Feb-10-2012, 11:21 PM (UTC)
(This post was last modified: Feb-10-2012, 11:26 PM (UTC) by Valarya.)
Oooh, I love maps too!!!
I agree with you, Farseer, that this wouldn't necessarily be a map of the whole world because, as the Aslevjal Map Tower denotes, it would be the "center" (of course each map of the world would look different if each city holding a map tower placed that city as the center). I've even toyed with the idea that Aslevjal might be a "pole" - like the North or South pole of the world. But, ah.. who knows.
A couple of things:
1. The Fool described the place where he came from. It's on the map in the tower of Aslevjal, in fact. Far far south, past the Pirate Isles, past the Spice Isles, but also way way way more to the right of the map. I think of it as if the Six Duchies were Canada, and the Jamallia area were the USA... where Fool comes from would be positioned like Africa, in-relation-to. If you get what I'm saying.
2. I haven't perused the entire map, yet.. but the thing that stood out to me the most is that his mountains/rivers around Kelsingra are a bit off. In fact, if you look at the true map from the books, those rivers are a bit different than what he has laid out here. But I like this version... gives more room for details.
The only thing that's bothering me is that Kelsingra is up that left fork of the river. It makes the most sense based on the placement of the rivers on the traditional map, but for some reason I'm remembering the part in the book where Tarman squats down at the fork.. and when all the other dragons start taking off on the left fork, they eventually "turn around" and take the right fork instead.
Maybe that's a fork not shown on this map? Maybe my memory sucks?
I agree with you, Farseer, that this wouldn't necessarily be a map of the whole world because, as the Aslevjal Map Tower denotes, it would be the "center" (of course each map of the world would look different if each city holding a map tower placed that city as the center). I've even toyed with the idea that Aslevjal might be a "pole" - like the North or South pole of the world. But, ah.. who knows.
A couple of things:
1. The Fool described the place where he came from. It's on the map in the tower of Aslevjal, in fact. Far far south, past the Pirate Isles, past the Spice Isles, but also way way way more to the right of the map. I think of it as if the Six Duchies were Canada, and the Jamallia area were the USA... where Fool comes from would be positioned like Africa, in-relation-to. If you get what I'm saying.
2. I haven't perused the entire map, yet.. but the thing that stood out to me the most is that his mountains/rivers around Kelsingra are a bit off. In fact, if you look at the true map from the books, those rivers are a bit different than what he has laid out here. But I like this version... gives more room for details.
The only thing that's bothering me is that Kelsingra is up that left fork of the river. It makes the most sense based on the placement of the rivers on the traditional map, but for some reason I'm remembering the part in the book where Tarman squats down at the fork.. and when all the other dragons start taking off on the left fork, they eventually "turn around" and take the right fork instead.
Maybe that's a fork not shown on this map? Maybe my memory sucks?
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“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.” ~Patrick Rothfuss in The Name of the Wind
“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.” ~Patrick Rothfuss in The Name of the Wind
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