Most fantasy maps are beautiful.
Mountains rise where they should. Rivers curve elegantly across the page. Forests gather in deep green swaths. But too often, they are only that—beautiful.
Geography, in any genre but most importantly in Fantasy, is not decoration. Geography is often treated as a backdrop, but it actually drives everything.
To understand wh…
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