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Your challenge is:
"The Cartographer"
The Sadorians are expert cartographers ('map-makers'). The majority of maps created are locked up in the Earthtemple or put to constant and strenuous use on sea journeys.
The Cartographer challenges you to recreate the Sadorian map of the known world, based on your knowledge of the world around you. You may also use this chronicled description as a guide:
"A peninsula of land shaped like a long fang and named Land’s End, and then a vast shoal-filled sea beyond which lay another land with more black coasts...the Red Land was to be found by travelling north-east along these black coasts...those who would go to Land’s End must sail across the Endless Sea to it..."
"The map showed the west coast, and Herder Isle, the strait between them and a small portion of the black coasts in that direction...I returned my attention to the west coast and followed it along to where it became Blacklands. The words black coasts were scribed on them and they were inked black some way in from the line that marked the edge..."
"Then I noticed two very small islands right at the upper edge of the map. There was minute spidery writing under them, and squinting, I read the words Romsey and Bayleux. Presumably these were the names of the islands...I leaned closer and thought I could make out the small symbol that mapmakers used to designate fresh water..."
"...seven more maps, all of which fitted against one another...final map, which showed the darklands as grey rather than black, two more islands had been drawn in and marked with the freshwater-spring symbol..."
"...wave rock at Land’s End...there was a great wave of stone rising up on Land’s End...Land’s End is free of taint, but it is surrounded by darklands..."
"The map also showed the land behind the desert lands as a black-edged wasteland many times greater than Sador...the black desert ran of the parchment in three different directions...both merely showed continuations of the black coast...which showed a stretch of grey and then a small patch of clean ground...two more clean patches, and one of them showed the tint freshwater-spring symbol...I noticed some faint markings on the edge of the parchment furthest from the black coastline."
"...a map that showed all of the sections I had so far seen together...the Land and Sador were but the smallest part...Sador, the Land and Westland were little more than pinpricks at the edge of a vast black shape..."- from pages 819-824, The Stone Key
Your task will be deemed a success if you include each location referred to in the above chronicle. This includes land-masses, labels for locations, markings to indicate blacklands and safe fresh water locations, and any other places of worthy note.
You will also be graded on the overall beauty of your finished product.
