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I’m one of those proud nerds who loves looking at a map when I open a book. So when I created the world of Koleth, of course I wanted to include maps.

Koleth was built from below the ground up– by which I mean, I started with plate tectonics on a globe and worked my way up. Which is how I got this delightfully messy world map over here:

From there I added some national divisions, etc:

(Ignore the massive poles– map projections can be tricky that way).

But all that’s way too much information to include on a map for this one story. So I zoomed in a bit, lightened it enough so I wouldn’t murder my printer, and added the locations I mention in the Dealmaker’s Gambit.

And then traced over that with a good old sharpie and some highlighters (it was a slow day at work.)

After that it was a matter of cleaning it up in photoshop, adding some text, and voila!

That looks like something that you might find in a book!