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  • posted a message on Vorthos Cartography: A Planeswalker's Maps of the Multiverse
    Thanks to the OP for making these maps, especially the map of Zendikar. I too have been scouring the internet to find a map of Zendikar for a possible future RPG campaign (in FateCore) and been found wanting, in both the level of detail and accuracy to the source material. That is, of course, until I found your map very recently. I did draw my own map after reading cards, wikis, and WotC articles so can definitely understand the hard work that goes into making a Zendikar map.

    Besides the spelling errors pointed out in a previous comment and a few differences interpretation (my continents are in different but equally valid spots), I have a few tiny nitpicks:

    1. There is somewhere that says that Bala Ged and Akoum are connected by "underground rivers" so I'm not sure if that means they're supposed to be connected in some way above ground/above ocean. I just put them close to each other and you have them somewhat close too so it's not a big deal.

    2. Why is Tazeem so far away from everything else? I kind of feel like it should be a lot closer to everything, especially with the importance of Sea Gate and expeditionary houses. I'm guessing Emeria got drawn in the corner and so Tazeem got drawn next to Emeria. I did some very rough editing on a downloaded copy of your map to slide the continent west and south to be closer to other continents. Not too major, just bugs me a little.

    3. Really the only actual complaint I have with regards to accuracy is that you have the Umara river flowing the wrong way. Halimar is the source of the river according to what I read which means the river flows from Halimar to the ocean rather than from the mountains to Halimar. However, this makes very little sense unless you assume the Sea Gate wall dams the water high enough to send water through a whole river systems with several waterfalls. So, I guess it makes a lot more (real world geography/physics) sense to have Halimar be the destination of the river rather than the source.

    Anyway, thanks again and I may just use your map if I run an RPG in Zendikar.
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