Who created this beautiful map of Westeros?
The map was created by Tear, a member of the Cartographer’s Guild – a web forum dedicated to the art of fantasy mapping. Tear wanted to make a huge map of Westeros to hang in his gaming room for “A Song of Ice and Fire” the RPG. Tear used Photoshop, a mouse, a tablet, followed a guide written by Passis on the Cartographer’s Guild forum and went through many long hours of research and hair pulling to create this stunning work of art. My animated timeline map would be substantially poorer without it so I want to say a big thank you to Tear for all his hard work creating the map. Tear’s finished map is huge as you can see in this photograph of his high quality print out of the map. The size and quality of the map is a big part of the reason why I used this map over any other because it means you can zoom in really close before the image starts to pixelate. In fact the version posted on the Cartographer’s Guild is slightly bigger (3200px) than the largest stage height my version of Flash w
