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Note from the author

For those who wish to feel securely grounded in the
Who, What, and Where of things, there are several
maps and, at the end of the book, indexes of
characters and places and other important materials.
The maps have been complied from an exhaustive
array of traveler’s tales, nearly illegible old documents,
transcripts of oracular utterances, and the murmunngs
of dying hermits, not to mention the contents of an
ancient box of land-office records discovered at a
Syannese flea market. A similarly arcane and
wearying process was responsible for the creation of
the indexes. Use them well, remembering that many
have died, or at least seriously damaged their vision
and scholarly reputations, to make these aids
available to you, the reader.

(Tad Williams, Shadowmarch)