This lavishly illustrated volume is a comprehensive history of the Seven Kingdoms, providing vividly constructed accounts of the epic battles, bitter rivalries and daring rebellions that lead to the events of A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO’s "Game of Thrones." In a collaboration that’s been years in the making, George R. R. Martin has teamed with the founders of the renowned fan site Westeros.org --- perhaps the only people who know this world almost as well as its visionary creator.