Moat Cailin was a challenge to say the least. Having been modelling for several years now, I found the making of Strategy Map Models… lacking… in both detail and adventure, yet suddenly designing settlements at full scale seemed both exciting and intimidating. I have always strived to follow the lore to the letter, hence the need to redesign when I discovered that A Dance with Dragons describes the Gatehouse Tower as “squat” (well thanks Martin, could have told me that five books ago…). Armed with such flimsy descriptions and a sparse and vague collection of concept art I launched Sketchup, only to realise I had no idea of scale, of compatibility, of where the heck to begin!“J
ust beyond, through the mists, she glimpsed the walls and towers of Moat Cailin … or what remained of them. Immense blocks of black basalt, each as large as a crofter’s cottage, lay scattered and tumbled like a child’s wooden blocks, half-sunk in the soft boggy soil. Nothing else remained of a curtain wall that had once stood as high as Winterfell’s. The wooden keep was gone entirely, rotted away a thousand years past, with not so much as a timber to mark where it had stood. All that was left of the great stronghold of the First Men were three towers … three where there had once been twenty, if the taletellers could be believed. The Gatehouse Tower looked sound enough, and even boasted a few feet of standing wall to either side of it. The Drunkard’s Tower, off in the bog where the south and west walls had once met, leaned like a man about to spew a bellyful of wine into the gutter. And the tall, slender Children’s Tower, where legend said the children of the forest had once called upon their nameless gods to send the hammer of the waters, had lost half its crown. It looked as if some great beast had taken a bite out of the crenellations along the tower top, and spit the rubble across the bog. All three towers were green with moss. A tree was growing out between the stones on the north side of the Gatehouse Tower, ”
its gnarled limbs festooned with ropy white blankets of ghostskin. - Martin, G. R. R. (2010). A Game of Thrones . Harper Collins, Kindle Edition.
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[Preview] New Year's Special - Battle Map - The Neck/Moat Cailin
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! This is fantastic, Mak!
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