Hi Daniel, are you familiar with the bewitching covers Bruce Pennington did for the first British paperback edition of the New Sun tetralogy? If not, these clumsy, long-ago scans I did should give you taste: http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~ajellis/WolfeArt.htm The cover for Shadow, in particular, pretty much defines what I see in my head when I think of Urth.