For the Video Game equivalents, see World Map, Point and Click Map, and Risk-Style Map.Įxamples of Fantasy World Map include: Anime and Manga This may help explain why (with a little monster-powered-by-evil-source-you-are-getting-closer-to-in-order-to-remove Hand Wave explanation) you can't just aquire a boat and kill the sea monster (not really: just why the chains of islands have to be like LINE ORDER) now that the sea storm that it entered by is over.Īlso frequent in Tabletop Games for gameplay reasons, and, occasionally, in Anime series. In that case, there will forever be one side of the map that you cannot see without breaking the book cover, though if you're lucky the map will be on the inside of both the front and back covers, covering up the left and right sides respectively. Sometimes complicated by opaque library book covers that cannot be removed from the book. A variation occurs when maps of real places are included in a novel where it helps follow the intrigue.
When the map is particularly badly done and makes no sense, it's a Patchwork Map. If the ocean is on the left side of the map, then it's a Left-Justified Fantasy Map. Fantasy world maps sometimes also have a tendency to make it seem as if the world is literally flat. Really deluxe worlds are proportioned like two pages side by side, thereby indicating they rate a hardcover edition with endpapers. Diana Wynne Jones's The Tough Guide to Fantasyland has a few things to say on the subject of maps, including the fact that if you're on a quest you may expect to visit every single place marked on them.įantasy world maps will often have roughly the proportions of a standard book page so that all the places in the fantasy world can fit conveniently on the Map. Also marking out many of the Wacky Wayside Tribes, the dangerous Forbidden Zone ( Mordor) and other Lost Woods. Often drawn in elaborate script, pointing out the Doomed Hometown, The Kingdom, The Empire, various Fantasy Counterpart Cultures, each of the Five Races' lands. Maps of fantasy worlds have been a feature of Fantasy books ever since L. Have a High Fantasy story of a group of heroes traveling the world in order to fulfill their quest? Then you must include a map!
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