So in the reviews for Seventhblade, I’ve seen a few mention they were really hoping for a map. Unfortunately the illustrator was still working hard on the maps when the ARC went out, so they weren’t included. However, that means the finished book has two glorious maps for readers to reference at their leisure, but reviewers missed out on. So I’ll share them here!
When I thought of the city’s design, I really wanted Seventhblade to have a very colonial/fortress city feel to it, so I created a rough draft myself with the city’s districts and areas defined enough to give an idea of what I was thinking of.
I also included some references, like maps of Halifax, NS, Canada along with other European fortress cities like Palmanova, Italy The illustrator then took all that and created a gorgeous and intricate map of Seventhblade shown below.
Seventhblade
Kaspine
Drawn from the point of view of an Ecrelian mapmaker for their king, the map of the country of Kaspine itself only shows territory Ecrelia has “discovered,” not the full continent.
The country map is intentionally full of inaccuracies as the Ecrelian mapmaker could only work from information given to them by explorers and traders. Seventhblade’s map is much more detailed, as it was built (over the bones of the Ibinnas city) by the Pheresians and Ecrelians.
tonia laird 
Nice response! This wasn’t in my main mail for some reason so I just saw it.
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