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.

A brand new calendar has been announced for 2023: the World of Fire and Blood 2023 Calendar, a departure as it focuses on characters and events first described in The World of Ice and Fire and expanded on in Fire and Blood. Another departure: where previous calendars were single-artist affairs, this one will feature multiple artists, including prior calendar artists Marc Simonetti and Magali Villeneuve, as well as artists new to the calendars such as Chase Stone and René Aigner

Aegon the Conqueror and Balerion destroy Harrenhal, by Marc Simonetti. (This post contains affiliate links to Amazon.)