The Steel Remains

[maledei]

I too just registered to see this map after reading about it on Richard Morgans blog. Great work, ravells. Congratulations to getting it published.

Although it is customary to have only registered users see the maps, I find it a bit of a hassle. One way to work around that would be to embed the picture via an imagehost like imageshack.us or tinypic, safes traffic for the forum too.

And as a quite late answer to vgunn's question: A good review can be found on Strange Horizons.
(Skip the review on the SF Site, it's ridiculously homophobic.)

[Gandwarf]

Welcome Sheyd... we don't bite, so be sure to post up a work in progress once you feel comfortable enough with your work. It's the best way to improve yourself I think. Ravells has done many maps and this map is a culmination of his efforts.

[ravells]

Thanks Sheyd. It was fun to draw. As Gandwarf said, post up your WIPs and we'll help you !

[ravells]

Thank you!

He's a really nice guy in person.

[Locution]

Very nice Ravs, great work!

[ravells]

Thanks for the praise guys, I'm glad you like the map!

maledei: hosting images locally is a deliberate decision of the guild. It makes it easier to refer to them, we can thumbnail them and we don't suffer from 'broken link' syndrome which can be very frustrating.

best

Ravs

[Diamond]

I just started reading The Steel Remains today, and what do I see but a familiar-looking map. I was wracking my brains trying to figure out where I'd seen it before, and then I noticed the 'By Ravi Shankar' and the CG link. That is damn awesome that your map is actually in what is (so far) the best fantasy book I've read in years. Kudos to you! (Although I'm probably the last person on the site to discover all this... )

[ravells]

Lol, thanks Diamond! Here's to more guild members getting published!

[ravells]

Hi Blacky. Unfortunately I managed to delete all my working copies of the map and only have the jpg renders, and it's so long ago I can't remember! Sorry I wasn't much help.

[LaCamilla]

Hello!

My name is Camilla, and like a few others here I registered to be able to see the map... And indeed it is a great-looking map, well done ravells! It's a joy to see it in full colour as it's meant to be. I'm currently reading The Cold Commands, but since there's no map included I figured I should find it online, and so I ended up here. What a nice forum this seems to be!

Hope to see your map in a future version of the book, too!