One of my main motivations for getting the 10th anniversary edition of The Name of the Wind was to view the detailed maps and notes on world-building. What is with that!? Of course, his books are still brilliant. You flick to the map and it takes up a quarter of the entire freakin’ continent. ![]() You don’t even know where he spends his childhood being tutored by Ben! Oh yeah, that’s right, The Commonwealth. You have no idea where the Waystone Inn is. He endlessly mentions town names and locations but has all the names completely hidden on the actual map. Patrick Rothfuss played a cruel trick on readers like me. Often this means madly switching back to the front of the book regularly to get my bearings and study the map – but it’s well worth it. I like following along on the map as the characters go walkabouts. ![]() ![]() And those are some nice mountain bumps right there. “Look at that shadowy place with a volcano and a skull next to it! Bet that’s where the bad guy lives. It lets you know what kind of fantasy world you’re dealing with and it fills your head with ideas and thoughts about what might be going to happen and what experiences the characters will have at given locations. Most would agree that Tolkien’s maps are fudgin’ coolĪ good map instills a sense of awe and wonder.
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