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The Wheel Turns: Character Cartography of Anyone Who Is Anyone


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Hello, friends! The Wheel has turned all the way around to Thursday again, which means two things: the weekend is not too far away, and it's time for our Rotating Features blog!

 

Obviously the greatest thing about Dragonmount is the opportunity to be a member of such an incredible community of Wheel of Time enthusiasts. Everyone here loves Robert Jordan's books, stories, characters, and world--be they new readers just starting out in the journey of following the adventures of Rand, Perrin, Mat and others, or long time readers who might be on their second or third re-read or more who can theorize and debate minute details of the plot.

 

Every so often, a member of the community here comes up with something that is really special, be that an idea or thought which sparks a truly interesting debate, or a contribution to the ever growing collection of resources which can be found across the internet for following and understanding the epic scale world which Jordan created. In recent weeks, that happened here on Dragonmount in our Wheel of Time Discussion section. Dragonmount member Dakaran created a topic on character mapping the various people a reader of the series meets along the way. As he explains in his opening post: 

 

I recently started and finished book 9 after a looong hiatus from the series... To help myself both keep track of the story as well as refresh my memory on various characters I started making a character map as I went through book 9. I now have a HUGE character map that details the "end-state" of Winter's Heart with relationships, deaths, and some events of the book. Right now it pretty much has all of the (noteworthy) characters that appeared in book 9, although I know there's many more... PLEASE NOTE - if you haven't read through Winter's Heart, it has spoilers... I plan to continue to use this and make a new version as I read through book 10.

And here is the character map Dakaran created, and boy is it impressive! 

 

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(Click here to see the full scale image)

 

Let's hope he continues adding to it all the way to the end of the series and it becomes a real hit resource on the web. Personally, I think he is on to something with this.

 

That's all for now! Have fun!

 

Until next time, friends!




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Dakaran this map is great! You really should do one for each of the books, and all readers will be eternally grateful to you :D

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Ohhhh by the Dark-One's balls this is amazing!!! And yeah! A map that you could scroll chonologically-through the books would be beyond amazing! (beyond effort too! lol)

Hmmm... Am I just missing Moiraine in this? 

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Thanks for the shout out, Fnorrll!

 

I'm hoping to work through each of the books, but it may be a bit of a slow process as you can imagine. Plus I'm not through the whole series yet. Starting with Winter's Heart, I'm just mapping as I go. When I finish the series, I'd ideally like to go back and map books 1 through 8 as time allows. =)

 

@Zmann966 - The map was meant to be more of an end state for the characters that appeared in book 9, so Moiraine, along with many others (like Loial), don't appear on this particular map.

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Don't stop making these! These should be put in the anthology they're making.

 

 

(PS I made a special effort to remember my username and password just to encourage you to keep going.)

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