I notice that on the newest cover for The King of Attolia, there's a tree with a heron perched in it. Can anyone remind me of the significance of this? All of the over new covers have little images that I can immediately place, but I can't recall a heron in this book.
Oh my gods, clearly I'm still too pre-coffee. I could have taken two seconds to
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I know some people don't like these covers, but you gotta respect the mad attention to detail. I like the pigeons on CoK, and the board nailed between the two trees on QoA.
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I think my favorite detail is on the cover for A Conspiracy of Kings - all the little figures and things are perched on what looks like the seats of an amphitheater. A nod to Sophos's love of theater, as well as the political theater he will act out in an actual theater at the end of the book! :)
Each cover has a sort of platform backdrop inspired by one of the settings in the book - which is why I'm SO curious about the cover for Return of the Thief! What does it mean?!
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