I have always loved fantasy maps. I have redrawn the maps from the lord of the rings and the Silmarillion many times. I love it when authors include a cool map into their book. It makes it feel like the place is real and you can gather knowledge about it and the knowledge is useful. And maps just look cool. I used to also watch JP Coovert on youtube and he inspired me to draw my own map. Now, I should say that at that point I was deep into conlanging, working on Àrnûneþe for some months. I felt like I needed a longer piece of text to make sure all linguistic bases are covered. Usually the earliest texts that we have are heroic myths. Think Beowulf, Gilgamesh, Igor etc. So my heroic myth was hena Nûnþæðkira Soon I realized that a map would be nice to be able to better visualize the adventures of the main character, so I made this map

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