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Captain Cutthroat
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Ethereal Cartography by Captain Cutthroat

January 8th, 2009 8:02 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Make a map of something that does not exist physically.



Off and on since I was a young lad, I've dreamed of writing an epic science fiction / fantasy novel. Merciless villains of tragic origin; flawed heroes of peerless valor; a quest of terrible urgency and awful purpose, settings of mythic beauty and fearsome horror, you know, the basics.

Several years ago I began writing many of these ideas down, and have since filled up a notebook and then some with handwritten materials...



... and am amassing a fair amount of digital data.



When I saw this task I immediately thought of the geographic nightmares that are my first attempt at mapping my semi-coherent locations in relation to each other.

You, my fellow players, will be the first to see any of these images, blurry and hastily taken though they be.


- smaller

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1st and second versions of metropolitan Helkor.


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close-up of Helkor map


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Rough sketch of the geographic region dominated by the Twelve Cities. Note the important-looking arrow!


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larger representation of the Twelve Cities


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Map with notes describing the invasion of Helkor. I think the coffee stain is meant to be a destroyer-class warship. :)



8 vote(s)



Terms

epic, author, obsession, book

3 comment(s)

Promising.
posted by Waldo Cheerio on January 9th, 2009 9:55 AM

Welcome to our game, you've set a respectably high bar for your introduction, and I look forward to your future. Do let us know if another version or incarnation of this madness makes it onto paper.

~Waldo

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posted by rongo rongo on January 15th, 2009 6:21 PM

Very fitting. Good luck with the epic novel.

wow
posted by evilweavil on January 28th, 2009 11:42 AM

an impressive amount of effort has gone into this task!