Here is a diagram which shows a typical section of the raised roads which criss-cross the Guarded Land. They provide an illustration of the topography depicted in chapter three of The Standing Dead.

The scale is given by the procession of four figures followed by a vehicle of some kind which can be seen moving along the road at the top left of the second diagram.

It should be noted that my conception of watchtowers had not yet been fully developed. Here one is represented as a simple rectangular structure. The brazier producing smoke as a form of sending signals was later superseded by a heliograph.

Finally, the third diagram is a result of a study I did into the density of traffic on one of the 'spoke' roads leading to Osrakum. This is typical of some of the excesses that I got into when writing The Chosen. I wanted to know what the road might look like from a leftway. There is a subtle inference that can be drawn from the diagram which I will hope to make clear once I have finished the third book.