Wasn't there also supposed to be a five or ten year gap between book three and four? I suspect there's a few characters that weren't supposed to do anything major in public until then... We're only just now getting a hint of how much the Maesters and the Church is up to.
(This is the point where I begin to worry that GRRM is falling prey to the Robert Jordan syndrome of dragging out less and less story across more and more books...)
Westeros has always struck me as too large for my tastes - I initially assumed it was about the size of Britain, considering how much of the setup is the War of the Roses with the serial numbers filed off... But the Wall has to be at or near arctic lattitude, while Dorne must be at least as far south as Spain, if not Morocco - tropical islands aren't actually that far south. Personally, I don't see why the story couldn't be set in a much smaller space; the Seven Kingdoms seem very sparsely populated if they're large enough to span that far!
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Date: 2008-03-03 04:57 am (UTC)(This is the point where I begin to worry that GRRM is falling prey to the Robert Jordan syndrome of dragging out less and less story across more and more books...)
Westeros has always struck me as too large for my tastes - I initially assumed it was about the size of Britain, considering how much of the setup is the War of the Roses with the serial numbers filed off... But the Wall has to be at or near arctic lattitude, while Dorne must be at least as far south as Spain, if not Morocco - tropical islands aren't actually that far south. Personally, I don't see why the story couldn't be set in a much smaller space; the Seven Kingdoms seem very sparsely populated if they're large enough to span that far!