I think it's similar to how I feel now that we have a wiki: it's so easy to see what does and doesn't have illustrations that now I feel way more like doing illustrations to fill some of that space. And it's also a lot easier with the wiki to see what has just a couple stories, or no stories at all, or even a very shallow style guide, so it's much more obvious where the less developed points are in the archive.

This map does the same thing: it makes the mass of data that is our archive way more tangible and comprehensible.

(Also, I have some ideas for Ikass stories that might interest you, Szat. I also think Larasa and Morgan could be an interesting pair there, so maybe we should talk...)

New Map now here. I have included all that is up for vote during this week. I have also included Shadows, which links Zhiran and Rishima, because I believe it will likely be up for voting very soon. (I apologize in advance if there are things I missed regarding Live for the Moment; I haven't actually finished reading that for the connections it makes yet.)

The new Fisco and new Kirsh/Raleris story is gonna really do a number on this chart >_< Sorry...

Wait, Homecoming takes place on Zent? I totally forgot about that. I should adjust the archive accordingly...

Homecoming doesn't take place on Zent. Illarion shows his sister a pocketwatch and mentions that it comes from Zent.

It ain't the only hurt about to be put on this thing.

Woop ok indexing crisis averted

@Barinellos:

You're doing a good job of building anticipation here

I just hope I manage to get the ball rolling relatively soon.
But even then, it isn't all me, even if I did have a hand in places.

... I feel like that came out wrong.

Oh, whoops. I'd forgotten just what linked those two works. That needs to be updated to a dotted line. Actually, there's probably a number of them that need to be replaced with dotted lines to represent those kinds of "cameos".

No other cameo connections really jump out at me unless you want to count Raleris's narration in City of Wonder as a cameo (and since that's the first appearance of his notebook of candidates for apprenticeship it feels like more than a cameo to me).

That can't really count as a cameo because Raleris is the de facto narrator in of that story.

The newest Map Interplay Archive hath arrived!

Bigger and branchier than ever.

War of the Wheel is really going to do a number on this thing.

In fact, there's a few stories that if added would probably cause almost everything to become solidly connected. That, To Call the World (when I finally revise it), and a couple other stories that are in the works...

If I actually had a bunch of my stuff voted in, it'd cause some hiccups...
but not HALF as much as everything still in the works right now. MY TENDRILLY GRASP KNOWS NO BOUNDS!

Quick question:

Why is the Great Crater of Adrisar connect to A Cold Shoulder?

...Am I misreading the purpose of the dotted line?

There is mention in A Cold Shoulder of Rakshasas, which if memory serves is the name of the leonin which live in the Great Crater of Adrisar. The dotted lines represent "cameos" or mentions, without the connection featuring prominently in the story.

Ooooooooh. Totally. Forgot that I did that. Wow.

Thanks!

Part of my personal mission as Archivist is to read every story that gets accepted into the Archives. Part of that is specifically to keep this map current, though since it is created in Dia (open-source/freeware), anyone with access to this account can technically help the upkeep of the Map, since I upload the source file to the Archivist's googleDrive whenever I post the newest Map.

Is anyone else getting "image cannot be displayed because it contains errors" ?

Yes.

It's still working for me.

I might be able to lend a hand once I've finally read through every story in order to give it proper ratings. Although honestly you seem to have a solid handle on things