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#1 User is offline   Abalieno 

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Posted 23 December 2011 - 02:26 AM

MOD GOD NOTICE- SPOILERS FOR ALL RELEASED BOOKS, PROLOGUE AND CHAPTER 1 + 2 ABOUND READ WITH CARE

This still comes out January 19.

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Posted 23 December 2011 - 05:26 PM

You can look inside the novel. Orb, Sceptre, Throne includes an all-new map of Southern Genabackis!
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Posted 23 December 2011 - 06:36 PM

Sweet! I wonder if quaint is anywhere on that peninsula :D
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Posted 23 December 2011 - 06:57 PM

View PostJussi, on 23 December 2011 - 05:26 PM, said:

You can look inside the novel. Orb, Sceptre, Throne includes an all-new map of Southern Genabackis!


I love the table of contents :D
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Posted 23 December 2011 - 07:10 PM

the dramatis personae is making me VERY HAPPY
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Posted 23 December 2011 - 08:19 PM

View PostAbyss, on 23 December 2011 - 07:10 PM, said:

the dramatis personae is making me VERY HAPPY


Indeed.

I stayed away from reading the first chapter though. ill leave it till the book comes out.

No im not sure where this willpower has come from either :D
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Posted 23 December 2011 - 08:43 PM

View PostAbyss, on 23 December 2011 - 07:10 PM, said:

the dramatis personae is making me VERY HAPPY


Wow, no kidding!!!

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So very, very excited for this now!



I thought SE had indicated/hinted a long while back that south Genebackis was quite big and stuck out a lot. I guess that changed. Since the map is annoyingly sideways in the book I put it together with the MoI Genebackis map for a full Genebackis map, but I can't post attachments in this sub-forum, it seems, so you'll have to wait for mods to fix that to see it :D

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I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.
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Posted 23 December 2011 - 10:06 PM

South Genabackis:

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Combined Genabackis map:

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Yeah, South Genabackis is a lot smaller than I expected. To the point where it seems odd they didn't simply have the whole continent on the earlier maps anyway (especially in MoI with the focus on Morn and Elingarth).
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Posted 23 December 2011 - 10:10 PM

View PostD, on 23 December 2011 - 08:43 PM, said:

View PostAbyss, on 23 December 2011 - 07:10 PM, said:

the dramatis personae is making me VERY HAPPY


Wow, no kidding!!!

Spoiler

So very, very excited for this now!



I thought SE had indicated/hinted a long while back that south Genebackis was quite big and stuck out a lot. I guess that changed. Since the map is annoyingly sideways in the book I put it together with the MoI Genebackis map for a full Genebackis map, but I can't post attachments in this sub-forum, it seems, so you'll have to wait for mods to fix that to see it :D


Also

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Ive also broken and am no reading the first chapter

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Posted 23 December 2011 - 10:19 PM

Who was that again, the character D'rek (forum user) mentioned as the ambassador?
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Posted 23 December 2011 - 10:26 PM

oh my. i couldn't help myself. read right up until i couldn't read anymore. it's cut off at about the middle of the second chapter, from what i could tell.

major spoilers

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Posted 23 December 2011 - 10:37 PM

View PostEnd of Disc One, on 23 December 2011 - 10:19 PM, said:

Who was that again, the character D'rek (forum user) mentioned as the ambassador?

Aragan is mister Cameo. Unless I am sadly mistaken, he was first the garrisson leader of Mock's Hold iirc (Night of Knives?), then he was the guy who negotiated with Rake after Coral. Basically, he always arrives somewhere for a page at the end of the book.

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EDIT 2: after scanning the first 60 pages, I just can't recognize the Seguleh.
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Posted 23 December 2011 - 10:52 PM

Just read the cast list, and two things jump out:

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Posted 23 December 2011 - 10:56 PM

Extremely excited about the Seguleh! And Envy was such a joy, too! :D

Does anyone else think there's a ridiculously important Darujhistan character missing from the list???
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Posted 23 December 2011 - 11:50 PM

I cant zoom in on the text, but it looks like the epilogue starts at page 577, so the book will probably be a little under 600 pages long. Thats almost the same lengt as Stonewielder, wich is fine by me.



Anybody else tough Suth was a pretty good character? Suprised anybody would find him boring.
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Posted 24 December 2011 - 12:39 AM

View PostWerthead, on 23 December 2011 - 10:06 PM, said:

Yeah, South Genabackis is a lot smaller than I expected. To the point where it seems odd they didn't simply have the whole continent on the earlier maps anyway (especially in MoI with the focus on Morn and Elingarth).


Most likely an approximation to make it fit on the page better.

Notice that the original map drooped more regularly on the right side, so it probably means it was less of a sharp bent and that what we see should be sensibly bigger if pasted on the old map.

Mostly accomodations of the mapmaker.

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Posted 24 December 2011 - 01:04 AM

View PostBonecaster, on 23 December 2011 - 10:56 PM, said:

Extremely excited about the Seguleh! And Envy was such a joy, too! :D

Does anyone else think there's a ridiculously important Darujhistan character missing from the list???


Does the name start with a K? Ya he's missing. But to be fair Traveller is not in the list either and he is in the book.
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Posted 24 December 2011 - 01:33 AM

Hot damn, now I'm pumped and primed for this.
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Posted 24 December 2011 - 01:50 AM

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Posted 24 December 2011 - 01:55 AM

OK I caved

Sinisdar & Tapper:
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Timeline-wise:
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I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.
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