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Fantasy cartography, fictional map-making, or geofiction is a type of map design that visually presents an imaginary world or concept, or represents a real-world geography in a fantastic style. [1] Fantasy cartography usually manifests from worldbuilding and often corresponds to narratives within the fantasy and science fiction genres.
Great Gusliar is a small, seemingly-quiet town that happens to attract all kinds of science-fiction phenomena, including aliens, time travelers, magical creatures, mad scientists. It is based upon the town of Veliky Ustyug, which itself stated in-universe to be a rival to Great Gusliar. Great Hangleton, England J. K. Rowling
A map of the fictional kingdom of Aredia, which is used in a Medieval role-playing game. Construction of a fictional map is often one of the first tasks of worldbuilding. Maps can lay out a world's basic terrain features and significant civilizations present. A clear, concise map that displays the locations of key points in the story can be a ...
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Fantastic Four: 1966: C Averoigne: Clark Ashton Smith: A fictional French province. The End of the Story: 1930: N Azeroth: Blizzard Entertainment: Primary setting of the Warcraft franchise. Warcraft: Orcs & Humans: 1994: A C F G V N Barsoom: Edgar Rice Burroughs: A version of Mars inhabited by various species of intelligent life: Under the ...
A rendering shows the front of a Palm Beach house designed for 129 Chilean Ave. with architecture influenced by that of homes in Montecito, California, and farmhouses in Spain's Andalusian plain.
On the printed map, the fictitious town names appear in all lowercase letters ("goblu" and "beatosu"), while every other town name is capitalized. As well, while all real locations are clearly marked, there is no specific dot, boundary line or other marker to identify the precise location of the two fictitious towns.
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