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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 5542665" data-attributes="member: 59506">I think it's just supposed to look like a spherical astrolabe or armillary - just to give it a borderline medieval/renaissance feel or appearance. I think the concave appearance of the map/continent is just a byproduct of attempting to show the entire continent and each city in perspective with eachother. I don't think it's meant to imply that the world is concave. I think it's just meant as a cool/artsy video version of the map at the beginning of the books - and placed at the beginning of the show for the same purpose that the map is at the beginning of the books. Also, I don't think that the long seasons are supposed to be inherently magical. I think the people of the world see them as magical, same as Dragons and White Walkers, but I think Martin has some very unmagical reasons in the (untold) backstory as to why this happens (such as the world having a very different orbit from ours with a differently structured solar system; and white walkers actually being some kind of alien race that can only live in the cold, etc.). The people of the world have decidedly real superstitions and beliefs in magic and the supernatural, but Martin writes the world as rather objectively un-magical. It would be cool though, if it was in some kind of "hollow world" type setting. But, then you'd have to explain how there's night and day, and stars at night. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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