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no more than 150... see how it goes.Ctg9095 wrote:Love all the updates and process pics Mark. Any idea how big the edition for this is gonna be?
Apparently it's a drawing from a GoT card game. It's the only picture I've ever seen that depicts what the Fist looks like, so who knows how accurate it really is. When I saw your drawing though I immediately thought it shared some similarities in the design. I even thought maybe you were basing yours off of it slightly, but apparently not haha.markenglert wrote:That drawing of the Fist you posted is pretty rad, I'll have to take a closer look at it before I finish mine off.
This description leads me to believe that it's just a large massive mountain structure which means enemies assaulting it would have to go severely uphill to face whoever defended it and that their options were severely limited as to which side of it they wanted to attack. And the way they say that it's an ancient ringfort means that parts of it are man-made rather than completely natural. Anyways, I guess my main point is I just don't fully comprehend how big the thing actually is haha. Damn you HBO for not figuring it out either!The Fist of the First Men is an ancient ringfort built by the First Men in the Dawn Age. It is located next to the Milkwater. It is where the Night's Watch fought the Battle of the Fist of the First Men.
The Fist is a hill that rises above the Forest around it. The hill offers commanding views with the slopes at a dangerous angle to the north and west and only slightly less dangerous to east. Its windswept crown is visible for miles. There is a ringwall of chest-high grey stone that crowns the top of the steep, stony hill. At the foot of the hill there is brook.
Damn! Gonna need to find myself a PB.markenglert wrote:no more than 150... see how it goes.Ctg9095 wrote:Love all the updates and process pics Mark. Any idea how big the edition for this is gonna be?
Yeah to me sounds like it looks something like this (a rough attempt):Trasher wrote:This description leads me to believe that it's just a large massive mountain structure which means enemies assaulting it would have to go severely uphill to face whoever defended it and that their options were severely limited as to which side of it they wanted to attack. And the way they say that it's an ancient ringfort means that parts of it are man-made rather than completely natural. Anyways, I guess my main point is I just don't fully comprehend how big the thing actually is haha. Damn you HBO for not figuring it out either!The Fist of the First Men is an ancient ringfort built by the First Men in the Dawn Age. It is located next to the Milkwater. It is where the Night's Watch fought the Battle of the Fist of the First Men.
The Fist is a hill that rises above the Forest around it. The hill offers commanding views with the slopes at a dangerous angle to the north and west and only slightly less dangerous to east. Its windswept crown is visible for miles. There is a ringwall of chest-high grey stone that crowns the top of the steep, stony hill. At the foot of the hill there is brook.
Sounds great, hopefully I can grab one to go with my Blackwatermarkenglert wrote:I'm mostly basing it off of my recollection and with the help of my buddy Chris who has read the book a few times through.
I see it as a large rock, like something in Utah, which is tough to climb, but not impossible even on horseback. Once you make the climb, there is a crappy old ringfort, which I imagine was really more for a bit of extra shelter from the wind if anything. It's described as a chest high wall, which seems fairly useless in combat to me... in any case, you can't see the actual ringfort in my piece either. It'd be too small to feature on the massive rock of the Fist.
I'll post some more pics soon. Been struggling with getting the snow texture right in the foreground.
Oh, and no problem posting process stuff. It's a treat to post as I go these days...
Concerning this subject? No such thing! I've wasted far too much time over thinking and over analyzing these damn books haha.markenglert wrote:My recollection that there is only one side that is climbable... In mine, I'm imaging that you'd have to follow a path around the entire rock and work your way up. That would make more sense as a defensible position, since the enemy would take longer to ascend and you'd have more chances to pick them off as the climbed an unsteady path with a nasty drop off the side. In the book, they sprinkled the path to the top with caltrops, I'd assume in a hope to startle bad guys from stumbling off the side.
I'm sure I've put too much though into this
jrsheppa wrote:Yeah to me sounds like it looks something like this (a rough attempt):Trasher wrote:This description leads me to believe that it's just a large massive mountain structure which means enemies assaulting it would have to go severely uphill to face whoever defended it and that their options were severely limited as to which side of it they wanted to attack. And the way they say that it's an ancient ringfort means that parts of it are man-made rather than completely natural. Anyways, I guess my main point is I just don't fully comprehend how big the thing actually is haha. Damn you HBO for not figuring it out either!The Fist of the First Men is an ancient ringfort built by the First Men in the Dawn Age. It is located next to the Milkwater. It is where the Night's Watch fought the Battle of the Fist of the First Men.
The Fist is a hill that rises above the Forest around it. The hill offers commanding views with the slopes at a dangerous angle to the north and west and only slightly less dangerous to east. Its windswept crown is visible for miles. There is a ringwall of chest-high grey stone that crowns the top of the steep, stony hill. At the foot of the hill there is brook.
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