What is your fantasy map tier ranking?

Daniel: Mountains on the coast aren't common

South America: Am I a joke to you?

Skyrim is just a kingdom. On a continent named Tamriel. On a planet named Nirn. You should have used the whole map, its amazing

"Wester coasts are unoriginal and try to copy middle earth"

*me, looking at a map of europe*: HHHHHHHMMMMMMMMM

Ok, you said something in the Mistborn Trilogy, that, as a geologist, I feel the need to correct. at 12:02, you state "Mountains on the coast isn't the most common thing... Yeah. It is. More common than mountains in the center. Plate Tectonics works in such a way that mountain building events happen on the edges of continental plates, not in the center. Think the Rocky Mountains, the Andes, the Australian coast... even the Appalachian Mountains used to be on the coast, but they are pretty old, so the eastern coast has sort of "filled in" from the sediment eroding off the older mountains.

Ok, you might be thinking "But what about the Himalayas and the Alps... they aren't on the coast. Well, they were, but when Italy and Greece and Iran (all coastal mountainous lands) and India pushed their way north, they built mountains, that were coastal, until the coasts got lost to the mountain building event. Look up a lost ocean called the Tethys.

Seriously re-look at the map of the world. Where are the mountains in Africa? They are coastal. The Atlas, The Drakensberg, these chains are coastal. Otherwise, they are volcanic. Kilimanjaro is reminiscent of Dragonmount, or Lonely Mountain. North America. South America. Australia. All coastal.

Sorry for the rant.

This is a Game of thrones TV map, where is Song of ice and fire map? The one that is much bigger

4:06
The "big forests" are simply realistic, during the middle ages europe was covered in this stuff for something like 80%

Inheritance map: ah typical west-coast map, C-tier. WOT map: ah typical west coast map with fantasy tropes, A-tier  hm

I’m guessing the West Coast map is so common because most of them are drawn by right-handed people. It’s just easier to see the development of your coastline if it is on the left side of the paper, when drawing with your right hand.

Daniel: "Can we get an east coast map?!"
Me: "Chronicles Narnia is an east coast map... And Wheel of Time is a west coast map..."



Me: "I'll see myself out."

Why add the map of Skyrim and not the entire Tamriel

I’m waiting for you to say “my wonderful children...of the light”

Random note from a geology major, but mountains along a coast are actually quite common. They are caused by subduction zones between oceanic and continental plates, and are almost always volcanic in nature. An example of this is the ring of fire along the US west coast all the way around the pacific.

Good list. However; "Mountains on the coast like that is just not the most common thing." Erm...almost the entirety of the British Columbia coastline is mountain. Japan has a large, mountainous coast. And then there is the Andes. How could you forget about Peru like that? When you look at it, the majority of the west coast of South and North America are mountains.

My thoughts on west coast maps:


1) Due to wanting to cram in as much detail as possible, rectangular continents are the most useful shape in general (if not the most original)
2) West coast maps are probably easier to draw for right-handed people.
3) Tolkien

“I’m in shadow! Deal with it my children!”

"Oblivion Games"
STOP RIGHT THERE

I know it is important for some, but I think that Geographical oddities should not negatively affect a fantasy map. Their is nothing to say that the natural forces of the world are anything like earth. In many worlds the magic has/could have changed the landscape.

"Hello my beautiful wonderful children" - so.... should i call you daddy ?

map of united states


"Not realistic at all.  D tier for sure."