Vallia

The Puissant Empire that is home to Dray Prescot is a complex patchwork of provinces, towns, rivers, Kovnates, Vadvarates, and so on. So much detail is provided about Vallia's geography that figuring out what is where can be confusing, to say the least. After a good deal of painstaking research, I collated the details of the books into a list which I then used to figure out the relationship between the geographic features of Vallia.

Ironically, after doing so, I visited Ken in his home in Tunbridge Wells. He showed me some original notes, including the maps of Vallia that he had been working from. I discovered that many of my assumptions had been correct, though Ken's maps were not only more complete but also more detailed.

The first map shown here was originally drawn by Ken. I scanned and enlarged the map and filled in all the place names (Ken's map had only numbers and you had to look everything up from a separate sheet). Provincial names are in red; names in brown represent landforms while names in blue represent bodies of water.

This second map is the result of all my research and was hand-drawn by me. The colours are intended to be simple; blue lines and names indicate bodies of water, including canals, which are represented by a blue line which is hatched to one side. Red names and lines are the names of districts or landforms, and black names represent towns, while black is also used to draw landforms such as mountains and hlls.

Notes: This map was made without the benefit of the books past #37, which are only avaliable in German (Savanti may soon get license to issue Print-on-Demand copies of the post-37 books in paperback, so keep your fingers crossed), so any details that are mentioned in books 38+ will not be present.

Likewise, not all the towns which were referred to in the books from 1-37 are plotted here as well; this was done partly to prevent cluttering on the map.

In addition, some of the names of rivers were too long to be written beside the river in question, so I used short forms. Here they are:

RWR stands for "River of White Reenbays"
RE stands for "River Emerade"
RGS stands for "River of Golden Sliptingers"

Finally, you may also notice that a portion of the southwest is left blank; this is because Dray does not relate to us what the names of these districts are, even though he passes through them.

And, in case you're wondering, the "U" beneath the upward pointing arrow stands for "Urn", the Kregish word for North. But all you Prescot fans surely knew that.