Map of malazan world
My longest continuous online mapping project has been an attempt to produce a semi-definitive map of the world of the
Malazan
saga by Steven Erikson and Ian Esslemont. I started trying to come up with crude world maps all the way back in 2005, and these have continued intermittently ever since, especially when the authors released new regional maps in the books.
This is a totally new, ground-up redrawing of the world map on a new and extremely large scale (apologies for those who have problems loading it).
Please click for a much (much!) bigger version.
This map was created by combining the individual regional maps from the books with Steven Erikson’s original world map that he created back in the 1980s. Although that map was superseded by the later maps he created for the books with artist Neil Gower, it still proved extremely useful for the areas of the…
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Malazan Empire: The Almost Final, Quasi-Definitive Malazan World Map - Malazan Empire
Macros, on 05 March 2020 - 10:48 AM, said:
I always envisioned the lether continent being far further away and isolated
It is. If this was Earth Quon Tali would be north-east Africa and Lether would be in the southern Pacific Ocean way off the coast of South America.
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Bit weird seeing ice fields on the equator, and Seven Cities up so far north, or is the positioning of the map in relation to poles etc unknown at this point?
The ice fields were magically created by the Jaghut. The odhans and deserts in Seven Cities are magical creations, either resulting from the devastation of the First Empire's collapse or from the Jade Statues which basically created Otataral Island.
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Great work wert, what is the southern landmass?
An extension of the southern polar continent, taken from Steven Erikson's original maps.
Atlas of Ice and Fire
My longest continuous online mapping project has been an attempt to produce a semi-definitive map of the world of the
Malazan
saga by Steven Erikson and Ian Esslemont. I started trying to come up with crude world maps all the way back in 2005, and these have continued intermittently ever since, especially when the authors released new regional maps in the books.
This is a totally new, ground-up redrawing of the world map on a new and extremely large scale (apologies for those who have problems loading it).
This map was created by combining the individual regional maps from the books with Steven Erikson’s original world map that he created back in the 1980s. Although that map was superseded by the later maps he created for the books with artist Neil Gower, it still proved extremely useful for the areas of the world that have still not appeared on any official map (such as Bael, western Seven Cities, Genostel and Umryg).
A few areas have survived from the older world maps created by D’rek on the Malazanempire forum, most notably Stratem. D’rek created the original outline of Stratem which I then modified when it became clear
Readers of the
Malazan
novels by Steven Erikson and Ian Cameron Esslemont will be aware that the novels range freely over a vast and complex world consisting of numerous continents and islands, not to mention other planes of reality. To date, the authors have resisted the creation of an authorised world map, but fans have been busy combining the maps from the novels to create the next best thing. This is the latest attempt, based on the excellent maps created by forum member D'rek at Malazanempire.comwith some of my own minor changes.
Click to embiggen.
A few notes:
The entire south-western two-thirds of the Seven Cities continent is conjecture, although backed up by a detailed narrative description in
The Bonehunters
.
The 'middle bit' of Lether and the south coast of the continent is conjecture, but heavily supported by a rough world map provided by Steven Erikson to the administrators of Malazanempire.com. The placement of the continent is also by word of Erikson, with its eastern coast being due south of western Seven Cities.
The placement of Jacuruku is conjectural, but based on the directions on the maps. These show the Ocean/Strait of Storms as being located t