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A MAP OF HELLICONIA
One of the most celebrated feats in SF worldbuilding is Helliconia. The creation of Brian W. Aldiss, helped by numerous experts from Oxford University in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Helliconia is the star of the Helliconia Trilogy: Helliconia Spring (1982), Helliconia Summer (1983) and Helliconia Winter (1985). Astronomical Data Helliconia is located in the Freyr system. THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: SHARA Shara is the name given to the mysterious land beyond the Aiel Waste, far to the east of the Spine of the World and the Sea of Storms. Very little is known about it, thanks to a combination of geographical barriers and the people of that land's own concerns with privacy and security. History Very A MAP OF JACK VANCE’S ELDER ISLES A Map of Jack Vance’s Elder Isles. In ancient days, ere they sank beneath the waves, the Elder Isles were the last remaining source of magic in the world and the home of the ancestors of Uther Pendragon, long before his son created the great kingdom of Camelot in the south-west of Britain. A map of the Elder Isles and surrounding lands. ATLAS OF ICE AND FIRE The Inner Sphere. The Inner Sphere is the territory located roughly within 600 light-years of Terra and claimed by the Successor States of the fallen Star League. THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: JOURNEY MAPS UPDATED The Wheel of Time Atlas: Journey Maps Updated. Having recently updated my Wheel of Time world, continent and city maps, I thought I’d update my travel maps for the series and start looking at completing the series. A map of the first part of The Eye of the World, showing the route from Emond’s Field to Caemlyn. Please click for a larger NATIONS OF THE FORGOTTEN REALMS As part of my Forgotten Realms mapping project, I've created a map showing the disposition and borders of the surface kingdoms and nations of Faerûn circa the year 1371 Dalereckoning. Underdark and other subterranean kingdoms are not shown. Tuern: island kingdom in the Trackless Sea, culturally Northmen. Capital: Uttersea. Ruler: High King Threlked Ironfist. A NEW WHEEL OF TIME WORLD MAP This map draws upon the canonical world map in The World of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time, but I have replaced the very rough details of the continents with the more detailed continental maps.For the most part they match exactly and consistently. Description of the World (note: this is a partial reprint of a previous article). The world a great sphere, some 24,900 miles in circumference. A REVISED MAP OF THE FIRST LAW Joe Abercrombie’s First Law world is divided into three continents and numerous large islands. The North is a land of frozen rivers, towering mountains and ferocious creatures called Shanka. The Northmen are hardy warriors, living in a land of war, raiding and a rough kind of honour. The western continent is land of prairies and plains THE SIZE OF WESTEROS (REVISITED) This is a sequel to an article I originally posted four years ago when we looked at the size of Westeros. In that article I made arguments for the placement and location of Westeros on its planet and its extent in the hemisphere. Those arguments all still stand, but I thought it might be interesting A MAP OF GLEN COOK’S DREAD EMPIRE Here's something different, a map of a fantasy series I haven't actually read: The Dread Empire saga by Glen Cook. Cook is best known for his Black Company series and the more recent Instrumentalities of the Night sequence, but Dread Empire is his first work of epic fantasy. The Dread Empire series consists of eight novels and a shortstory collection.
A MAP OF HELLICONIA
One of the most celebrated feats in SF worldbuilding is Helliconia. The creation of Brian W. Aldiss, helped by numerous experts from Oxford University in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Helliconia is the star of the Helliconia Trilogy: Helliconia Spring (1982), Helliconia Summer (1983) and Helliconia Winter (1985). Astronomical Data Helliconia is located in the Freyr system. THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: SHARA Shara is the name given to the mysterious land beyond the Aiel Waste, far to the east of the Spine of the World and the Sea of Storms. Very little is known about it, thanks to a combination of geographical barriers and the people of that land's own concerns with privacy and security. History Very A MAP OF JACK VANCE’S ELDER ISLES A Map of Jack Vance’s Elder Isles. In ancient days, ere they sank beneath the waves, the Elder Isles were the last remaining source of magic in the world and the home of the ancestors of Uther Pendragon, long before his son created the great kingdom of Camelot in the south-west of Britain. A map of the Elder Isles and surrounding lands. NATIONS OF THE FORGOTTEN REALMS As part of my Forgotten Realms mapping project, I've created a map showing the disposition and borders of the surface kingdoms and nations of Faerûn circa the year 1371 Dalereckoning. Underdark and other subterranean kingdoms are not shown. Tuern: island kingdom in the Trackless Sea, culturally Northmen. Capital: Uttersea. Ruler: High King Threlked Ironfist. A NEW WHEEL OF TIME WORLD MAP This map draws upon the canonical world map in The World of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time, but I have replaced the very rough details of the continents with the more detailed continental maps.For the most part they match exactly and consistently. Description of the World (note: this is a partial reprint of a previous article). The world a great sphere, some 24,900 miles in circumference. A NEW MAP OF WESTEROS A New Map of Westeros. As related previously, I’ve been planning to update my older Atlas of Ice and Fire maps focusing on Westeros and Essos, which are looking a bit low-res and long in the tooth ese days. To start with, I’ve been creating a new map of the entire known world. Although lots of work remains to be done on that, I have (more A MAP OF JACK VANCE’S ELDER ISLES A Map of Jack Vance’s Elder Isles. In ancient days, ere they sank beneath the waves, the Elder Isles were the last remaining source of magic in the world and the home of the ancestors of Uther Pendragon, long before his son created the great kingdom of Camelot in the south-west of Britain. A map of the Elder Isles and surrounding lands. THE NEW & IMPROVED MALAZAN WORLD MAP The New & Improved Malazan World Map. One of the most constant projects I’ve been working on for the past decade is the refining and improvement of a world map for Steven Erikson and Ian Esslemont’s Malazan series of epic fantasy novels. This led to the Malazan Maps of the Fallen series I ran in early 2018. The new, improved Malazan world map. THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: THE GREAT HUNT Narrative Atlas 4: The Great Hunt – From Fal Dara to Falme. These maps cover the third part of our heroes’ journey in The Great Hunt (Book 2 of The Wheel of Time).For a detailed summary of The Great Hunt, please follow this link. This part of the narrative atlas covers our heroes’ journey from Caemlyn to Tarwin’s Gap, via Fal Dara. THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: KANDOR & ARAFEL Kandor and Arafel are the central Borderlands, located to the east of mighty Saldaea in the west and populous Shienar in the east. They are two of the lesser-known nations of the land, with relatively little interest or influence in southern nations, but are still important nations charged with the defence of the Blightborder. History UNRELIABLE TIMELINES & CONFUSED DATES From A Game of Thrones the traditional dates given for the major events in the history of Westeros and Essos can be summed up as follows:. 12,000 years ago: Invasion of the First Men, War of the First Men and Children, signing of the Pact. 8,000 years ago: The Long Night, the invasion of the Others, defeat of the Others, adventures of the First Hero and Azhor Azhai, building of the Wall MAPPING THE ISLAND FROM LOST Airing for 121 episodes over six seasons, Lost started with Ocean Airways Flight 815 broke up in mid-air over a mysterious island in the South Pacific. The Island was revealed to have unusual properties and to be at the centre of a struggle for power between two men, Ben Linus and Charles Widmore. But beyond that was a much greater and more THE MAPS OF LOCKE LAMORA Since 2006 Scott Lynch’s excellent Gentleman Bastard series of novels has become one of the most popular epic fantasy series around.The Lies of Locke Lamora is one of the modern classics of fantasy fiction and Red Seas Under Red Skies and The Republic of Thieves are, if not quite as well-regarded, still fine slices of genre fiction. In September Lynch will release the fourth volume (of seven ATLAS OF ICE AND FIRE This map marks the start of a number of maps related to the BattleTech science fiction setting, from the miniatures game, novel line and video game of the same name and the MechWarrior series of video games. You can find out more about the setting here.. These series of maps depict known space as it stands in the year 3025, after the ThirdSuccession War.
THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: JOURNEY MAPS UPDATED The Wheel of Time Atlas: Journey Maps Updated. Having recently updated my Wheel of Time world, continent and city maps, I thought I’d update my travel maps for the series and start looking at completing the series. A map of the first part of The Eye of the World, showing the route from Emond’s Field to Caemlyn. Please click for a larger NATIONS OF THE FORGOTTEN REALMS As part of my Forgotten Realms mapping project, I've created a map showing the disposition and borders of the surface kingdoms and nations of Faerûn circa the year 1371 Dalereckoning. Underdark and other subterranean kingdoms are not shown. Tuern: island kingdom in the Trackless Sea, culturally Northmen. Capital: Uttersea. Ruler: High King Threlked Ironfist. A NEW WHEEL OF TIME WORLD MAP This map draws upon the canonical world map in The World of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time, but I have replaced the very rough details of the continents with the more detailed continental maps.For the most part they match exactly and consistently. Description of the World (note: this is a partial reprint of a previous article). The world a great sphere, some 24,900 miles in circumference. A REVISED MAP OF THE FIRST LAW Joe Abercrombie’s First Law world is divided into three continents and numerous large islands. The North is a land of frozen rivers, towering mountains and ferocious creatures called Shanka. The Northmen are hardy warriors, living in a land of war, raiding and a rough kind of honour. The western continent is land of prairies and plains A DISTANCE MAP OF WESTEROS The distance map is based on the idea of someone being able to travel 25 miles in one day. This would typically be someone travelling on horseback with moderate baggage and able to swap horses maybe once a week or fortnight (otherwise you could assume 2 days of rest for every 5-7 days travelled and extend the days required to travelaccordingly).
THE SIZE OF WESTEROS (REVISITED) This is a sequel to an article I originally posted four years ago when we looked at the size of Westeros. In that article I made arguments for the placement and location of Westeros on its planet and its extent in the hemisphere. Those arguments all still stand, but I thought it might be interesting THE POPULATION OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS One question that arises more than almost any other in truly nerdy discussions about A Song of Ice and Fire relates to the population of the Seven Kingdoms and how many people live in each region, in the lands beyond the Wall and in the cities. That’s quite a big discussion and there’s been lots of conclusions drawn over theyears.
A MAP OF HELLICONIA
One of the most celebrated feats in SF worldbuilding is Helliconia. The creation of Brian W. Aldiss, helped by numerous experts from Oxford University in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Helliconia is the star of the Helliconia Trilogy: Helliconia Spring (1982), Helliconia Summer (1983) and Helliconia Winter (1985). Astronomical Data Helliconia is located in the Freyr system. A MAP OF JOE ABERCROMBIE’S FIRST LAW SERIES A map of the Circle of the World. Click for a larger version. Joe Abercrombie’s First Law world is divided into three continents and numerous large islands. The North is a land of frozen rivers, towering mountains and ferocious creatures called Shanka. The Northmen are hardy warriors, living in a land of war, raiding and a rough kind ofhonour.
ATLAS OF ICE AND FIRE This map marks the start of a number of maps related to the BattleTech science fiction setting, from the miniatures game, novel line and video game of the same name and the MechWarrior series of video games. You can find out more about the setting here.. These series of maps depict known space as it stands in the year 3025, after the ThirdSuccession War.
THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: JOURNEY MAPS UPDATED The Wheel of Time Atlas: Journey Maps Updated. Having recently updated my Wheel of Time world, continent and city maps, I thought I’d update my travel maps for the series and start looking at completing the series. A map of the first part of The Eye of the World, showing the route from Emond’s Field to Caemlyn. Please click for a larger NATIONS OF THE FORGOTTEN REALMS As part of my Forgotten Realms mapping project, I've created a map showing the disposition and borders of the surface kingdoms and nations of Faerûn circa the year 1371 Dalereckoning. Underdark and other subterranean kingdoms are not shown. Tuern: island kingdom in the Trackless Sea, culturally Northmen. Capital: Uttersea. Ruler: High King Threlked Ironfist. A NEW WHEEL OF TIME WORLD MAP This map draws upon the canonical world map in The World of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time, but I have replaced the very rough details of the continents with the more detailed continental maps.For the most part they match exactly and consistently. Description of the World (note: this is a partial reprint of a previous article). The world a great sphere, some 24,900 miles in circumference. A REVISED MAP OF THE FIRST LAW Joe Abercrombie’s First Law world is divided into three continents and numerous large islands. The North is a land of frozen rivers, towering mountains and ferocious creatures called Shanka. The Northmen are hardy warriors, living in a land of war, raiding and a rough kind of honour. The western continent is land of prairies and plains A DISTANCE MAP OF WESTEROS The distance map is based on the idea of someone being able to travel 25 miles in one day. This would typically be someone travelling on horseback with moderate baggage and able to swap horses maybe once a week or fortnight (otherwise you could assume 2 days of rest for every 5-7 days travelled and extend the days required to travelaccordingly).
THE SIZE OF WESTEROS (REVISITED) This is a sequel to an article I originally posted four years ago when we looked at the size of Westeros. In that article I made arguments for the placement and location of Westeros on its planet and its extent in the hemisphere. Those arguments all still stand, but I thought it might be interesting THE POPULATION OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS One question that arises more than almost any other in truly nerdy discussions about A Song of Ice and Fire relates to the population of the Seven Kingdoms and how many people live in each region, in the lands beyond the Wall and in the cities. That’s quite a big discussion and there’s been lots of conclusions drawn over theyears.
A MAP OF HELLICONIA
One of the most celebrated feats in SF worldbuilding is Helliconia. The creation of Brian W. Aldiss, helped by numerous experts from Oxford University in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Helliconia is the star of the Helliconia Trilogy: Helliconia Spring (1982), Helliconia Summer (1983) and Helliconia Winter (1985). Astronomical Data Helliconia is located in the Freyr system. A MAP OF JOE ABERCROMBIE’S FIRST LAW SERIES A map of the Circle of the World. Click for a larger version. Joe Abercrombie’s First Law world is divided into three continents and numerous large islands. The North is a land of frozen rivers, towering mountains and ferocious creatures called Shanka. The Northmen are hardy warriors, living in a land of war, raiding and a rough kind ofhonour.
A NEW WHEEL OF TIME WORLD MAP This map draws upon the canonical world map in The World of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time, but I have replaced the very rough details of the continents with the more detailed continental maps.For the most part they match exactly and consistently. Description of the World (note: this is a partial reprint of a previous article). The world a great sphere, some 24,900 miles in circumference. NATIONS OF THE FORGOTTEN REALMS As part of my Forgotten Realms mapping project, I've created a map showing the disposition and borders of the surface kingdoms and nations of Faerûn circa the year 1371 Dalereckoning. Underdark and other subterranean kingdoms are not shown. Tuern: island kingdom in the Trackless Sea, culturally Northmen. Capital: Uttersea. Ruler: High King Threlked Ironfist. GEOGRAPHIC MAP 1: THE KNOWN WORLD Geographic Map 1: The Known World. The known world is vast, extending for just over 8,500 miles from the Sunset Sea west of the Lonely Light to the island of Ulos in the Saffron Straits beyond Asshai, and for almost 7,000 miles from the White Waste beyond the Shivering Sea to the Green Hell of Sothoryos. However, this colossal region makes up THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: SHARA Shara is the name given to the mysterious land beyond the Aiel Waste, far to the east of the Spine of the World and the Sea of Storms. Very little is known about it, thanks to a combination of geographical barriers and the people of that land's own concerns with privacy and security. History Very THE POPULATION OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS One question that arises more than almost any other in truly nerdy discussions about A Song of Ice and Fire relates to the population of the Seven Kingdoms and how many people live in each region, in the lands beyond the Wall and in the cities. That’s quite a big discussion and there’s been lots of conclusions drawn over theyears.
THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: KANDOR & ARAFEL Kandor and Arafel are the central Borderlands, located to the east of mighty Saldaea in the west and populous Shienar in the east. They are two of the lesser-known nations of the land, with relatively little interest or influence in southern nations, but are still important nations charged with the defence of the Blightborder. History AN ECONOMIC MAP OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS An Economic Map of the Seven Kingdoms. The continent of Westeros is home to immense natural resources. Gold and silver is found under the hills of the Westerlands, whilst marble is quarried in the Mountains of the Moon. Amber is mined from the Red Mountains, whilst lemon groves dot the Dornish shores of the Summer Sea. MAPPING THE ISLAND FROM LOST Airing for 121 episodes over six seasons, Lost started with Ocean Airways Flight 815 broke up in mid-air over a mysterious island in the South Pacific. The Island was revealed to have unusual properties and to be at the centre of a struggle for power between two men, Ben Linus and Charles Widmore. But beyond that was a much greater and more THE MAPS OF LOCKE LAMORA Since 2006 Scott Lynch’s excellent Gentleman Bastard series of novels has become one of the most popular epic fantasy series around.The Lies of Locke Lamora is one of the modern classics of fantasy fiction and Red Seas Under Red Skies and The Republic of Thieves are, if not quite as well-regarded, still fine slices of genre fiction. In September Lynch will release the fourth volume (of seven STELLAR CARTOGRAPHY: THE JOURNEY OF THE GALACTICA The SyFy series Battlestar Galactica (2003-10) charts the journey of the titular warship and its accompany fleet of seventy or so civilian vessels from the Twelve Colonies to a refuge on the distant, supposedly mythical planet "Earth". The revamped series used a scientific advisor - astrophysicist Kevin Grazier - and attempted touse real science
ATLAS OF ICE AND FIRE This map marks the start of a number of maps related to the BattleTech science fiction setting, from the miniatures game, novel line and video game of the same name and the MechWarrior series of video games. You can find out more about the setting here.. These series of maps depict known space as it stands in the year 3025, after the ThirdSuccession War.
A NEW WHEEL OF TIME WORLD MAP This map draws upon the canonical world map in The World of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time, but I have replaced the very rough details of the continents with the more detailed continental maps.For the most part they match exactly and consistently. Description of the World (note: this is a partial reprint of a previous article). The world a great sphere, some 24,900 miles in circumference. A REVISED MAP OF THE FIRST LAW Joe Abercrombie’s First Law world is divided into three continents and numerous large islands. The North is a land of frozen rivers, towering mountains and ferocious creatures called Shanka. The Northmen are hardy warriors, living in a land of war, raiding and a rough kind of honour. The western continent is land of prairies and plains THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: JOURNEY MAPS UPDATED The Wheel of Time Atlas: Journey Maps Updated. Having recently updated my Wheel of Time world, continent and city maps, I thought I’d update my travel maps for the series and start looking at completing the series. A map of the first part of The Eye of the World, showing the route from Emond’s Field to Caemlyn. Please click for a larger THE SIZE OF WESTEROS (REVISITED) This is a sequel to an article I originally posted four years ago when we looked at the size of Westeros. In that article I made arguments for the placement and location of Westeros on its planet and its extent in the hemisphere. Those arguments all still stand, but I thought it might be interesting A MAP OF GLEN COOK’S DREAD EMPIRE Here's something different, a map of a fantasy series I haven't actually read: The Dread Empire saga by Glen Cook. Cook is best known for his Black Company series and the more recent Instrumentalities of the Night sequence, but Dread Empire is his first work of epic fantasy. The Dread Empire series consists of eight novels and a shortstory collection.
A MAP OF HELLICONIA
One of the most celebrated feats in SF worldbuilding is Helliconia. The creation of Brian W. Aldiss, helped by numerous experts from Oxford University in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Helliconia is the star of the Helliconia Trilogy: Helliconia Spring (1982), Helliconia Summer (1983) and Helliconia Winter (1985). Astronomical Data Helliconia is located in the Freyr system. THE NEW & IMPROVED MALAZAN WORLD MAP The New & Improved Malazan World Map. One of the most constant projects I’ve been working on for the past decade is the refining and improvement of a world map for Steven Erikson and Ian Esslemont’s Malazan series of epic fantasy novels. This led to the Malazan Maps of the Fallen series I ran in early 2018. The new, improved Malazan world map. THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: SHARA Shara is the name given to the mysterious land beyond the Aiel Waste, far to the east of the Spine of the World and the Sea of Storms. Very little is known about it, thanks to a combination of geographical barriers and the people of that land's own concerns with privacy and security. History Very THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: KANDOR & ARAFEL Kandor and Arafel are the central Borderlands, located to the east of mighty Saldaea in the west and populous Shienar in the east. They are two of the lesser-known nations of the land, with relatively little interest or influence in southern nations, but are still important nations charged with the defence of the Blightborder. History ATLAS OF ICE AND FIRE This map marks the start of a number of maps related to the BattleTech science fiction setting, from the miniatures game, novel line and video game of the same name and the MechWarrior series of video games. You can find out more about the setting here.. These series of maps depict known space as it stands in the year 3025, after the ThirdSuccession War.
A NEW WHEEL OF TIME WORLD MAP This map draws upon the canonical world map in The World of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time, but I have replaced the very rough details of the continents with the more detailed continental maps.For the most part they match exactly and consistently. Description of the World (note: this is a partial reprint of a previous article). The world a great sphere, some 24,900 miles in circumference. A REVISED MAP OF THE FIRST LAW Joe Abercrombie’s First Law world is divided into three continents and numerous large islands. The North is a land of frozen rivers, towering mountains and ferocious creatures called Shanka. The Northmen are hardy warriors, living in a land of war, raiding and a rough kind of honour. The western continent is land of prairies and plains THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: JOURNEY MAPS UPDATED The Wheel of Time Atlas: Journey Maps Updated. Having recently updated my Wheel of Time world, continent and city maps, I thought I’d update my travel maps for the series and start looking at completing the series. A map of the first part of The Eye of the World, showing the route from Emond’s Field to Caemlyn. Please click for a larger THE SIZE OF WESTEROS (REVISITED) This is a sequel to an article I originally posted four years ago when we looked at the size of Westeros. In that article I made arguments for the placement and location of Westeros on its planet and its extent in the hemisphere. Those arguments all still stand, but I thought it might be interesting A MAP OF GLEN COOK’S DREAD EMPIRE Here's something different, a map of a fantasy series I haven't actually read: The Dread Empire saga by Glen Cook. Cook is best known for his Black Company series and the more recent Instrumentalities of the Night sequence, but Dread Empire is his first work of epic fantasy. The Dread Empire series consists of eight novels and a shortstory collection.
A MAP OF HELLICONIA
One of the most celebrated feats in SF worldbuilding is Helliconia. The creation of Brian W. Aldiss, helped by numerous experts from Oxford University in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Helliconia is the star of the Helliconia Trilogy: Helliconia Spring (1982), Helliconia Summer (1983) and Helliconia Winter (1985). Astronomical Data Helliconia is located in the Freyr system. THE NEW & IMPROVED MALAZAN WORLD MAP The New & Improved Malazan World Map. One of the most constant projects I’ve been working on for the past decade is the refining and improvement of a world map for Steven Erikson and Ian Esslemont’s Malazan series of epic fantasy novels. This led to the Malazan Maps of the Fallen series I ran in early 2018. The new, improved Malazan world map. THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: SHARA Shara is the name given to the mysterious land beyond the Aiel Waste, far to the east of the Spine of the World and the Sea of Storms. Very little is known about it, thanks to a combination of geographical barriers and the people of that land's own concerns with privacy and security. History Very THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: KANDOR & ARAFEL Kandor and Arafel are the central Borderlands, located to the east of mighty Saldaea in the west and populous Shienar in the east. They are two of the lesser-known nations of the land, with relatively little interest or influence in southern nations, but are still important nations charged with the defence of the Blightborder. History NATIONS OF THE FORGOTTEN REALMS As part of my Forgotten Realms mapping project, I've created a map showing the disposition and borders of the surface kingdoms and nations of Faerûn circa the year 1371 Dalereckoning. Underdark and other subterranean kingdoms are not shown. Tuern: island kingdom in the Trackless Sea, culturally Northmen. Capital: Uttersea. Ruler: High King Threlked Ironfist.MALAZAN ATLAS
Our exploration of the geography of Steven Erikson and Ian Esslemont’s Malazan world continues. Lether is the second-largest of the world’s known continents. Relatively remote, it is located far across the enormous Domain Ocean to the east of Assail and to the west A NEW MAP OF WESTEROS A New Map of Westeros. As related previously, I’ve been planning to update my older Atlas of Ice and Fire maps focusing on Westeros and Essos, which are looking a bit low-res and long in the tooth ese days. To start with, I’ve been creating a new map of the entire known world. Although lots of work remains to be done on that, I have (more WERTHEAD | ATLAS OF ICE AND FIRE | PAGE 3 Jones explores the southern part of this map in The Book of Words (The Baker’s Boy, A Man Betrayed and Master and Fool, 1995-97), which sees the scheming wizard Baralis seeking to manipulate the mad Prince Kylock into conquering the Four Kingdoms, Halcus and the city-state of Bren.He is opposed by Jack, an apparently simple baker’s boy who is anything but; the Lady Melliandra, who seeks to THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: SHARA Shara is the name given to the mysterious land beyond the Aiel Waste, far to the east of the Spine of the World and the Sea of Storms. Very little is known about it, thanks to a combination of geographical barriers and the people of that land's own concerns with privacy and security. History Very THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: ALTARA Altara is one of the largest nations in the Westlands, extending from the River Manetherendrelle to the Sea of Storms and from the River Eldar to the Damona Mountains. Its capital is Ebou Dar, one of the great cities of the continent, and the kingdom sprawls over a vast amount of relatively densely-populated territory, containing A MAP OF JACK VANCE’S ELDER ISLES A Map of Jack Vance’s Elder Isles. In ancient days, ere they sank beneath the waves, the Elder Isles were the last remaining source of magic in the world and the home of the ancestors of Uther Pendragon, long before his son created the great kingdom of Camelot in the south-west of Britain. A map of the Elder Isles and surrounding lands. THE MAPS OF LOCKE LAMORA Since 2006 Scott Lynch’s excellent Gentleman Bastard series of novels has become one of the most popular epic fantasy series around.The Lies of Locke Lamora is one of the modern classics of fantasy fiction and Red Seas Under Red Skies and The Republic of Thieves are, if not quite as well-regarded, still fine slices of genre fiction. In September Lynch will release the fourth volume (of seven MAPPING THE ISLAND FROM LOST Airing for 121 episodes over six seasons, Lost started with Ocean Airways Flight 815 broke up in mid-air over a mysterious island in the South Pacific. The Island was revealed to have unusual properties and to be at the centre of a struggle for power between two men, Ben Linus and Charles Widmore. But beyond that was a much greater and more MAPPING THE JOURNEY OF DAENERYS TARGARYEN Mapping the Journey of Daenerys Targaryen. Of the main cast of characters in A Song of Ice and Fire, none has covered more ground than Daenerys Targaryen. In her opening chapter in the first novel in the series, A Game of Thrones, she is living in the manse of Magister Illyrio Mopatis just outside the Free City of Pentos. ATLAS OF ICE AND FIRE This map marks the start of a number of maps related to the BattleTech science fiction setting, from the miniatures game, novel line and video game of the same name and the MechWarrior series of video games. You can find out more about the setting here.. These series of maps depict known space as it stands in the year 3025, after the ThirdSuccession War.
A NEW WHEEL OF TIME WORLD MAP This map draws upon the canonical world map in The World of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time, but I have replaced the very rough details of the continents with the more detailed continental maps.For the most part they match exactly and consistently. Description of the World (note: this is a partial reprint of a previous article). The world a great sphere, some 24,900 miles in circumference. A REVISED MAP OF THE FIRST LAW Joe Abercrombie’s First Law world is divided into three continents and numerous large islands. The North is a land of frozen rivers, towering mountains and ferocious creatures called Shanka. The Northmen are hardy warriors, living in a land of war, raiding and a rough kind of honour. The western continent is land of prairies and plains THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: JOURNEY MAPS UPDATED The Wheel of Time Atlas: Journey Maps Updated. Having recently updated my Wheel of Time world, continent and city maps, I thought I’d update my travel maps for the series and start looking at completing the series. A map of the first part of The Eye of the World, showing the route from Emond’s Field to Caemlyn. Please click for a larger THE SIZE OF WESTEROS (REVISITED) This is a sequel to an article I originally posted four years ago when we looked at the size of Westeros. In that article I made arguments for the placement and location of Westeros on its planet and its extent in the hemisphere. Those arguments all still stand, but I thought it might be interesting A MAP OF GLEN COOK’S DREAD EMPIRE Here's something different, a map of a fantasy series I haven't actually read: The Dread Empire saga by Glen Cook. Cook is best known for his Black Company series and the more recent Instrumentalities of the Night sequence, but Dread Empire is his first work of epic fantasy. The Dread Empire series consists of eight novels and a shortstory collection.
A MAP OF HELLICONIA
One of the most celebrated feats in SF worldbuilding is Helliconia. The creation of Brian W. Aldiss, helped by numerous experts from Oxford University in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Helliconia is the star of the Helliconia Trilogy: Helliconia Spring (1982), Helliconia Summer (1983) and Helliconia Winter (1985). Astronomical Data Helliconia is located in the Freyr system. THE NEW & IMPROVED MALAZAN WORLD MAP The New & Improved Malazan World Map. One of the most constant projects I’ve been working on for the past decade is the refining and improvement of a world map for Steven Erikson and Ian Esslemont’s Malazan series of epic fantasy novels. This led to the Malazan Maps of the Fallen series I ran in early 2018. The new, improved Malazan world map. THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: SHARA Shara is the name given to the mysterious land beyond the Aiel Waste, far to the east of the Spine of the World and the Sea of Storms. Very little is known about it, thanks to a combination of geographical barriers and the people of that land's own concerns with privacy and security. History Very THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: KANDOR & ARAFEL Kandor and Arafel are the central Borderlands, located to the east of mighty Saldaea in the west and populous Shienar in the east. They are two of the lesser-known nations of the land, with relatively little interest or influence in southern nations, but are still important nations charged with the defence of the Blightborder. History ATLAS OF ICE AND FIRE This map marks the start of a number of maps related to the BattleTech science fiction setting, from the miniatures game, novel line and video game of the same name and the MechWarrior series of video games. You can find out more about the setting here.. These series of maps depict known space as it stands in the year 3025, after the ThirdSuccession War.
A NEW WHEEL OF TIME WORLD MAP This map draws upon the canonical world map in The World of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time, but I have replaced the very rough details of the continents with the more detailed continental maps.For the most part they match exactly and consistently. Description of the World (note: this is a partial reprint of a previous article). The world a great sphere, some 24,900 miles in circumference. A REVISED MAP OF THE FIRST LAW Joe Abercrombie’s First Law world is divided into three continents and numerous large islands. The North is a land of frozen rivers, towering mountains and ferocious creatures called Shanka. The Northmen are hardy warriors, living in a land of war, raiding and a rough kind of honour. The western continent is land of prairies and plains THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: JOURNEY MAPS UPDATED The Wheel of Time Atlas: Journey Maps Updated. Having recently updated my Wheel of Time world, continent and city maps, I thought I’d update my travel maps for the series and start looking at completing the series. A map of the first part of The Eye of the World, showing the route from Emond’s Field to Caemlyn. Please click for a larger THE SIZE OF WESTEROS (REVISITED) This is a sequel to an article I originally posted four years ago when we looked at the size of Westeros. In that article I made arguments for the placement and location of Westeros on its planet and its extent in the hemisphere. Those arguments all still stand, but I thought it might be interesting A MAP OF GLEN COOK’S DREAD EMPIRE Here's something different, a map of a fantasy series I haven't actually read: The Dread Empire saga by Glen Cook. Cook is best known for his Black Company series and the more recent Instrumentalities of the Night sequence, but Dread Empire is his first work of epic fantasy. The Dread Empire series consists of eight novels and a shortstory collection.
A MAP OF HELLICONIA
One of the most celebrated feats in SF worldbuilding is Helliconia. The creation of Brian W. Aldiss, helped by numerous experts from Oxford University in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Helliconia is the star of the Helliconia Trilogy: Helliconia Spring (1982), Helliconia Summer (1983) and Helliconia Winter (1985). Astronomical Data Helliconia is located in the Freyr system. THE NEW & IMPROVED MALAZAN WORLD MAP The New & Improved Malazan World Map. One of the most constant projects I’ve been working on for the past decade is the refining and improvement of a world map for Steven Erikson and Ian Esslemont’s Malazan series of epic fantasy novels. This led to the Malazan Maps of the Fallen series I ran in early 2018. The new, improved Malazan world map. THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: SHARA Shara is the name given to the mysterious land beyond the Aiel Waste, far to the east of the Spine of the World and the Sea of Storms. Very little is known about it, thanks to a combination of geographical barriers and the people of that land's own concerns with privacy and security. History Very THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: KANDOR & ARAFEL Kandor and Arafel are the central Borderlands, located to the east of mighty Saldaea in the west and populous Shienar in the east. They are two of the lesser-known nations of the land, with relatively little interest or influence in southern nations, but are still important nations charged with the defence of the Blightborder. History NATIONS OF THE FORGOTTEN REALMS As part of my Forgotten Realms mapping project, I've created a map showing the disposition and borders of the surface kingdoms and nations of Faerûn circa the year 1371 Dalereckoning. Underdark and other subterranean kingdoms are not shown. Tuern: island kingdom in the Trackless Sea, culturally Northmen. Capital: Uttersea. Ruler: High King Threlked Ironfist.MALAZAN ATLAS
Our exploration of the geography of Steven Erikson and Ian Esslemont’s Malazan world continues. Lether is the second-largest of the world’s known continents. Relatively remote, it is located far across the enormous Domain Ocean to the east of Assail and to the west A NEW MAP OF WESTEROS A New Map of Westeros. As related previously, I’ve been planning to update my older Atlas of Ice and Fire maps focusing on Westeros and Essos, which are looking a bit low-res and long in the tooth ese days. To start with, I’ve been creating a new map of the entire known world. Although lots of work remains to be done on that, I have (more WERTHEAD | ATLAS OF ICE AND FIRE | PAGE 3 Jones explores the southern part of this map in The Book of Words (The Baker’s Boy, A Man Betrayed and Master and Fool, 1995-97), which sees the scheming wizard Baralis seeking to manipulate the mad Prince Kylock into conquering the Four Kingdoms, Halcus and the city-state of Bren.He is opposed by Jack, an apparently simple baker’s boy who is anything but; the Lady Melliandra, who seeks to THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: SHARA Shara is the name given to the mysterious land beyond the Aiel Waste, far to the east of the Spine of the World and the Sea of Storms. Very little is known about it, thanks to a combination of geographical barriers and the people of that land's own concerns with privacy and security. History Very THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: ALTARA Altara is one of the largest nations in the Westlands, extending from the River Manetherendrelle to the Sea of Storms and from the River Eldar to the Damona Mountains. Its capital is Ebou Dar, one of the great cities of the continent, and the kingdom sprawls over a vast amount of relatively densely-populated territory, containing A MAP OF JACK VANCE’S ELDER ISLES A Map of Jack Vance’s Elder Isles. In ancient days, ere they sank beneath the waves, the Elder Isles were the last remaining source of magic in the world and the home of the ancestors of Uther Pendragon, long before his son created the great kingdom of Camelot in the south-west of Britain. A map of the Elder Isles and surrounding lands. THE MAPS OF LOCKE LAMORA Since 2006 Scott Lynch’s excellent Gentleman Bastard series of novels has become one of the most popular epic fantasy series around.The Lies of Locke Lamora is one of the modern classics of fantasy fiction and Red Seas Under Red Skies and The Republic of Thieves are, if not quite as well-regarded, still fine slices of genre fiction. In September Lynch will release the fourth volume (of seven MAPPING THE ISLAND FROM LOST Airing for 121 episodes over six seasons, Lost started with Ocean Airways Flight 815 broke up in mid-air over a mysterious island in the South Pacific. The Island was revealed to have unusual properties and to be at the centre of a struggle for power between two men, Ben Linus and Charles Widmore. But beyond that was a much greater and more MAPPING THE JOURNEY OF DAENERYS TARGARYEN Mapping the Journey of Daenerys Targaryen. Of the main cast of characters in A Song of Ice and Fire, none has covered more ground than Daenerys Targaryen. In her opening chapter in the first novel in the series, A Game of Thrones, she is living in the manse of Magister Illyrio Mopatis just outside the Free City of Pentos. ATLAS OF ICE AND FIRE This map marks the start of a number of maps related to the BattleTech science fiction setting, from the miniatures game, novel line and video game of the same name and the MechWarrior series of video games. You can find out more about the setting here.. These series of maps depict known space as it stands in the year 3025, after the ThirdSuccession War.
A NEW WHEEL OF TIME WORLD MAP This map draws upon the canonical world map in The World of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time, but I have replaced the very rough details of the continents with the more detailed continental maps.For the most part they match exactly and consistently. Description of the World (note: this is a partial reprint of a previous article). The world a great sphere, some 24,900 miles in circumference. A REVISED MAP OF THE FIRST LAW Joe Abercrombie’s First Law world is divided into three continents and numerous large islands. The North is a land of frozen rivers, towering mountains and ferocious creatures called Shanka. The Northmen are hardy warriors, living in a land of war, raiding and a rough kind of honour. The western continent is land of prairies and plains THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: JOURNEY MAPS UPDATED The Wheel of Time Atlas: Journey Maps Updated. Having recently updated my Wheel of Time world, continent and city maps, I thought I’d update my travel maps for the series and start looking at completing the series. A map of the first part of The Eye of the World, showing the route from Emond’s Field to Caemlyn. Please click for a larger THE SIZE OF WESTEROS (REVISITED) This is a sequel to an article I originally posted four years ago when we looked at the size of Westeros. In that article I made arguments for the placement and location of Westeros on its planet and its extent in the hemisphere. Those arguments all still stand, but I thought it might be interesting A MAP OF GLEN COOK’S DREAD EMPIRE Here's something different, a map of a fantasy series I haven't actually read: The Dread Empire saga by Glen Cook. Cook is best known for his Black Company series and the more recent Instrumentalities of the Night sequence, but Dread Empire is his first work of epic fantasy. The Dread Empire series consists of eight novels and a shortstory collection.
A MAP OF HELLICONIA
One of the most celebrated feats in SF worldbuilding is Helliconia. The creation of Brian W. Aldiss, helped by numerous experts from Oxford University in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Helliconia is the star of the Helliconia Trilogy: Helliconia Spring (1982), Helliconia Summer (1983) and Helliconia Winter (1985). Astronomical Data Helliconia is located in the Freyr system. THE NEW & IMPROVED MALAZAN WORLD MAP The New & Improved Malazan World Map. One of the most constant projects I’ve been working on for the past decade is the refining and improvement of a world map for Steven Erikson and Ian Esslemont’s Malazan series of epic fantasy novels. This led to the Malazan Maps of the Fallen series I ran in early 2018. The new, improved Malazan world map. THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: SHARA Shara is the name given to the mysterious land beyond the Aiel Waste, far to the east of the Spine of the World and the Sea of Storms. Very little is known about it, thanks to a combination of geographical barriers and the people of that land's own concerns with privacy and security. History Very THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: KANDOR & ARAFEL Kandor and Arafel are the central Borderlands, located to the east of mighty Saldaea in the west and populous Shienar in the east. They are two of the lesser-known nations of the land, with relatively little interest or influence in southern nations, but are still important nations charged with the defence of the Blightborder. History ATLAS OF ICE AND FIRE This map marks the start of a number of maps related to the BattleTech science fiction setting, from the miniatures game, novel line and video game of the same name and the MechWarrior series of video games. You can find out more about the setting here.. These series of maps depict known space as it stands in the year 3025, after the ThirdSuccession War.
A NEW WHEEL OF TIME WORLD MAP This map draws upon the canonical world map in The World of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time, but I have replaced the very rough details of the continents with the more detailed continental maps.For the most part they match exactly and consistently. Description of the World (note: this is a partial reprint of a previous article). The world a great sphere, some 24,900 miles in circumference. A REVISED MAP OF THE FIRST LAW Joe Abercrombie’s First Law world is divided into three continents and numerous large islands. The North is a land of frozen rivers, towering mountains and ferocious creatures called Shanka. The Northmen are hardy warriors, living in a land of war, raiding and a rough kind of honour. The western continent is land of prairies and plains THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: JOURNEY MAPS UPDATED The Wheel of Time Atlas: Journey Maps Updated. Having recently updated my Wheel of Time world, continent and city maps, I thought I’d update my travel maps for the series and start looking at completing the series. A map of the first part of The Eye of the World, showing the route from Emond’s Field to Caemlyn. Please click for a larger THE SIZE OF WESTEROS (REVISITED) This is a sequel to an article I originally posted four years ago when we looked at the size of Westeros. In that article I made arguments for the placement and location of Westeros on its planet and its extent in the hemisphere. Those arguments all still stand, but I thought it might be interesting A MAP OF GLEN COOK’S DREAD EMPIRE Here's something different, a map of a fantasy series I haven't actually read: The Dread Empire saga by Glen Cook. Cook is best known for his Black Company series and the more recent Instrumentalities of the Night sequence, but Dread Empire is his first work of epic fantasy. The Dread Empire series consists of eight novels and a shortstory collection.
A MAP OF HELLICONIA
One of the most celebrated feats in SF worldbuilding is Helliconia. The creation of Brian W. Aldiss, helped by numerous experts from Oxford University in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Helliconia is the star of the Helliconia Trilogy: Helliconia Spring (1982), Helliconia Summer (1983) and Helliconia Winter (1985). Astronomical Data Helliconia is located in the Freyr system. THE NEW & IMPROVED MALAZAN WORLD MAP The New & Improved Malazan World Map. One of the most constant projects I’ve been working on for the past decade is the refining and improvement of a world map for Steven Erikson and Ian Esslemont’s Malazan series of epic fantasy novels. This led to the Malazan Maps of the Fallen series I ran in early 2018. The new, improved Malazan world map. THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: SHARA Shara is the name given to the mysterious land beyond the Aiel Waste, far to the east of the Spine of the World and the Sea of Storms. Very little is known about it, thanks to a combination of geographical barriers and the people of that land's own concerns with privacy and security. History Very THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: KANDOR & ARAFEL Kandor and Arafel are the central Borderlands, located to the east of mighty Saldaea in the west and populous Shienar in the east. They are two of the lesser-known nations of the land, with relatively little interest or influence in southern nations, but are still important nations charged with the defence of the Blightborder. History NATIONS OF THE FORGOTTEN REALMS As part of my Forgotten Realms mapping project, I've created a map showing the disposition and borders of the surface kingdoms and nations of Faerûn circa the year 1371 Dalereckoning. Underdark and other subterranean kingdoms are not shown. Tuern: island kingdom in the Trackless Sea, culturally Northmen. Capital: Uttersea. Ruler: High King Threlked Ironfist.MALAZAN ATLAS
Our exploration of the geography of Steven Erikson and Ian Esslemont’s Malazan world continues. Lether is the second-largest of the world’s known continents. Relatively remote, it is located far across the enormous Domain Ocean to the east of Assail and to the west A NEW MAP OF WESTEROS A New Map of Westeros. As related previously, I’ve been planning to update my older Atlas of Ice and Fire maps focusing on Westeros and Essos, which are looking a bit low-res and long in the tooth ese days. To start with, I’ve been creating a new map of the entire known world. Although lots of work remains to be done on that, I have (more WERTHEAD | ATLAS OF ICE AND FIRE | PAGE 3 Jones explores the southern part of this map in The Book of Words (The Baker’s Boy, A Man Betrayed and Master and Fool, 1995-97), which sees the scheming wizard Baralis seeking to manipulate the mad Prince Kylock into conquering the Four Kingdoms, Halcus and the city-state of Bren.He is opposed by Jack, an apparently simple baker’s boy who is anything but; the Lady Melliandra, who seeks to THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: SHARA Shara is the name given to the mysterious land beyond the Aiel Waste, far to the east of the Spine of the World and the Sea of Storms. Very little is known about it, thanks to a combination of geographical barriers and the people of that land's own concerns with privacy and security. History Very THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: ALTARA Altara is one of the largest nations in the Westlands, extending from the River Manetherendrelle to the Sea of Storms and from the River Eldar to the Damona Mountains. Its capital is Ebou Dar, one of the great cities of the continent, and the kingdom sprawls over a vast amount of relatively densely-populated territory, containing A MAP OF JACK VANCE’S ELDER ISLES A Map of Jack Vance’s Elder Isles. In ancient days, ere they sank beneath the waves, the Elder Isles were the last remaining source of magic in the world and the home of the ancestors of Uther Pendragon, long before his son created the great kingdom of Camelot in the south-west of Britain. A map of the Elder Isles and surrounding lands. THE MAPS OF LOCKE LAMORA Since 2006 Scott Lynch’s excellent Gentleman Bastard series of novels has become one of the most popular epic fantasy series around.The Lies of Locke Lamora is one of the modern classics of fantasy fiction and Red Seas Under Red Skies and The Republic of Thieves are, if not quite as well-regarded, still fine slices of genre fiction. In September Lynch will release the fourth volume (of seven MAPPING THE ISLAND FROM LOST Airing for 121 episodes over six seasons, Lost started with Ocean Airways Flight 815 broke up in mid-air over a mysterious island in the South Pacific. The Island was revealed to have unusual properties and to be at the centre of a struggle for power between two men, Ben Linus and Charles Widmore. But beyond that was a much greater and more MAPPING THE JOURNEY OF DAENERYS TARGARYEN Mapping the Journey of Daenerys Targaryen. Of the main cast of characters in A Song of Ice and Fire, none has covered more ground than Daenerys Targaryen. In her opening chapter in the first novel in the series, A Game of Thrones, she is living in the manse of Magister Illyrio Mopatis just outside the Free City of Pentos.* About
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Last time in our cartographic exploration of DRAGONLANCE, I published a map of the whole world of Krynn. This time around our focus is on the continent of Ansalon, the principle location for the events in the DRAGONLANCE novels and tabletop gamingmaterials.
A map of Ansalon. Please click for a (much, much) larger version. Ansalon is a small continent located in Krynn’s southern hemisphere. It was once a much larger continent, but approximately 351 years before the events of the first DRAGONLANCE novel, _Dragons of Autumn Twilight_, the gods became incensed by the arrogance of the Kingpriest of Istar and dropped a flaming mountain onto eastern Ansalon, the very heart of the Empire. The resulting explosion tore Ansalon apart, created new seas and causing untold destruction. This event, the Cataclysm, wiped out much of the population and destroyed Istar and weakened its great western rivals, Ergoth and Solamnia. In the wake of the Cataclysm, the gods turned their back on Krynn and would no longer heed the prayers of their faithful. Unbeknown to the other gods, these events had been engineered by Takhisis, the five-headed dragon goddess, to permit her return to Krynn, which she wished to rule over alone. Over the next three and a half centuries, she carefully built up a power base of worshippers and minions in Ansalon, headed by dozens of chromatic dragons. They in turn seized the central, mountainous Khalkist region and used this as a fortress to recruit armies and strike at surrounding lands. By the autumn of 351 AC the dragonarmies had overrun much of central and eastern Ansalon, and neutralised much of the west through pacts and treaties. In THE DRAGONLANCE CHRONICLES (both the adventures and novels), a band of heroes from the town of Solace in Abanasinia are drawn into the conflict and eventually rally the free nations to make a stand against the invaders and prevent Takhisis’ return to Krynn. During the conflict, the other gods also resume their contact with Krynn and the good-aligned metallic dragons join forces with the free kingdoms. The heroes also recover the “dragonlances,” powerful weapons which neutralised the advantage of the chromatic dragons inbattle.
Subsequent DRAGONLANCE novels have explored the history of the world backwards in time for thousands of years and forward for over a hundred, through the Second Cataclysm and the War of Souls.MAPPING ANSALON
Ansalon is one of the most heavily-mapped lands in all of fantasy. Maps of the continent accompanied both the DRAGONLANCE adventure modules for the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS game system and the DRAGONLANCE CHRONICLES novel series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, which both began in 1984. Two hundred novels and many dozens of gaming materials followed until the last new DRAGONLANCE material was published in 2010, mapping the continent in whole or in part. This map drew on several resources: Karen Wynn Fonstad’s _Atlas of the Dragonlance World_ (1987), the _Tales of the Lance_ boxed set (1992) and _Tasslehoff’s Map Pouch: The War of the Lance_ (2006). Fonstad’s map was the earliest attempt to seriously tackle the geography of Ansalon, that is, make it work as a realistic landscape in its own right (Fonstad had done the same previously for Middle-earth, Pern and Donaldson’s The Land, and would go on to do the same for FORGOTTEN REALMS). However, as a relatively early publication it is missing many locations added by later writers. _Tales of the Lance_ has one of the most gloriously huge and detailed fantasy maps ever seen, to the point where it seems the artist ran out of time. The map is clearly unfinished, with unnamed locations all over the place. However, some feel this adds to the mystique of themap.
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_Tasslehoff’s Map Pouch _was a series of maps released by Sovereign Press (Margaret Weis’s company) when they acquired the licence to published third-party DRAGONLANCE material for the 3rd edition of DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS, between 2003 and 2010. The map series featured maps of Ansalon during all three of its main eras of interest: the Age of Might before the Cataclysm; the Age of Mortals after the Second Cataclysm; and the Age of Despair, also the time of the War of the Lance and the most iconic period of DRAGONLANCE history. The _War of the Lance_ map takes the 1992 map and finishes it off, which is great, but the art style is, to be honest, something of an acquired taste. The coastlines are also a great deal less detailed than the _Tales of the Lance_ and _Atlas_ versions. To create this map I drew on all three sources and on the DragonlanceLexicon
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STELLAR CARTOGRAPHY: BAJOR 03 _Saturday_ Aug 2019Posted by werthead
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Bajor is one of the key focal points for the TV series STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. Although STAR TREK had visited many planets over the course of its lengthy history, it had never had a series before which was so focused on just one planet. But for seven seasons and 176 episodes, Bajor was at the heart of the DS9 series. A map of Bajor. Please click for a larger version. In the summer of 1991, NEXT GENERATION showrunners Rick Berman and Michael Piller met with incoming Paramount head of television Brandon Tartikoff, who directed them to create a spin-off show from THE NEXT GENERATION. If the two previous STAR TREK series had been, in Gene Roddenberry’s words, “_Wagon Train_ to the stars,” a show about visiting new places each week, Tartikoff suggested the new show should be, “_The Rifleman_ in space,” where the characters would stay still and have to make their community work. Berman and Piller came back with the idea of setting the show on a starbase on the surface of a planet that had recently been occupied by the Cardassians, an alien race introduced in Season 4 of THE NEXT GENERATION (in the episode _The Wounded_) that had proven popular. The show would feature Starfleet personnel helping the planet rebuild. This would allow a different kind of STAR TREK show, particularly as it would pit Starfleet personnel against the aliens on the planet who would be suspicious of the new arrivals, wondering if they had exchanged one occupier for another. This would allow dramatic conflict between Starfleet and the aliens, which would overcome a perceived weakness of THE NEXT GENERATION where Roddenberry had barred conflict between Starfleet characters. The idea was well-received and groundwork for the new show was laid almost immediately in the third episode of THE NEXT GENERATION‘s fifth season, _Ensign Ro_, which confirmed that the planet would be Bajor, home to a formerly peaceful, spiritual race of humanoids who had been driven into a terrorist campaign to force the Cardassians off their world. Development continued, although a significant hurdle was thrown up when it was revealed it would be far too expensive to have the show set on the planet’s surface, with location filming presumably in every episode. This was solved when it was decided to move the action to an abandoned Cardassian space station orbiting Bajor, and then to focus on a newly-discovered stable wormhole linking the Bajoran system to the distant Gamma Quadrant of the galaxy. The map of Bajor projected onto a globe. Please click on the map to visit the full globe.Report this ad
DEEP SPACE NINE launched in January 1993 to high ratings and a degree of critical acclaim, although the true plaudits had to wait until later in the first season with episodes like _Duet_ and _In the Hands of the Prophets_. As the series continued, its critical cachet grew. When NEXT GENERATION alum Ira Steven Behr joined as showrunner and executive producer in Season 3, along with acclaimed NEXT GENERATION TV and film writer Ronald D. Moore, they began redeveloping the show as a serialised drama, with an ongoing story arc focusing on the growing conflict between the United Federation of Planets and the alien alliance known as the Dominion, with Bajor caught in the middle. The show’s final two seasons were focused on the outbreak of all-out war between the Dominion, now allied to the Cardassians, and the Federation, now allied to the Klingons and Romulans. The show’s final episode aired in June 1999. DEEP SPACE NINE‘s critical cachet has only grown in the twenty years since it went off-air, with it regularly being called the best of all seven STAR TREK series to date, for its serialised storyline, its dramatic conflicts and its constant challenging of STAR TREK‘s themes and morals without completely destroying them. The original map of Bajor, created by Robert Hewitt Wolfe on his office whiteboard and developed during the lifetime of DEEP SPACE NINE, from 1993 to 1999.MAPMAKING
The decision to draw a map of Bajor was made by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, a writer and producer on DEEP SPACE NINE. He had a dry/erase whiteboard in his office on the Paramount lot which he was going to use to break stories, but given his office was too small to hold more than a couple of people, he realised this wasn’t going to happen and story breaks were moved to a larger room. After staring at the empty board for several months, he realised that it would be interesting to use it to create a map of Bajor since, unlike other TREK shows, they were going to be spending a lot of time on this one planet. Wolfe started developing the map during Season 1 of DEEP SPACE NINE and periodically updated it with every Bajoran location mentioned in the show up to his departure at the end of Season 5. Writer Bradley Thompson then took over the map and developed it up until the show ended. The map was publicly first aired in Terry Erdmann and Paula Block’s _Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion_ (2000), the greatest STAR TREK non-fiction book ever written. Bajor is, very remarkably, the _only_ STAR TREK planet for which a full, canonical map from the original writers and creators of the showexists.
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DRAGONLANCE: A MAP OF KRYNN 31 _Wednesday_ Jul 2019Posted by werthead
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Krynn is the world on which the events of the DRAGONLANCE SAGA take place. A DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS campaign setting, Krynn was created by TSR, Inc. in 1984 to serve as the backdrop for an epic saga of heroes, villains, dragons and mighty battles: the War of the Lance. Chronicled in both a bestselling novels trilogy (THE DRAGONLANCE CHRONICLES by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman) and a hugely popular D&D adventure module series, the saga served as a major entry point for many readers to both the world of D&D and to fantasy literature itself. With almost 30 million copies sold, Weis and Hickman’s DRAGONLANCE material is among the biggest-selling fantasy series of all time. A map of Krynn. Please click for a larger version DRAGONLANCE became a mainstay of D&D, with the setting revisited multiple times. After the release of D&D 3rd Edition in 2000, Margaret Weis’s own company, Sovereign Press, was licensed by Wizards of the Coast to produce more DRAGONLANCE material. This licence was terminated in 2008, the last year in which new DRAGONLANCE RPG material was published. There have also been exactly 200 novels and short story anthologies published set in the DRAGONLANCE world, with the last of these being released in 2010. Despite rumours, there are no signs of the campaign setting being revived for novels or RPG material in the near future, which is ashame.
The principle setting for most DRAGONLANCE material is the small continent of Ansalon, located deep in Krynn’s southern hemisphere and attached to the southern polar icecap by the Icewall glacier. Many years later the continent of Taladas, located north-west of Ansalon, was added to the setting. In the 2000s, following the suspension of official support for the setting by rights-holders Wizards of the Coast, the active fan community at Dragonlance Nexus (original site, current )
created the much-discussed but never seen continent of Adlatum, located east of Taladas and north-west of Ansalon. Krynn is a small planet, merely 7,200 miles in circumference or slightly larger than our Moon (at 6,783 miles). That would make Krynn somewhat more than one-quarter but somewhat less than one-third the size of Earth. The size of Krynn is drawn from the size of Ansalon, which has been pinned down in the novels and in particular Karen Wynn Fonstad’s excellence and authoritative _The Atlas of the __Dragonlance World_ (1987). The world map is based on the work of Justin Parkoff and the team at Dragonlance Nexus, who revised the size of Krynn so it has enough space to fit the other continents and also allow Ansalon to sprawl from the southern icecap into the tropics, despite the continent’ssmall size.
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One of the most acclaimed fantasy series of all time is Tad Williams’ epic trilogy, MEMORY, SORROW AND THORN. Published in three volumes between 1988 and 1993 (although the third book by itself is so huge it is usually published in two volumes), the trilogy wasarguably
the first post-Tolkien fantasy which attempted to match or even exceed Tolkien in sheer grandeur, scope and scale. A map of the lands of Osten Ard. Please click for a larger version. Enormously popular – with sales of well over 30 million and growing, Williams is one of the genre’s biggest-selling authors – the series has been cited as a key influence on George R.R. Martin, Patrick Rothfuss and Brandon Sanderson, among others. Recently, Williams returned to the world of Osten Ard for the first time to publish a sequel trilogy, THE LAST KING OF OSTEN ARD (the second volume of which came out this year) and several related books. Maps for the original trilogy were created by Williams himself, showing the lands of Osten Ard in some detail. For the LAST KING trilogy, maps were prepared by Isaac Stewart. To prepare this map, I carefully consulted all six available Osten Ard novels and combined all of the locations on all of the local, regional maps onto the overall map of the continent. MEMORY, SORROW AND THORN * _The Dragonbone Chair_ (1988) * _Stone of Farewell _(1990) * _To Green Angel Tower _(1993) THE LAST KING OF OSTEN ARD * _The Witchwood Crown_ (2017) * _Empire of Grass_ (2019) * _The Navigator’s Children_ (2021, est.)RELATED WORKS
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One of the more interesting recent, long, completed epic fantasy series SHADOWS OF THE APT, by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Published in ten volumes between 2008 and 2014, the series is set in a world where different types of human have been affected by an ancient magical merging with strains of insect, resulting in the methodical, industrial beetle-kinden and the aggressive, expansionist wasp-kinden,among many others.
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The series features an unusually high level of technology for an epic fantasy, incorporating steampunk elements and the development of mechanical aircraft. This results in a series of conflicts which are wide-ranging and fast-moving, with hundreds of miles covered by military vehicles in rapid advances. Over the course of the series, the conflict which begins with the Wasp Empire invading the loose alliance of Lowlands city-states widens to span an entire continent and numerous other factions. Maps for the books were created by Hamesh Alles, and later assembled by series superfan Roderick Easton into one combined map , which provided the basis forthis map.
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THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: THE FREE YEARS 11 _Thursday_ Jul 2019Posted by werthead
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In the aftermath of the Trolloc Wars numerous new kingdoms arose to replace those that had fallen before. These countries were smaller than the Ten Nations which had fallen before them, but cumulatively were almost as populous, once the depredations of the Trolloc Wars had been recovered from. To celebrate the freedom from the Trolloc threat, Tiam of Gazar created a new calendar, celebrating the years as Free Years. A map of the Westlands during the Free Years era. Please click for alarger version.
Twenty-nine new kingdoms arose after the wars. Unlike the relatively straightforward expansion of the Ten Nations, these new kingdoms arose out of border skirmishes and conflicts. Some large nations formed only to shatter apart into three or four lesser ones. But by FY 100 the twenty-nine nations had formed and remained relatively stable. In the north BASHARANDE, ELSALAM and RHAMDASHAR bordered the Great Blight. During the Trolloc Wars the sickness and corruption of the Blight had extended southwards into and through the Mountains of Dhoom. A small strip of similarly corrupted land now ran along the southern feet of the mountains. This small area was simply called the Blight, and watchtowers were erected to watch over it for signs ofShadowspawn.
Along the west coast lay the nations of ABAYAN, DARMOVAN, ELAN DAPOR and BALASUN, whilst bordering the south coast were KHARENDOR, SHIOTA, FERGANSEA and MOREINA. In the east, along the Spine of the World, were HAMAREA, TOVA, KHODOMAR and TALMOUR. Along the Mountains of Mist lay the nations of INDRAHAR, OMAN DASHAR, FARASHELLE and DHOWLAN. Many more nations lay in the interior. Of these the most important and powerful were ALDESHAR, north of Shiota and east of Farashelle and Dhowlan, and CAEMBARIN, to the east of Aldeshar. ILEANDE lay in Kinslayer’s Dagger and the lands immediately north and south, squeezed between Hamarea, Rhamdashar, Tova and the territory held by Tar Valon. SHANDALLE lay south of Tar Valon, bordered by Tova in the east and Caembarin in the west. ESANDARA lay north of Fergansea, south of Shandalle, east of Shiota and west of Khodomar and Talmour. NEREVAN lay south of Caembarin, north of Shiota, east of Aldeshar and west of Esandara. DAL CALAIN lay north of Aldeshar and west of Caembarin. MASENASHAR lay north of Dal Calain and east of Oman Dashar. OBURUN lay south of Basharande, west of Elsalam, north of Masenashar and east of Indrahar. Finally, ROEMALLE lay west of Tar Valon, south of Elsalam, north of Caembarin and Dal Calain and east of Oburun and Masenashar. Unlike the Ten Nations, these countries did little to distinguish themselves from one another and some of them are only known as names on maps and as minor references in ancient history books. We know that Darmovan was a powerful sea-faring nation, had almost open borders for trade and had a remarkably tolerant nobility. Shiota was a mighty military kingdom. Tova, interestingly, seems to have experimented with using a council, the Conclave, to rule the whole country rather than a king. Shandalle was a small nation with an enviable position, squeezed as it was between the profitable trade routes of the River Erinin and the River Alguenya, yet its skilled army held invaders at bay. Rhamdashar, and to a lesser extent Elsalam and Basharande, were obsessed with defending the nations from the Blight and had little interest in the affairs of the other countries (despite their watchfulness, the term “Borderlands” we currently use for the nations along the Blight did not come into use until the time of Artur Hawkwing). Aldeshar was a proud and just kingdom. Of all the nations Aldeshar appears to have been the one most closely allied with the AesSedai.
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The first major threat to arise in this era was that of yet another false Dragon, this time a man called Davian. He was captured in battle in FY 351 and taken to Tar Valon for gentling. This reinforced the prestige of the Aes Sedai. One thing that had been transferred intact from before the Trolloc Wars was a deep and profound respect for the Aes Sedai from the various nations. As in the years prior to the wars, some rulers were Aes Sedai, though this was less common than before. Interestingly, the strict discipline and hierarchy of the Aes Sedai was demonstrated fully in FY 450 when Princess Sulmara of Masenashar, not long raised to Aes Sedai, left the Tower without permission. She refused to let other Aes Sedai give her counsel and even, most shockingly, refused a direct summons from the Amyrlin Seat herself! The Aes Sedai declared her a renegade and less than a week after her coronation seized her by force and returned her to Tar Valon, where she spent the rest of her life mucking out the White Tower’s stables. This example of the Tower’s immense power made sure that the remaining nations continued to treat the Aes Sedai well. However, the Aes Sedai numbers were also starting a slow decline. Despite there being far more border wars and clashes than in the time of the Ten Nations, the Free Years were also relatively chaos-free. Trade which enriched all was the main concern of this time and continent-wide wars were avoided for a while. But then, early in the 10th Century of the Free Years, something unusual happened. For the first time since the War of the Shadow, if not before, a _ta’veren_ was born who would change the entire history of the world on its head. A map showing territory changes during the War of the Second Dragon (FY 939-943), between the false Dragon Guaire Amalasan and various coalitions of opposing nations. He was defeated by Artur Hawkwing, King of Shandalle, at the Battle of Jolvaine Pass and then again at the Battle of Tar Valon. Please click for a larger version. THE WAR OF THE SECOND DRAGON & THE RISE OF ARTUR HAWKWING In FY 912 Prince Artur Paendrag Tanreall was born. His parents were Myrdin Paendrag Maregore and Mailinde Paendrag Lyndhal, the King and Queen of the small Kingdom of Shandalle. Shandalle lay between the River Erinin and the River Alguenya, two great trade routes in the east of the subcontinent, and as such was a wealthy land, living off taxes imposed on trade along the rivers. The histories are unclear and contradictory, but some believe that its capital city was Jennshain, originally the second city of Almoren before it was mostly razed inthe Trolloc Wars.
Shandalle was surrounded by larger, more powerful nations. In particular Tova to the east desired a port on the River Erinin. Tova attempted to gain this portage by diplomacy and, when that failed, war. Shandalle resisted the invasion and threw back the Tovan forces across the border. Shandalle’s army was small, but trained to a very high and professional standard. By the age of sixteen Artur was already an accomplished swordsman and by twenty was a skilled leader of troops, impressing his father immensely. Two years after Artur’s birth, Guaire Amalasan was born in Darmovan. He was the son of a noble family which claimed to trace its ancestry back to the rulers of Safer before the Trolloc Wars, but the family was now almost destitute, living only off its good name and the generosity of the other noble families. Guaire was a highly intelligent young man, with an immensely charismatic presence and keen mind. He was a canny student of human nature and once said that he could foresee how the masses would respond to any piece of news. As he grew older, he became more contemptuous of his supposed peers, the sons of other, richer noble families who were only interested in gambling and women. Guaire genuinely believed that he could rule his country a lot better than the King. With a keen grasp of politics and tactics, he would probably have succeeded in his goal anyway, apart from something that would ensure his success would be even greater: as he discovered at the age of twenty-three, he could channel the OnePower.
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The same year, in FY 937, the Black Fever suddenly erupted across the Westlands. Apparently, it began in Shara and was spread to our land by merchants. Certainly, the way it spread from east to west supports this supposition. It struck Shandalle early on, claiming the lives of both King Myrdin and Queen Mailinde. At the age of twenty-five Artur Paendrag Tanreall suddenly found himself King of Shandalle. The Fever reached Darmovan two years later, in the early months of FY 939. Guaire Amalasan used his knowledge of human nature to win over the common people, using what little money he had to set up basic medical facilities and soup kitchens to feed the poor and the infected. He borrowed money from friends to continue his good works, and soon he was the talk of his home city. Then, in a startling move, he Healed someone close to death from the Black Fever. Those who witnessed the incident were awe-struck and declared him to be theDragon Reborn.
Within six months Darmovan was his. The nation fell not by military might, though many soldiers flocked to his banner, but by political wrangling. Very few died as the power was transferred to his grasp. The only slightly sinister event in this time was the inexplicable disappearance of the King’s Aes Sedai advisor. With the country in his hands, Amalasan decided to spread his justice to other lands and bring all of the Westlands into the Light (under his leadership, of course). The small nation of Elan Dapor to the south was in all accounts in chaos due to the Fever. Amalasan led his troops in to restore order and peace. The capital city, Tanchico, apparently fell without a single death. At the start of FY 940 the Aes Sedai denounced Guaire Amalasan as a false Dragon and demanded that the nations unite to bring him to heel, as they had done against Raolin Darksbane, Yurian Stonebow and Davian. But most nations were still suffering from the Black Fever epidemic, with as much as a fifth of the entire population of the subcontinent either dead or seriously ill. In cramped conditions, say in barracks, the Fever spread fastest and most virulently, so most countries’ armed forces were particularly badly hit. When Amalasan rolled across the border into Balasun, he met some resistance but overcame it easily to conquer the entire kingdom. Kharendor and Dhowlan fell almost as easily. But when he reached Shiota he found himself facing a better prepared enemy. Shiota was one of the most powerful nations of this era. In addition, the capital city of Ebou Dar was home to the Kin, the most skilled group of healers outside of Tar Valon. Its army, which was primarily located in barracks and fortresses around the capital, had lost very few to the Fever, which by now had burned itself out in Shiota. The rulers of Shiota were canny and well-organised, and the war against Amalasan lasted months. During this bitter war the Black Fever finally died out in the rest of the continent and fresh levies were raised and trained. Aes Sedai arrived in eastern Shiota, bolstered by troops from Nerevan, Esandara and Fergansea. The largest and most powerful nations in the land – Basharande, Elsalam, Rhamdashar, Hamarea, Caembarin and Aldeshar – united their armies in Aldeshar and headed south to confront Amalasan. Yet, despite all of this, Amalasan won the day. Shiota’s armies were shattered and Ebou Dar fell into his hands. The rest of the nation fell just as quickly. Six Aes Sedai tried to subdue Amalasan, but he killed one and stilled two more. Then he took his enlarged force north and defeated the allied forces brought against him. Within weeks he had crossed the border into Nerevan and within a few months more had seized that nation and Esandara. It was at this point – mid to late FY 941 – that Artur Paendrag Tanreall began to note Amalasan’s progress and realised that Shandalle itself could be threatened within a year. He arranged a temporary alliance with Shandalle’s old adversary, Tova, and along with troops from Ileande, Khodomar and Talmour, formed an expeditionary force. This force met Amalasan in Esandara, before he could invade Fergansea. For well over a year Amalasan was kept on his toes, with the expeditionary force from the eastern nations almost dancing rings around his troops. The other generals gladly surrendered command to Artur Paendrag Tanreall, who by now had gained the nickname “Hawkwing” for the sheer speed with which he could move his troops. But eventually they became tired and had to retreat for reinforcements and resupply. Amalasan, free to move at last, took both Fergansea and most of Moreina in short order. This was the situation as FY 943 dawned. Moreina was in a state of chaos. Amalasan had taken all of the country bar the capital, Tear. Tear took months to fall and, when it did, the nobles and the army retreated into the Stone of Tear. Curiously, it seems that as many as thirty Aes Sedai were also in the Stone, making it impossible for Amalasan capture. Amalasan became bitterly frustrated, because his claim to be the Dragon Reborn hinged on him taking the Stone and claiming _Callandor_, thus fulfilling the Prophecies. Meanwhile, though the Stone had not yet fallen, most thought it a matter of time and rebellions had begun in Masenashar, Dal Calain and even parts of Aldeshar as people swore loyalty to “the Second Dragon”. Amalasan realised that if he kept the pressure up, the rest of the subcontinent could fall to him with only a few more nations taken. He led his army north into Talmour, leaving a force to continue besieging the Stone. Hawkwing, meanwhile, had mustered a new army. Before he left Shandalle, a complement of Aes Sedai arrived from Tar Valon. Hawkwing marched south from Shandalle, through Tova, towards Amalasan’s lineof advance.
Amalasan continued his invasion of Talmour but, one night, his army suddenly vanished. The Talmouran government were mystified, though relieved. What had happened was that, in the dead of night, Amalasan’s forces crossed the Erinin into Esandara. Linking up with reinforcements, Amalasan marched north, crossed the Erinin again, and attacked Khodomar. Also, without completing the conquest of that land, Amalasan then marched north on the border with Tova. Amalasan apparently believed that if Tova fell, Khodomar and Talmour, suddenly outflanked, would surrender without any more need for fighting, and hewas probably right.
Along the border between Tova and Khodomar, and the current southern border of Cairhien as well, stretches a line of peaks known as the Maraside Mountains, a spur of the Spine of the World. The only major pass through this range is the Jolvaine, the southern end of which was located close to the town of Endersole (believed destroyed in the later War of the Hundred Years). Artur Hawkwing’s army crossed the mountains by this pass, emerging no more than twenty miles due north of Guaire Amalasan’s advancing forces. Hawkwing’s scouts and skirmishers quickly came into contact with Amalasan’s, and both found themselves readying for battle much sooner than either hadanticipated.
Hawkwing’s forces were numbered at 23,000 infantry and 12,000 cavalry, with several Aes Sedai in support (some reports suggest as many as twenty). Amalasan possessed 41,000 foot and 26,000 horse, and of course himself, the most powerful male channeller of the One Power the Aes Sedai had faced in centuries, if not ever. The countryside they fought in was forested and hilly, with steep rises and unexpected river-valleys. Cavalry found it very difficult to fight effectively and it seems that both sides unseated most of their riders, using themas footmen instead.
Battle was met and proceeded pretty much as you might expect. Outnumbered two-to-one, with his back to mountains, Hawkwing found himself swiftly outflanked. He redeployed his troops to great effect and by nightfall his army was still intact, though badly blooded. Basic military doctrine would have told Hawkwing to retreat to the pass and initially it looked like he did this. Amalasan’s scouts reported Hawkwing’s retreat and Amalasan was satisfied. He was reluctant to pursue, however, because Hawkwing now had the higher ground and even outnumbered he had still inflicted great losses on Amalasan’s force. Amalasan’s instinct was to wait for reinforcements from Esandara, or until Hawkwing had cleared the pass, so he did not pursue. Also, he wished to rest his troops after thebattle.
But Hawkwing did not retreat through the pass. He fell back just far enough to make Amalasan _think_ he was on the run, but then halted. Daringly, stupidly as some of his junior officers muttered, he divided his already decimated force in _four_, sending two mixed forces of infantry and cavalry to the east and west and the bulk of his cavalry in a huge loop all the way round to the rear of Amalasan’s force, a night-time ride of fifty miles. Morning came, but even before Amalasan could strike camp Hawkwing struck, his army assaulting Amalasan’s force from all sides. Panic gripped Amalasan’s army and it nearly broke, but he held it together. He even managed to regain some semblance of order and may, eventually, have turned the battle round. But Hawkwing gave him no time. Whilst the flanks and rear reeled from the attack, Hawkwing dove for the centre. He cut his way through the thinly-stretched front lines and surrounded Amalasan with his troops and also with his Aes Sedai. They shielded Amalasan from the Power and imprisoned him. Then, his prize taken, Hawkwing retreated from the battlefield. Deprived of their leader, Amalasan’s force broke and scattered. Hawkwing regrouped at the mouth of the Jolvaine Pass and then headed north as fast as possible across Tova. Amalasan’s officers managed to partially regroup and word was sent to Amalasan’s two senior commanders. Elinde Motheneos, a famed siege commander, was campaigning against rebels across the river in Esandara and immediately rendezvoused with the remnants of Amalasan’s force, bolstering them with around 60,000 of her own troops. She regrouped Amalasan’s forces and began a desperate pursuit of Hawkwing’s troops. Sawyn Maculhene, a skilled cavalry leader, was just a day behind her, leading 50,000 troops from Khodomar. Hawkwing’s smaller force was considerably more mobile, however, and rapidly crossed Tova, where some reports suggest he gained fresh troops. He came to Tar Valon a mere twenty-five days after taking Amalasan, a journey most would be hard pressed to make in thirty-five. At this time the Amyrlin Seat was Bonwhin Meraighdin, raised from the Red Ajah and possessing a hatred of men far exceeding that of even a normal Red. Tower law held that an army could only enter Tar Valon’s territory only at the direct invitation of the White Tower. Whether or not the Aes Sedai who accompanied Hawkwing and held Amalasan prisoner had actually made that invitation is unclear, though Hawkwing later insisted they had. Interestingly, after being given a heroes’ welcome, those Aes Sedai sisters suddenly vanished from public office and found themselves working on a penance farm twenty miles outside the city for a period of several years. Whatever the truth of the matter, Bonwhin gave Hawkwing just five days to rest his army beforeleaving.
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Hawkwing’s army, around 40,000 strong at this point (presumably reinforced from Tova and Shandalle to more than make up for his losses at the Battle of the Jolvaine Pass), camped not far from the banks of the Osendrelle Erinin (the northern arm of the river as it curves around the island of Tar Valon), certainly within sight of the Shining Walls. Hawkwing could have left immediately, but it seems he was determined to see Amalasan neutralised once and for all. Whilst Hawkwing was not invited to the ceremony, Amalasan was tried, found guilty, and gentled, cut off from the One Power forever. He was to spend the rest of his life (only a few years before he committed suicide) in the custody of the Aes Sedai. On the same day Amalasan was gentled, the army led by Maculhene and Motheneos launched its attack. Over 130,000 troops strong and attacking by night, with almost no warning, this force shattered all three of the gates on the Alindrelle Erinin (the southern arm) side of the city, invading the city itself. The Aes Sedai held them at bay for a time, along with the Tower Guard, but Amalasan’s army massively outnumbered the defenders. Hawkwing observed the assault and led his troops into Tar Valon, engaging in bloody hand-to-hand street-fighting not seen since the fourth attack on Tar Valon during the Trolloc Wars. Amalasan’s would-be rescuers reached the White Tower itself before being turned back. They found that, once again, Hawkwing had divided his troops, sending a large number across the Erinin south of the city to burn the supply lines and siege engines and cut off the retreat. Maculhene died in combat and Motheneos surrendered to Hawkwing (this in particular enraged Bonwhin; the surrender of someone who had dared strike at Tar Valon should have been given to her as the Amyrlin Seat). She was tried and executed some days later. The bulk of Amalasan’s relief army was allowed to slip away unmolested. No thanks or sign of appreciation was given to Hawkwing. He was simply told to leave. This he did, angered by the lack of recognition but not totally surprised. He returned to Shandalle to rule in peace, but the thought of the chaos now spreading in the leaderless west and the south did trouble him. With Amalasan gone, his surviving generals attempted to wrest control of the nations they had taken, whilst loyalists of the former rulers attempted to return control to the rightful leaders. Within weeks of Amalasan’s death, Darmovan, Elan Dapor, Balasun, Kharendor, Shiota, Dhowlan, Nerevan, Esandara and Fergansea were in states of civil war. Moreina, Talmour and Khodomar, which had not completely fallen, managed to return to their former states of order. Aes Sedai mediators attempted to quell the chaos, but now they found an unusual new factor had entered the equation. Whereas before the name of Amalasan was cried in adoration, now the name of Hawkwing was similarly being cried. He had beaten their leader, and thus had to be an even greater man, a man even worthier of being their king. Even in lands completely untouched by Amalasan, people suggested that Hawkwing might make agreat ruler.
Bonwhin’s hatred of Hawkwing now reached even deadlier levels. At her instigation (as revealed many decades later), Tova, Caembarin and Khodomar sent armies against Shandalle in an attempt to slay Hawkwing. Hawkwing, who had already begun disbanding his army, defeated all three of them, despite being outnumbered and pressed from three different sides. Enraged, he struck back and by the beginning of winter in FY 943 he held the western half of Tova (including the capital at Cairhien), parts of northern Khodomar and the entire west bank of the Erinin in Caembarin. Thousands from all three nations flocked to his banner. The following year Ileande, Talmour and Aldeshar entered the war, sending reinforcements to the three beleaguered nations. But, by the end of FY 944, Hawkwing had seized the rest of Tova, Khodomar and Caembarin and forged them into one whole with Shandalle. Bonwhin could only watch, amazed, as she forced more nations into warfare against Hawkwing and then saw them crumble before him. Sometimes a year to fourteen months would pass without any fighting, then two or three nations would attack Hawkwing, but he would always defeat them and, afterwards, add them to his growing empire. Only one nation, Moreina (where the governor of the Stone of Tear surrendered the fortress to him with no demands being made), joined him voluntarily. The rest had to be forced into submission. One summer morning in FY 963 King Joal Ramedar of Aldeshar surrendered to Artur Paendrag Tanreall, the Hawkwing. Twenty years of warfare, the Consolidation Wars, had delivered the subcontinent of the Westlands to him. The whole land, from the Aryth Ocean to the Spine of the World and from the Mountains of Dhoom to the Sea of Storms, bar only the city-state of Tar Valon, was his. Not once in that time had he lost a single battle. He was the High King, the ruler of one land at peace, and he was not yet fifty-one years old. Some might say that was enough. He was the ruler of millions of square miles of territory and the High King of over a hundred million souls. He led over a million men under arms. He had the love of the common people and the respect of most of the nobles. He even intimidated the Aes Sedai. He had enough for one man. But he had barely begun his accomplishments. Before he was done his name would be hated and loved in equal measure, and known in everypart of the world.
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NOTES ON THE MAP
The map is based on the map of the Free Years provided in _The World of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time_. This map is very small and lacking in detail, so a few judgement calls had to be made on where toplace the borders.
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A MAP OF CHINA MIÉVILLE’S BAS-LAG 26 _Wednesday_ Jun 2019Posted by werthead
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China Miéville is one of the UK’s most respected fantasists, with his novels ranging from the urban noir thriller of _The City and The City_ (recently adapted for television) to
the linguistic SF novel _Embassytown _to the YA fantastical thrillers _Un Lun Dun_ and _Railsea_. His most popular work, arguably, remains the very loose trilogy of novels set in the fully-realised secondary world of Bas-Lag. The first of these, _Perdido Street Station_ (2000), was Miéville’s breakout work; the second, _The Scar_ (2002) is oft-cited as Miéville’s strongest single novel; and the third, _Iron Council_ (2004) won a slew of awards and garnered significant critical praise. Miéville has also written a short story set in Bas-Lag, “Jack,! which can be found in _Looking for Jake and Other Stories_ (2005). A map of the continent of Rohagi on the world of Bas-Lag. Please click for a larger version. Bas-Lag is a strange world, with nary an elf or centaur in sight. Instead, it is a world where regions have become existentially unstable, becoming “torque zones” where reality has collapsed and other dimensions intrude. Humans are the dominant species, but other major races include the avian garuda, the spiky cactacae and the disturbing khepri, who have the bodies of humans but the heads of scarab beetles. Much of the action in _Perdido Street Station _takes place in the great city-state of New Crobuzon, a fantastically twisted version of Victorian London. _The Scar_ moves the action out to sea, particularly the floating, mobile metropolis of Armada. _Iron Council_ explores the lands south and west of New Crobuzon, along a great railway line linking the city to distant trading partners. China Miéville’s original sketch maps.Report this ad
Miéville created maps of Bas-Lag for his own reference, but chose not to publish them, instead supplying only a city map of New Crobuzon for _Perdido Street Station_. However, Miéville was asked for a map to be published in _Dragon Magazine_, who wanted to turn Bas-Lag into a DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS campaign setting. A keen player of D&D in his youth, Miéville acquiesced and the first canon maps of Bas-Lag appeared in issue #352 of _Dragon Magazine_, published in February 2007. It was from this article that the main map was drawn. Miéville published his original rough map in a convention guide in 2012. The map of Rohagi as presented in _Dragon Magazine_ in 2007.NOTES ON THE MAP
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THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: THE GREAT HUNT 29 _Wednesday_ May 2019Posted by werthead
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NARRATIVE ATLAS 4: THE GREAT HUNT – FROM FAL DARA TO FALME These maps cover the third part of our heroes’ journey in _The Great Hunt _(Book 2 of THE WHEEL OF TIME). For a detailed summary of _The Great Hunt_, please follow this link.
This part of the narrative atlas covers our heroes’ journey from Caemlyn to Tarwin’s Gap, via Fal Dara. Note that the dates are taken from Steven Cooper’s excellent Wheel of Time Chronology , with the exception of the journey between the Erinin and Cairhien, which has been adjusted to provide more plausible dates and travel times. I have removed this time from the Portal Stone jump from Cairhien to Toman Head, so the dates realign with Cooper’s after that point. A map showing the characters’ travels from Fal Dara. Please click for a larger version.LEAVING FAL DARA
As previously related,
the armies of Shienar defeated the Trollocs at Tarwin’s Gap whilst Moiraine Damodred and the companions from the Two Rivers located the Eye of the World, an uncorrupted source of _saidin_, the male half of the True Source. Rand al’Thor, discovering he use the One Power, used the Eye of the World to destroy the Forsaken Aginor and then halt the invading Trolloc forces at Tarwin’s Gap. The events of _The Great Hunt_ begin around Day 77 (since Rand and his friends left the Two Rivers), when a group of Darkfriends meet and make plans to capture or kill the Dragon Reborn and neutralise his influence. The Darkfriends are given different plans and objectives, which none of the others know. On Day 78, about thirty-one days after the battle at the Eye of the World, the Amyrlin Seat (the leader of the Aes Sedai) arrives at Fal Dara with a large retinue. Trolloc forces attack the city at night, freeing the imprisoned Padan Fain (who had somehow followed the party all the way from Emond’s Field, even through Shadar Logoth and the Waygate in Caemlyn) and stealing both the cursed dagger from Shadar Logoth and the Horn of Valere. Mat Cauthon’s life depends on proximity to the dagger (at least until he can be healed of his link to it), so its recovery becomes imperative. Before this happens, Rand is summoned before the Amyrlin Seat, Siuan Sanche, who tells him he is the Dragon Reborn. Rand refuses to believe it. On Day 79, the travellers from the Two Rivers depart the city. Nynaeve al’Meara and Egwene al’Vere are to travel to Tar Valon to learn to become Aes Sedai. They travel with Moiraine, Lan and the Amyrlin’s party westwards towards Medo, Shienar’s major port on the River Mora. Rand, Perrin, Mat and Loial join a Shienaran hunting party led by Ingtar, one of Lord Agelmar’s best soldiers. Also in the party is Masema, a soldier from the Aiel border who seems to dislike Rand for his Aiel-like looks, and Hurin, a “sniffer” with the talent to sense and follow trails of darkness (an innate ability not linked to the One Power, like Perrin’s ability to speak to wolves and Min’s viewings). Hurin discerns that Fain and the Trollocs are headed south.Report this ad
On the 83rd day, Moiraine and Lan leave the Amyrlin’s party, increasing their speed and making south for the main bridge over the Mora (which carries the main highway from Fal Moran to Shol Arbela, and marks the border between Shienar and Arafel). Another Aes Sedai in the group, Verin Mathwin of the Brown Ajah, also leaves clandestinely. Two days later the rest of the group arrive at Medo and board the ships that will take them to Tar Valon. With speed of the essence, the Amyrlin orders that the Aes Sedai sisters take turns to use the One Power to speed their passage. On the same day, Ingtar’s group reaches the Erinin, having travelled approximately 250 miles (almost the clear north-south distance of the kingdom) in six days, or approximately 41.5 miles per day. Mounted and on good roads, with clear weather, this is (just about) possible. Rand and his friends cross the river and find a village ransacked by Fain’s forces. Rand gets caught in a “bubble of evil” but manages to break out of it using the One Power. At night he finds the Dragon Banner in his belongings. The next morning (Day 86), Rand, Hurin and Loial awaken to find themselves in a “different” version of reality, one of the shadow weavings of the Wheel accessed by Portal Stone. Discomforted, they decide to head south to find a way back to the real world and try to link up with Ingtar’s party. The same day, Verin catches up with Ingtar’s party, having made even better time, approximately 230 miles in 3 days! At 76 days per day, we must assume that Verin used the One Power to significantly speed the exertions of her horse. A map showing character movements between Shienar, Tar Valon and Cairhien. Please click for a larger version. FROM SHIENAR TO CAIRHIEN It should be noted that the distances and travel time for this part of the journey is highly debatable. From the spot where Rand and Ingtar cross the Erinin, it is a mighty 865 miles (give or take) to the city of Cairhien. Both parties are mounted and the weather holds well for most of the trip which is across open countryside, perhaps speeded in places by paths and roads left over from the fallen kingdom of Hardan and perhaps some trader tracks still in use. However, the latter part of the journey is through the forbidding mountains of Kinslayer’sDagger.
Despite these obstacles, which means that the parties cannot travel in a straight line, Ingtar, Verin, Perrin, Mat, Masema, Hurin and the rest of their party reach Cairhien a mere 14 days after crossing the Erinin by Cooper’s timeline. This requires them to travel about 62 miles per day. Even with Verin using the One Power to increase the stamina of their horses (which is not noted in the text), this pushes credulity. As a result I have adjusted the timeline by doubling the travel time for Ingtar and his party to 28 days (just under 31 milesper day)
By river it is approximately 900 miles from Medo to Tar Valon, which the Aes Sedai accomplish in four days by Cooper’s timeline (224 miles per day!). I have doubled this to eight days to be more realistic (112 miles per day), even with Aes Sedai intervention. Rand, Hurin and Loial awaken in the Portal Stone world on Day 86. They travel south and cover enormous distances (a result of the differing laws of reality) and the following day reach the Field of Talidar, where they meet Selene and rescue her from a pack of _grolm_. They head south and reach Kinsayer’s Dagger before returning to the real world via another Portal Stone in the evening of Day 87. Realising they’ve massively jumped ahead of Fain, the head west along the mountains and set a trap.Report this ad
Deviating from the Cooper timeline, I have adjusted it so that Team Rand spend 16 days in Kinslayer’s Dagger waiting for Padan Fain to turn up rather than four. This feels a little long, but it is necessary for Fain and Ingtar to cover the vast distance by normal means that Rand’s group covered in a couple of days thanks to the Portal Stone (Cooper’s timeline has Fain reaching Kinslayer’s Dagger five days after crossing the Erinin, which is not physically possible). So Rand recovers the Horn of Valere and Mat’s dagger on Day 103. After a frenzied flight through the mountains, they reach Tremonsien two days later and find the Choedan Kal statue from the Age of Legends (Rand won’t learn this name for some time, of course) and make the acquaintance of a Cairhienin patrol, who escort them to Cairhien city. Cooper has the patrol reach Cairhien just a day after leaving Tremonsien, but given the 100-odd mile distance, I’ve adjusted that to three days. Thus Rand and his group reach the city of Cairhien on Day 108. On Day 104, Ingtar’s group crosses the border of Cairhien and meets Urien of the Aiel, who tells them the Aiel are searching for He Who Comes With the Dawn. Ingtar’s group has to hide their weapons and armour and proceed much more slowly to Cairhien city, explaining why they arrive several days after Rand’s party, despite only being about one to two days behind them at this point. Around Day 97, Nynaeve passes the Testing to become an Accepted in Tar Valon, whilst Egwene is reunited with Min and meets Elayne, Galad and Gawyn for the first time. Also around this day, Moiraine and Lan visit with Adeleas and Vandene in Tifan’s Well. They are attacked by a Draghkar and Moiraine determines that she and Lan should ride for Toman Head immediately. A map of the city of Cairhien. Please click for a larger version.IN CAIRHIEN
Arriving in the capital on Day 108, Rand, Hurin and Loial take rooms at the Defender of the Dragonwall. Rand then finds Thom Merrilin in the Bunch of Grapes Inn in Foregate. Rand, Hurin and Loial attempt to return to the Defender, but are trapped by celebrations and realise that Fain’s Trollocs are closing in. They take refuge near the Illuminators’ chapter house outside the city (which is damaged in the affray) and then manage to flee into the city. Rand and his party spend several days at the inn, with Rand being courted by different noble houses. He burns each letter, until invitations arrive from Lord Barthanes Damodred and King Galldrian Riatin. On Day 114 the Horn and the dagger are stolen back by Fain, who then uses the Waygate in the Damodred palace grounds to escape. Ingtar’s party reaches Cairhien and everyone is reunited. On Day 115, the group attends Lord Barthanes’ party and discover that the Waygate has been effectively sealed, with _Machin Shin_, the Black Wind, standing guard on the other side. Barthanes confirms that Fain will be waiting for Rand on Toman Head. On the morning of Day 116 the party leaves Cairhien and heads for nearby Stedding Tsofu to use the Waygate there. This same morning, Lord Barthanes is found dead in his manor. King Galldrian sends agents to interrogate Thom Merrilin, but make the mistake of killing his lover Denna. Thom kills the agents and then the King himself. This plunges Cairhien into civil war.Report this ad
Rand’s party reaches Stedding Tsofu on Day 117. Unable to use the Waygate there, Rand is forced to use a nearby Portal Stone. Unfortunately, his inexperience causes a temporal slip and the party do not return to the real world for about 119 days, or four months. A map of Seanchan-occupied Toman Head. Please click for a largerversion.
THE SEANCHAN OCCUPATION On Day 78, Lord Captain Geofram Bornhald’s legion reaches the village of Alcruna near the border between Tarabon and Almoth Plain. He is ordered to take the legion onto the plain to root out Darkfriends and start the process of bringing the Plain under the Whitecloaks’ influence. This requires him to scatter the legion across a wide swathe of Almoth Plain. By around Day 199, Bornhald realises that the Questioners are trying to manipulate him into staying away from Toman Head, where there are rumours of invaders called Seanchan. Bornhald resolves to start gathering the full strength of the legion and then march on Falme. Around Day 99, Bayle Domon’s _Spray_ reaches Toman Head and is captured by Seanchan forces commanded by Egeanin. Domon is taken to Falme and the High Lord Turak, who takes one of the Seven Seals on the Dark One’s prison from Domon (neither knows what it is). Domon swears the Oaths and begins (reluctantly) working for the Seanchan. On Day 116 or so, Padan Fain reaches Falme and gives the Horn of Valere to High Lord Turak, who also takes the cursed dagger from Shadar Logoth (to Fain’s anger). On Day 184, Liandrin of the Red Ajah (but really of the Black) tells Egwene that Rand is in great danger and she should accompany Liandrin immediately. Elayne, Nynaeve and Min tag along, to Liandrin’s irritation. They use the Waygate in Tar Valon to travel to Toman Head, arriving on Day 185. A party of Seanchan Darkfriends led by Suroth arrives and Egwene and Min are captured, with Egwene imprisoned with an _a’dam_. Nynaeve and Elayne escape and regroup. Egwene spends the better part of two months as a prisoner of the Seanchan, with Nynaeve and Elayne spending the same time period trying to find a viable way of rescuing her. On Day 240 they finally find Min, who in turns introduces them to Bayle Domon. In return for Aes Sedai protection and aid, he agrees to help them flee the city. On Day 236, Rand’s party arrives on Toman Head and they discover the huge mistake they’ve made. They head along the peninsular to Falme. The “party of five” (Rand, Mat, Perrin, Loial, Hurin and Ingtar) enter the city on Day 243. Ingtar’s betrayal is revealed, but he converts back to the Light to save the rest and dies in the process. Rand kills Turak and retakes the Horn of Valere and the cursed dagger. Nynaeve and Elayne rescue Egwene. A map of the city of Falme. Please click for a larger version.Report this ad
The Whitecloaks attack the city and meet the Seanchan in battle. Both are in turn attacked by the Heroes of the Horn, summoned when Mat blows the Horn of Valere. In the confusion the Whitecloaks are almost entirely wiped out, along with many of the Seanchan. The survivors, regrouping under Suroth, escape by ship. During the battle, Rand does battle with Ba’alzamon once more, this time the fight emblazoned across the skies above Falme. The next morning, Egwene, Elayne, Nynaeve, Mat, Verin and Hurin depart for Tar Valon with great urgency, as Mat needs to have his bond with the dagger severed, something that can only be done by a circle of bonded Aes Sedai. Around Day 248, Moiraine and Lan arrive after their epic cross-continental trip from Tifan’s Well. Along with Rand, Mat, Perrin, Loial and the remaining Shienaran soldiers (now led by Uno, Ragan and Masema), they head east to winter in the Mountains of Mist, as Tarabon, Arad Doman and Almoth Plain fall into war and civil war.NOTE ON THE MAPS
The map of Falme is based on the one provided in the RPG companion book _Prophecies of the Dragon_. It has been expanded to show the whole city (the book map only shows the central part), based on the descriptions given in _The Great Hunt_. The map of Cairhien is based on Ellisa Mitchell’s map from _The Wheel of Time Roleplaying Game_, which supersedes the map in _Lord of Chaos_. The biggest difference between the two maps, aside from the latter one showing the Topless Towers, is that the huge sea walls which partially protect the harbour in the original map have been removed. Presumably this is because there is no such mention of the sea walls in the text of the novels themselves. _Thank you for reading The Atlas of Ice and Fire. To help me provide better content, please consider contributing to my Patreon page and other funding methods,
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THE WHEEL OF TIME ATLAS: THE EYE OF THE WORLD – PART 3 16 _Thursday_ May 2019Posted by werthead
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NARRATIVE ATLAS 3: THE EYE OF THE WORLD – FROM TO CAEMLYN TOTARWIN’S GAP
These maps cover the third part of our heroes’ journey in _The Eye of the World _(Book 1 of THE WHEEL OF TIME). For a detailed summary of _The Eye of the World_, please follow this link.
This part of the narrative atlas covers our heroes’ journey from Caemlyn to Tarwin’s Gap, via Fal Dara. Note that the dates are taken from Steven Cooper’s excellent Wheel of Time Chronology.
A map showing character movements in Caemlyn. Please click for alarger version.
CAEMLYN
As recounted previously, Mat and Rand reach Caemlyn on Day 40, passing through the Whitebridge Gate. After gawping at the city for several hours, they find their way to the Queen’s Blessing Inn and meet the innkeeper, Basel Gill, and the Ogier, Loial, for the first time. Rand takes Loial into his confidence. They stay in the inn for three days. On Day 43, the false Dragon Logain is due to be paraded through the city. Mat is feeling unwell, so Rand heads into the city by himself to observe the event. Unable to find a place in the plaza in front of the Royal Palace, he heads down streets behind the structure. At one point he spots Padan Fain, now resembling a crazed beggar, and hides from him. Eventually, Rand finds a desolate spot near the palace wall, and can even climb the wall to observe from the top. He watches Logain parade through the streets, but at one point he seems to make eye contact with Rand, startling him. A woman’s voice further discombobulates Rand and he falls into the palace grounds, where he meets Elayne Trakand, Daughter-Heir of Andor, and her brother Gawyn and half-brother Galad. Galad is unimpressed by this event and has Rand taken into custody by Tallanvor, one of the Queen’s Guard. He is taken before Queen Morgase, her Aes Sedai advisor Elaida do’Avriny a’Roihan and Gareth Bryne, Captain-General of Andor’s armies, who are waiting to receive Logain’s escort. Elaida has the Foretelling that Rand will play a role in major events to come and urges Morgase to take Rand into custody and put him to the question, but Morgase rules that Rand has committed no crime and as a citizen of Andor has a right to his liberty. Rand is released and he makes his way back to the Queen’s Blessing, where he is reunited with Moiraine, Lan, Perrin, Egwene and Nynaeve. Moiraine realises that Mat is poisoned due to the dagger he stole from Shadar Logoth, which is cursed. Moiraine uses the Power to stabilise Mat’s condition but advises he can only be cured in Tar Valon. Aware that Elaida’s agents will be looking for Rand, Moiraine decides they must leave. Much to her surprise, in discussions with Rand, Perrin, Egwene and Loial she hears the phrase “Eye of the World” come up several times. Rand and Perrin (and Mat) have had dreams of a figure mentioning it and the name also made its way to the Ogier via a dying Aiel. Feeling this is a weaving of the Pattern, Moiraine decides they should use the ancient Waygate in Caemlyn to travel to the corresponding Waygate in Shienar, in the Borderlands. Although the Ways have become dark and foreboding recently, Loial agrees to guide them. They set out in the evening of Day 43 and early in the morning of Day 44, locate the Waygate under a building in the Inner City. They enter the Ways and, after a close encounter with _Machin Shin_, the Black Wind, they reach Shienar a day later. An approximate map of Fal Dara, in Shienar. Please click for a largerversion.
FAL DARA
The party emerge from the Waygate a few miles to the south-west of Fal Dara on Day 45. They make their way to the city and are received by Lord Agelmar Jagad. They discover that a large Trolloc army is marching into Tarwin’s Gap and Agelmar is leading the army of Shienar forth to confront them in battle. Agelmar asks Moiraine and Lan to join them, knowing the worth of even one Aes Sedai on the field of battle, whilst the presence of the Uncrowned King of fallen Malkier will bolster his troops morale. Moiraine refuses, believing the threat to the Eye of the World is more pressing. The party departs Fal Dara shortly after dawn on Day 46. Fal Dara is described as a small but extremely well-defended city, with thick outer walls and a strong central keep, also protected by thick walls (with four gatehouses) and a dry moat. The city, like many in the Borderlands, is made up of wide avenues and long roads affording excellent visibility and fields of fire in the event of a Trolloc incursion. The streets are also lit by lamps at all times, minimising the dark spaces where a Myrddraal can travel. Fal Dara is built on the ruins of Mafal Dadaranelle, the ancient capital of Aramaelle that was destroyed in the Trolloc Wars, but that city was considerably larger, extending many miles to the south and west (as the Waygate used to be within the city). A map showing the journey from Fal Dara to the Eye of the World. Please click for a larger version. FAL DARA TO THE EYE OF THE WORLD The party travel north and east from Fal Dara, crossing the Blightborder not long after leaving the city. They see the ruined Seven Towers, the capital of fallen Malkier, in the distance and learn more of the ruin of that kingdom and of Lan’s history. On Day 47 they locate the Eye of the World in the foothills of the Mountains of Dhoom, and meet the Green Man (later revealed to be Someshta, last of the Nym). The Green Man is the guardian of the Eye of the World, an untainted gathering of _saidin_, the male half of the One Power. They also find the banner of the Dragon, from the Age of Legends, and a golden horn that can only by the Horn of Valere of legend. The party are attacked by two of the Forsaken, Aginor and Balthamel, who have escaped from their prison at Shayol Ghul. The Green Man kills Balthamel but sacrifices his own life to do so. Rand, to his horror, finds himself drawing on the One Power and is able to kill Aginor. Drawing on the Eye of the World, he is able to travel instantaneously to Tarwin’s Gap and collapse part of the surrounding mountains on the Trolloc horde, allowing the army of Shienar to win agreat victory.
The party return to Fal Dara on Day 49 and Moiraine advises Lord Agelmar that a party will have to take the Horn back to Illian. Some days later, whilst eavesdropping on Rand’s conversation with Egwene and Nynaeve where he admits he can channel, Moiraine whispers that theDragon is Reborn.
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One of the most popular fantasy novels ever published is Raymond E. Feist’s _Magician_. Originally published in 1982, the novel has sold over 10 million copies by itself to become individually one of the biggest-selling fantasy novels of all time. Between 1985 and 2013, Feist published no less than twenty-eight sequel novels (six of them in collaboration) in nine distinct sub-series. Altogether, THE RIFTWAR CYCLE has sold over 30 million copies to date. A map of the continent of Triagia, the principle setting for the events of Raymond E. Feist’s RIFTWAR CYCLE. Please click for a (much) larger version. The origins of the RIFTWAR CYCLE go back to the mid-1970s, when Stephan Abrams founded a roleplaying group at the University of San Diego. Meeting on Thursday and Friday nights, the group started playing DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS but very quickly found the rules not to their taste and developed a new set of house rules to game with. Rather than just the Dungeon Master of the moment, the entire group was involved in the creation of a collaborative world, which came to be known as Midkemia. In 1977 one of the group, Raymond Elias Feist, requested and received permission to adapt the history of the world as a series of novels. This resulted in the novel _Magician_, publishedin 1982.
Feist went on to detail the history of the world through five Riftwars, battles fought via sorcerous portals in the fabric of time and space. Wars were fought on Midkemia and in other worlds, and _between_ worlds. The First Riftwar, as depicted in _Magician_, pits the Kingdom of the Isles on Midkemia against the Empire of Tsuranuanni on the planet Kelewan. At the same time, Abrams and his collaborators worked on expanding the setting through roleplaying products put out by Midkemia Press: _Cities_, _The City of Carse_, _Jonril: Gateway to the Sunken Lands_, _Tulan of the Isles_, _Heart of the Sunken Lands_, _The Black Tower_ and _Towns of the Outlands_. However, several plans to convert the entire world of Midkemia into a roleplaying setting fell through. It wasn’t until 2013 that the companion book _Midkemia: The Chronicles of Pug_ was published, featuring extensive maps depicting the world of Midkemia. However, the Elvandar website had carried maps and background material during the preceding years.NOTE ON THE MAP
Maps for the RIFTWAR CYCLE novels were generally simplified from those originally created for the roleplaying game, which were extremely detailed. This resulted in some continuity errors (such as the misplacement of Highcastle far too far to the east, which made following the action in _A Darkness at Sethanon_ somewhat complicated). In later years the Elvandar website carried better and more detailed maps, and finally, more complete maps were finally published in the companion volume _Midkemia: The Chronicles of Pug_. To create the map for this page, I consulted Elvandar, _The Chronicles of Pug_ and the maps in the novels to try to put together the most complete map to date of the continent of Triagia on the planet Midkemia, the location of the Kingdom of the Isles and Empire of Great Kesh. However, complexities still set in as the shape of Triagia changes significantly as a result of the events of the final RIFTWAR novel, _Magician’s End_. It appears that some of the maps provided for the books and various websitse may have come from after this period, resulting in some minor discontinuities around coastlines. For the most part, these are negligible issues.Report this ad
The map broadly shows the Kingdom after the events of the SERPENTWAR SAGA, with the founding of Port Vykor, the establishment of the Duchy of the Southern Marches and the annexing of Shamata by the Kingdom of the Isles, to the dismay of the Empire of Great Kesh. This map is also the first (I believe) to also depict the Sunset Islands, located to the west of Triagia. The map of the Sunset archipelago was adapted from the rough map provided in _TheChronicles of Pug_.
BOOKS OF THE RIFTWAR CYCLE* _Magician_ (1982)
* _Silverthorn_ (1985) * _A Darkness at Sethanon_ (1986) * _Daughter of the_ _Empire _(1987, with Janny Wurts) * _Prince of the Blood_ (1989) * _Servant of the Empire_ (1990, with Janny Wurts) * _The King’s Buccaneer_ (1992) * _Mistress of the Empire_ (1992, with Janny Wurts) * _Shadow of a Dark Queen_ (1994) * _Rise of a Merchant Prince_ (1995) * _Rage of a Demon King_ (1997) * _Shards of a Broken Crown_ (1998) * _Krondor: The Betrayal_ (1998) * _Krondor: The Assassins_ (1999) * _Krondor: Tear of the Gods_ (2000) * _Honoured_ _Enemy_ (2001, with William Forstchen) * _Murder in LaMut _(2002), with Joel Rosenberg) * _Talon of the Silver Hawk_ (2002) * _Jimmy the Hand_ (2003, with S.M. Stirling) * _King of Foxes_ (2003) * _Exile’s Return_ (2004) * _Flight of the Nighthawks_ (2005) * _Into a Dark Realm _(2006) * _Wrath of a Mad God_ (2008) * _Rides a Dread Legion _(2009) * _At the Gates of Darkness_ (2010) * _A Kingdom Besieged_ (2011) * _A Crown Imperilled _(2012) * _Magician’s End _(2013) SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL * _Profit and the Grey Assassin _(1982, short story) * _Betrayal at Krondor_ (1993, video game) * _Return to Krondor_ (1998, video game) * _The Wood Boy _(1998, short story) * _The Messenger_ (2003, short story) * _Jimmy and the Crawler_ (2013, novella) * _Midkemia: The Chronicles of Pug_ (2013, with Stephen Abrams,companion book)
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