Series Resources with links

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Warning: Some of these links may contain spoilers

Maps
The interactive map contains some spoilers which are marked by a popup. If you click on something it will enlarge the area, and sometimes, provide you an image with a defining note.
Athera Interactive Map instructions
Direct link to Map

Short stories for the series
* Child of Prophecy - excerpt : from Masters of Fantasy edited by Bill Fawcett and Brian Thompsen (Baen).
This is the intro story from 500 yrs in the back history, but it does outline the political ground found in the opening of Mistwraith.
* Reins of Destiny - in The Solaris Book of New Fantasy edited by George Mann
* The Sundering Star - in Under Cover of Darkness edited by Julie E. Czerneda and Jana Paniccia, DAW

The Paravians
Paravian Dictionary - No spoilers
Paravian FAQ - Contains Mild spoilers
Paravian Wiki - Contains spoilers

The Characters information from FAQ
These links do contain Major spoilers - not recommended until a reader is up to Peril's Gate or Traitor's Knot
Arithon
Lysaer
Dakar

Other FAQ
The following contain spoilers
The Fellowship of Seven
The Clans
The Splinter Worlds

World of Athera
FAQ's about Athera - Contains Major spoilers

Timelines
Curse of the Mistwraith
Ships of Merior
Warhost of Vastmark

[Sandra]

Nice job, JJ. Much better organized!

[Jon]

Thanks, JJ. Very helpful.

[Jeff]

Please note that within the popup description may be spoiler information that is displayed in red.

[Sandra]

Jeff wrote: "Please note that within the popup description may be spoiler information that is displayed in red."

I'm pretty sure all the spoiler info has been removed from the map.

[Jeff]

If you drill into the map to get the popup for Ithamon in Southeast Rathain you will see a description, followed by the word SPOILER in red followed by the description of an event that occurs in one of the books. So spoilers are present though clearly marked. :)

[Sandra]

Jeff wrote: "If you drill into the map to get the popup for Ithamon in Southeast Rathain you will see a description, followed by the word SPOILER in red followed by the description of an event that occurs in on..."

Ah. I never have found any and have explored the map quite a lot as I read through this epic!

[[deleted user]]

Thanks for that Jeff, I did alter the spoiler info for the map.

[Sandra]

Oh! I found it! Well it's from the first book, so it's not too much of a spoiler.

[Robin]

Great info JJ - I'm going to stay away until I'm done reading book 1 as I don't want to read it without background but anxious to look at it after.

[Sandra]

Jeff, I'm like duh! I've been pouring over that map like gangbusters but I never realized that there were links, never noticed the cursor turn into a little hand! So now I'm going over it with a fine tooth comb now that I've read all the books. Robin you don't need to worry about spoilers if you don't click on things that turn into a hand.

I've never really paid attention to maps until this series, but as Athera came alive for me, I found myself needing to know where things were happening.

[Jon]

I live for maps. I once wanted to plaster my great room with maps of Middle Earth (actually I wanted a large tapestry), of the Wheel of Time, of Pern, of Recluce, and on and on and on. Athera recently got added to that list as well. :)

The first thing I did when I started reading Curse of the Mistwraith was to explore the online map and click on everything (regardless of spoilers - which never spoil anything for me anyway). I've been back many, many times.

[Sandra]

Jon wrote: "I live for maps. I once wanted to plaster my great room with maps of Middle Earth (actually I wanted a large tapestry), of the Wheel of Time, of Pern, of Recluce, and on and on and on. Athera rec..."

What a cool idea!

[Jeff]

The pop-ups on the map have the word 'Spoiler' in read, separating the generic description from the text that contains the spoiler, so even if someone should not want to read spoilers that would flag them to close it without reading. :)

[Alissa]

Thank you! I'll tread carefully to avoid spoilers!