For further detail, see years before aegons conquest and years after aegons conquest. A complete guide to the mythical history of westeros io9 gizmodo. The steamboat sultana was a mississippi river paddlewheeler, destroyed in an explosion on 27 april, 1865. This resulted in the greatest maritime disaster in united states history. Martins a song of ice and fire and hbos game of thrones. Martins fantasy books, westeros was home to magic and strange, sinister. A song of ice and fire or, as the show is titled, game of thrones, is a vast world with a very extensive history. An estimated 1,800 of the 2,400 passengers were killed when one of the ships four boilers exploded, and the sultana sank not far from memphis, tennessee. It is not written in any book that we know, for in the first age of the world, the dawn age, men were not lettered. Westeros more fantastical history was slowly worn down as humans entered the picture, leading up to the relative normalcy of the westeros we see in the books and tv series, with things like. This is a beautiful book full of wonderful illustrations and fascinating details about the world created by george r. Martin has created are so detailed and go so far back that its sometimes hard to believe this isnt a real world, and it makes us wonder exactly how he comes up with and remembers it all. According to tradition, the known history of westeros extends back over twelve.
Star wars frequently referred to the war between the jedi and sith, which led to the dominance of the jedi, and the threat of the prequel trilogy is solely the return of the sith the gap between episode iii and episode iv are referred to as the dark times, inuniverse. Long before the events of game of thrones and george r. Both are thinly peopled compared to the lands betwixt. The untold history of westeros and the game of thrones is a companion book to a song of ice and fire series. The untold history of westeros and the game of thrones, a companion volume to the a song of ice and fire novels. The untold history of westeros and the game of thrones.