History Main / FantasyWorldMap

* Alan Dean Foster's ''Spellsinger'' books have a map. At first it covers only the Bellwoods and immediate environs, with an added portion east of Zaryt's Teeth, because that's where the story is focused. (And true to form, while not every place on the Bellwoods map is visited, almost all the ones east of the Teeth are.) Book three introduces a whole new expanded map of the whole world which afterward never changes--although each subsequent book usually includes a secondary map showing what's 'just off the edge' or expanding on a small region.

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

* ''DungeonsAndDragons''' worlds ''Greyhawk'', ''{{Dragonlance}}'', the ''Forgotten Realms'', ''Birthright''...
** The maps of the Mystara setting are notable for almost always being covered in a hexagonal grid to assist the Dungeon Master in determining travel times, or something like that.

*** Besides having MedievalStasis the Hyrule seen in The Legend of Zelda Series is stuck with this

* ''TheElderScrolls Adventures: Redguard, TheElderScrolls III: Morrowind, TheElderScrolls IV: Oblivion,'' and their related [[ExpansionPackWorld expansion packs]] come with paper maps (a cloth map, for ''Reguard'') packaged in the boxes. They are designed to look like someone who actually lives in ''TheElderScrolls''' world drew them -- ''Oblivion's'' map even has a watermark and signature.
** ''The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim'' also comes with a rather detailed paper map of the country.

* ''{{Dragon Age}}'' has a map that you use whenever you choose which location you want to go to next. It's not a real world map, since it only shows one country (Ferelden), which is part of a much larger world (Thedas). Bioware also released a true world map that shows all of Thedas (see it [[http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/File:ThedasMap.jpg here]]), but this map does not appear in the game itself.

* ''AFireUponTheDeep'' by 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.

* ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'' has had many world maps due to the stories taking place during different eras. The map of the world during the most recent Third Age can be seen [[http://www.thegamersalliance.net/forums/showthread.php?t=554 here]],

* ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'' has had many world maps due to the stories taking place during different eras. The map of the world during the most recent Third Age can be seen [[www.thegamersalliance.net/forums/showthread.php?t=554 here]],

* ''GoldenSun'' games had a world map you could access by hitting R while outside of cities and dungeons. ''The Lost Age'' was sold with a paper map of Weyard and a character relationship chart. ''Dark Dawn'''s map of Angara contradicts most of what was established in the first two games.

When the map is particularly badly done and makes [[DidNotDoTheResearch no sense]], it's a PatchworkMap. A similarly lazy but more tantilizing choice is HijackedGeography.

A variation occurs when maps of real places are included in a novel where it helps follow the intrigue.

->"''I'm on to the third [book] and it doesn't get any easier. Too many damn wizards. I get them all mixed up with one another. It's all battles and endless bloody journeys, here to there and back again. If I so much as glimpse another map I swear I'll kill myself.''"\\
-- ''[[TheFirstLaw Last Argument of Kings]]'' by Joe Abercrombie, which doesn't include a map.

* ''Jak and Daxter: the Precursor Legacy'' had a poster map/manual in one. The map is bordered with a long, seemingly nonsensical passage written in the game's precursor language substitution cypher.
** On the contrary: the passage actually ''does'' translate into something and is full of references to the first game and future storylines. Part of it reads ''"The one who carries the light will awaken the voices. With him one whose fate was twisted toward darkness long ago, in the time before time when the light bursts from the earth the answers to the questions will begin."''

* ''{{WITCH}}'' often shows a map of Meridian early in the series in a lot of key scenes, such as when Phobos is planning his next assault or the rebels are planning their next strike.
* ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' shows it in the opening, and [[AllThereInTheManual the website]] even shows where the group is in each episode.

** ''The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim'' also comes with a rather detailed paper map of the country of Skyrim.

* ''TheElderScrolls Adventures: Reguard, TheElderScrolls III: Morrowind, TheElderScrolls IV: Oblivion,'' and their related [[ExpansionPackWorld expansion packs]] come with paper maps (a cloth map, for ''Reguard'') packaged in the boxes. They are designed to look like someone who actually lives in ''TheElderScrolls''' world drew them -- ''Oblivion's'' map even has a watermark and signature.

** He went on to use Italy and Greece in later installments in the series, which was {{hand wave}}d with the explanation that Xanth connects with the real world at multiple places and time periods, but most of the novels use modern Florida as the point where Earth connects to Xanth.

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[[caption-width:256:''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'''s map [[ViewersAreGoldfish helpfully reminds you which game you're playing.]]]]

* ''{{Eragon}}'' has a map, of course, because Tolkien had a map. It's even drawn by the author. It looks like an [[DidNotDoTheResearch exercise in the]] [[CriticalResearchFailure art of failing geography]].

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[[caption-width:256:''FinalFantasyI'''s map [[ViewersAreGoldfish helpfully reminds you which game you're playing.]]]]

* Subverted in Piers Anthony's ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' books by using the state of Florida as the map of Xanth.

* ''Jak and Daxter: the Precursor Legacy'' had a poster map/manual in one. the map is bordered with a long, seemingly nonsensical passage written in the game's precursor language substitution cypher.

* 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 [[DisContinuity still embrace the swap]]; for example, in RobertHeinlein's ''The Number Of The Beast'' 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.

* Subverted in Piers Anthony's ''{{Xanth}}'' books by using the state of Florida as the map of Xanth.

* ''TheWheelOfTime'' has one for the Westlands, and the Westlands only. This may be because a map of the entire world would look familiar.

Maps of fantasy worlds have been a feature of {{Fantasy}} books ever since [[TheWizardOfOZ L. Frank Baum]]. A visual reference can be very handy. Often drawn in elaborate script, pointing out the DoomedHometown, TheKingdom, TheEmpire, various {{Fantasy Counterpart Culture}}s, each of the FiveRaces' lands. Also marking out many of the {{Wacky Wayside Tribe}}s, the dangerous ForbiddenZone ({{Mordor}}) and other [[TheLostWoods Lost Woods]]. DianaWynneJones's ''TheToughGuideToFantasyland'' has a few things to say on the subject of maps, including the fact that if you're on a quest you may expect to visit ''every single place'' marked on them.

* The map of [[TheWonderfulWizardOfOz Oz]] 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 [[DisContinuity still embrace the swap]]; for example, in RobertHeinlein's ''The Number Of The Beast'' 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 ''{{Wicked}}'' and the books that follow it. As in the Oz example, the maps change focus and are updated with each volume.

* The TV adaptation of ''GameOfThrones'' has one of these in the credit sequence, highlighting the settings featured in each episode.