The Inheritance (short story collection)

[Farseer]

Yes, well met, Maulkin's Tangle !

The US cover art (or at least some sort of a proof state of it...?) is out there. What do we think?

Ah, I don't really mind it? As it is right now (black and white seems ideal, depicting yin yang, Fool's motley or even the white for the White Prophet and black for the stone which saw the rise of the Catalyst?!), or with colour to be added, it's all the same to me !

As for the squirrels, I can't see the illustration overly well but I'd have said they were actually two cats or otherwise the black one a cat (certainly looks like one to me about the nose and mouth region?) and the white one a wolf? The more I look at it, I think it is more the latter than the former. Either one is appropriate to the RotE though...squirrels aren't. They aren't appropriate to Gernia either, as I recall, though the title story is set within the RotE anyway so it would stand to reason that the illustration would be more RotE linked? The UK cover also has two cats so it's likely that at least one, if not both, of the animals on the US cover would be a cat?

Aside from the colours, yin yang would be an appropriate symbol/link given that it perfectly depicts a number of the main themes (cycles, balances, opposing but interconnected and interdependent forces, the separation and merging of the WP and Catalyst etc) of Hobb's books. The symbol, even if it does turn out to be totally unrelated to yin yang, also fits nicely with the "tangle" element of her books as well ?