#he wanted to curse whatever mad hand decided to raise a city from a swamp and arrange it without order?

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IVE BEEN READING THE KETTERDAM MAP WRONG IM GONNA SCREAM

You guys I have read these books like 30 times each over the past 3 years and I actively study the map for my analyses and my fics and I was just studying it to write the next chapter of Don’t Go Blindly Into The Dark and I just realised THE COMPASS IS AT AN ANGLE

SO THE TOP OF THE PAGE IS NOT NORTH

THE TOP OF THE PAGE IS NORTHWEST

Someone please tell me I’m not the only one who misread this 😭

I know this doesn’t have that much of an effect on describing locations in fics because yeah you are travelling North or South of your current location and yeah the names of the Staves just refer to which one is farther East and which one is farther West but still I was so caught off guard like now that I’m thinking about the full world map it kinda makes sense but I’d just been assuming that I was misinterpreting it because Kerch is a small country and Ketterdam is very tiny on the world map and you can’t see the land shape but NO Ketterdam does not in fact point directly North off the face of East face of Kerch at all it points at a weird angle

Okay idk if this makes sense hang on it’s time for some diagrams

So here’s Kerch on the world map; we can’t actually see a lot of the shape of the Northern coastline and even on other versions of the map if we can see better it’s still super tiny so it’s not gonna be hyper detailed. This one actually bothers me anyway because it doesn’t look like Ketterdam in coastal but that’s neither here nor there

I (and now you’ll have to excuse my terrible drawing) was picturing it more like this:

But in actuality the diagram below is more accurate. I gave up on trying to draw the coastline because obvs the coastline above is completely off scale (btw the numbers are supposed to be where the harbours are) but I’ve drawn a circle where Ketterdam is and the arrow on Ketterdam points towards the top of the city map we have. But the top is the harbours and the True Sea and we can’t see that the coastline curls inwards like that, so I just assumed it was North and it never occurred to me to doubt that 😭🥲

So in summary I don’t know how to read maps and I just lost my mind drawing these trying to figure out what it looks like. Hope everyone’s having a good day

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I will forever love Matthias’ quote “he wanted to curse whatever mad hand had decided to raise a city from a swamp and then arrange it without order” (or something along those lines sorry that’s just from memory)

Fun fact!

I feel like I know Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom inside out and back to front; I’ve read them somewhere around 20 times each, I have written multiple analyses of them, I have actively studied the map of Ketterdam for the purposes of accuracy in both analyses and fic writing…

…And I was today years old when I realised that the Lid is called the Lid because it’s a straight road that’s literally on top of the Barrel. Like it is the Lid. I just -

It even makes symbolic sense because it’s the ‘classiest’ of the gambling dens and it’s where men like Smeet go to feel adventurous when it’s not actually dangerous like the Barrel is and it’s literally on top of the rest of the Barrel like the classism message is so loud I can’t believe myself rn