Are there maps of Ethshar?
Yes, there are maps. The first set was destroyed in our 1980 housefire, but I redrew them, of course, working from scorched fragments and memory. They’re very large; the smallest is 18″ x 24″. They’re done in colored pencil; it doesn’t reproduce well at all. I’ve got detailed maps in various scales of the World as a whole, the Hegemony of the Three Ethshars, and the Small Kingdoms, and street maps of every city with a population over 10,000. • How come the maps haven’t been published anywhere? They don’t photocopy well. • No, seriously. Actually, a map of the Empire of Vond probably should have been included in The Unwilling Warlord, but, frankly, I forgot when I was packing up the manuscript for submission. I did include a map of the Empire of Vond as an insert in the limited edition of The Vondish Ambassador, but once again forgot to send it to the publisher for the regular edition. There’s no map in, say, The Spell of the Black Dagger because the whole story takes place in a single
