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Frozen Observations

@virtual-winter

30-something, he/him. I think too much about Frozen. Analyst, mapmaker, infrastructure engineer. Arendelle-content and trips down memory lane! Banner: photo of Nærøyfjord by me!
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We finally know the full layout of the canon Frozenverse!

Thanks to this post (requires an account) by twitter-user ann_mochi and this tumblr-post by @sparebutton , we FINALLY have a full map of the known Fozen movie-universe!

Previously, we've seen glimpses of the general geography of Arendelle and the surrounding lands from Frozen Fever, Frozen II and in books and promotion material surrounding the movies and I even wrote a 3-part series about Frozen's geography back in 2021, but never before has there been a source showing Anna and Elsa's world to its full extent and in such detail!

Original image.

Thanks to this image being framed and hung on a wall, the process of aligning it correctly was very easy! I used my ancient copy of SketchUp to edit and match the photo to a flat surface and with the help of Gigapixel upscaling, this is the result!

Note: north is to the left.

It looks awesome IMO 😍

For future installments, what we're missing are labels for other adjacent kingdoms, but it appears Disney never seems to bother with such trivial worldbuilding details.

Below, I've put together a quick overview of the areas visible on previous Frozen maps.

The Frozen Fever map mostly covers ocean. The northern half of the continent was changed in Frozen II.

Iduna's map from Frozen II map was the most detailed version we had for a long time and it added things like borders and names for the Arenfjord and the Dark Sea. It covers 3/4 the full map.

Technically, the whole map was also featured in the books "Frozen: The Saga - Anna and Elsa's Journey" and "Frozen II: Spirits of the Enchanted Forest" but it was impossible to attempt any sort of aligning because of the distorted perspective.

There is one more piece of the worldbuilding-puzzle (Weselton) that could be added, but I'll save that for another time.

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The Southern Isles

(fanmade for fanfic, creative math with counting the rocks)

According to "A Frozen Heart", there are seven Isles. According to "Frozen Fever", a map looks like this, so I though - ok, it only counts as an isle if it is big enough/inhabitated/not connected by a bridge with another isle/whatever some of the kings said.

Also according to "A Frozen Heart", only the biggest Isle have any grass - the rest is rocky. Hence coloring.

As per a castle - the royal castle is, to be honest, only this part right next to the text. The rest, the part looking like a sea monster indeed, are defence walls. They can be, truly, very long. Only four, large windows are unusual, but hey, it's your castle. Also they are not exactly facing North, but close enough to be accurate.

The Brotherhood of the Isles is mysterious, I think it was meant to be some kind of religious order.

All the names are made up by me.

Amazing job! A younger me also tried making hand made Frozen maps but I moved on to digital instead 😊

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The Southern Isles' Princes

aka Meet the Snakepit!

Now, that's way too many - no one needs that many kids, let alone princes, but here we are.

Now, we know Lars, Caleb, Rudi and Runo (who are twins) from "A Frozen Heart", and Franz and Jurgen appeared in the "Once Upon a Time", also with some more, unnamed brothers - I took one of them and that's Roland. The rest is mine - names, visuals and special abilities.

Ah, and if someone would wonder - yes, apparently all of them, in canon, dress the same.

That's all.

That's all of them boys. From the oldest to the youngest.

All of the Southern Isles' princes.

These... are amazing! 😃

Disney made their own illustration of the extended Westergaard family back in 2015 but definitely not as refined as yours

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Written by: @virtual-winter June 7th, 2023

The title kinda says it all. This was a quick analysis I made covering the very niche topic of Prince Hans' ship. I found it has a much stronger presence in the franchise than you might think!

For a long time, I only had a single piece of concept art by Cory Loftis to go on but after finding the profile view in this post's title, I started looking for it in the movies. And it was there alright!

I owe great thanks to the fantastic blog @theartoffrozen (that collects amazing Frozen concept art) for being the source of many of the pics for this analysis!

So, here is my walk-trough of every appearance of Hans' ship!

/virtual-winter

Very interesting and in-detail analysis! I do however headcanon Hans' ship is the one destroyed in the blizzard and that's why he was sent back to the Isles in the french dignatary's ship.

The analized ship could have been important in the early development of the movie, when Hans' character was a nameless "Admiral Westergaard" (very likely an Arendellian) and that's the reason it has stayed in the franchise. We know there was a deleted scene of Hans and Anna sword fighting in a ship (surely the one analyzed). It's hard to know because a lot of changes were made during the creative process. Also Santino Fontana talked about a lot of deleted scenes of Hans, and as far as I know only the sword figthing with Anna in the ship has been made public.

Thank you for the added information!

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