Maps and more: Remind yourself where everyone is ahead of Season 6

Wanna remind yourself what all the characters on Game of Thrones were doing the last time we saw them in Season 5? Yahoo TV can help you out. It’s written up a guide to what everyone was what to when Season 5 ended, and made up a nifty map that shows where everyone was located. Behold:

We remind you once again just how freaking far away Daenerys and company are from everyone else. There’s that vast empty landscape in the middle of Essos. Still, you have to wonder how this board will chance by the end of Season 6. There’ll probably be fewer names on the map, at any rate.

Speaking of maps, Quartz has an interview with Jonathan Roberts, the illustrator who designed the maps of Westeros and Essos featured in George R.R. Martin’s The Lands of Ice and Fire. By the time Roberts was brought in, the Song of Ice and Fire books had already come out, but he got to show Martin’s world in greater detail than ever before.

Roberts chatted a bit about the guiding philosophy behind making maps for the series. They’re designed from a medieval point of view, meaning that not everything is filled in, since there would have been areas of the world beyond the knowledge of maesters.

"That’s also the reason why there are no longitude or latitude lines on these maps in The Lands of Ice and Fire. That would imply a level of geospatial accuracy that is not fair to lay on these maps, given the time and technology with which they are supposed to be made. I originally included them, but George asked that those lines be removed. He said, “Don’t have them there. It’s going to make people believe these are more accurate than they should ever be interpreted as.”"

Apparently, Roberts gets a little nettled when the show muddles with the show’s geography.

"[There was a scene of] Danaerys with her army, marching to capture another slave city. The army is marching along the coast, and as they march along the coast, the sea is to their right. And I was like, that is impossible. They are going the wrong way! They should be marching in the opposite direction. It irrationally infuriates me.There’s a few of those. Not too many. To be fair, the HBO show has so clearly and explicitly divorced itself from the canon of the books in very particular ways that by definition there are going to be a bunch of things that are different by choice."

Finally, Settled calculated the value of some of the most prominent places in Westeros and beyond.