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OUTDATED - PLEASE GO SEE THE NEW VERSION! IT’S BIGGER, MORE RIDICULOUS, AND IN THE GLORIOUS EQUAL EARTH PROJECTIONLINK TO NEW VERSION: www.deviantart.com/tomme23/art…
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Izzpi? Indonesia and Borneo is called Izzpi? And where is Malaysia?
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Yup! You try getting a lizard to say the 'O' sound. Can't be done. Trust me I'm a zoologist.
For more lizard-given names I present a larger map of the region.
Think I accidentally brushed over the peninsula when trying to remove a dot, and then failed to notice. My bad.
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Remove the british isles, thet's what the shire is supposed to represent, it's too close to Lindon anyway, and it's where tol fuin goes.
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Used to be a complex story about how Akavir was in another dimension, but Midgard V2 does now include an Akavir. Soon™️(ish)
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By the way, beleriand was where the british isles are on the map, not to mention that the north at one point led straight to Aman, although it seems you made the map based on the Third Era state of Arda where Aman is already taken to heavens and impossible to get to by foot.
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Beleriand was where the british isles are on the mapI know, and I accounted for that. Back when I had much more free time than I do now I made another map showing this world as it was 10000 years prior (see Arceus’ Eden) and lampshaded it as an “embarrassingly large archipelago” in On the Norse . Beleriand itself would’ve been a low-lying Doggerland-like region. For Midgard V2 though I’ve shifted the British Isles further out into the Belegaer and added Tol Fuin.
As for Aman I’ve applied the “history as mythology” approach that you’re really supposed to when interpreting Tolkien, TES, and ASOIAF canon in that nothing can be set in stone. In Aman’s case it was never on-world but rather inside a plane of Oblivion, which my own interpretation can be seen here in The Other Local Neighbourhood . For a while there was a giant portal to this realm (same situation as Essos, for reasons explained in Where is Essos? ) just off Middle-Earth’s coast, and when Aman was “taken” the Ainur simply closed it.
This map was originally based in TA 3019, but for Midgard V2 I’ve shifted the timeline back so it’ll be based in FoA 218 (I made a journal entry with that info at Huge Timeline Shake-Up ).
Oh how I miss having free time...
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I do similar stuff from time to time, looks cool and its a ton of fun.
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Btw Skyrim is supposed to be on the northern end of Tamriel.
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It’s supposed to be on the polar end of Tamriel. Whether that pole is the north or south pole from the perspective of the map-maker (not that I included a compass) doesn’t matter at all.
On second thoughts.
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Well at least We Aussies will be overran by Lizardmen
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Australia remains as Australia because it's already close enough to a fantasy world with all the dangerous creatures like crocodiles, sharks, spiders, jellyfish, snakes, and feral koalas.
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Why would you name Eurasia "Endor"?! Is it from Star Wars!?!
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At this point though I reckon I should have used the Sindarin 'Ennor' instead.
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what are the other continents like during the 4th era?
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Still exist, still doing dead-ly things, still unresolved what happens to them. I've left the plot of A Song of Ice and Fire untouched (and added a lot of cosmic portally bullshit to do so).
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I see why Nerevarine didnt return. He is chilling in westeros
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What happened to the Uruks and Ologs?
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Tamreil on modern-day Earth...
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I love that you featured my favourite fictional location.
Canada.
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Canada is clearly eternal and so not bound to such petty things like reality or common sense. All glory to the maple leaf!
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Interesting that Australia is itself in this fantasy setting. Is that out of respect for the Aboriginal Dreamtime mythology? Or are we just that scary and strange to you?
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Originally, back in early 2014 when this was a fun little thing that hadn't consumed my DeviantArt life (please send help), Australia was kept because it has neat wildlife, was a cool country that I admired (same with Canada - and Canada is eternal), increased total land area for that 70:30 ratio, and served as a decent setting for the land of Oz since it is surrounded by desert on all sides.
Later in 2014-2015 I removed the Wizard of Oz (as I started to go down a realistic route and the franchise didn't fit into that) so Australia then served as the original evolutionary homeland of the saxhleel from the Elder Scrolls, which here are a naturally sapient species of monitor lizards, and the Redguards who then migrated into Yokuda and later Hammerfell. The saxhleel make up the vast majority of Australia's people here.
2016 came around and I've been revamping the world a bit. Along with a higher resolution map (which I've uploaded a few teasers for) I've been fleshing out the history and cultures of Terra (labelled Valinor on this rather outdated original map) and renaming things (sorry Canada, you are no longer eternal). Australia has similarly been renamed Izz, meaning 'home' in a native saxhleel language (and as a sort-of nod to Oz), and I've altered the coastline somewhat to add more distance between it and Tamriel. Once I'm done with Terra (which has become my baby) I'll be fleshing Izz out a lot more. Aboriginal mythology will be featured, though spiced up with the saxhleel, and the wildlife is much more like that of the Pleistocene. The bunyip, yowie (here a close relative to Tamriel's trolls), and drop bears (because why not?) are so far included as natural parts of Izz's fauna, will probably add more as time goes on.
But in the meantime, here's Izz.
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Their North is apparently south. Same with Westeros.
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It means Turkey is totally Mordor. And I'm an Org. 
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Can you tell me which part matchs with Spain or, better yet, Canary Islands?
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In terms of climate Harondor (South Gondor) matches with mainland Spain pretty well and I used Spain's textures for it in my larger WIP reboot (teaser for that here ). In terms of people, the Dornishmen are a decent approximation but their culture and languages are completely different. The Canary Islands are not visible here but will be featured in that reboot.
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you know, nothing tickles me more when someone attempts to put together disparate and sometimes contradictory fantasy worlds. Especially in your case with all the effort and reasoning you've put into this. What's more, I love how there are real world elements in this. It makes me laugh and it also kind of grounds this setting in a bit of believability.
I seriously enjoy this and look forward to more of your stuff.
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The resemblance really is uncanny, but coincidental.
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I see Chicxulub in there...does that mean there's a Dead Space Marker somewhere?
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Possibly, though in all honesty I named the country in homage to the crater.
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