Beyond the Days of Ice and Fire
A conjectural atlas of the Drenai Saga
Developed by Dale Rippke
Legend of the Silver Slayer
This map is based on the nine novels of David Gemmell that comprise the official "Drenai Saga". This map should in no way be construed as being official, but it is probably the most accurate map that has been produced up to this date.
The Drenai world is based on what appears to be the Eurasian/African continents of our Earth approximately 10,000 years in the future. The world has suffered from the "Ice Fall" (a pole shift) and its geography has changed considerably.....
As on any map that encompasses a time span of nearly two thousand years, there are bound to be errors due to the vast distances of time involved. This map was not intended to be a snapshot of any particular time during that 2,000 years, thus you get a map where cities like Kuan Hador and Ulrikham can exist together when in fact they were widely separated by time. There are also several serious inconsistancies that needed to be addressed before attempting to draw this map. Fortunately, these were fairly few in number. These were remedied by noting a preponderence of supporting evidence and by recognising a "greater weight" to the information in the more recent novels (LEGEND wasn't originally written as part of a series and so its information tends to be more inaccurate than the later novels like THE LEGEND OF DEATHWALKER and HERO IN THE SHADOWS that were written as intregrated parts of the whole series).
It should be noted that a fair amount of inference went into the creation of this map. There are nations and cities that are mentioned in the books that have been placed on the map even though it isn't specified where they are located.
I shall attempt to list them below: Dospilis, Datia, Sherak, and Tantria are described as "Eastern nations", so I placed them in the area around Ventria. Panthia,
a nation whose inhabitants are black-skinned, was conquered by Ventria. I placed it near the jungles of Opal.
Skathia's
location isn't mentioned at all. It was conquered by the Drenai, so I placed it fairly close to their nation, on the far side of Vagria.
Pellucid's
location isn't mentioned either. Druss supposedly killed a were-wolf in its mountains prior to his battle at Skeln Pass. I placed it in an area that he could have reached in his wanderings (between Gothir and Ventria, but still close to Drenai).
Angostin's
location isn't mentioned although it is apparently a nation of the northlands. Symilia's location isn't given either. It is a northland nation whose king owns a mirror from Kuan Hador. I decided to make it the unnamed kingdom that lies beyond Kydor's eastern border. Mellicane is a Ventrian city at the time of WINTER WARRIORS. I placed it in the nation of Tantria because of its described location and because by the time of WINTER WARRIORS Tantria was part of the Greater Ventrian Empire.
Tertullus
is a Ventrian city that has a university and is the closest major city to the Nadir Steppes at the time of LEGEND. I placed it in Sherak, since it had become part of Gorben's Greater Ventrian Empire prior to the events of LEGEND.
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