harrissg wrote:

The geopolitical map is difficult to understand because
there is such a proliferation of empires, kingdoms,
principalities, regions, and city-states, and it seems to be
important to know which neighbors one which (and which
includes which), but he doesn't provide a map or give any
succinct description.

I suspect it's based (somewhat) on the Mediterranian Basin in Medieval times after the first crusades, but he went and gave all the different kingodoms, principalities, etc. different names, so it's been king of intriguing for me figuring out which ones are equivalent to the actual ones in history.

  I'm planning on rereading it again
immediately with an eye towards taking notes so as to be
able to get as clear a picture as I can.  (Or maybe I should
just call up Glen and ask if he has a map he'd be willing to
share?)  This being the first book of a trilogy, it would be
Really Nice to have a sounder understanding of the
geographical relationships for the forthcoming books.

It's similar in some ways to Thomas Harlan's Oath of Empire series, in that he's taken a more-or-less historical setting and added fantastic elements...only Glen has gone one step farther and renamed all the people/places/nationalities.

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