User blog:Aaron Larsen/Further Forays into Creative Cartography

As my admittedly amateurish attempts at map-making have continued to evolve (some might say mutate) I thought it might be time for a bit of an update.

1. The Menagerie Coast! First, and most excitingly, we've now been given considerably more information on the Menagerie Coast, including a new Devan Rue Map, upon which I've based my own latest revisions. Note, though, that in several areas of her map I find the font deucedly difficult to read (at least given the screen captures and online photos I've been able to find so far. I have thus reconstructed the names of several islands and reefs as best I can and even left off completely a forest or two on the far left side of the map (which are unlikely to come up in the campaign soon anyhow... Anyway, here's what I have so far:

2. Western Exandria: I've also made a more detailed, but admittedly somewhat specultive Western Exandria map which can be fitted to the Northeastern Exandria map to create a map of (or at least of most of) the entire world. This map is based on a careful reading of the CG's description of the continents of Issylra and Marquet, combined with a re-watching of certain episodes to check on basic directions and distances to certain key points, such as Pyrah in the Sunderpeak Mountains from Vasselheim (which is supposed to be substantially north of Emon and on Issylra) and the ziggurat in the Smoldercrown Mountains from Ank'Harel (which is supposed to be roughly in the center of Marquet.) So, admittedly a rough estimate, but the best that can be done for now...

3. For a two-page printable map set: Forget what I said in the previous blog post about cutting up the Northeastern Exandria Map into sections to make a 2-page map set. I've already done that work for you. Just click over to my profile and a fairly comprehensive set of all the maps I've done so far is laid-out for you. I especially recomend the "Wildemount Version 10 Map" (top right) for a guide to the Campaign 2 and the "Tal'Dorei Version 10 Map" (top left) for a guide to the last campaign. Both should print out with fairly clear type on even the smallest details on your average inkjet, provided you copy them from the full-sized image to begin with.

And finally, as always, feel free to give me any constructive feedback any of you have concerning errors, ommissions, oversights and just generally anything that you think might make them better, more clear or more usable.

Sincerely,

Your friendly neighborhood (amateur) cartographer and iconographer,

Aaron G. Larsen