Hi Roderick III, first of all thanks for all your thoughts. You will be happy to know that most of the things you have suggested are planned to be in the mod :
Finally one thing you will not appreciate: I will keep on using images from the HBO series. I fully understand your pov, but the point is that in a mod you need tons of images, and the only available source of all these images is the serie. I agree with you, there are other excellent works inspired by the books, but they are not in just one style, and I wouldn't like having images so different one from the other.
- the mod will strictly follow what's written in the books
- I will try to have all the land of Essos in the map, even Asshai (there is the problem of the limit of the M2TW map, 1 mil pixel); I don't know if you know that in the next months will be released by GM a book with the maps of all his world, that will be a definitive source of info for geography
- Having the dragons is not an option, it's a must! Honestly it's incredibly difficult, but I know that in a mod for Rome TW there are some kind of dragons, some maybe I'll be lucky and that team will give me permission to use their models
- there will be some kind of magic (in the far Essos, but also over the Wall), but not so much since I don't want to make something that GM wouldn't agree with
- there are already Others and mammuth, I will make giants too (and maybe other misterious beings...)
- there are naval forces, but due to M2TW restrictions do not have a main role
- there will be also the Faith Orders, I think in 2.0 release.
I'm sending you a PM about possible help from you.
Ciao, auc162