The History of Fantasy Maps

https://youtu.be/Qm6rFQMtiWE?si=WkO1vF3P_ZoEO6UB

And My Comment:

I Love Geogeaphical Maps!! 😍♥️😍♥️😍 Always have. Ever since I had got my very first look in an Atlas, when I was 6½, I've absolutely Loved them, which is why I know the (modern - I don't go for the mideval style, and as I am fervently, even fanatically fighting against christianity, I completely avoid anything to do with that, either) maps depicting Europe, the Middle-East and Northern Africa practically by Heart. And, конечно, I have always enjoyed creating Fantasy Maps, as well - by first drawing the shorelines (in deep Blue), then the main Rivers and Lakes (in light, Sky Blue), then the various borders (in deep Red), the main cities (mostly as black or grey dots), sometimes the district-borders (usually in pale orange, or strong yellow), sometimes some main mountain ranges (in brown) etc., and then, I decide - this is the year this and this, and from here, the Story shall begin - as one country (or sometimes: allience) invades another, or some countries form a union, or send their ships to discover and annex new places... sometimes, I would make a Map of the Geographically real world's Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle-East, but at some alternate timeline, and sometimes - would mix the eras, so the Catalonia, Scotland, Estonia, the Phoenician city states and Venice are allied against Slovakia, England, Hamburg and the Hittite Empire (or something like that).

In fact, one of my Greatest Stories, Árkalìda, which tells the Story of the Empire by that name and its emperors, their Family strives and intrigues, its peasants, its wars against various neighbouring kingdoms and republics etc., had started off from a Map I had created one day, back on early November 1991, showing it and these other lands. And THIS is my most favourite Map to date. 😍 Would You like to see it?

I also enjoy drawing city Maps, by the way - and for many years, I had been tinckering around with Maps of a Parallel reality's version of my HomeTown, Reĥovoth, in a World where it has Lakes (imagine that!!🤣), the Middle-East is Peaceful, climate change was stopped, the Entire World has just united under ONE Single Government, and the u.s. president by the millennium was Ralph Nader.🙂