Landing where the king sits upon the iron throne. It all began with the death of Robert Baratheon who brought stability to the kingdom seated on the throne for 17 years His death led to the first crisis; the war of the five kings., his son Geoffrey succeeded to the iron throne but his parentage was questioned, for his mother Cersei Lannister is accused of conceiving him from her own brother as a result many claimed that the throne is controlled by house Lannister. Therefore, Robert’s two brothers made an alliance with the powerful house of Tyrell and prepared an army to march on King’s Landing however one brother killed the other and took over the march towards the capital but he was defeated on the hands of house Lannister and retreated consequently. In the meanwhile Rob stark in the north was similarly heading towards the capital to avenge the beheading of his father; the king’s counselor Lord Eddard Stark but got killed during his journey , a shocking death known as the red wedding .In Essos, Daenerys , the surviving daughter of the Targaryen king who ruled prior to king Robert is gaining power and building her own army by freeing slaves from multiple cities along with her 3 dragons to conquer Westeros and proclaim the throne as the rightful heir.
George R.R. Martin’s skills to write intriguing and compelling characters with intricate drives is a major reason in the huge success of the series. The characters vary from simple individuals living up in the worst circumstances, to prosperous and royal families seeking command and control of lands and cities. the uncommon criteria of Martin’s characters are that they are being presented as grey rather than white or black, a mischievous character for example can perform a noble deed and inversely. Erik Germani sates that the easiest method to create an interesting character is to provide him with more page time then set them in interesting situations which is exactly what Martin does “unconsciously”. his characters are given the opportunity to be portrayed from their own point of views in some parts of the novels which made them more realistically human having both positive as well as negative qualities.
Territory
In an interview with Laura Miller on 92YPlus,Martin states that the map creation in his world of Ice