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Fantasy maps can be categorized based on scope. Scope informs how, and how much, information is displayed in the map. Local (City and town maps) A Map of Alexandria, 1575; Geographical Color-lithographed fantasy map of "Pirate Island" by Gilbert Anthony Pownall, published in London in 1924
The frontispiece to William Morris's 1897 The Sundering Flood was a map showing the city on a great river, "The Wood Masterless", a "Desert Waste", and towns with English names like "Westcheaping" and "Eastcheaping". [20] The map appears to have been the first fantasy map in the modern sense, defining a wholly invented world. [21]
In the September 1994 edition of Dragon (Issue 209), Lester W. Smith found Campaign Cartographer almost too good, and the 334-page manual almost too much, saying "For those who like to invest multiple hours into creating detailed maps for their campaigns, and who have the hardware to take advantage of the program, the Campaign Cartographer software allows them to create, store, modify, and ...
J. R. R. Tolkien accompanied his Middle-earth fantasy writings with a wide variety of non-narrative materials, including paintings and drawings, calligraphy, and maps.In his lifetime, some of his artworks were included in his novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings; others were used on the covers of different editions of these books, and later on the cover of The Silmarillion.
The Emerald City is the fictional capital city of the Land of Oz based on L. Frank Baum's series of Oz books. It was first described in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The city is sometimes called the City of Emeralds due to its extensively green architecture. Zion: The Matrix: Warner Brothers: Zion is a fictional city in The Matrix films.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as ...
A fictional city in Pannonia, Hunnic Empire, based on Szentes: Zolon Lyon Sprague de Camp: Novarian series A Novarian city-state Unnamed ; The City Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events: The City is a supposedly well-populated municipality where many key events have taken place. The City has more than 40,000 inhabitants. town in the Po ...
In Firefly episode "Trash", the planet Bellerophon is the site of dozens of floating estates with "gracious living, ocean views and state-of-the-art security." Atlantis from the Stargate universe is a "city-ship" which is capable of flight and intergalactic travel. Due to the amount of power required to keep it airborne, it is frequently shown ...