George R.R. Martin has revealed the final cover art for his upcoming publication, The World of Ice and Fire.

The cover design, which Martin posted to his infamously named “Not a Blog”-blog, is relatively simple. Presumably, the cover of The World of Ice and Fire was designed to imitate the old tomes written by Westeros’s learned maesters – a fitting choice, as the hefty book will follow in the literary style of those books as well.

Martin seems pleased with both the final product in his blog post. “It is going to be a gorgeous book,” he writes. The World of Ice and Fire will be “a big coffee table volume with lots and lots of stunning artwork, and tons of fake history.”

“We were supposed to provide 50,000 words of text,” the author of the epic fantasy saga A Song of Ice and Fire wryly concludes. “But… ah… I got carried away. ”

The World of Ice and Fire, which Martin co-wrote with Westeros.org founders Elio Garcia Jr. and Linda Antonsson, will be released in the fall of this year. The imaginary historical volume is subtitled “The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones,” and according to Amazon, the book clocks in at a hefty 336 pages.

Many of these events discussed in The World of Ice and Fire take place hundreds of years before the topics tackled in A Song of Ice and Fire, on which HBO’s Game of Thrones is based. A brief excerpt from the history of Aegon I Targareyn, called “the Conquerer,” was recently released – along with a heartily impressive illustration of Aegon’s dragon, Balerion the Black Dread.

Though there is still no news of the The Winds of Winter (the other hotly-anticipated volume over which Martin currently labors) it is exciting to see a long-awaited project come to fruition – especially if it takes us back to Westeros.