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  1. Plot. Pharaoh Khufu, all-powerful ruler of ancient Egypt, amasses a great treasure, including by conquering other lands. He wants to be entombed with it when he dies (so he can enjoy it in the "second life"), free from the threat of grave robbers.

  2. Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO. It is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin, the first of which is A Game of Thrones.

  3. A Game of Thrones, the first installment of the A Song of Ice and Fire series, has two maps of Westeros. Each new book has added one or two maps so that, as of A Dance with Dragons, seven maps of the fictional world are available in the books.

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    Westeros

    1. Main article: Westeros Located in the far west of the known world, the continent of Westeros is long and relatively narrow, extending from Dorne in the south to the Lands of Always Winter in the far north. The Wall, the border between the Seven Kingdoms and lands beyond the Wall to the north, is 300 miles long,indicating that Westeros is roughly 900 miles wide at its widest point, east to west. North of the Wall, much land remains uncharted. Westeros contains the Seven Kingdoms south of th...

    Essos

    1. Main article: Essos Separated from Westeros by the narrow sea, Essos extends eastwards for many thousands of miles. It is larger than Westeros, but much of it consists of less densely populated steppes, plains and deserts. The western edge of the continent is controlled by the nine Free Cities, while the city-states of Slaver's Bay are in the south-central region. Much of the continental interior, known as the Dothraki sea, is grassland ruled by the tribal warriors known as the Dothraki. F...

    Sothoryos

    1. Main article: Sothoryos Sothoryos, also written as Sothoros, is south of Essos, on the far side of the Summer Sea. It is a large continent, perhaps as long as Essos is wide, consisting of deserts and jungles and mountains. It is said to be a haven for plagues and dangerous animals, and has not been explored much by Westerosi beyond the northern coastal regions. (The Summer Islanders may have mapped the continent and its coastlines, but they do not share their knowledge.) Off the coast of n...

    Most scholars do agree that because the world is round, it is theoretically possible to sail west from Westeros across the Sunset Sea and eventually come around to Yi Ti in the far east, but no one has ever succeeded in the attempt. There are basically three theories as to the size of the Sunset Sea: most believe that it is an ocean so vast that no...

    The Lands of Ice and Fire, a collection of official maps of the world of A Song of Ice and Fire
    World Map (HBO Game Of Thrones), a map of the known world for the HBO Series Game of Thrones
  4. The known world [1] consists of three discovered continents: Westeros, Essos, and Sothoryos, as well as other large landmasses and archipelagos such as the Summer Isles, Ibben and Great Moraq.

  5. Set in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, where "summers span decades and winters can last a lifetime," Game of Thrones chronicles the violent dynastic struggles among the kingdom's seven noble families for control of the Iron Throne; as the series opens, additional threats from the snow and ice covered region north of Westeros and from the eastern...

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  7. Trouble is brewing in Westeros. For the inhabitants of this world, control of the Iron Throne holds the lure of great power. But in a land where seasons can last a lifetime, winter is coming...and beyond the Great Wall that protects them, a forgotten evil has returned.

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