The Second Sojourn Map Reveal

Here’s something cool that mailing list subscribers got to see first: ArtAnon Studio’s fantastic map for The Swordbringer, Book II: [image error]

As you can see, this book covers more territory than The Last Ancestor, although there will be some familiar faces in familiar places.

This is how I like epic fantasy and sci-fi to approach world-travel: slowly expand, but don’t require traveling EVERYWHERE.

This, of course, also applies to video games, particularly RPGs, where you are almost guaranteed to cover the globe. Which is fine, but a bit unrealistic.

In this post from last year, I discuss how I found the Quest for Glory series did it right, but I also touch upon my preference generally:

I love the mystery of far-off lands a reader may never see.

At least, I enjoy this as a reader. Sometimes the mystery makes things more interesting than if everything is spelled out or seen first-hand.

Of course, it all depends upon what the story needs.

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This is all kind of nuts-and-bolts stuff, but it has an intangible, romantic component. We like the idea of far-off lands, especially now that the world is so small and we’re not as fascinated by, say Shanghai or Samarkand or lost cities in Africa or Incan ruins or the Wild West. These things were fascinating because they were unknown. It’s why I find North Korea so bizarrely fascinating–because it might be the only nation on Earth we know next to nothing about.

Anyway, as a big fan of maps, I hope you enjoy this one, and that it gets you psyched for The Second Sojourn.

Read Book I and get prepped for Book II!