Stylistically, it was my first venture into the world of map design. This was the first map I made, sometime around the start of April, 2013, close to the inception of the novel. The bit where most people live in the south, the same bit that I had spent most of my time studying on the map, is dwarfed in comparison to the expansive north (which is in turn dwarfed in comparison to the Great White North).įirst iteration of the alternate reality. Like, really, far away, and then it dawns on you how massive your province actually is. So it was only when I began studying a map of my boring old home province that I realized where Thunder Bay was. Having grown up in the large city of Toronto and later moving to the capital city of Ottawa, for me the province of Ontario consisted entirely of a few landmarks: Toronto, Kingston, Ottawa a few small downs of old red brick buildings planted in the centre of hours and hours of dull green fields, forests and the great big lake for which the province was named. But I have to admit, coming into this novel I really didn’t know a thing about my own province. I started with what I was most familiar with, my home in Southern Ontario. These early drafts would evolve drastically in the following two years as I learned more about feudal society and local geography. With a plot forming in my head, along with the characters and the multitude of factions who’d inhabit this Medieval America, mapping out this new world was one of the earliest steps I took.
MAP OF A FEUDAL KINGDOMS FREE
When I set out to build the world that my next book would take place in, I had in mind a place that was similar to our own but just a tad more exciting: take the familiar setting of modern North America and replace it with a land of kingdoms and duchies, knights and princesses, and where political disputes were settled with pitched battles and poisoned wine instead of televised debates and free elections.
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