Game of Thrones follows a large cast of characters and interwoven story arcs. It is primarily set on the fictional continent of Westeros, which is divided into the Seven Kingdoms and the lands in the far North beyond "the Wall," an enormous wall of fortified ice. It borrows heavily from real history, including elements from the Crusades, Spartans and Byzantines. Most of all, however, this saga tells the story of the realm of England and how it came to be, from the first men and the Angles to the Conquest and War of the Roses. Tyrion and Jon