Bryan Newell wrote: >So, I've recently been trying to create a map of Dragaera using references >from the novels (Paarfi, especially, likes to describe the geography of >specific scenes)... > >Has anyone else tried this with any luck? I admit to being stumped for the >most part... there just doesn't appear to be enough information to figure >out where places relate to one another... > Although it may not help much the introduction to _Dzurlord_ (which may or may not be trustworthy) says, 'The continent on which the Empire rests is roughly the shape of Europe, but twice the size, and the Empire encompasses (at the moment) more than half of it. Easterners (read: human beings) make up the rest.' The full text of the introduction can be found at http://www.mojoworld.net/sil/treats/dzurlordintro.html and probably elsewhere. I think I even read once, somewhere, that a map had once been made, but has been lost, but I could easily be mis-remembering. In any event, I wish you the best of luck and look forward to seeing what you come up with. I happen to love maps, although I understand how an author might be happier not having one--it doesn't tie him down to so much that way, and leaves him more free to tell you something cool. -- J A Dusty Sayers Home Page http://www.sayersnet.com/~dusty/ Rescue the Princess http://www.sayersnet.com/~dusty/rescue/ 'No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.' --John Donne