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Posted 15 August 2003 - 11:38 AM
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Posted 24 July 2005 - 06:51 AM
Did some thread mining and thought I'd just throw my two cents about the artwork and cover of the book.
I love this version of the cover art of GotM. The US edition in my opinion was awful. I hated it, just looked so cheesy, this one looks very classic and more like a painting. But to each their own.
I love this version of the cover art of GotM. The US edition in my opinion was awful. I hated it, just looked so cheesy, this one looks very classic and more like a painting. But to each their own.
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Posted 04 July 2003 - 05:23 AM
hmm, thought it was pale
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Posted 25 July 2005 - 02:27 PM
Hi..
Well what's more interesting is what the hell is on the other cover.. the bearded dude on a horse with a city behind him (with a girl next to him in some versions)..
Best I could come up with is this is either Paran.. but that wouldn't explain the girl.. or Crokus with Sorry (but that doesn't look like a thief to me).. with Darjhustan behind them..
Well what's more interesting is what the hell is on the other cover.. the bearded dude on a horse with a city behind him (with a girl next to him in some versions)..
Best I could come up with is this is either Paran.. but that wouldn't explain the girl.. or Crokus with Sorry (but that doesn't look like a thief to me).. with Darjhustan behind them..
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Posted 04 July 2003 - 02:00 AM
yep and pale looks like a small badly kept garden.
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Posted 10 August 2003 - 06:58 AM
They don't have to, but it would be nice so that everyone wouldn't have to try and figure out what part the cover was from.
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Posted 05 July 2003 - 02:37 AM
Personally, I've never thought it was one specific scene from the book, but more an amalgam of ideas/events. A tall dark figure with a huge sword, a sword being struck by "lightning", a fortified city, a moon looming large overhead - all things from the book, but not all happening at the same place at the same time to the same person.
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Posted 03 July 2003 - 11:11 PM
This has probably been asked before, so sorry if it's redundant, but...
For the life of me, I cannot figure out what is on the cover of "Gardens of the Moon." It doesn't really look like Darujistan, because there's no houses, and yet what other city is there? And who is the the mage with the lighting sword and what's with the smoke?
Any answers or was it just a bad cover?
Go then. There are other worlds than these.
For the life of me, I cannot figure out what is on the cover of "Gardens of the Moon." It doesn't really look like Darujistan, because there's no houses, and yet what other city is there? And who is the the mage with the lighting sword and what's with the smoke?
Any answers or was it just a bad cover?
Go then. There are other worlds than these.
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Posted 04 July 2003 - 04:09 AM
I think the GB one is supposed to be Darujhistahn as Krul's Belfry is there...
...even though it looks nothing like how it is described in the book......
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...even though it looks nothing like how it is described in the book......
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Posted 05 July 2003 - 07:18 AM
I guess it is Pale, but it just isn't as populated as it needs to be (And where is the grass?).
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Posted 16 November 2003 - 04:15 AM
The cover is the worst part of the book 
The figure is probably supposed to depict Rake, but the colour of his hair and sword is wrong. Too bad, cos the artwork itself isn't that bad.
(I did like the artwork for Feist's books (all of them), even though they weren't always scenes from the book, and most men had silly horned helmets
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The figure is probably supposed to depict Rake, but the colour of his hair and sword is wrong. Too bad, cos the artwork itself isn't that bad.
(I did like the artwork for Feist's books (all of them), even though they weren't always scenes from the book, and most men had silly horned helmets
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The wheel of time? Robert Jordan stole that from me...
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Posted 05 July 2003 - 03:09 AM
the city looks pretty beaten up so i always presumed it was pale,but it really doesn't matter.SE leaves alot to the imagination on purpose.
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Posted 06 July 2003 - 06:36 AM
Fantasy books don't need a scene from the book as the front cover. Look at Magician by Feist.
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Posted 04 July 2003 - 12:49 AM
its Anomander Rake with his sword Dragnipur and he's outside Pale in the cover pick
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Posted 26 July 2005 - 11:54 AM
quote:Well what's more interesting is what the hell is on the other cover.. the bearded dude on a horse with a city behind him (with a girl next to him in some versions)..
Yes, the US release. We've decided that it has nothing to do with the book, and is probably just one of the standard covers they dish out so that everyone will know that it's fantasy.
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Posted 05 July 2003 - 06:14 AM
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Posted 05 July 2003 - 09:59 AM
It is Pale, because it has a sickle oon symbol on the tower, and apparently this is the symbol of Pale. And im pretty sure it is Rake with Draginpur.
Anyway, most of the time the cover will only have been drawn with a brief outline, without fleshing out the detail, so will never be accurate. Like Path said
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Anyway, most of the time the cover will only have been drawn with a brief outline, without fleshing out the detail, so will never be accurate. Like Path said
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Posted 15 August 2003 - 09:48 PM
yes... most things will be explained in the book sooner or later. So lets just enjoy!
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Posted 04 July 2003 - 09:30 AM
The World would probably come to an end if the cover ever had anything to do with the actual content, cough
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Posted 15 August 2003 - 01:59 PM
but ie we can easily say what scene is on the cover of MoI or HoC... which can't be said about DG or GotM
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In the strongest way I've ever seen
I know that she sees in me
Her Proudest child, her purest breed
From an ancient throne I defy the world
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Mother Tongue speaks to Me
In the strongest way I've ever seen
I know that she sees in me
Her Proudest child, her purest breed
From an ancient throne I defy the world
To kneel before the Power within
Crown of the Deck of Dragons
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