12. All The Prop Books Are Stuffed With Details
You'll notice that books are used a lot in the Game Of Thrones universe, especially down in the political battleground that is King's Landing. Of course, this makes perfect sense the majority of the characters in the capital get by on their intellects, and wielding a book-based prop makes this clear. Yet really, some of these props go past being props and crash headlong into lunacy. You see, every book you see in King's Landing that has the privilege of being opened doesn't just have a couple of words on one page to keep up the illusion it actually has around 20 pages written and illustrated correctly with artwork, just for authenticity's sake. Bearing in mind the majority of these pages will won't ever be seen never mind read you've got to argue that it's one hell of an effort from prop master Gordon Fitzgerald. However, these props pale in comparison to scriptwriter Bryan Cogman's efforts. You might remember that the book The Lineage and Histories Of The Great Houses Of The Seven Kingdoms was of central importance during the first season as the way Ned realises that all the king's kids are illegitimate. Because it's on screen so long, Cogman with Martin's help wrote down huge swathes of the book's lineages in minute detail, going beyond the 20 page limit and into something representing a full tome. Combine this with the fact that he also wrote up every raven scroll you see in the series by hand and you've got one Herculean act of detail-creating.