World from Guy Gavriel Kay books

[Narwen]

Map for fantasy world of one of my most favorite novelist Guy Gavriel Kay (@guygavrielkay). Based on maps by Martin Springett (screenshot from books)

Kay writes lyrical fantasy in a world that has very transparent allusions to the real Medieval history in various periods. His books illustrated with maps of continent very similar to Mediterranean. Unnamed peninsula similar to the Peloponnese looks very different on maps and I do not remember if this somehow explained in novels. I suppose that these changes is just technical, so I've used version from most recent book. I’ve also do not taking into account the historical variability of borders in the East.

This vector map is just fan project for practice purpose. Made in Adobe Illustrator.

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Textured version with some color accent (just a WIP):

jad_map_color.jpg

Updated version:

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[Falconius]

I like Guy Gavriel Kay, but I don't remember the maps. Seeing this though I would have to ask Guy: If you are going with a fantasy twist on Europe why not just use a Europe map with different names?

I think it's good work. I'm not sure how I feel about that Morse code coast effect. If I were redoing Guy's map for myself I personally would fix that river in Calysium.

[Narwen]

If I were redoing Guy's map for myself I personally would fix that river in Calysium.

Sure. Edited.

Nice work. I'm a massive GGK fan, and it's great to see some maps inspired by his work posted here.

Thanks!

[ChickPea]

Nice work. I'm a massive GGK fan, and it's great to see some maps inspired by his work posted here.