Game of Thrones map

[Falconius]

The features, the plainness, the blockiness of the landmass. It's clearly a land made up of deus ex machina conveniences to serve the story, which is fine, but it makes for an ugly map, especially when so clearly just hacked together. The worst of them by far is Westoros but the lands to the east aren't much better. I've also seen some really well done examples of GOT maps, but putting lipstick on a pig doesn't make it any less of a pig.

[Warlin]

The features, the plainness, the blockiness of the landmass. It's clearly a land made up of deus ex machina conveniences to serve the story, which is fine, but it makes for an ugly map, especially when so clearly just hacked together. The worst of them by far is Westoros but the lands to the east aren't much better. I've also seen some really well done examples of GOT maps, but putting lipstick on a pig doesn't make it any less of a pig.

Hey Falconius, I have the same feeling about this map, geologically speaking. But I have to say that it's seems to be just a rough sketch used to serve the story which is really much better structured. There would be other remarks to make on the incongruity of the so much different noble houses on such a small surface of earth and the little importance made in the narration for the economical structures necessary to feed all these warlike people ...
How about making a new GOT map that take all this elements in consideration ?

[Naima]

The features, the plainness, the blockiness of the landmass. It's clearly a land made up of deus ex machina conveniences to serve the story, which is fine, but it makes for an ugly map, especially when so clearly just hacked together. The worst of them by far is Westoros but the lands to the east aren't much better. I've also seen some really well done examples of GOT maps, but putting lipstick on a pig doesn't make it any less of a pig.

Haha... thats brutal... but to be honest checking most of the fantasy maps the majority of them make no sense if we go nitpicking.
To make an example in westeros map the green fork river comes out of a plain or a marsh.. but willing to find an explanation ... it could be not a river but a long fault ... so finding some natural reasons may be could be interesting.

As for shape I think with the proper reasoning it could have som reason...