So, really, what is the point of having a priest in a setting in which even your average street rat can probably have a chat with a god?

There's a lot of stuff I want from Lookshy, really, which actually makes me more impressed that Eric Minton has apparently managed to hammer a cohesive overlook into just over five hundred words....

So, TDO, how is Minton writing it?

Hatewheel has spoken. The Hamster has spoken. They'll probably wheel out TDO, Neall and Neph for Old time's sake to tell you it's not going down.

The only Cadet house I can recall being mentioned is House Ferem.

Thorns was, for all intents a purposes, a Realm colony, seeing how tied it was to the Realm's economic, political, and cultural machine.

Ok, so in previous editions the books have given us general details on the ethnicities of Creation. IIrc, it's general Nordic types in the North, with white skin and light hair; Native Americans in the East, with copper skin and straight brown, green, red, or black hair; Africans in the South, with dark brown or black skin and curly brown, black, or red hair; Asian/Polynesians in the West, with golden tans and dark hair in shades of brown, black, blue, gray, sea green, and purple; and sort of Mediterranean on the Blessed Isle, with dark hair and lighter skin, though there's lots of mixing, given the whole sex slave trade.

However, the bits where they discuss that don't really mention eye color. Anyone have any thoughts as to what eye colors are common in each direction? (Also, feel free to correct me on my ethnicity list above. I'm going entirely off memory there and it's been awhile since I looked that up.)

Would you let me know if this is the right idea: Third Circles typically have the described 7 Second Circles as initially described, but could well have more or fewer or what they have could possess entirely different roles, if such is appropriate to the nature of the Third Circle in question.

Hmm... Does anyone (writer or otherwise) knows if the map will be a bit more... let's say colorful than the one we had in the previews once it's done? I really liked the vivid colors of the first and second edition maps, it would be weird to have a maps that's more... subdued.

When you guys show the final version of the map, could we perhaps get a bigger image? I know you guys will want to sell poster sized pdf versions or something later, but the current one is pretty tiny given the amount of detail. Maybe a bonus wallpaper sized image as a backer only exclusive? If not, can you at least make sure it's big enough to read the location names clearly?

Is it in color!?