| Re: Do people read glossaries?
I wonder if many fantasy novels these days include maps because it's seen as de rigeur. Personally, I don't think they actually matter that much. I understand that some people find navigation easier than others (I've never been lost myself, even in places I'm visiting for the first time). But if such information is so important to the story, why wouldn't it be stressed in the narrative - village A is 30 miles from village B, village A is a day's ride from village B, and so on... And if it isn't actually important to the story - only that village A village B are not the same place - why even bother mentioning it? |