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Fantasy Maps Should Be Weirder - Nakari Speardane on Youtube
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this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2025
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"Oh my gosh, your map is so unrealistic, why does your river split like this?" "Because this section of river was once ruled by married river spirits, but they got a divorce and took half each. This town between them has banned marriage counselors, lest the river swallow up the land once more."
Yeah this kind of accuracy elitism (idk how to call it) is ruining artistic expressions and experimentation
I mean you can get much, much weirder.
"Because this section of river was once a fork, but it got stuck in a cow-snake and the cow-snake used its powers of transmogrification to split the river and then it felt guilty so it turned itself into a town full of people."
And I'm sure someone else can come up with something even weirder. I just wish people didn't feel so limited in a genre of infinite possibilities.
Or you can steal some ideas from mythologies, though some are very sex-oriented.
"Why are all the plants in this region red?" - That was where the goddess Bleda had her first period. "Oh. So those yellow fields are..." - Yes.
that's just greek mythology
Better Greek mythology than the usual elves and dwarves and shit in my opinion.