Do you think there’s a land to the West of Westeros?

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racefortheironthrone:

Yes. Just a lot farther than people think. 

Planetos IS round. If you sail west from Westeros you’re gonna get somewhere.

There seems to be some kind of immense strangeness on what for lack of a better term I’m going to call the “backside” of Planetos. Nobody who tries to sail the Sunset Sea returns, and as you go towards the Utter East the land and the ocean turn progressively more… perturbing.

My own pet theory is that the world isn’t quite “finished” over there, or perhaps was once and is now broken. That there’s an area of untamed reality where the laws of nature don’t quite apply, a place more of magic than of matter. Similar to the west in Gilman’s “The Half-Made World” or to the more explicit realms of Chaos from the Elric novels.

I think it’s more a reference to Columbus mis-calculating the circumference of the earth – which is why people were skeptical about his voyage, everyone knew the world was round, they just also knew that he’d screwed up his math – and thus nearly getting himself and his crew killed because he hadn’t brought enough supplies for the crossing of the Atlantic.