Maps in the Malazan Books

See also: Category:Maps

See also: Malazan world

The books set in the Malazan world are accompanied by many maps. Some of these maps have several different versions.

• Genabackis: The Malazan Campaign - Map showing most of Genabackis (excepting the southern coast), featured in Gardens of the Moon.
• Darujhistan - City map of Darujhistan, featured in Gardens of the Moon, Toll the Hounds and Orb Sceptre Throne.
• Seven Cities: The Malazan Empire - Map showing the Seven Cities subcontinent, featured in Deadhouse Gates.
• Chain of Dogs: Coltaine's March (The First Half) (The Second Half) - Detailed map (in two parts) showing the route of the 7th Army. Featured in Deadhouse Gates.
• Genabackis: The Pannion War - Essentially the same map as in Gardens of the Moon, but with some errors fixed and borders changed. Featured in Memories of Ice.
• Capustan: Eastern Genabackis - City map of Capustan. Featured in Memories of Ice.
• Central Malazan Empire - A map showing the entirety of Quon Tali and the Falari Isles, as well as the coast of southern Seven Cities. Featured in House of Chains.
• Northwest Genabackis - A detailed map of the Malyn and Owndos Sea regions of Genabackis. Featured in House of Chains.
• Pan'arak Oasis: Raraku's Heart - Detailed map of the Pan'arak Oasis in Seven Cities. Featured in House of Chains.
• Tiste Edur Lands and North Lether Frontier - Detailed map of the north-western part of Lether. Featured in Midnight Tides.
• Central Letheras - City map of Letheras. Featured in Midnight Tides.
• Central Malazan Empire: Quon Tali - A substantially more detailed version of the map in House of Chains, featuring only the southern part of Quon Tali. Featured in The Bonehunters, and Return of the Crimson Guard.
• Seven Cities: The Malazan Empire - A redrawn and revised version of the map of the same name from Deadhouse Gates. Featured in The Bonehunters.
• Malaz City - City map of Malaz City, featured in the PS Publishing version of Night of Knives. Notable as it is a hand-drawn map by Steven Erikson and Ian C. Esslemont.
• Malaz City - The same as the above, redrawn by Neil Gower. Featured in The Bonehunters and the Transworld and Tor versions of Night of Knives.
• The Empire of Lether - A map showing most of the western half of Lether. Featured in Reaper's Gale and Dust of Dreams.
• Black Coral and Environs - City map of Black Coral. Featured in Toll the Hounds.
• Kolanse - A map of eastern Lether, focusing on the kingdom of Kolanse. Featured in The Crippled God.
• Malaz Isle - A map of Malaz Island, featured in Night of Knives.
• The Lands of Fist - A map of the Fistian subcontinent, featured in Stonewielder.
• Main Installations of the Stormwall - A detailed map of the Stormwall. Featured in Stonewielder.
• South Genabackis and Environs - A map of the south coast of Genabackis, featured in Orb Sceptre Throne.
• The Isle of Jacuruku - A map of the island-continent of Jacuruku, featured in Blood and Bone.
• Assail and Environs - A map of the northern part of Assail, featured in Assail.
• The Blood Range - A detailed map of the Blood Range in Assail, featured in Assail.
• Thel Akai, Jaghut, Tiste Realms - A map of the lands in Forge of Darkness and Fall of Light. Note that these lands may not reside on the Malazan world.
• Kurald Galain - A map of the lands of Kurald Galain in Forge of Darkness and Fall of Light. Note that these lands may not reside on the Malazan world.
• Kharkanas (central) - City map of Kharkanas in Forge of Darkness and Fall of Light. Note that these lands may not reside on the Malazan world.
• City of Li Heng - City map of Li Heng in Quon Tali, featured in Dancer's Lament.
• Quon Tali - A pre-Empire version of the "Central Malazan Empire: Quon Tali" map. The only changes appear to be that the city of Quon Tali is listed as 'Quon & Tali' and the arrow pointing to Korel is missing. Featured in Dancer's Lament and Deadhouse Landing.
• Malaz City (Pre-Empire) - The same city map from Night of Knives with additional marked locations and missing the label for Mock's Barrow. Featured in Deadhouse Landing.
• Quon Tali - The same map used in Dancer's Lament and Deadhouse Landing except that Quon and Tali have been joined as Quon Tali. The arrow pointing to Korel on the original "Central Malazan Empire: Quon Tali" map is still missing. Featured in Kellanved's Reach.
• Northwest Genabackis - Late Empire - An updated map of northwest Genabackis, featured in The God is Not Willing.
• Central Malazan Empire - A map showing the entirety of Quon Tali and the Falari Isles, as well as the coast of southern Seven Cities. Featured in Forge of the High Mage, it appears to be a redrawn map of the same name that was included in House of Chains.
• Falar and Environs - A detailed 2-page map of the Falari Isles. Featured in a back-of-the-book addendum to Forge of the High Mage.

Artist

Neil Gower, a British graphic artist, created many (possibly all) of the maps in the original editions of the Malazan books.

Neil Gower's homepage.

• Gardens of the Moon (1999)
• Deadhouse Gates (2000)
• Memories of Ice (2001)
• House of Chains (2002)
• Midnight Tides (2004)
• The Bonehunters (2006)
• Reaper's Gale (2007)
• Night of Knives (2008)
• Toll the Hounds (2008)
• Return of the Crimson Guard (2009)
• Dust of Dreams (2010)
• Stonewielder (2010)
• The Crippled God (2011)
• Orb Sceptre Throne (2012)
• Forge of Darkness (2012)
• Blood and Bone (2012)
• Assail (2014)
• Dancer's Lament (2016)
• Fall of Light (2016)
• Deadhouse Landing (2017)
• Kellanved's Reach (2019)
• The God is Not Willing (2021)
• Forge of the High Mage (2023)

Fan Maps

In addition to the maps contained within the books, many maps have been drawn up by fans.

For a discussion about accuracy of maps see Talk:Malazan world. In an interview with a Spanish fantasy blog, Steven Erikson stated that the hand-drawn version of the Malazan world which he had at home was too large to be photocopied, however, that the maps created by fans were coming close. Alongside the interview the page displayed a version of D'rek's map. It is unclear if that choice was Erikson's or that of the website.

For D'rek's maps see Drek's map of Wu.

For more information on Adam Whitehead's (i.e. Werthead) maps and how they came about see The Wertzone.

For more detailed discussion of each continent with reinterpreted, detailed maps see Werthead's The Malazan Atlas of the Fallen.

For a map of the whole of Genabackis by Imperial Cartographer, see Genabackis by Imperial Cartographer.

For a globe version of Drek's map created by Werthead see Interactive globe.

For reimagined maps of the major continents by Joshua Butler see Maps by Joshua Butler.

Author maps

Steven Erikson has posted some of his original hand drawn Malazan maps on his Facebook page.

Early world map draft by Steven Erikson

Blackdog Campaign - The first role-played Bridgeburner campaign

Dassem Ultor's Siege of Y'Ghatan Battle Map

Quon Tali post Empire circa 1325

G'danisban

Ehrlitan environs

Capustan

Malaz City Environs

Darujhistan and Environs

Detail of Darujhistan

Northwest Genabackis

Northwest Genabackis for The God is Not Willing

North Genabackis Campaign Map

Alternate Published Versions

Some maps were redrawn for non-English editions of the Malazan books.

• Dutch editions
• Czech editions

Central Malazan Empire

Genabackis - Gardens of the Moon

Northwest Genabackis

Darujhistan

Seven Cities

Chain of Dogs Part 1

Chain of Dogs Part 2

Pan'arak Oasis

Genabackis - Memories of Ice

Capustan

Seven Cities

Chain of Dogs Part 1

Chain of Dogs Part 2

Trivia

• Erikson sent maps of Genabackis, Darujhistan, and Quon Tali to the publisher to be included with Gardens of the Moon. But he says the publisher "decided that there were too many maps, so the Quon Tali one was dropped. This had the unintended effect of annoying map-loving readers who couldn't find Malaz City, Itko Kan or Unta anywhere on the included maps. As a map-loving reader, to this day I wince over that. But some decisions do not belong to the author, alas."

Notes and references

List of abbreviations • Paginations • How to reference an article

External links

• Map discussion by blogger Adam Whitehead
• The Malazan Atlas of the Fallen
• Malazan map projected onto a globe by blogger Adam Whitehead