Interesting Comments by the Artist of the Map

[dannybailey.livejournal.com]

Did you know that the map from the book was created by Maxime Plasse? I didn't! Until I found her deviantart account when I searched Google images for a copy of the map.

Check this out. She posted the map on her deviantart (a very high-res version!) but she also had some very interesting comments about the commission:

"A map commissionned by Harper Collins Publishers for Megan Whalen successfull serie "Queens Thief". The map is supposed to be a subjective vision of some people of the world (mainly from the regions of Attolia, Sounis and Eddis) hence it is heavily and artificially distorded to focus on those regions and also on the Mede territory, an ancestral ennemy if I understood good. The world depicted in Queen's thief is loosely based on a antique mediteranean culture.
Harper Collins also asked me to leave the title/text box empty so they'd deal with it on their own."

Subjective version! Heavily and artificially distorted! I think we had some fans speculating that that was the case, but did we know for sure before now?

I love that even the publishers are all in on the unreliable narration of this world.

Comments

[trans-element.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was struck from the beginning by the fact that the "greater peninsula" is so small compared to the little peninsula.

goooood point!!!!!!!

[11rod88staff11.livejournal.com]

Wow. This is just so interesting to take in. That it was very intentionally "heavily and artificially distorted." Hahaha so we were all pining for a map to give ourselves greater ability to visualize the concrete physical distances between all these places and we have, lo and behold, finally, not one map but TWO MAPS per our wishes, (this map, and Kamet's "quickly drafted" version....) two intentionally vastly different maps and then this statement!!!! It's so interesting to take in and I think it's symbolic of the idea that it's not really important what a physical layout is, but rather how the physical layout is projected by each individual person and the importance that each individual places upon different locations that are special to them.

It's interesting how Setra is so prominent on Kamet's map, even though he claims he feels no attachment to Setra. (and it's not even mentioned on the other "official" map.)

I too thought it strange that the "Little Peninsula" appears ten times larger than the "Greater Peninsula" on this map. The Mede Empire just seems to sprawl in the same way Antarctica always appears to sprawl on a Mercator style mape even though in real life that's not the case.

I was shocked to see that Eddis looks positively huge on this map and as if there actually does exist a lot of flatter land in it (a plateau of sorts) which made me question the whole thing about getting the people out of Eddis and down to Sounis and Attolia before the Sacred Mountain erupts. The volcano doesn't look like it could take out a country as big as Eddis appears on the map. I was like, why can't they just relocate the capital to another part of Eddis instead of relocating the Eddisian people to countries and cultures outside their own?

I think a lot of us were also surprised by how Sounis looks like it has almost no land on the map even though Sounis seems relatively powerful in the books, certainly at least as large as Eddis.

Among other questions....!

Re: goooood point!!!!!!!

[11rod88staff11.livejournal.com]

I keep thinking about this and about how the subjectivity of point of view is SUCH A PREVALENT THEME in the Queen's Thief and quite possibly the most transformative aspect of the entire masterpiece...

- How drastically different Costis's character is when narrated as 3rd person limited by himself (KOA) as compared to when spoken of in 1st person by Kamet in TAT (as Kamet gradually falls in love with him)...

-How we begin inside of Gen's Head in TT and then the we get further and further and FURTHER away from inside Gen's head across the series until we only hear of the initially hilariously biased and ultimately resolved understanding of Gen through Kamet (who it turns out ironically, knew the King fairly intimately as a friend, from the very beginning without knowing it!)

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