The Fantastique Collective: The Bigass Things I Hate In Fantasy Maps Post
I agree for the most part but 1 thing. Fantasy names in a fantasy setting. Seriously. Granted as long as the name isn’t overly ridiculous, but really?
Perhaps this is just me, but what makes people think in a non-English speaking or say, non-American cultured world is going to have everything in English?
Why hello thar, Billy!
That really seems out of place for me. Yes, I understand that we’re ‘translating” for the most part
Um, my beef is not with that the names in Valdemar are made up. Of course the place names are fictional. It’s that they sound made up. A good world-builder will have their names sound like they belong in the same fictional language, that they flow and all that. Mercedes Lackey’s place names sound like a bunch of syllables spat out by a blender. She also has an apostrophe fetish and nothing screams fantasy author creation louder that apostrophes.
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The Bigass Things I Hate In Fantasy Maps Post
Most fantasy maps are really, really horrible. Here’s some of the worst offenders:
Eragon-world: The At Least One of Everything Fantasy Map.
Goodkind-land: The All the Borders Perfectly Follow Geographic Features Fantasy Map.
Kushiel-world: The Not Trying Hard Just Like Earth Fantasy Map.
Middle-Earth: The God Made It Fantasy Map.
Narnia: The Inconsistent Travel Distance Fantasy Map.
Valdemar: The Place Names Sound Really Made Up Fantasy Map.
Westeros: The Conveniently Paper-Shaped Continent Fantasy Map.
Randland: The Copying Stupid Things Tolkien Did Fantasy Map.
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms: The Fantasy Maps Are Mainstream Fantasy Map.
Birth Control in Fantasy: A Guide.
Realm of the Elderlings: wizardwood navel ring
Tortall: magic charm
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms: godwords
Terre D’Ange: divine intervention
Valdemar: potions
One thing I noticed is that fantasy birth control tends to be infallible. Does anyone know any that isn’t? (Not including historical methods, just typically magical author-created methods.)
