#MAP OF GAME OF THRONES BEYOND THE WALL SERIES#

The author’s super specific vision for his fantasy world meant that Jonathan would need to navigate through a blizzard of post-it note edits and three color revisions before the maps could be sent to the printers. With the labels and lines OK-ed by Martin, Jonathan finally began transforming the raw maps into multihued visual treats. So, Elio and Linda from – the largest Internet repository for Game of Thrones information – were roped in to fact-check every single name on the maps. The sheer volume of names and labels on these maps was so enormous that it became impossible for Jonathan to keep track of accuracy. Which meant Jonathan spent a lot of time leafing through the text, page by page, figuring out where everything should land up on a map. The rest of the locations were only mentioned in the books. And in 2012, there were only a few references of the city that were known to the public, like the Iron Bank.

The city of Braavos had never been mapped before, even by Martin all he had done was prepare a rough sketch. First came the coastlines, then the mountains and the rivers, followed by the forests, roads and all the other things. So, Jonathan created a rough composite sketch of the known world, fusing the lands of the Seven Kingdoms and the lands across the Narrow Sea, had Random House clear it, and painstakingly started working on the style and the visual details. Then the Dothraki would name my neck, ‘the place of the bloody stump.’” If I had to come up with one more name, I think my head would explode. One of Martin’s final notes read: “I need to stop mapping for a while. What’s more, voluminous paragraphs of notes had been written about each of these areas. Martin had even highlighted the different map components in different colors – forests were drawn in green, major locations were denoted by a symbol to tell if they were big keeps or small towns, etc. The sketches were beautifully rendered on A4-size paper sheets with HB pencil. At Jonathan’s disposal were 5,700 pages of text and the map sketches created by Martin to pinpoint accuracy. And they wanted all 72 feet of Westeros in 3 months – a deadline which would require Jonathan to complete one map per week. The publishers wanted 12 maps, each 2 feet by 3 feet in size and detailed to perfection. Jonathan, who was a theoretical physicist at the time, said yes and went out to buy the books – it had been more than a decade since he last read them. Martin wanted in his book The Lands of Ice and Fire. They wanted to know if he would be interested in doing the artwork for the official Game of Thrones map collection that author George R.

#MAP OF GAME OF THRONES BEYOND THE WALL SERIES#

It came from Random House, the publisher of the Song of Ice and Fire epic fantasy saga that the blockbuster TV series Games of Thrones is based on. Jonathan Roberts was only 31 when he received the fateful email in early 2012.

Map of game of thrones beyond the wall