> > > > The Intro to Dzurlord - > > > > "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." > > > > > >Then The Empire is about the size of Europe, or roughly 4 million > > square > > >miles. China is about 3.7 million square miles and is in one time > > zone. > > > > According to my map China is in about 3 time zones (tiny parts > > touching two more). > > That they have a standardized time for the whole country is a very > > different matter. > > But it's the matter under discussion. China is proof that > you can run a country the size of the Empire as one time > zone. The Empire might work the same way. (Or, pace Bryan, > it might be a lot longer north-south than east-west, or > Dragaera might be a lot bigger than Earth, or the Empire > might have more time zones than > Russia.) > > Jerry Friedman A number of people have said they thought the Empire should be wider east-west, and I agreed with them. However, the more I try to fit the various parts together, the more convinced I become that the empire runs more north-south (or perhaps southwest-northeast) than my first stab at the map. Sethra Lavode is a big reason why: pg 13 - "Kana had pulled back so that he could reasonably claim to exercise his influence over the western third of the Empire, with the exception of the Fingers, which, except for its few ports, was of little importance anyway." Kana appears to control most everything west of Adrilankha... If that constitutes a third of the empire, then the empire is much narrower than version .1 of my map. Adrilankha to Dzur Mountain is around 200 miles, and Dzur Mountain is roughly midway between the Adrilankha and Eastern rivers... And from the Eastern river to the Eastern Mountains is probably even less than that. As to the western half of the empire, Hartre is only 500km (311 miles) west of Adrilankha, and while I believe it is on the southern coast of the continent, I'm not sure how much further west you have to go before you can begin sailing north. The Paths of the Dead, pg 306 - "Early the next day, the caravan arrived outside of Hartre ... It was Kana's plan to rebuild this city both as a defensive bastion against Elde Island (he considered Rundeel too close, and Adrilankha too far away) and ... to establish regular shipping between it and Northport, the latter of which was well located for [Mount Kana]. His intention was ... for a ship [to be] sent to Candletown [reload] and to sail >from there "around the horn" (as sailors call it) to Northport. " In version .1, I put the horn between Northport and Elde, but now I'm thinking the horn is probably south of that (and thus the "southwest-northeast" comment above). Another teaser is in The Paths of the Dead, pg 132 - "a place very nearly on the opposite side of the continent from Adrilankha, that being ... Kana" "the opposite side" could mean a number of things; I ended up putting Mount Kana as far west as I felt I could get away with, but now I'm leaning towards Kana being more north than northwest of Adrilankha. Vlad says that there is no ocean within a thousand miles of Deathgate Falls (Book of Taltos pg 161). As to which coast is the closest, I haven't found anything about the coast north or east of Deathgate, but south of Deathgate could be 1000 miles--that's what I went with for version .1, putting Deathgate and the North Pinewood Hold on roughly the same latitude, since the NPH is also 1000 miles from the sea, and I felt it more likely that Paarfi was talking about the Shallow Sea to the south than the Western Ocean--although I don't really remember why at this point. :) If the western coast is only a thousand miles away, then I have to pull Northport and Kana eastward, since Northport is only a few hundred miles >from Kana, and Vlad says it should have been called Westport (which, I think, puts it on the west coast). Bryan