I recently finished translating this map I made and wanted to share it with you all. I drew a lot of stylistic inspiration from medieval and early modern European cartography - in particular the maps of Jan van Linschoten (attached), Olaus Magnus (attached), and the Catalan Atlas of 1375.

Happy to answer any questions about the map and its translation (or about anything else - if I don't know the answer, I'll just make something up!)

Some personal favorites:

"These people are savages; they live on raw fish - they drink sea water and go around naked."

"This sovereign is called Marwan. He is the noblest and richest of all Harad. He commands an army of 864 Mûmakil, 62,208 riders, and countless men."

"All this land is inhabited by trolls three fathoms high, like giants. They are grey-skinned and dim-witted. They eat men."

I'm also always happy to get the chance to use the word "perfidious." :)

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Simple land, simple thing. We have so many places... World is big; a place enough. Yee, c'mon.

This is outstanding!