Martin’s impressive world-building skills are not unique to the Seven Kingdoms and the tales within, either. It humanizes his world with a level of detail designed to draw the audience deeper and deeper into a bottomless well of stories. The existence of Sothoryos and Yi Ti (the World of Ice and Fire’s southernmost known continent and oldest active civilization, respectively) demonstrates Martin’s talent and interest in adding flesh, blood and organs to what’s already a compelling enough skeleton on its own. (Indeed, that just might be where we’re headed, given the four potential Game of Thrones spinoffs currently in the works.) Look no further than the massive encyclopedia The World of Ice and Fire for further proof of the vast depths of Martin’s fantasy epic, with abundant information about places like Sothoryos and Yi Ti.ĭon’t recognize those lands, even though you’ve watched every episode of Thrones and read every word of the flagship Ice and Fire series? That’s because they aren’t featured on the show or in the books they exist on the edges of the story, within the universe but not central to the struggles of Jon Snow (Kit Harington) and Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) by any stretch of the imagination. The HBO adaptation stands to cover roughly 70 hours of stories set in Westeros and the surrounding lands, but one can easily imagine spending 700 hours in this universe. 'Game of Thrones': HBO Exploring Four Different Follow-Up Series
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