Check out the beautiful concept art behind Game of Thrones Season 6

The Sept of Baelor’s destruction was a huge moment in Season 6, and Karakter has dedicated a few images to it. Above, the High Sparrow goes up in smoke. Below, the whole Sept does.

Sam Tarly didn’t have a ton of screentime in Season 6, but nearly all of it was important. Let’s remember some of the memorable places he and Gilly visited during the year. First up, stately Horn Hill, home to ancient Valyrian steel swords and dickhead dads.

Next, Sam and his family arrived in Oldtown…

VFX concept artist Floris Didden: As we had not seen Old Town before it was double important for me to hit all the established points we did have. The layout was inspired by the radial city plan of Amsterdam, with Old Town’s many canals circling the spoke of the Hightower.

…where Sam had a joygasm upon entering the Citadel library.

Didden also sounded off on this piece. “The Maesters of Westeros are the most scientific people in a world of backwardness and I wanted the architecture of the Citadel to reflect this fact: ordered, radially symmetrical and highly sophisticated with complex mechanisms reflecting the light of reason through a cavern of gloomy ignorance.”

Next, let’s look at one of the biggest set pieces from Game of Thrones Season 6: the Night Kind’s attack on the Three-Eyed Raven’s cave. Karakter devoted six images to this event.

Clearly, the imaginary camera loves the Night King.

Meera, Leaf, Summer, and Hodor do their best to keep the wights at bay. Oh, the humanity!

Let’s end on a more placid picture: Brienne and Podrick outside Riverrun. Compositionally, this is my favorite image in the set.

Karakter is probably working on concept art for Game of Thrones Season 7 as we speak, if it hasn’t finished already. We’ll have to wait a long while to see it.