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A map of the Alethi warcamps in the Shattered Plains.

Painted by Vandonas, though it is not entirely accurate because one can see that Vandonas named a river after himself. On the left one can see the glyphs for each of the Alethi Highprinces.

An artist’s impression of the warcamps. We view the warcamps from some imaginary viewpoint high up in the sky. Not quite a bird's eye view; but it's clear there is no actual spot the artist could have stood to draw this. The bottom left of the image is taken up by a rectangle containing the description. Going up and to the right, we have the Shattered Plains, looking like dried, cracked mud. Then we reach the warcamps, ten craters filled with tiny structures. Each has a larger building in the middle, likely the Highprince's quarters, a collection of small houses packed densely together to show where the soldiers live, and stylised tufts of wheat to show where fields are. In the top right, sitting on a ridge overlooking the 10 warcamps is a set of larger structures: the king's complex. I can't make out all of the buildings the description names. It lists them "top to bottom" but they're going left to right. The leftmost building is a big tower with two smaller houses at its base. Then there is a large structure that looks like a medieval castle, complete with a ringwall. Below that is a short, squat building that might be the duelling ring.

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“a depiction of the Alethi warcamps, from right to left, belonging to Roion, Sadeas, Aladar, Dalinar, Vamah, Ruthar, Thanadal, Hatham, Bethab, and Sebarial. I stayed in Dalinar's warcamp, marked with the tower and crown. Above that to the west is the Outer Market. North of there, the kings complex contains, from top to bottom, the Royal Palace, the Gallery of Maps, the feasting basin, and the Duelling Arena. Further north runs the might river Vandonas. Observe that stormward is toward the bottom. ”

—Vandonas, 1173

“Map of Alethi warcamps by the painter Vandonas, who visited the warcamps once and painted perhaps an idealised representation of them. ”

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