History Main / FantasyWorldMap

** ''Discworld/RaisingSteam'' eventually did the classic map-in-the-endpapers format, with a railway map of the Sto Plains and surrounding lands.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'' got the Fantasy World Map treatment in form of "The Essential Atlas", which is just what it is. The authors had to not only go through the [[Franchise/StarWars six movies]], but also the [[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse TV shows, comic books, novels, e-stories and video games]]. All in all this encompasses to a Fantasy [[TheVerse Galaxy]] Map.

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* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Brawl'', Adventure Mode: The Subspace Emissary includes a map that shows which stages you've cleared, with the option of going back to repeat those that weren't wiped out (although all stages can eventually be replayed after one completes the Subspace Emissary for the first time).

* ''VideoGame/{{VectorThrust}}'' has a complete map of Terra, the [[AlternateUniverse parallel Earth]] which shows the current world [[spoiler:after WorldWarIII]]. It also has [[BreadEggsMilkSquick side maps for terrain, population density and radiological hazards.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'' and ''WesternAnimation/ElenaOfAvalor'' has one that debuts in ''WesternAnimation/ElenaAndTheSecretOfAvalor'', although an official one (which labels the locations of the kingdoms) has never been released due to [[ScrewedByTheLawyers NDAs]] and Disney not wanting to establish an inconsistent continuity among multiple Disney properties (particularly regarding the locations of [[Disney/{{Tangled}} Corona]] and [[Disney/{{Frozen}} Arendelle]]).

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', an {{Animesque}} CGI production from Creator/RoosterTeeth, created and animated by Creator/MontyOum, has one of the world of Remnant. An interesting note is that two of the landmasses in the final version of the map closely resemble dragons (both Eastern and Western styled), having serpentine-like bodies with what resembles wings, horns and jaws. This is mostly coincidence: Monty came up with the map by spilling some coffee on a napkin and folding it up a few times.

[[caption-width-right:336:Even maps can be {{Troperiffic}}.[[note]]Case in point - here's what's in the map: GrimUpNorth, {{Uberwald}}, {{Arcadia}}, GhibliHills, TheLostWoods, HailfirePeaks, DeathMountain, {{Mayincatec}}, TheSavageSouth, BornInTheSaddle, ThirstyDesert, ForbiddenZone, FarEast, FloatingContinent, LandDownunder, OceanAwe, OceanMadness, SeaStories, HereThereBeDragons[[/note]]]]

* Creator/VernorVinge's ''Literature/ZonesOfThought'', ''Literature/AFireUponTheDeep''. While a science fiction novel, it has a map of the galaxy done in fantasy style. It includes a delineation of the "Zones of Thought", which regulate FTL travel, as well as the path the protagonists' ship takes.

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** Back in the '90s, Creator/WizardsOfTheCoast released several maps of the world of Dominaria, the main setting of the game, focusing on the continents of Aerona, Terisiare and Jamuraa. There is also a globe of the entire world hidden away somewhere in [=WotC=] HQ, though no one outside the company has ever seen it. Afterwards, however, the only map they published until 2018 was a very sketchy one of the continent of Otaria, instead just throwing out a new setting every year with no indication of what's where in relation to everything else.
*** Pete Venters (creator of the aforementioned globe) did release [[http://wiki.mtgsalvation.com/article/Image:Dominariaglobe.jpg a map based on it]]. It only shows one hemisphere and there's a few clouds, but Aerona and other land masses are recognizable.
*** For most of ''Magic''[='=]s early history, no complete map of Dominaria was ever published. Almost all the maps showed a single continent, and the most comprehensive map only showed a part of the northern hemisphere. Then there are the continents with ''no map at all'', which we have to rely on the background story to fathom where anything's located.
*** This eventually changed with the release of the ''Return to Dominaria'' storyline, which included the release of [[https://gamepedia.cursecdn.com/mtgsalvation_gamepedia/a/af/DominariaMap_2018.jpg?version=5944fbf13a8e533743d385f7e65dc6cb a full world map]] of Dominaria, showing the locations and relative sizes of all of the previous Dominarian lands and seas. Among other things, this included the first depiction of the island of Shiv and a much more detailed depiction of Otaria, which included the subcontinent of Tamingazin being retconned to by located on Otaria's northern tip.

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*** This eventually changed with the release of the ''Return to Dominaria'' storyline, which included the release of [[https://d1u5p3l4wpay3k.cloudfront.net/mtgsalvation_gamepedia/a/af/DominariaMap_2018.jpg?version=1607896a93de6c8d8a03411d0605d5ff a full world map]] of Dominaria, showing the locations and relative sizes of all of the previous Dominarian lands and seas. Among other things, this included the first depiction of the island of Shiv and a much more detailed depiction of Otaria, which included the subcontinent of Tamingazin being retconned to by located on Otaria's northern tip.

* Strangereal, a [[AlternateUniverse parallel Earth]] in which most of the ''VideoGame/AceCombat'' series takes place, has its own [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/acecombat/images/c/c5/Strangereal_Map_AC7.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180614082840]]

* ''VideoGame/SekiroShadowsDieTwice'' has one for the Ashina, the fictional region of Japan the game takes place in, which you can access from the fast travel screen. While it's completely unnecessary to actual in-game exploration, it's lavishly drawn and shows you where exotic places such as Mibu Village and the Fountainhead Palace are in relation to the rest of the world.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' series, also from Creator/BlizzardEntertainment, has the same problem as ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' -- the map, which is supposed to be of the same continent over a span of about thirty years, changes rather drastically from one game to the next.
** [[spoiler: Although this may be due to a cataclysm of some kind between Diablo II and Diablo III.]]

* ''VideoGame/SekiroShadowsDieTwice'' has one for the Ashina, the fictional region of Japan the game takes place in, which you can access from the fast travel screen. While it's completely unnecessary to actual in-game exploration, it's lavishly drawn and shows you where exotic places such as Mibu Village and the Fountainhead Palace are in relation to the rest of the world.

* Unlike most roleplaying games, most ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' installments (with the exception of Sacred Stones and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'') don't let you move around the world map yourself, so when it shows you the map it obeys this trope.

* ''Literature/TheColdMoons'' starts with a map of the region that the book takes place in.

* Strangereal, a [[AlternateUniverse parallel Earth]] in which most of the ''VideoGame/AceCombat'' series takes place, has its own [[http://www.imaginaryatlas.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/strangereal.jpg world map.]]

* Besides having MedievalStasis the Hyrule seen in ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' is stuck with this.

* The [[XtremeKoolLetterz Urth]] map of ''VideoGame/PrimalRage'' is shaped in the form of a ''Tyrannosaurus'' skull. With flames in the mouth.

* Many of the games in the ''VideoGame/{{Ultima}}'' series included actual cloth maps of the world as {{Feelies}}. Useful for navigation in-game, but they were labeled in a pseudo-runic cypher.
* All three ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' games had World Maps in them. Azeroth's a [[ChaosArchitecture constantly changing place]], though, since none of the maps looked [[RetCon like the other]].
** VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft makes frequent use of the map of the world (in addition to always being able to pop up the map of the area you're in, when you use the flying taxi service you click on your destination in a map of the whole continent). Each expansion has changed the maps, with Cataclysm replacing the maps of the original two continents and all the others adding a continent-sized area.
** The ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' series, also from Creator/BlizzardEntertainment, has the same problem -- the map, which is supposed to be of the same continent over a span of about thirty years, changes rather drastically from one game to the next.

* [[http://eotbeholder.deviantart.com/art/The-Only-Fantasy-World-Map-245738593 The Only Fantasy World Map You'll Ever Need]] and [[http://sarithus.deviantart.com/art/Map-of-Clichea-532220700 Map of Clichéa]] at [[http://www.deviantart.com Deviant Art]] parody this.

* ''{{WebAnimation/RWBY}}'', an {{Animesque}} CGI production from Creator/RoosterTeeth, created and animated by Creator/MontyOum, has one of the world of Remnant. An interesting note is that two of the landmasses in the final version of the map closely resemble dragons (both Eastern and Western styled), having serpentine-like bodies with what resembles wings, horns and jaws. This is mostly coincidence: Monty came up with the map by spilling some coffee on a napkin and folding it up a few times.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' has one for the Land of Ooo.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' shows it in the opening, and [[AllThereInTheManual the website]] even shows where the group is in each episode.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' shows the same map in the first opening before zooming into Republic City, the main setting of the series.

** The first ''Literature/{{Bravelands}}'' book has a minimalistic map. The map is more so to look pretty than to actually act as a map, though it does tell where the key areas of the book are.

* The map of the Literature/LandOfOz is one of the earliest examples of this trope. Since each succeeding book visited a different part of Oz or its environs, the map got an annual update with the release of each new book. Unfortunately, Baum messed up the map's directions, putting West and East on the wrong sides of the map. (While this was corrected in later books, devout ''Oz'' fans [[FanonDiscontinuity still embrace the swap]]; for example, in Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/TheNumberOfTheBeast'' the world-jumping main characters use this feature to confirm that Oz really is Oz when they visit it.) The unique colors of the map of Oz forms the basis for the flag of Oz.

** Related to, inspired by, and roughly resembling this map is the one included in ''Literature/{{Wicked}}'' and the books that follow it. As in the Oz example, the maps change focus and are updated with each volume.

Also frequent in TabletopGames for gameplay reasons, and, occasionally, in {{anime}} series. For VideoGame sub-tropes, see OverworldNotToScale, PointAndClickMap, and RiskStyleMap.

* Creator/AnneBishop's works:
** There are maps in ''Tir Alainn'' and ''Literature/TheOthers'' books which have notes underneath them reading, "This map was created by a geographically challenged author. All distances are whimsical and subject to change without notice."
** Inverted in her ''Ephemera'' books: you couldn't draw a map even if you wanted because two different people can end up in two different places by going through the same gate depending on where the "heart resonates" with.

* Creator/TamoraPierce's ''Literature/CircleOfMagic'' series has its own map showing the location of Winding Circle Temple as relative to nearby cities, but not a perhaps more useful map of Winding Circle ''itself.'' The ''Circle Opens'' quartet each have a map of the city they take place in as well, and ''The Will of the Empress'' has a map, although not a very detailed one, of Sandry's home country of Namorn.
** Her Literature/TortallUniverse also has maps. It's remained largely consistent--starting with Tortall and its immediate land neighbors, then adding entries as the setting expanded and the plot took characters to more places. There are also smaller maps if the story's setting is in one place, e.g. the Corus city map in ''Literature/ProvostsDog''.

* Robert E. Howard included a map with the ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'' stories, though given Howard's rather slam-bang style of world-building, it wasn't so much a physical map as a series of political borders. It's mentioned at one point in "Literature/ThePhoenixOnTheSword," where King Conan adds the northern lands where he came from to the maps of the Aquilonian court.

* ''[[Literature/InheritanceCycle Eragon]]'' has a map. It's even drawn by the author.

** The first ''Literature/{{Bravelands}}'' book has a minimalistic map. The map is more so to look pretty than to actually act as a map, though it does tell where the key areas of the book afe.
* ''Literature/AFireUponTheDeep'' by Creator/VernorVinge. While a science fiction novel, it has a map of the galaxy done in fantasy style. It includes a delineation of the "Zones of Thought", which regulate FTL travel, as well as the path the protagonists' ship takes.
* The former page quote (now on the [[Quotes/FantasyWorldMap quotes page]]) from ''Literature/TheFirstLaw'' trilogy is spoken by a character reading a fantasy novel (''in'' a bleedin' fantasy novel) as a not so subtle TakeThat to the entire trope. (Or, possibly, to ''Lord of the Rings'').
** Definitely to ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. "There And Back Again" is the in-setting name for ''Literature/TheHobbit''.
* Le Guin's more recent YA series, of which the first is entitled ''Gifts,'' also has such a map, but notably the characters in ''Gifts'' only ever occupy a small upper-right hand corner of the map. Presumably they'll venture forth in the sequels.
** They do, but in ''Voices'' the action is confined to the bottom left-hand corner, so there's a city map as well. In ''Powers'' there's much more travelling, but no map at all in the British edition (not even a reprint of the large map from the first two books).
* Most of Creator/HarryTurtledove's AlternateHistory novels include world maps showing the political layout of the book's timeline.
** This is common in AlternateHistory, as it's a helpful way of letting the reader know exactly how the world is different in the novel's timeline. ''Literature/{{Fatherland}}'', to quote one other example, has both a map of the Nazi-dominated Europe and a map of the central district of Berlin as it would have been had Albert Speer got his opportunity to rebuild the city in his and Hitler's image.
** Not really needed in his Fantastic Civil War series, which is just a retelling of the ACW in the west from Chickamauga on. Once you realize that the directions are reversed and all the place and character names are replaced by groanworthy literary references and puns, you can follow along with a real guide to the campaigns at hand. Selma, Alabama, for example, is renamed [[Creator/SalmaHayek Hayek]], and General Rosecrans is renamed [[{{Theatre/Hamlet}} Guildenstern]].

* ''[[Literature/ThursdayNext One Of Our Thursdays Is Missing]]'' has a map of the [=BookWorld=] as it stands after the [[CosmicRetcon version update]] that gave it some actual geography.

** By 2000, the StarWars Galaxy had a map establishing the key regions and locations for a couple dozens of major planets. By 2010, it had a full Atlas, with over '''60 astro-maps''' and precise locations of over '''4,500''' planets.

* Fiona Patton's Literature/TalesOfTheBranionRealm contains a map in each book, which unmistakeably depicts the [[FantasyCounterpartCulture British Isles]]. Due to [[IstanbulNotConstantinople alternate names]] such as Albangate for St. Albans and Halmouth for Falmouth, it's possible to follow the protagonists' journeys even without the maps (which is good as the maps are small and only show major locations).

* Brin's ''Literature/{{Uplift}}'' series is another science fiction example.

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