In a world as big as Westeros – and a community as devoted and enthusiastic as WesterosCraft – there are a great many spaces to fill in. That’s the spirit that seems to infuse WesterosCraft and its community: both a painstaking faithfulness to its source material and a desire to innovate collaboratively in the spaces where canon offers no answers. Naturally, someone in WesterosCraft has not only built it but given it the wholly original name of Harbury – as befitting a suburb of the nearby Harrenhal – after brainstorming for ideas with other users on the forums. There’s a scene in the novel Clash of Kings, for example, where Arya Stark visits a small village that is never named. But it's been built and you can go visit that in game.” Some of the stuff that's been built hasn't even been mentioned in the books. Even now with hundreds of people, there's still a ton of work to do just on the map itself. “If we had never gotten popular, the project probably would have died a long time ago, because it's so much. Despite the growing demands of WesterosCraft, Granberry describes its vibrant, devoted community as not only one of the most rewarding parts of his work, but also the most essential to its success.
