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Westeros is poorly designed
- lumberjack 10y agoWorld building is not GMMR's forte. I like his character development though.
- tdb7893 10y agoThe world is there to build a story on and Westeros is fine for that. I only got through part of the article because the authors complaints about realism fell very flat to me.
- taurath 10y agoSuper interesting data points! Just thinking about the world population being 250-400million in AD1000 is a huge change to most people's mental models. However, the basic premise of the article is a bit in question - that GRRM/readers indicate that the world itself is realistic - SOCIAL realism is the more abject term here. Lots of numbers are thrown about in the books - even on a relativistic scale these are (as the post stated) incredibly improbable. But its not particularly important to the enjoyment of the story or the "realism" that people claim to attach to.
- nitwit005 10y agoThe population of Westeros should be zero, as the books assert there have been winters that lasted a lifetime. Unless maybe the living dead count? The books are "realistic" only in comparison to other fantasy. It'd be more valid to call it "less fantastic".