The AmWritingFantasy Podcast: Episode 145 – Worst Fantasy World Maps

Have you ever opened a fantasy book, looked at the map, and wondered what the author was thinking?

Jesper and Autumn pull out their favorite worst fantasy maps and a few map pet-peeves in this humorous episode of the Am Writing Fantasy podcast. Oh, plus a ghost story and more!

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All maps mentioned were chosen in good humor and jest and reflect personal opinions that aren't meant to be mean!

Check out some of the maps we talk:

Jesper's maps—

Wheel of Time: https://casapittura.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-wheel-of-time-map.html

Warbreaker: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/annotation-warbreaker-map/

Warhammer: https://www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/comments/ft00oy/made_the_full_warhammer_map_including_the_east/ 

Eragon: https://www.etsy.com/dk-en/listing/485637759/map-of-alagaesia-eragon-mapchristopher

Kushiel-world map: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/118923246398203552/

Autumn's maps—

Game of Thrones: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/File:WorldofIceandFire.png

Shannara: https://www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/blog/2012/05/29/new-shannara-map-of-the-four-lands/

Terry Goodkind: http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/sot/images/4/45/New_world_map.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100308012633

Anne Bishop: https://www.annebishop.com/s.tir.alainn.map.html

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Read the full transcript below. (Please note that it's automatically generated and while the AI is super cool, it isn't perfect. There may be misspellings or incorrect words on occasion).

Narrator (2s): You're listening to The Am writing Fantasy Podcast. In today's publishing landscape, you can reach fans all over the world. Query letters are a thing of the past. You don't even need an literary agent. There is nothing standing in the way of making a living from writing. Join two best selling authors who have self published more than 20 books between them now on to the show with your hosts, Autumn Birt and Jesper Schmidt.

Jesper (30s): Hello, I'm Jesper.

Autumn (32s): And I'm, Autumn.

Jesper (34s): This is episode 145 of the Am Writing Fantasy podcast. And we are back with one of our top 10 episodes. And this time we'll each share five fantasy maps that are the worst, and we'll see who can well, basically create the best worst list again.

Autumn (53s): And this was an interesting challenge to be describing Maps well on a podcast. So the YouTube listener, I think everyone just go check the show notes. We're going to have a links to some of the Maps we're talking about, but it'll be, yeah, we'll do our best, but I think we can be descriptive enough of what drove us crazy about the map in question.

Jesper (1m 16s): Yeah. And we'll, we'll try, we'll try. At least we have 144 episodes behind us. So hopefully we should be able to think about this being an audio medium.

Autumn (1m 26s): I know. Compared to some podcasts we're like middle-aged or something we're getting into the here.

Jesper (1m 35s): Yeah. Yeah. That, that, when you said that, that reminded me of the, some of the comments on Facebook, around the episode we did about marketing to different generations. And Jason commented on one of the, on that post about listening to that episode, made him feel really old. And I just had to tell him like me too.

Autumn (1m 59s): Yeah. When you're aged generation is next to the top, you're like, Ooh, that happened.

Jesper (2m 5s): Yeah.

Autumn (2m 6s): That's never fun.

Jesper (2m 8s): No, no, it's not.

Autumn (2m 11s): So how are things over in Denmark though?

Jesper (2m 15s): Well, yeah, so this last week has been one of those where it actually started out quite well, bu