T’Telir map reliability and usefulness

[Nightstar The Bright]

We have a map of T’Telir (not to scale, but useful for relative locations) and my questions was: how much can we read into this thing, it is an in world map so keep that in mind. 

It is useful for relative locations, as already mentioned in the text underneath the tapestry. We see ships in the tapestry, these have three sails which are shaped like triangles, can we assume this is actually canon, can we put this into the T’Telir/Hallandren pages? I’m bassicly asking how much can we read into the map and put it onto the coppermind.

[Treamayne]

2 hours ago, Nightstar The Bright said:

We have a map of T’Telir (not to scale, but useful for relative locations) and my questions was: how much can we read into this thing, it is an in world map so keep that in mind. 

It is useful for relative locations, as already mentioned in the text underneath the tapestry. We see ships in the tapestry, these have three sails which are shaped like triangles, can we assume this is actually canon, can we put this into the T’Telir/Hallandren pages? I’m bassicly asking how much can we read into the map and put it onto the coppermind.

Well, here's Brandon's annotations on the map (if you have not seen them):

Spoiler

 

Annotations for the Map

The maps for this book were done by the awesome Shawn Boyles (http://spikethesurfdog.blogspot.com).

For this book, I wanted something with an illustrated feel to it. The Mistborn maps were supposed to look realistic and gritty—like maps from London during the nineteenth century. I wanted twisting, cramped streets and a sense of overcrowding.

For Warbreaker I wanted a very different feel. I wanted a picture that looked hand drawn, something a little exaggerated and intentionally less accurate. Like a picture you might see hanging on someone’s wall, vaguely showing the size, shape, and relative locations of important things in the city.

I picked Shawn because of his style. He has a very colorful, very round and smooth style, and I thought that would translate very well to a map of the city. Ironically, the first map he gave me looked very detailed and intricate, much like the Mistborn maps. He was trying way too hard, I feel—imitating the style of the previous books.

I asked him for something that was more natural to his style, something that was a profile view rather than an overhead view and had stylized houses. The second draft came back nearly perfect; I was very excited. The only problem with that one was that it wasn’t big enough. (It was about half the size of the final product and didn’t have the upper portion of the map where the city curves around the bay.)

One more draft, however, and we were finished. He did the artwork by hand on a large piece of cardstock, then scanned it and filled in details on the computer. I love the finished product. I wish we could have done colored end pages using it.

 

Based on that, I think large items are fine (locations) but details are not to be relied upon. If the houses were intentionally stylized, then likely the ships and other things were as well.

[Nightstar The Bright]

29 minutes ago, Treamayne said:

Based on that, I think large items are fine (locations) but details are not to be relied upon. If the houses were intentionally stylized, then likely the ships and other things were as well.

That’s fair, thanks.