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HarryLime [any]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 days ago

Fantasy maps be like

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Fantasy maps be like

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HarryLime [any]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 days ago
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    Is this all fantasy maps or just the fantasy maps made by westerners?

    I’d genuinely be interested in what this trope looks like from the other perspective. I guess Dune flips this around pretty much?

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      journey to the west map

      (Yeah it’s by an American illustrator, I was just looking for a cool map)

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        Yes I would like to book a trip to the “Dissolving Maleness Mountain”, please.

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          Be careful around the hyper pregnancy river

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      I am a Westerner with a different map.

      The one that is defacto for all my stories has a big beautiful communist society to the north west separated by a mountain range from the exploitative kingdom-but-actually-“leaders of industry” to the east. They are flanked by an archipelago with a world capital bazaar south east, a true kingdom that’s overthrown into a Republic to the south west. Then you have another continent to true south east of the map that’s proto late stage communist that barely has a state.

      Mostly the kingdom causes problems, but they each have had their historical quirks.

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      Ken Liu’s map for the first book of his “silkpunk” series that’s a fantasy adaptation of the Chu-Han contention: https://kenliu.name/binary/Dara_Map_final.jpg

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      IDK, but I fucking hate how fake fantasy maps look. They always look ‘off’ in a way that at least Earth geography doesn’t seem to look like.

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        You say that but then there’s this model of the earth 240million years ago and it doesn’t look real at all

        https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#240

        But I know what you mean, they lack geological sensibility. Mountains, rivers flowing from high to low, etc.

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