Iwasfrozen Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Westeros is roughly the size of the island of England.No.Edit: wait, that was sarcasm, right?It better be. England is not an island! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cregan Quagg Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 Werthead. My recollection of GRRM's quote was that the lands beyond the Wall are Greenland sized, not Canada sized. Unless you have a different, more recent quote in mind.GRRM said they were "the size of Canada" in one of the talking heads he did for Game of Thrones. I find it hard to believe, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 I take this as yet another proof that GRRM's sense of scale in geography is not the best, and one should take these generalizations -- Westeros is the size of South America, the lands beyond the Wall are the size of Canada -- with a grain of salt. He just means, you know, it's a big place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bear Islander Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 Seems to be in keeping with most of the other map sizes, though Skagos does seem to be a bit stretched in comparison to others. It may be a perspective issue (this is the draft for the 'Beyond the Wall' map from ASoS, I believe). Overall, though, Skagos seems to be roughly the size of Ireland, meaning it could have a (relatively) substantial population. It's not a tiny lump of rock in the sea, which I've seen some dismiss it as.Good stuff. Important to the story and it makes you do a little head math.On "real" maps, any place (like Skagos) may appear smaller or larger (distorted) depending on the way it's projected. But that's way beyond scope of this adventure ;-)I think 3k miles (1000 leagues) is an appropriate number* from Wall to Dorne. Specifics are not terribly important though. Anyway, it's a big place and there needs to be wiggle room otherwise managing chronology would be too insane.A number of times in the book the quoted distances are not accurate for example Littlefinger in AFFC (i think) said KL was a thousand leagues from the Eyrie. Perhaps by way of the fingers, then by boat wiggling around the coast but more like 250 leagues by the roads. I think the point was it's a LONG WAY to walk or ride a horse.*Using the wall as a yard stick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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