Actually, I've seen that webpage before. I haven't read the actual Dzurlord book, but to my knowledge, that introduction is the only reference to the location of the Great Sea in any of the novels. Bryan > -----Original Message----- > From: J A 'Dusty' Sayers [mailto:dusty at sayersnet.com] > Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 9:29 PM > To: Dragaera Mailing List > Subject: Re: Dragaeran Geography -- possible Crack, but I hope not > > > 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 > > >