{"id":1809057,"date":"2022-09-16T10:56:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T14:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1809057"},"modified":"2022-09-16T10:56:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T14:56:50","slug":"a-new-map-for-the-wheel-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/09\/a-new-map-for-the-wheel-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Map for The Wheel of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Left: Thomas Canty\u2019s map from The World of Robert Jordan\u2019s Wheel of Time<\/em> (1997); Right, Ellisa Mitchell\u2019s map from Origins of the Wheel of Time<\/em> (2022).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While researching his forthcoming book, Origins of the Wheel of Time<\/em><\/a> (Tor<\/a>, Nov 2022), Michael Livingston discovered<\/a> that a map published in a 1997 guide to the Wheel of Time universe\u2014which unlike the maps in the Robert Jordan novels showed the entire world\u2014was, in the opinion of Jordan himself, wrong: according to notes Livingston discovered in the author\u2019s archives, one continent was misnamed and another was too small (see above left). With the permission of the estate, Livingston worked with map artist Ellisa Mitchell\u2014who drew the original map for The Eye of the World<\/em>\u2014to create a new map of the Wheel of Time world that reflected the author\u2019s intent (see above right). Details, and closeup looks at the maps, at Livingston\u2019s Tor.com article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While researching his forthcoming book, Origins of the Wheel of Time (Tor, Nov 2022), Michael Livingston discovered that a map published in a 1997 guide to the Wheel of Time universe\u2014which unlike the maps in… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[745,31,614],"class_list":["post-1809057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-maps-and-literature","tag-fantasy","tag-fantasy-maps","tag-wheel-of-time","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2692,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/08\/mapping-the-wheel-of-time\/","url_meta":{"origin":1809057,"position":0},"title":"Mapping The Wheel of Time","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"26 August 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"The fantasy maps that get the most popular and critical attention are those of Middle-earth and Westeros. That's almost entirely due to their respective series' popularity (and in the case of Middle-earth, the foundational nature of that map and its influence on\u00a0later works). Maps of Robert Jordan's hugely popular\u00a0Wheel of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Maps and Literature"","block_context":{"text":"Maps and Literature","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/maps-and-literature\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5582,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2013\/06\/the-sixteenth-century-origins-of-fantasy-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1809057,"position":1},"title":"The Sixteenth-Century Origins of Fantasy Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"7 June 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the things I'm interested in for my fantasy maps project is the origin of fantasy map design: where does that tell-tale fantasy map look come from? Look at enough fantasy maps, and it's hard not to notice certain commonalities in design. 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I can never get enough information about the process of making fantasy maps. 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