There are a lot of named places on your maps. Will we see them all?
You’ll have to read and see what happens. I will say this: When I build a map, I don’t consider it to be a to-do list. In fact, it makes a world feel unrealistic to me when every single place on the map ends up getting visited. So it’s not a to-do list, but many of those locations are very important.
One of the reasons to include interludes to show parts of the world that I won’t be getting to for a while, but this is an epic, and there will be characters traveling to various places you’ve seen. Maybe not all of them, but some places will be visited. Some for extended periods, some for shorter periods.
An interesting sidenote on maps:
We asked for colored endpages in The Way of Kings. At first Tor was hesitant; they’re very expensive. We kind of begged a bit, then showed them these cool pages and talked about how great the book would be with them, and eventually Tor decided that they would go with it. One of the aspects of doing colored endpages like that is that generally you have to use the same endpages for the entire series, to offset the printing cost. So we promised that those same endpages would be in every hardcover of the series. Of course then Michael Whelan decided to give us a bonus painting of Shallan, so we made all new colored endpages for Words of Radiance. What will happen in the next book is anybody’s guess.