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This is the earliest serious map I remember drawing.
I made up the coastlines and all the place names as I went, if I remember right. I covered it with wax paper to make it like it was laminated. I never wrote any stories in connection with it, or with any of the places on it, and it was not based on any previous work I had done. I did not forget about it, but it remained completely stand alone.
Except for one extremely important detail: on the back it is blank, but it has a word written at the top:
iniEl
Actually I was surprised to find it there. I do not know whether I had made it previously as the name of my world and put it on the "map of my world," or if I made it up for the maps name, like the other names on the map itself, or if I made it up afterwards and made it the name of the map just to store it there.
But I know it is the earliest occurrence of the name Iniel written down, and also the earliest occurrence in my memory. I did not even realize it was created so early.
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So tell me what you think of the map! What things do you like best about it? Or what parts do you like best? Does it remind you of anything?
I will not be using it in my stories, but I would still like to know what everyone thinks of it, even if you dislike it. I sort of disliked it myself...
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That took hours to draw. XD
But my current maps of Eshteka do use some of the old names. 