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Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books)
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Jul-25-2010, 11:20 AM (UTC)
Here are a few passages that I thought may contribute to the discussion re voyages, where lands masses are situated in the RotE and also where it is that dragons are able to live successfully:

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In SOD, Reyn asked Tintaglia this question after they had hunted sea bullocks in the south, "And where is this Land of the Dragons? Up river from Trehaug, past the Rain Wilds?"

To this, Tintalgia replied,"Land of the Dragons? As if there were only one, a space defined by boundaries? Now there is a future only a human could imagine. We rule the sky. We rule the sea. And we rule the land. All land, everywhere."

This suggests that dragons are not in any way limited to having to reside in the vicinity of Kelsingra and other Elderling cities etc.

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In AQ, Fitz noted that the map within the Kelsingra Map Tower depicted only the local area (the city and surrounding countryside) however, when he saw a similarly-made map within the Map Tower of Aslevjal in FF, he realised it was a world map - "...It was round, but it was not flat, nor drawn upon paper. Each island, each coast, each wave tip had been sculpted. Tiny mountains jutted in ranges, and the sea crinkled. Gleaming rivers meandered through grasslands to the sea.

An island, most likely Aslevjal, was in the exact centre of it. Other islands dotted the sea around it. To the south and west, I saw the coast of the Six Duchies, though it was subtly wrong in many places. To the north was a land I had no name for, and across a wide sea, on the eastern edge of the map I saw a coastline where tradition told me there was only endless ocean. Tiny gems had been randomly set into the map, each marked with a rune. Some seemed to glow with an inner light. One glittered white on Aslevjal. Four, set in a minute square, sparkled in Buck, near the mouth of the Buck River. There were a handful of others throughout the Six Duchies, some bright and some dull. There were more in the Mountain Kingdom, and a line of them, carefully spaced, along the Rain Wild River, though many of those were quenched..."


"I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves."
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Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by maulkin - Jul-06-2010, 10:29 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Farseer - Jul-07-2010, 11:06 AM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Albertosaurus Rex - Jul-07-2010, 11:13 AM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by NeverBeenWise - Jul-07-2010, 01:47 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by maulkin - Jul-07-2010, 02:28 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Farseer - Jul-09-2010, 03:00 AM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by 'thul - Jul-11-2010, 12:24 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Albertosaurus Rex - Jul-11-2010, 07:04 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Farseer - Jul-26-2010, 02:48 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by maulkin - Jul-27-2010, 10:03 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Farseer - Jul-11-2010, 03:47 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by 'thul - Jul-11-2010, 05:04 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by 'thul - Jul-11-2010, 08:15 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Nuytsia - Jul-13-2010, 03:25 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Farseer - Jul-13-2010, 04:31 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Lady Persephone - Feb-18-2019, 09:28 AM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Nuytsia - Jul-14-2010, 03:31 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Farseer - Jul-15-2010, 01:47 AM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by NeverBeenWise - Jul-16-2010, 03:55 AM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by 'thul - Jul-16-2010, 09:20 AM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Nuytsia - Jul-16-2010, 05:10 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Farseer - Jul-25-2010, 11:20 AM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Farseer - Jul-26-2010, 12:48 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Nuytsia - Jul-25-2010, 02:21 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by 'thul - Jul-26-2010, 02:53 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Farseer - Jul-26-2010, 03:11 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by 'thul - Jul-26-2010, 04:43 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Nuytsia - Jul-27-2010, 02:14 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by maulkin - Jul-28-2010, 10:15 AM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by taloshield - Aug-03-2010, 04:37 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by 'thul - Aug-03-2010, 06:53 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Nuytsia - Aug-04-2010, 02:03 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Farseer - Aug-09-2010, 05:25 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Farseer - Sep-01-2010, 09:10 AM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Nuytsia - Sep-12-2010, 09:12 AM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Rendezvous - Sep-26-2010, 11:43 AM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Farseer - Sep-27-2010, 03:51 AM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Mervi - Sep-28-2010, 10:32 AM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Farseer - Oct-04-2010, 12:09 AM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by 'thul - Oct-04-2010, 08:42 AM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Nuytsia - Oct-22-2010, 12:07 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Farseer - Oct-22-2010, 01:45 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by Farseer - Aug-30-2012, 01:10 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by fool-ish - Aug-30-2012, 11:17 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by 'thul - Aug-30-2012, 01:34 PM (UTC)
RE: Voyages of discovery? (spoilers for all RotE books) - by londonlassie - Aug-30-2012, 02:15 PM (UTC)

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