#i think the left-justified map is an interesting trope and i realized maybe my followers might have some additional recs

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

Yeah, it's for sure because many of these fantasy lands are based on Europe, either deliberately or unconsciously so. Now, the main continent in Lois McMaster Bujold's World of the Five Gods series is also more or less a fantasy land based on Europe-- however, it's rotated 180 degrees, and it's in the southern hemisphere.

And it has weather to match -- north is a tropical archipelago, south is temperate to cool, and the southern islands (based on Iceland) are frozen. It's fun reading the novellas in the series (which involve a lot of traveling) and figuring out which countries correspond to which, even if you have to rotate the map in your head...

(Also it's a great book series for many other reasons than its worldbuilding... but its worldbuilding is still extremely well done, highly recommended.)

hey, just asking because i'm curious,

but how many people have noticed that a lot medieval fantasy maps are left-justified?

i mean i know its probably europe, but it's enough of a trope for tvtropes to have an article about it.

a lot of these are orientated with cold weather to the north and the sea to the west.

even the ones i found with ocean orientation not to the west, the cold weather is to the north.

i just thought it was interesting and wanted to share

edit: i think the only reason i noticed this is because very few maps look even vaguely like where i live in the s. hemisphere :p

cold weather is to the south and it gets hotter the further north you go

some examples i found:

middle earth - lotr

eragon

wheel of time

westoros - got (looks like britan and europe)