Mar-31-2010, 06:58 AM (UTC)
(This post was last modified: Mar-31-2010, 06:59 AM (UTC) by Farseer.)
G'day rickbirth2.
I'm not sure about anyone else but I have come across a large number of important destinations in the F, LST, TM, RW books and Eldering Realm-related short stories that haven't been included on the map...sometimes it can be a little frustrating I guess but I don't mind as I think it makes me read the text more carefully to then be able to pick out geographical features for comparison to the map (examples of this could be the locations of Moonseye, Trehaug, Cassarick or even significant locations in the Out Islands).
Another point for it not being on the map may be that Kelsingra is indirectly touted as 'a mythical city' throughout the RW books and if readers didn't discover the hints and clues previously offered by Fitz, Tintaglia and then Alise (as written about above), well, for most of them, they may well have spent much of the RW books still wondering if Kelsingra even existed, let alone if the dragons and their keepers etc would ever actually reach it. To include it on the map would have been a huge spoiler as it would have pre-alerted the reader that it DID indeed exist, and that large piece of suspense within the plot would have been lost.
Then again, if some of these things HAD been included on the map, by which name should they have been known eg should Trehaug be marked as 'Trehaug' or the more ancient-known 'Frengong'? For me, it's best not to have them at all so as to keep each of us guessing, a bit like the confusion experienced by the serpents and the dragons with the changes that have been wrought on their world...we're all learning together!
I'm not sure about anyone else but I have come across a large number of important destinations in the F, LST, TM, RW books and Eldering Realm-related short stories that haven't been included on the map...sometimes it can be a little frustrating I guess but I don't mind as I think it makes me read the text more carefully to then be able to pick out geographical features for comparison to the map (examples of this could be the locations of Moonseye, Trehaug, Cassarick or even significant locations in the Out Islands).
Another point for it not being on the map may be that Kelsingra is indirectly touted as 'a mythical city' throughout the RW books and if readers didn't discover the hints and clues previously offered by Fitz, Tintaglia and then Alise (as written about above), well, for most of them, they may well have spent much of the RW books still wondering if Kelsingra even existed, let alone if the dragons and their keepers etc would ever actually reach it. To include it on the map would have been a huge spoiler as it would have pre-alerted the reader that it DID indeed exist, and that large piece of suspense within the plot would have been lost.
Then again, if some of these things HAD been included on the map, by which name should they have been known eg should Trehaug be marked as 'Trehaug' or the more ancient-known 'Frengong'? For me, it's best not to have them at all so as to keep each of us guessing, a bit like the confusion experienced by the serpents and the dragons with the changes that have been wrought on their world...we're all learning together!
"I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves."
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