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyannarya Snow Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 Maybe the Lands of Always Winter are like GRRM's polar ice cap. Maybe instead of widening, it continues to go North until it actually goes South once it reaches the opposite side of the northern pole.I like that idea... besides it would mean Aegon I has not even conquered half the continent o.O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Mac Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 My speculative world map. The big island in the west is the place the Farwynds found, Sothoryos is pretty huge and Ulthos I tried to keep to that big island/subcontinent size. It probably needs to be bigger though. I like it. Do you believe the ocean to be that expansive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordsteve666 Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 The trouble with the maps as shown is that there's never any real indication of the curve of the planet they are on, for all we know you could sail west from the Iron Islands and land in Assai after a week's sailing. Or there could be a whole other continent hiding out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 GRRM has said that his world is bigger than Earth, so if Asshai is c. 6,000 miles east of Westeros, it's a hell of a lot further to the west. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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