Westeros

Continuing the 10th anniversary celebration for The World of Ice and Fire, a change of pace. The first two days featured dragons—Sunfyre by Ertaç Altınöz and Grey Ghost by Rudolf Hima—but today we start another theme. We’ve heard and seen much of Harrenhal in the books, and even in House of the Dragon.  There’s been lots of art, too, featuring Harren’s huge, cursed castle… but most of it is of its imposing bulk, or of that fateful moment when Rhaegar Targaryen presented the crown of the queen of love and beauty to Lyanna Stark.

But to our recollection, no one has tried to show the great, grand tourney in all of its sprawling splendor before. That’s what we asked René Aigner—a veteran of The World of Ice and Fire, The Rise of the Dragon, and the 2023 World of Fire and Blood Calendar—to do, and we think he did a superlative job.

We’ve reported previously on the news that theater producers and a live event production company are now working on bringing the tourney at Harrenhal, and the dramatic events that unfolded there, to Broadway and other theatrical venues. We noted at the time that Startling Inc.—Vince Gerardis’s company—had removed the reference to “A Song of Ice and Fire with The Works”, the thing that clued us into the fact that something like this was happening. A sharp-eyed fan and member of our forum, zionius, checked it today and noticed that the project has reappeared with a new name that we assume is a working title:

HARRENHAL, A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE STAGE PLAY