The Iron Throne and the throne room (Game of Thrones)

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See the animated version in my profile:
https://www.behance.net/gallery/174523291/Animated-Iron-Throne

A Re-imagining of The Iron Throne and The Great Hall from (A Song of Ice and Fire) novels and the successful HBO series based on it (Game of Thrones).

This is a re-imagining of the famous royal throne and the hall, based more on the novels than the series.
1000 swords put together to shape a throne and melted together by the fires of the dragon owned by the first Targaryen king of the seven kingdoms of Westeros, to finally made a throne of iron that's so iconic.
The great hall, the throne room; a great hall influenced by the mythology and religions of Westeros, with medieval and Celtic themes from our world.

The part of the hall was the throne resides is more atmospheric and religious, The window is shaped like the seven-pointed star, the icon of the main religion in Westeros, with curtains those seem less ancient and have a more contemporary ruling family sigil (Lannisters?), it's intentionally made to look not too new and maybe it got repainted, and the colors really don't match the house sigil.
The part of the hall after that seems less ancient, with obvious Celtic and medieval-style (paying respect to the style of the dwarves’ mountain architecture in The Hobbit movies, very geometric and very Norse inspired), the sigil of the Targaryens is repeated on the wall.
The design is made by drawing most of the parts, bending them together, gradient and shadows and lighting effects are added, bevel effect is used to make the carvings on the walls, textures are heavily used to make the ancient wall's effects.

The whole design is intentionally made in 2D and using conventional 2D tools and drawing brushes in Adobe Photoshop as a challenge if I can make a 2D design with no complex tools I can make an image look a bit 3D, and a challenge if I can draw something this complex as a digital painting.

The design was intended to get bigger than this, and I've sketched more parts of the great hall, but the project got too big to handle and to process, I got no real chance to get back into completing it, and it might look complete and too big already it doesn't need any thing to add, that's enough already :'''D

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The Iron Throne itself:

The Iron Throne in the throne room:

The Great Hall:

Other Variations & Edits:

Inspirations:

(drawings from the book, some poster from the series that presented a good sword theme design mixed with feathery style, etc.)

Steps of designing The Iron Throne:

to make metal swords melted together and gotten rusty. and make the edges more shiny and pop up:

adding more swords to the back of the seat, add swords on the sides and add more horn-shaped swords. try if it would look good if the edges shine more.

look at the stairs in the next steps, I had to add more swords in between small gaps and parts to make them not so fake of perfect.

The Basic sketch a of the seven-pointed-star-shaped window as a concept, surrounded by Latin-like gibberish (old language aesthetic):

The metal parts of the window is made to look not-perfectly-put.

I added to the wall where the window is placed other carvings and geometric shapes to emphasis the religion of the seven gods, with more ancient Latin-like vague writings, cracks and signs of age passing by.

medieval ornaments were added to the base of the wall where it meets the ground, windows added at top with medieval style to add more lighting.

Adding more textures to the land where the throne is, adding a stony geometric base to make the throne is attached to it.

The Iron Throne with fiery lighting and shrouded by a bit of shadow, to add some sacred aesthetic and make the king more holy like he's in the center of a temple:

Green curtains where added with a bit authentic medieval look.

the curtains or the banners to look a bit contemporary to the age of he image but not too new, like its age is like couple of years ago. but they got folded too many times.

but if you really look, the family sigil is not clear and maybe not right:

The outer part of the great hall is made to be inspired a bit in Celtic fashion, heavy mix between geometry and medieval aesthetics, inspired by the insides of "Erebor" the mountain of the dwarves in The Hobbit movies with their heavy geometric Celtic style

some small symbols were added, included non-removed Targaryen sigil: