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Thanks for your vote, AzureWings!
Your borders and compass won a vote from me long before your map was even near finished, and it just got better from there . Especially that compass though - that is a powerful-looking compass. I could just see some cloaked figure standing on a mountain ledge, overlooking the wide plain of an entire kingdom, holding that compass up to the star-filled night sky as it ticks and spins in arcane motions, divining the places of future events of great import.
Thanks for your vote, AW .