The lack of internal divisions for the Other Places really drives the point
The desert country is a barren void except for the wealthy port city ruled by a peaceful but “untrustworthy” guy who only speaks through his assistants
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speaking through assistants only is pretty strong aura tbh
+1 million aura if you actually speak the language of the emissaries but choose not to and continue to speak through assistants in your native tongue anyways
Speaking through my page boy who types my posts by dictate.
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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?
(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
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
I really like his short stories and 3bp translation. I assume his full length novels are worth checking out?
I enjoyed the series and really raced through them - they're good pageturners. The first volume is pretty much the Chu-Han Contention with names changed, but events and characters diverge from there. (There's another continent, with "floating cities" that attack the continent in the first book.) Although sometimes the technological developments the characters come up with are a little too timely and convenient, I thought it was a much more interesting approach than giving them magical powers. The main supernatural element is the presence of the gods, who mess with things in the manner of amused spectators.
Definitely a good pick if you're interested in a fantasyish series that's not Western-coded.
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.
Sounds like The Dispossessed by LeGuin .
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.
gecland, were 100 Gecs come from
I forget who was doing it but I'll never forget that one hexbear poster who was posting one Gex per day until they reached 100 Gex and then disappeared at like 90 something Gex right before they finished the bit 😭
I hope they're doing well up there in poster Valhalla 
Don't let the Vault Dweller find out about it!
Vault 8 iirc
you forgot the fragmented islands area named like magic land or something so obviously SEA
"The misty isles"
Where is glorious Nippon?!
It's to the far East, not depicted on any maps so it remains a mythical isolated hermit kingdom.
surrounded by a storm that could possibly be divine in nature
the protagonist spend an entire book going through this storm to learn how to defeat the true evil behind antagnia
The correct answer.
A world where Japan was never discovered
Well don't I feel called out lol.
I hate warhammer fantasy so much
Warhammer ups the ante by having three antagonias! There's not-scandinavia, there's the north and south poles and there's not-America (North)
dense inhospitable unexplored (but full of mystery and dinosaurs ooooo!) jungles to the south of sultanland
Opland, home of the posters
brittland and daneland are dlc
neutralia isn't, but it's basically empty without a third dlc
neutralia is neutral not because they're somewhere between good and evil morally, but because neutralians only understand money. neutralian sultans and eunuchs, I mean. the regular citizens of neutralia are all slaves and they have no morality or will. the women are sexy slaves because the author is horny.
the heroes travel through the neutralian lands on some quest and interact with desert traders and ocean traders and slave traders. these are the only trades that exist, there are no farmers or craftsmen.
because the author is horny
for money
Terry Goodkind: 100% match George RR Martin: 50% match
incidentally, this is also the fever dream map of the current EU elite.
their entire problem is that they cant tow russia away from their borders. they'd love to have a sea in between.
“Fantasy maps be like”