Well, the AI technology made all characters in “A Song of Ice and Fire” basically kids.
When someone casts a TV show or movie based on a book, fans will inevitably exclaim, “They’re not supposed to look like that!” Especially with Game of Thrones, which has over one million characters, it’s highly possible that some characters don’t look like their book versions.
Luckily, Anna, aka @msbananaanna, a Melbourne-based content creator, is able to take over the stuff. And so is AI technology. Anna’s AI-created Harry Potter pictures lit up the internet, and now she’s back for round two with a series of 29 book-accurate Game of Thrones portraits!
Hi guys, I made about 30 (attempted to) book description accurate GoT character portraits with artbreeder. If you’re a fan you can check em out here: https://t.co/sDHDTIMn3U#GameOfThrones #ASOIAF #got #grrm
— msbananaanna (@msbananaanna) May 21, 2022
Anna utilizes Artbreeder, an online AI tool, to mix and edit character images until she finds one that depicts the character as portrayed in the A Song of Ice and Fire novels. She shared that getting a portrait right can take a few hours of tinkering in Artbreeder, and even then, it may require some Photoshop finishing touches. She came up with the following:
My goal is to make 35 AI Game of Thrones/ASOIAF portraits. So far finished 21/35 characters.
Harder than HP because of different family features, all the women are supposedly varying shades of beautiful, and incest lol
— msbananaanna (@msbananaanna) May 16, 2022
Anna’s descriptions, as well as some from A Wiki of Ice and Fire, are sprinkled throughout.
1. Arya Stark:
Source: @msbananaanna
Arya Stark: 9–12 years old. Has the Stark long face, grey eyes, and brown hair. Greatly resembles Aunt Lyanna according to Bran. Short hair depicted when she cut it to look like a boy. Bullied by Sansa for looking horse faced, but several characters have described her as pretty.”
Maisie Williams playing Arya:
Source: HBO
2. Sansa Stark
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Sansa Stark: Age 11–14. Deep blue eyes, light auburn hair, with the Tully features of high cheekbones. Takes after her mother, but Catelyn believes Sansa will grow to become more beautiful than her. Considered by many characters to be fair looking, and Tyrion considers her to be as comely as Margaery Tyrell.
Sophie Turner as Sansa:
Source: Helen Sloan/HBO
3. Ned Stark
Source: @msbananaanna
Ned Stark: 35–36. Typical Stark features of long face, grey eyes, and brown hair. Ned has dark grey eyes that reflect his moods. He has a solemn face and his beard is beginning to grey, making him look older than his age. He is considered to be less handsome and shorter than his brother, Brandon Stark.
Sean Bean playing Ned:
Source: HBO
4. Catelyn Stark:
Source: @msbananaanna
Catelyn Stark: Age 33–35. ‘Catelyn is beautiful, with fair skin, long auburn hair, and blue eyes. She has long fingers and high cheekbones.’ – AWOIAF. Traditional Tully features and traditional beauty.”
Michelle Fairley as Cat:
Source: HBO
5. Jon Snow
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Jon Snow: Age 14–17. Has the most Stark features of the kids, with dark grey eyes, a long face, and dark brown hair.”
Kit Harrington playing Jon:
Source: HBO
6. Daenerys Targaryen
Source: @msbananaanna
Daenerys Targaryen: Age 13–15. Daenerys has the classical Valyrian look; She has violet eyes, pale skin, and long, pale silver-gold hair. Daenerys is slender of frame. Daenerys has been described as fair, and beautiful.”
Emilia Clarke as Daenerys:
Source: HBO
7. Ser Jorah Mormont
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Ser Jorah Mormont: Age 46ish. Jorah is a large middle-aged man, swarthy and hairy. He is black-bearded and balding, but still strong and fit. According to Dany: not particularly handsome.”
Ian Glen playing Ser Jorah:
Source: HBO
8. Tyrion Lannister
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“Tyrion: ~24 years, mismatched green/black eyes, thin hair so blonde it’s almost white, large jutting forehead, oversized head.”
Peter Dinklage as Tyrion:
Source: Helen Sloan/HBO
9. Jaime Lannister
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Jaime Lannister: ~31 years, green eyes, curled hair color of beaten gold, handsome, tall.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau playing Jaime:
Source: HBO
10. Cersei Lannister
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Cersei Lanister: Age 31–34. Twin to Jaime Lannister. ‘Cersei is a strikingly beautiful woman, with golden hair, emerald green eyes, fair skin, and a slender, graceful figure.” —AWOIAF
Note: Although she is considered by some to be the most beautiful of the seven kingdoms, her age was brought into consideration along with the prophecy that she will be replaced by a younger more beautiful queen… so I tried to make her beautiful but not as striking as described.”
Lena Headey as Cersei:
Source: Macall B. Polay/courtesy of HBO
11. Joffrey Baratheon
Source: @msbananaanna
Joffrey Baratheon: Age 11–14. Blonde curly hair, green eyes, pouty lips. Considered handsome. Jon thinks he looks like a girl. Probably has a punchable face, but that is just personal bias.”
Jack Gleeson playing Joffrey:
Source: HBO
12. Myrcella Baratheon
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Myrcella Baratheon: Age 8–10. Golden hair, emerald eyes, and full lips. Delicate and beautiful.”
Nell Tiger Free as Myrcella:
Source: HBO
13. Tywin Lannister
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Tywin Lannister: Age 58. Tall, slender, broad shouldered with shaved bald head, but keeps whiskers on the side of his face. He has pale green eyes with gold flecks in them.”
Charles Dance playing Tywin:
Source: HBO
14. Brienne of Tarth
Source: @msbananaanna
Brienne of Tarth: 17–20. ‘Brienne is unfeminine in appearance and is considered unattractive by Westerosi standards. She is tall, muscular, flat-chested, and ungainly, with shoulder-length brittle straw-colored hair and broad, coarse features that are covered in freckles. Brienne’s teeth are prominent and crooked. Her mouth is wide, her lips are swollen, and her nose has been broken more than once. She has large, beautiful blue eyes.’ —AWOIAF”
Gwendoline Christie as Brienne:
Source: Helen Sloan/HBO
15. Lyanna Stark
Source: @msbananaanna
Lyanna Stark: Dead at age 16. Was considered to have a ‘wild’ beauty to her; did not have the same delicate/refined/traditional beauty as Princess Elia. Described as a Tomboy, and has typical Stark features of a long face, grey eyes, and brown hair. Slim.”
Having only appeared in a few brief scenes, but here Lyanna is, as played by Aisling Franciosi:
Source: HBO
16. Asha (Yara) Greyjoy
Source: @msbananaanna
Asha Greyjoy: Early-mid twenties. ‘Asha is lean and long-legged, with dark eyes and black hair cut short. Her face is thin, with a big, sharp nose, and wind-chafed skin. On her neck is a faded pink scar. Asha’s brother, Theon Greyjoy, believes her hawk-like nose is too big and sharp for her small face, but he feels that her wicked smile makes up for it.’ —AWOIAF”
To avoid confusion with Osha, Asha’s name was changed to Yara by the film crew. Gemma Whelan was cast as Yara.
Source: Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO
17. Jaqen H’ghar
Source: @msbananaanna
“Jaqen H’ghar: Young man, considered or noticed by women to be handsome with fine features. Long hair that is white on one side, and red on the other.”
Tom Wlaschiha playing Jaqen H’ghar:
Source: Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO
18. Ser Loras Tyrell
Source: @msbananaanna
Loras Tyrell: Age 15–18. Considered by many to be ‘beautiful’ and ‘extremely handsome.’ Has big liquid gold eyes and brown lazy curls. Greatly resembles Margaery, according to Cersei (they are siblings).”
Finn Jones as Loras:
Source: Macall B. Polay/courtesy of HBO
19. Margaery Tyrell
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“Margaery Tyrell: Age 16–17. Thick, softly curling hair, with large brown eyes. Has a sweet/shy look to her. Considered by Tyrion to be as comely as Sansa Stark. Smooth unblemished skin.”
Natalie Dormer playing Margaery:
Source: Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO
20. Melisandre
Source: @msbananaanna
Melisandre: She is considered to be terribly beautiful, with unsettling red eyes and deep burnished copper hair. She has a heart shaped face. She’s really old but looks young due to magic.”
Carice Van Houten as Melisandre:
Source: Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO
21. Lysa Arryn
Source: @msbananaanna
Lysa Arryn: Early 30s. Once beautiful, she has since grown thick and puffy due to many pregnancy issues. Has a small petulant mouth, and though she is younger than Catelyn, she looks older by a decade. Pale blue eyes, thick auburn hair. Her skin has become pale, which she tries to cover up with powder.”
Kate Dickie playing Lysa Arryn:
Source: HBO
22. Littlefinger
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Littlefinger: Age 29–32. Short, slender man with sharp features and a small pointed beard. Dark hair with threads of grey, and grey-green eyes. When he laughs or smiles, it does not reach his eyes.”
Aidan Gillen as Littlefinger:
Source: Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO
23. Syrio Forel
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Syrio Forel: Age (?). Bald man with a beak nose.”
Miltos Yerolemou playing Syrio Forel:
Source: HBO
24. Lord Varys
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“Varys: Age 44–50. Bald, plump, effeminate, with powdered face. Eyes are not specified in the book, but he is from Lys, so I assume he has purple eyes.”
Conleth Hill as Varys:
Source: Helen Sloan/HBO
25. Ygritte
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Ygritte: Age 19. Large, pretty, blue-grey eyes. Crooked teeth, bright thick and shaggy red hair. Though considered to be beautiful among the wildlings. Jon does not think she is (but considers her smile to be pretty). He notices her eyes are too far apart. She has a short pug nose and a round face.”
Rose Leslie playing Ygritte:
Source: HBO
26. Gregor Clegane
Source: @msbananaanna
Gregor Clegane: Age 35–36. Gregor Clegane is a gigantic man, arguably the largest man in Westeros (surpassing all of the Baratheon brothers, Hodor, and his own brother Sandor), with great arms, an ugly voice like stone breaking, grey eyes, brown hair and large shoulders.
Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson as Gregor Clegane:
Source: HBO
27. Podrick Payne
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“Podrick: 13–15? Skinny, straight hair, thin neck.”
Daniel Portman playing Podrick:
Source: Helen Sloan/HBO
The following two characters never made it into the show, but if you’re a book reader, you might be interested to see how they would look IRL!
28. Arianne Martell
Arianne Martell: Early Twenties. ‘Arianne is buxom and beautiful, with olive skin, large dark eyes and long, thick black hair that falls in ringlets to the middle of her back.’ —ASOIAF”
Source: @msbananaanna
29. Brandon Stark
“Brandon Stark (brother to Ned Stark): Dead at 20. Tall and handsome with grey eyes.”
Source: HBO
