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home | contents | previous | next | index Chapter 9 - GreenaereGreenaere was somewhere ahead ... It was an island about a hundred and ten miles long, and perhaps thirty miles wide, looking on my map like a banana, with a crooked stem on the near side. The port was located where the stem joined the fruit. The major city ... was about twelve miles inland from the stem. Twelve miles; about half a day's walk, or, according to the notes Kragar had furnished, fifteen hours about a pole raft. If you looked at a map of the Empire, the notion of a war with Greenaere would seem laughable--this huge monster of a landmass next to a little splotch shaped like a banana. This description doesn't line up with Steve's Map at all; on it, Greenaere is much larger, being approximately 225 miles across east/west and 360 miles north/south. It's also not shaped like any banana I've ever seen (but perhaps Dragaeran bananas are different). The "near side" is a little vague; it could mean either "near to where Vlad was traveling from (to the north, in Northport)" or "near to the Empire as a whole (to the east)". The reference to a "stem" is also unclear, but there might be a hint later: This particular bit of [Greenaere] was heavily farmed ... The land itself consisted of gentle slopes; I was always going either uphill or down, but never very much ... The breeze from the ocean was at my back ... A few trees began to appear on both sides of the road ... until I was walking in woods rather than farmlands. I would guess the breeze would be from the west (blowing to the east), which would suggest Vlad landed on the western side of Greenaere. There's a little notch on the western side of it on Steve's Map that might be interpreted as "a crooked stem." I guessed that port was in that notch, and then put the city Vlad traveled to 12 miles southeast of that point. home | contents | previous | next | index Questions? Comments? Please contact me at dragaera [at] bryann.net. Copyright © 2020 Bryan Newell, unless otherwise noted. |