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.
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?
(Yeah it’s by an American illustrator, I was just looking for a cool map)
Yes I would like to book a trip to the “Dissolving Maleness Mountain”, please.
Be careful around the hyper pregnancy river
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.
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
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.
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.