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In case the title of this post didn’t make it clear, there are MAJOR GAME OF THRONES SPOILERS HERE. Read on at your peril, though seriously why haven’t you watched it already? At least for the memes; they’re spicy and free. While Midgard’s Westeros is very much from A Song of Ice and Fire rather than the TV series we finally have an ending. Whether or not G.R.R.M has a similar one in mind only time will tell, but at least we can now guess where certain characters would be in the years to follow. So first of all, I’ve pushed back the ASoIaF timeline by ten years, so that the Great War now begins in 311 AC. This

Another year goes by and we get another Christmas. Christmas in my family is a low key affair, with lots of chocolate and an inordinate amount of time sitting around watching telly, and I'm on a laptop that can only do photoshop. So maps are made, and this year I finished it! Well not quite, still got a lot of labels to do and convert it into orthographic for the focus areas as the thing is way too big for a single image. Expect a teaser with Westeros later today, but for now here's the continents at 12.5% zoom. Yay! As a bonus! Midgard Google Earth Overlay I'm just gonna leave this here. Enjoy!

This will be the worst TetZooCon journal entry you’ll ever read. I'm not sorry. So overall it was pretty good, and by good I mean awesome. Between bouts of restrained nerdgasms, I learned of obscure and exciting tetrapods. Also I saw some maps, some graphs, exciting projects, and heresy. I met people I’ve read about online and whose art I’ve enjoyed for years, including Mark Witton, John Conway (who isn’t real, just a hologram, according to Witton), and the granddaddy of spec-evo himself Dougal Dixon. Cool guys. I didn’t recognise any of them in person. Got to take a look at the drawings that would be somew