Mar-31-2010, 12:48 AM (UTC)
(This post was last modified: Jan-27-2012, 12:45 AM (UTC) by Farseer.)
Thanks Chris, for the welcome and comment!
Just to set the point a little deeper in cement...(I have made some edits from this post which I made previously)
When Alise refers to the hanging tapestry of Kelsingra during her discussion with Malta, Leftrin and the Traders' Council of Cassarick, she says, "There. That would be the famous map tower of Kelsingra...The map tower at Kelsingra is referred to in several scrolls, perhaps indicating that it was of more importance than some of the others."
She then goes on to say, "You can see that the map tower is in the spire of a very impressive building. The decorative frieze on the front shows an Elderling woman ploughing behind an ox. The adjacent wall, as you can see, depicts a queen dragon. I speculate that the conjunction of the two is no accident, but shows that the two of them were as important to the city as the two walls that support this main city structure. We can only wonder what was on the other two faces of the building." Note: Tintaglia mentions that the dragon is actually a ‘he’ but that is possibly due to her actual memories of the dragon, whereas Alise would only be going on from the illustration?
To finalise, Alise notes that the entire structure (the entire building which includes the map tower) is actually identified in one scroll as the Citadel of Records. Fitz himself felt that it was an administrative building of some kind...and I would expect that behind the closed doors, that he found when he went there, would be a great deal of left-behind Elderling records, possibly even in the form of memory stone cubes such as Prilkop used in the Out Island Elderling city, and also such as what Chade returned to Buckkeep with at the end of FF?
Just to set the point a little deeper in cement...(I have made some edits from this post which I made previously)
When Alise refers to the hanging tapestry of Kelsingra during her discussion with Malta, Leftrin and the Traders' Council of Cassarick, she says, "There. That would be the famous map tower of Kelsingra...The map tower at Kelsingra is referred to in several scrolls, perhaps indicating that it was of more importance than some of the others."
She then goes on to say, "You can see that the map tower is in the spire of a very impressive building. The decorative frieze on the front shows an Elderling woman ploughing behind an ox. The adjacent wall, as you can see, depicts a queen dragon. I speculate that the conjunction of the two is no accident, but shows that the two of them were as important to the city as the two walls that support this main city structure. We can only wonder what was on the other two faces of the building." Note: Tintaglia mentions that the dragon is actually a ‘he’ but that is possibly due to her actual memories of the dragon, whereas Alise would only be going on from the illustration?
To finalise, Alise notes that the entire structure (the entire building which includes the map tower) is actually identified in one scroll as the Citadel of Records. Fitz himself felt that it was an administrative building of some kind...and I would expect that behind the closed doors, that he found when he went there, would be a great deal of left-behind Elderling records, possibly even in the form of memory stone cubes such as Prilkop used in the Out Island Elderling city, and also such as what Chade returned to Buckkeep with at the end of FF?
"I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves."
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