Finally got around to finishing and launching this. It's what the title says, really, a nautical chart of The Inner Passages of the Western Territories (the setting of my series of weird little cosmic horror urban fantasy novels.) Maps aren't necessary for my books. But I will always make an effort to expand the world of the Territories off the page.

This was all hand-drawn in Illustrator and then assembled in Photoshop for texture/layer/ink effects. Some of the symbols are lifted from nautical chart standards—mostly NOAA, but I deviated somewhat on some. The setting is post-post-apocalyptic—society is emerging from a near extinction-level event far in the past. What technology exists is distributed unevenly, so a chart like this would be assembled from volunteer sources and updated often.

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If you want, you can see the enormous 5k version over on my blog. (It was too big to post here.) I recently put together a new reader resource page where all of the series maps will live. You can check it all out here.