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.
by watching the series, I never realized that Essos is multiple times the size of Westeros
Like asia
It isn’t. Westeros is also big. Dorne to the wall is like Pentos to Asshai.
I think if GRRM was not as lazy as he is at the moment, he could write at least two more GoT for the Eastern Continent.
@@MbisonBalrogno it’s much more
Even with the lands of always winter?
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.
please god no lets hope he finishes winds of winter and song of spring before he dies first which is probably asking for a lot
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.
@@skittlez10035 George appears addicted to money. GOT has made him that money. We are never going back.
@@jarrah580China had a lot of cool stuff happen plus a wall to keep out white walkers too lol.
It's actually embedded deep in the narrative that all this started in far east
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.
I believe he said something to the effect of:
“Good fantasy is just history with a little bit of magic”
people are surprised by the size of Essos... wait to hear about Sothoryos
When people find out the Summer Isles are actually a lot more important than they seem
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
It's full of Dinosaurs so ehh
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
Woah thats cool 😮 in which of the books is that info from?
this sounds like something a maester guessed
@@codeine69moot Cailin proves this kinda, as it is special place
Missandei is a children of the forest.
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! 😮
You cant imagine how stupid it look from logistic.
I want to see a show about the old Valerya.
Sounds like an accountant’s nightmare
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.
Its crazy to think that all of this was made by 1 man
*J. R. Tolkien has entered the chat*
@@kylewalker641 both are GOAT
You should try Tolkiens works. Check out the significance of the 3 strands of hair that Galadriel gave to Gimli, for instance.
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.
it's a shame that he is slowing down on his writing.. but I guess everyone needs a break at one point 🤷♂️
george doing everything else than completing the series
Well he's not obliged to finish the series, writing takes long and he's quite old now, if i was his age I'd chill and watch tv too instead of working
Soon, AI will be surely advanced enough to bring the series to an end even better than grrm could
@@hughjaenus2235 then the very least he could do is announce his giving up. Rather than the incessant "working on it guys..." he keeps spouting.
@@faustvii3692 Never speak again please
@@hughjaenus2235 then he will still be remembered as the "guy who didn't finish his story"
Yi Ti, Asshai and everything around it sound interesting
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.
Did their family make the sick looking castle?
I thought it was founded by House Valeryon? A lesser House that had left prior to the Targaryens.
@@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.
Westeros is a big continent, but most of it is North of the wall.
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.
So then the 6 kingdoms
@@sabastionlandberg2806 Count again.
@@sabastionlandberg2806still 7 bro lol
Isnt it dorne and the 7 kingdoms? North, riverlands, vale, stormlands, westerlands, crownlands, and iron islands
Yea pretty sure there is crownland in the 7
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)
There's also a continent called ulthos.
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.
also, George obviously designed the coasts of westeros and essos to look like puzzle pieces, so they were once one continent but drifted apart
I wish I saw this before starting with the books. Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
I can't believe GRRM won't finish the book after all of this wonderful history he's created.
Aren't there rumours of white walker type beings in the extreme east of Essos
Yes
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.
there are demons and shrykes and very strange men in the far east, though no one has actually seen one in the narrative
Yeah there is some kind of story about that. The 5 forts apparently serve the same purpose as the wall in westeros
You just explained thousands and thousands of pages in one video. 100/100! That was awesome.
I want to see a show about Old Valyria & then the doom
oh so basically JRR Martin like Tolkien middle earth Westeros is basically a continent sized version of the British Isles
Like a good audiobook this is beautiful to fall asleep to
Very informational! Funny how I just got curious about the map of Westeros and here you are just having made a video about it.
We need a show that focuses on Essos alone
A multiple season series is needed on the Essos. It's huge 🤯
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.
Now imagine an mmorpg on this map :o
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
Wow we need a series on essos and it's cities.
what is completely unrealistic is that houses remain essentially the same for thousands of 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 think Valyria is analogous to Atlantis.
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
@@wunsen2483 yup, I haven't read the books, but it does look like that. I think the Celts came from Spain which is where Kent/Dorn connects to?
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.
Lot of stories are left to tell in the essos part 😬😎😮
I'd really like to know about the other continents of Planetos
Thanatos is coming to destroy it
Amazing video bro keep making more! Just got into the books and this brings it more to life for me
And on the seventh day, G-- I mean, GRRM, rested.
This need to be made into a free rome game when gaming graffics and controlls are elite
Essos seems a far more interesting place to be in than Westeros. Seems like a place of pleasure and war, while Westeros seems like a place of warring.
We need a sequel series
theres nothing left to do only thing is the past
@@FlixKey the vast lands of Essos are unexplored.
Great job!
absolutely amazing work
Amazingly done.. Well done
great video, there is also the summer isles
Well now I want the Jogos Nhai and the Dothrakii to meet. Matriarchy nomads vs Patriarchy nomads sounds like something we'd see in a TV show in 2024 🤣
I wish we knew more about Yi Ti
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
The children of the forest created the white walkers? Or is that not confirmed?
Not confirmed, there is also no Night King
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.
That's something the showrunners made up
Thanks everyone, I should read the books but I have tried and it’s not an easy read for my simplistic mind.
@@conorchristmas6844 Watch/listen to
Alt Shwift X's Game of Thrones Abriged Series he cuts out all of the unneccesary info, very entertaining listen
It would be awesome if you could make video about beyond the wall and detailed map
Brandon the builder is the MVP
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
These books would make a great animated series.
Where is this Dothraki sea? I will sail the Iron Fleet across it and find the queen wherever she may be.
nobody laugh. he throws people overboard for that.
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
Bro the series got spoiled dan and dave should have thought before writing
just wait and watch ryan condol ruin hotd aswell
@@mum-your and Sarah Hess, can't forget her
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.
Aegon could've easily conquered Essos too, once Westeros was stabilized and it's armies united.
Westroes is like Europe and esses is like Asia 🌏 Asia is big and have many cultures and westens are thieves and and fight with each other
And there's still Sothoryos. Which is largely unexplored.
8:04 Riverlands is a province. Iron Islands is the correct kingdom you should've said.
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.
There's a lot more than that. The map showm in this video still isn’t even half of the world.
You should do a timeline and path that Daenerys took from season 1-8
we need to have a tv series about the children of the forest
This calls for an open world video game.
Could you do this related to game of thrones great video btw super well done
Ich hoffe ja noch auf ein Spin off mit Arya. Einer meiner absoluten Lieblingscharakter aus got
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
Great! Please, tell us about Summer Islands, Ulthos and Sothoryos continents! What we know about?
So Westeros is basically the UK and Essos is Europe and Asia.
GOT has a scene that shows the children of the forest creating the first white walker to fight against the first man.
"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
Nice video
You completely skipped over the breaking of the continent and creation of the neck. Arguably the most important single event in westeros history...
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?
I am so glad you used their true names, or there lack of, the Others. Not "wwhyyte wahlkuhs"
Reminds me of the way Mark Wahlberg would pronounce it 🤣
King's Landing wasn't founded until Aegon's Conquest
So Theon and yara grey joy sailed south around Dorne to meet Dany in Meereen
There is a lot that crosses over with skyrim here (names in particular)
Nice vedio, can you talk more about essos and the other contenent, we actually got bored of westros, we almost know everything about it
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.
That was made up for the TV series. It’s not in the books
So, England and Europe. Got it.
Still wondering why CA still didn't make a total war game out of this..
Now it's time to put smaller houses on the Westeros map
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.
That was only in the TV show, there's no indication of that in the books.
I think it’s funny how captioning can get “Dothraki” correct but misspell “pact”
Where is Naath?? Missandei's home.
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.
"Riding hadn't been invented yet" LOL
I think he meant "writing"
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.
This guys is talking like he witnessed all of it 😂
Fact: Drogon completed 100% this map before returning to his mother
Are we supposed to take a test after watching GOT?
I never read the books and Just wondering is all this information from the original 5 books or from another source ?
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.