Maps (major spoilers all RotE books/short stories up to end DH)

[Brashen]

So here I am. It's me Phil The name Phil was free, but to some reasons blocked for any spamming reason

At first I add my answer to your post in the Newsgroup:

Net, it's great what you wrote. Well, in fact I hade similar thoughts about Aslevjal and the Outer Islands, before. My first attempt to draw them was something that looked more like runes, but it didn't look realistic in any way... And about the Portalstone on Aslevjal and the map room one floor deeper, I thought a lot while reading. The Problem is that In other parts of the tawny man trilogy it seems most likely that Aslevjal lies very far in the north, probably the island most north. There is no passage where it is said that it lies north of the other islands, but it is eg said that on Aslevjal it's always winter and the glacier is always there. Not so on other Islands... That's why I placed it so far in the north. When I came to the map room I first didn't know what to do, but Fitz than says that in the map of the elderlings were some mistakes. So I for myself said that the fact that Aslevjal lies in the middle is only something like "we are the center of the world" :-)

And here is right away the question I posted:

Net, it seems, you read the books while thinking of a map, too. There is a somehow similar Problem with Buckkeep... On every map and as it would be logic in comparison to the travel of Fitz, the Fool and Laurel in the first book of the tawny man trilogy, Buckkeep is placed south of the Buck River. But if I remember right Fitz crosses this river only once on his journey to Fierant (don't know the English name: city where Regal reigns). Has anyone recognized the same?

Valarya, I agree with your first point about the Fools homeland, although I never thought of a comparison between USA and Afrika . This and the reason that it's not written much about this region is why I didn't include it in my map.

And let me explain the reason why I changed the Rain Wild River. In fact I didn't change the river but the Chalced State. If you check an "official" (I asked Robin Hobb and she said these are not really official maps. Here is her Answer: "There is really no ‘official’ map. As I mentioned, I think, I sent my publisher my sketch, a very rough sketch indeed. And two different people drew the maps, one for the UK edition and one for the US edition. So each is slightly different, as each one interpreted my rough draft very differently.") map, Chalced is very small. I thought that such a small country would barely be able to fight both, Shoaks (which is on "official" maps bigger than Chalced), the Mountain Kingdom and Bingtown. So I made it bigger and moved the Rain Wild River for this sake. The mountains in the north of the left fork indeed, is a good point. I don't know why I left them away. Maybe because I always had the impression Fitz and his fellowship moved westwards when going down the magic road to the Crossing and later the Dragon Graveyard. What do you guys think? Should there be mountains in the north or did you feel two, they were going westwards?
Unfortunately I did not find the time, yet, to read the new Robin Hobb trilogy, Rain Wild Chronicles . So I think my map will change in some ways as soon as I start reading
(Feel free to post Spoilers. I don't mind. With Robin Hobb I find fantastic the way the characters interact and not only the story itself )

But please feel free to ask why I made this and that like I made it I'd love to share about it!

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Ah, and I think this is a better link for my map (you are right. It's too big to post it full size):

Phils map

And a small preview:
[Image: robin_hobb_map_ger_small.jpg]