I highly recommend you click on it and have a zoom around. Eurocentric, perhaps, but nevertheless an item of crazed genius. I don't quite know what to make of it other than that - other than to say I'm going to straight away put it in my file of "Setting ideas that are just too difficult to envisage pulling off, but which I take out from time to time and gaze at mutely."
(That file also included my abortive attempt to turn Borges' Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Recognition into a campaign setting - more on which I think I'll write at a later date.)
I wish I could draw maps. I mean, I can, but it's this huge ordeal. I like having them, but I get frustrated easily, drawing them.
ReplyDeleteThat one looks very 17th century, Enlightenment era. Like "The Map of Tender," which explains in geographic form why women shouldn't fall in love.
Oh, I could happily sit and draw maps all day if I have the time.
ReplyDeleteAt the moment I'm experimenting with perspective maps - drawing a geographical area as if looking down at it from a high mountain or tall building - as opposed to the crow's-eye viewpoint. I quite like the sense of immersion you get.
Jealous . . . I should practice more, that's what I should do.
ReplyDeleteAny plans to share these perspective maps? I'm intrigued.