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A brown fireplace with a roaring fire in the middle. Above the fireplace are 2 blue windows with sunbeams going towards the fireplace. The background is a blue gradient from a darker blue at the top to a lighter blue at the bottom. The Sunlit Hearth explores a variety of topics such as classic fantasy, modern fantasy, and realism in fantasy. It also looks at fantasy charm, good fantasy maps, and great fantasy maps. Other topics include reusing story ideas, rejected story ideas, the war of good vs evil.

The Sunlit Hearth: How Great Fantasy Maps Help Worldbuilding

CONTENTS Overview What purpose do maps serve when it comes to worldbuilding? Besides the obvious, that is showing how places in the world are linked to each other, they provide useful information both to the characters and the audience viewing them. You could even go so far as to say that designing great fantasy maps […]

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A brown fireplace with a roaring fire in the middle. Above the fireplace are 2 blue windows with sunbeams going towards the fireplace. The background is a blue gradient from a darker blue at the top to a lighter blue at the bottom. The Sunlit Hearth explores a variety of topics such as classic fantasy, modern fantasy, and realism in fantasy. It also looks at fantasy charm, good fantasy maps, and great fantasy maps. Other topics include reusing story ideas, rejected story ideas, the war of good vs evil.

The Sunlit Hearth: How to Create Good Fantasy Maps

CONTENTS The Premise Even though avid fans of fantasy love a good story and an equally impressive world, they want to see what it looks like. They want to see the various landmasses, locations of cities and strongholds, geographic features like rivers and mountains which is why many stories come with maps. Thus, it’s important

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