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No, more like a smudged mirror image
Leosia = Anatolia with the passage to the Black Sea to its left
Gylphenne = Greece except the straits to Anatolia is now a land bridge
Theodex = the Balkans
Narthane = Germany and Denmark
Rydony = Italy but with Corsica taking Sicily's place who buggered off to the right
Pyranadon + Vaniya = France
Hadrian = the Iberian peninsula
Balefire Island = UK molded after the Baffin Islands sortof
*edit*
Unmarked, but you can see Cyprus south of Leosia and the bottom of Scandinavia north of Narthaine. Suez is there too, down and left from Cyprus. The Caspian Sea is also visible on the left edge of the map.
Leosia = Anatolia with the passage to the Black Sea to its left
Gylphenne = Greece except the straits to Anatolia is now a land bridge
Theodex = the Balkans
Narthane = Germany and Denmark
Rydony = Italy but with Corsica taking Sicily's place who buggered off to the right
Pyranadon + Vaniya = France
Hadrian = the Iberian peninsula
Balefire Island = UK molded after the Baffin Islands sortof
*edit*
Unmarked, but you can see Cyprus south of Leosia and the bottom of Scandinavia north of Narthaine. Suez is there too, down and left from Cyprus. The Caspian Sea is also visible on the left edge of the map.
Here is the REALLY weird thing...the map was drawn by someone else that I don't know, I downloaded it from the internet then I inserted the boundaries of the provinces more or less blindly!
This is what we started with (no country boundaries) then first me (nation boundaries and then aprilschild (first Photoshop recolor/polish) and Sir_Subtle (second Photoshop recolor/polish) worked on it.
As you can see there are rivers but no country boundaries.
So the resemblance to Europe on a country-for-country basis would have to be a pure coincidence even if the original unlabeled continent map was based on Europe (which didn't occur to me at the time).
This is what we started with (no country boundaries) then first me (nation boundaries and then aprilschild (first Photoshop recolor/polish) and Sir_Subtle (second Photoshop recolor/polish) worked on it.
As you can see there are rivers but no country boundaries.
So the resemblance to Europe on a country-for-country basis would have to be a pure coincidence even if the original unlabeled continent map was based on Europe (which didn't occur to me at the time).
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Only *I* may rip-off the real world for my world maps with impunity!
I know you're kidding, but this is I assume something every fantasy cartographer does to some degree or another (judging by all the similarities that GRS noticed). I don't really know much about the field.
I'd just like to say Europe is the most badass landmass in reality or fiction so at least the best continent was knocked off instead of something boring.
Kaempfer
1932
No, Pyrandon is definitely Brittany. Maybe the Westmost part of it is the Netherlands, but I don't know.
Also, even the rivers are pretty much the same. The Nile Delta is pretty much an exact replica. I do agree with GRS, though, Europe is easily the best landmass of its size. Islands, peninsulas, forests, mountains et cetera et cetera it's got everything you need for any type of epic political backdrop!
But no, not all map designers just rip off the real world. I mean, they emulate the things that shaped the real world if they are good (like glacial recessions) but good map designers draw fictional things. It's hard to not be somewhat similar to the real world somewhere, but... Don't let JRPG map designers fool you!
Also, even the rivers are pretty much the same. The Nile Delta is pretty much an exact replica. I do agree with GRS, though, Europe is easily the best landmass of its size. Islands, peninsulas, forests, mountains et cetera et cetera it's got everything you need for any type of epic political backdrop!
But no, not all map designers just rip off the real world. I mean, they emulate the things that shaped the real world if they are good (like glacial recessions) but good map designers draw fictional things. It's hard to not be somewhat similar to the real world somewhere, but... Don't let JRPG map designers fool you!
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