Media: Gouache on illustration board Dimensions: 11¼″ × 15″ The town of King’s Landing grew up around The Red Keep, the great Royal Seat of all Westeros. Beyond in the rainy mist we see The Great Sept of Baelor, a Westeros equivalent of Westminster Abbey. See how this area appeared earlier in time at Aegon’s Fort.
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Castle Black and The Wall
Media: Gouache on illustration board Dimensions: 11¼″ × 15″ The Wall is a 700′ wall of solid ice meant, like Hadrian’s Wall in Britain or China’s Great Wall, to repel invaders from the great wild lands north. Castle Black is the main fort along its length, housing the men who guard The Wall in perpetuity.
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The Eyrie
Media: Gouache on illustration board Dimensions: 11¼″ × 15″ This is among the most fanciful castles, and a pleasure to depict upon its precarious perch halfway up The Giant’s Lance. Note the Sky Cells, open-sided dungeons exposing prisoners to the elements, from which the only escape is a death plunge. I’ve tried to convey the …
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