Game of Thrones World Map EXPLAINED

[@ferdijanzen4100]

by watching the series, I never realized that Essos is multiple times the size of Westeros

[@skiptomile]

Like asia

[@MbisonBalrog]

It isn’t. Westeros is also big. Dorne to the wall is like Pentos to Asshai.

[@antuan9325]

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.

[@waffleosaurus1]

@@MbisonBalrogno it’s much more

[@jamesawwyea]

Even with the lands of always winter?

[@jadduck]

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.

[@skittlez10035]

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

[@jarrah580]

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.

[@clownofthetimes6727]

@@skittlez10035 George appears addicted to money. GOT has made him that money. We are never going back.

[@ANTIStraussian]

​@@jarrah580China had a lot of cool stuff happen plus a wall to keep out white walkers too lol.

[@subutaynoyan5372]

It's actually embedded deep in the narrative that all this started in far east

[@internetguy8075]

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.

[@justadummy8076]

I believe he said something to the effect of: “Good fantasy is just history with a little bit of magic”

[@battousaihimura]

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! 😮

[@tadasdovii8262]

You cant imagine how stupid it look from logistic.

[@Zazzell-v2s]

people are surprised by the size of Essos... wait to hear about Sothoryos

[@conwaytwittyer2667]

When people find out the Summer Isles are actually a lot more important than they seem

[@kylezdancewicz7346]

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

[@paimonisfood4986]

It's full of Dinosaurs so ehh

[@fatalshore5068]

@@kylezdancewicz7346 Westeros and Essos are to me the size of Britain and Turkey. Sothoryos is more like the size of Africa.

[@sheogorath1374]

Wait until they discover Northorios.

[@fant2sy]

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

[@Dani_1012]

Woah thats cool 😮 in which of the books is that info from?

[@codeine69]

this sounds like something a maester guessed

[@bartoszboboryko4684]

​@@codeine69moot Cailin proves this kinda, as it is special place

[@AerysIIFirstofhisname]

Missandei is a children of the forest.

[@ShaanK65]

Its crazy to think that all of this was made by 1 man

[@kylewalker641]

*J. R. Tolkien has entered the chat*

[@naturalbornpatriot6369]

You should try Tolkiens works. Check out the significance of the 3 strands of hair that Galadriel gave to Gimli, for instance.

[@sasori100x]

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.

[@stevendalgamouni7594]

it's a shame that he is slowing down on his writing.. but I guess everyone needs a break at one point 🤷‍♂️

[@maxwiidanen7281]

@@kylewalker641the silmarillian is so freaking dense Iv started it like 3 times

[@hqrueck]

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

[@TG-Maverick22]

You just explained thousands and thousands of pages in one video. 100/100! That was awesome.

[@cmac3530]

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.

[@sabastionlandberg2806]

So then the 6 kingdoms

[@Rowin_KG]

@@sabastionlandberg2806 Count again.

[@SouthJerzVillains]

@@sabastionlandberg2806still 7 bro lol

[@jaydubbz8969]

Isnt it dorne and the 7 kingdoms? North, riverlands, vale, stormlands, westerlands, crownlands, and iron islands

[@acmaiden5236]

Yea pretty sure there is crownland in the 7

[@pacoramon9468]

Westeros is a big continent, but most of it is North of the wall.

[@keetabbodcast]

I want to see a show about the old Valerya.

[@conwaytwittyer2667]

Sounds like an accountant’s nightmare

[@fatalshore5068]

Me too, a tragedy insomuch as it's a lead up to The Doom. We know its coming and there is no stopping it, could be some interesting story there to tell.

[@ethancrossett6328]

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.

[@ANTIStraussian]

Did their family make the sick looking castle?

[@teacherhomieg]

I thought it was founded by House Valeryon? A lesser House that had left prior to the Targaryens.

[@s.i9050]

​@@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.

[@fullmetaltheorist]

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.

[@Kildat1]

Yi Ti, Asshai and everything around it sound interesting

[@ЭнхмөнхУ]

george doing everything else than completing the series

[@Ligmaballin]

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

[@faustvii3692]

Soon, AI will be surely advanced enough to bring the series to an end even better than grrm could

[@latinoheat300]

@@Ligmaballin then the very least he could do is announce his giving up. Rather than the incessant "working on it guys..." he keeps spouting.

[@milo-gd3ml]

​@@faustvii3692 Never speak again please

[@einflinkeswiesel2695]

@@Ligmaballin then he will still be remembered as the "guy who didn't finish his story"

[@j1hnyny]

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)

[@anaam7662]

There's also a continent called ulthos.

[@praneeshpal8677]

And the Rhoynars (origin of the Dornish/Martells) too

[@dannguyen6263]

Like a good audiobook this is beautiful to fall asleep to

[@codeine69]

also, George obviously designed the coasts of westeros and essos to look like puzzle pieces, so they were once one continent but drifted apart

[@ImmanuelForseti]

I haven’t noticed that

[@fergalstackstreams]

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.

[@Chachijuana]

Dorne is the 7th kingdom not to yield to aegon you’re wrong

[@pobreprofe]

I wish I saw this before starting with the books. Thanks

[@RocketRiley]

Glad it was helpful!

[@13Sepulveda]

I want to see a show about Old Valyria & then the doom

[@malahammer]

Aren't there rumours of white walker type beings in the extreme east of Essos

[@phamalam8084]

Yes

[@mikeyA435]

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

[@Edmuresrampantmanhood-dp3jd]

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.

[@SantomPh]

there are demons and shrykes and very strange men in the far east, though no one has actually seen one in the narrative

[@JimmySilverFoot]

Yeah there is some kind of story about that. The 5 forts apparently serve the same purpose as the wall in westeros

[@FLZY__]

Amazing video bro keep making more! Just got into the books and this brings it more to life for me

[@novellanightmares]

The world-building by George RRM is incredible. I think this is the key that makes the stories so interesting.

[@skeaneable]

oh so basically JRR Martin like Tolkien middle earth Westeros is basically a continent sized version of the British Isles

[@stanzapalny2123]

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.

[@LFCYNWA-nv1zk]

I think Valyria is analogous to Atlantis.

[@user-vl3wo8ts1k]

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.

[@wunsen2483]

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

[@ironfist7789]

@@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?

[@zavala8055]

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.

[@thanib7796]

Very informational! Funny how I just got curious about the map of Westeros and here you are just having made a video about it.

[@Keizer-v9c]

A multiple season series is needed on the Essos. It's huge 🤯

[@ЭнхмөнхУ]

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

[@maxi1ification]

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.

[@sezy4093]

i can see limitless stories coming from this map since it has a lot to offer to entertain us, either as TV shows or anime!

[@MatthewShephard-tj1sp]

This need to be made into a free rome game when gaming graffics and controlls are elite

[@priztucker]

Thanks for the Vid. Really educational

[@amadexi]

what is completely unrealistic is that houses remain essentially the same for thousands of years.

[@markanthony1004]

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

[@amampathak]

absolutely amazing work

[@henrikkob97]

Now imagine an mmorpg on this map :o

[@Kivas_Fajo]

Wessex and Essex...how creative! /s

[@betterdaysareatoenailaway]

Great job!

[@benjaminngopwaamos6878]

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.

[@StrobeFireStudios]

I can't believe GRRM won't finish the book after all of this wonderful history he's created.

[@hypello9534]

He might die before he finishes yes.. but dont worry i heard D & D will take over the writings

[@hugonongbri8100]

We need a show that focuses on Essos alone

[@themadmanwithapen]

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.

[@virriathus]

I discovered your channel with this video 🤩, it would be interesting to create a "format" with explanations of world maps from different fictional universes.

[@patenik2]

Amazingly done.. Well done

[@Seven_Leaf]

Where is this Dothraki sea? I will sail the Iron Fleet across it and find the queen wherever she may be.

[@aaronshinn7651]

nobody laugh. he throws people overboard for that.

[@MistaHexHash]

Valyrian Freehold as Atlantis.. brilliant!

[@viniciusdasilva7052]

Awsome video

[@timmurphy479]

I read all five of the books combed the front pages of the maps I do that with every series I read.

[@conorchristmas6844]

The children of the forest created the white walkers? Or is that not confirmed?

[@worlddd7777]

Not confirmed, there is also no Night King

[@LordSebas]

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.

[@Real_2Phase]

That's something the showrunners made up

[@conorchristmas6844]

Thanks everyone, I should read the books but I have tried and it’s not an easy read for my simplistic mind.

[@DoomedKnight]

​@@conorchristmas6844 Watch/listen to Alt Shwift X's Game of Thrones Abriged Series he cuts out all of the unneccesary info, very entertaining listen

[@KaptifLaDistillerie]

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 🤣

[@DavidM_10]

Cool video. The Andal invasions are clearly inspired by the Viking invasions of Britain.

[@uptownpapi2911]

We need a sequel series

[@FlixKey]

theres nothing left to do only thing is the past

[@KrypteiaXi]

@@FlixKey the vast lands of Essos are unexplored.

[@PhxSml]

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

[@dillonchavez5390]

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.

[@danieljames9322]

I'd really like to know about the other continents of Planetos

[@ironfist7789]

Thanatos is coming to destroy it

[@freddiepacey9043]

great video, there is also the summer isles

[@thabomashale6728]

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

[@abelnicolaebaritone]

Aegon could've easily conquered Essos too, once Westeros was stabilized and it's armies united.

[@ocdopiedpower]

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

[@thatpilatesguy]

These books would make a great animated series.

[@ayushraj7e7e3]

Bro the series got spoiled dan and dave should have thought before writing

[@mum-your]

just wait and watch ryan condol ruin hotd aswell

[@zoeslounge95]

@@mum-your and Sarah Hess, can't forget her

[@fergalstackstreams]

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.

[@subutaynoyan5372]

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

[@srdjanbozic3827]

It would be awesome if you could make video about beyond the wall and detailed map

[@FAYAZKHAN-vd5ld]

Lot of stories are left to tell in the essos part 😬😎😮

[@milo-gd3ml]

I wish we knew more about Yi Ti

[@FrancomBros]

George was like, let there be rectangles.

[@DavidAnderson-m5c]

And on the seventh day, G-- I mean, GRRM, rested.

[@AlbertoHernandez-ig7dc]

And there's still Sothoryos. Which is largely unexplored.

[@roballister5269]

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

[@georgetorres8834]

Very cool, wish they do a show based on the cities and how it all comes together but not base it on any one family but more the period and how it all came together. Thank you that was extremely interesting 😎🫤

[@ilynpayne7491]

Brandon the builder is the MVP

[@puneeth1443]

Wow we need a series on essos and it's cities.

[@Installation00]

So Westeros is basically the UK and Essos is Europe and Asia.

[@hassanibrahim664]

Nice vedio, can you talk more about essos and the other contenent, we actually got bored of westros, we almost know everything about it

[@Lakedaimonios511]

Great! Please, tell us about Summer Islands, Ulthos and Sothoryos continents! What we know about?

[@Kivancli79]

"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?

[@LeninistJinn]

It has been brought up a lot already by people but I'm fascinated by how GRRM incorporated and drew inspiration from the real life migrations into Britain into the story. Not everything matches 1:1 but the First Men are the initial Celtic migrations into Britain from continental Europe. The Andals draw a parallel to the Germanic migrations of the Anglos, Saxxons, and Jutes who brought English into Britain and pushed the Celts into corners. Targaryens draw inspirations from multiple sources but Aegon's Conquest = Norman's Conquest and their relationships to the rest of the population seems similar to that of the French aristocrats to the rest of Britain. But some have also commented on the fact that some parts seem to have taken inspiration from the Roman Empire and other dynasties. The rest of the world are very clearly inspired from real geography (free cities = city states of Italy, eastern parts of Essos = China, Dothraki = Mongols etc.) but I find the British migrations part fascinating since it plays into the story more. Would've been cool if the North spoke an entirely different language (like any of the Celtic languages) but I think the heavy, thick Northern accent does justice in its place.

[@niteshmurti]

Nice video

[@ecclesiasticman4417]

8:04 Riverlands is a province. Iron Islands is the correct kingdom you should've said.

[@thebionicledude]

Could you do this related to game of thrones great video btw super well done

[@amonke4u]

You should do a timeline and path that Daenerys took from season 1-8

[@nima5961]

Ich hoffe ja noch auf ein Spin off mit Arya. Einer meiner absoluten Lieblingscharakter aus got

[@petterbystrom9946]

You completely skipped over the breaking of the continent and creation of the neck. Arguably the most important single event in westeros history...

[@vladimirsara9790]

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.

[@Andrea-sg7qp]

That was only in the TV show, there's no indication of that in the books.

[@azdai1814]

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

[@sauravsingh0603]

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

[@xuevgermanist]

Now to Ulthos and Sothoryos please!

[@peasant4307]

So Theon and yara grey joy sailed south around Dorne to meet Dany in Meereen

[@bullgravy6906]

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?

[@theawesomeman9821]

The map looks like a variation of Europe and the UK.

[@aurvay]

It is. Westeros is Britain and Ireland combined. A song of Ice and Fire is just a retelling of the War of the Roses. Children of the Forest symbolize Celts/Britons, First Men symbolize Anglo-Saxons, and White Walkers, Vikings. Dothraki are the Scyhtians/Huns/Mongols, The Wall is Hadrian's Wall etc. Jon Snow was supposed to be Henry Tudor.

[@reelando2x29]

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.

[@fullmetaltheorist]

There's a lot more than that. The map showm in this video still isn’t even half of the world.

[@georgeblavo9755]

so are the iron islands part of the riverlands? orrrrrr? cos they have their own paramount lord. so theres 8 kingdoms. I think "the seven kingdoms" didnt include dorne originally

[@kiks2925]

The Seven Kingdoms as Aegon I found them were the North, the Vale of Arryn, the Kingdom of the Isles and the Rivers, the Stormlands, the Westerlands, the Reach, and Dorne. The Riverlands are not really considered a kingdom in its own right because at the time of conquest it was under the control of the Iron Islands. Also, being smack dab in the middle of Westeros and fertile land, throughout history it was conquered and disputed by the other kingdoms, rarely being a kingdom of it's own. Of course, there were Kings in the Riverlands, but never Kings OF the Riverlands; there as never a unified Kingdom of the Riverlands corresponding to the borders of the current history's Riverlands, but smaller kingdoms within what we know today as the Riverlands. So, technically, it's more the other way arround; the Riverlands were once part of the Iron Islands

[@MyBabyGirlMyWorld]

Are we supposed to take a test after watching GOT?

[@lostenfound]

Very basic question.. is their world round or flat?

[@halvars90]

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.

[@satriosardjono6512]

Still wondering why CA still didn't make a total war game out of this..

[@yorugikun]

we need new action-advanteture game based on this

[@andreashauschild7757]

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.

[@Fidgottio]

That was made up for the TV series. It’s not in the books

[@RC_Gaming_306]

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

[@mr.piechipsandbakedbeans7967]

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.