Final Project Proposal

Game of Thrones will start its 5th season April 12th. There have been many battles throughout the series, specifically during the War of 5 Kings. The War of the 5 Kings takes place throughout the entirety of the show (in a manner of speaking), but more specifically in Seasons 2 and 3.


 http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Known_World


 Thus for my final project I was planning on creating a detailed Game of Thrones War map. There are 27 battles during the War of 5 Kings. I was planning on also mapping the paths of important characters (the 5 kings, Arya and the Hound, the Mountain, etc). Infographics possibly for the important battles, or turning points.

The most prominent houses and their accompanying lands can be seen through this map which I plan to use for shape tweens throughout the timeline of the war. This can demonstrate how the war proceeded for each king. It will demonstrate the ebb and flow of the war which I think will be interesting.

I don't believe that anything has been done before to illustrate the motion and tides of the battles in the Game of Thrones world. Therefore I had to illustrate something similar to this concept with a World War 1 control of Europe map.

http://www.worldology.com/Europe/world_war_2_imap.htm

A few issues that could be concerning are digitizing a basemap. There has been talk that Westeros is just the United Kingdom upside down, so perhaps that might be an easier avenue. However it does not match up exactly with the generally well known maps of westeros and essos.