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I don't have a scanner.
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danlo wrote:I don't have a scanner.
That does pose a bit of a problem. I'd offer to scan it for you but I'd burn up 100 bucks in gas doing it. :D
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I'll mail it to you :D
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danlo wrote:I'll mail it to you :D
Maybe I can send it back with Anita Bryant's autograph and some oranges. :wink:
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Well, if you haven't beforehand, we can experiment with my digital camera and little photo printer at Elohimfest. :)
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Let's do that then. :D It's too good of a map to be fuzzy and no matter how odd it may look it's all based on SRD's exact descriptions-prob the only fun I had was extending Perdon a bit north and creating a mountianous, glacial region complete with the impassable river sources that seperate Cadwal and Alend north of Mordant. I started with my own ideals but SRD's borders, etc...made 12 revisions nessesary.
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danlo wrote:It's not your comp it's the stupid disposo-camera I used-that's what I get for selling my Pentax 2 months ago-sorry about that. Now a digital camera would have brought it all out--but I can't afford that yet. The fuzzy area above the gray blob (that's trying to say Alend) is Sarab.
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Excellent job, Danlo! I can't wait to see it without the blur.
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Me too! Should be pretty good. :D
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Good lord; you just have to have the last word, don't you Revan?
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No, of course not. *sly smile*
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Definitely an interesting map, danlo. I want a copy. (I'll be bringing my own digital camera to Elohimfest, unless I forget, so that may be possible to arrange, n'est-ce pas?)

Alas, the only names I can read clearly are ALEND and CADWAL, but the rest more or less corresponds to the mental map I constructed while reading the books last time round. I did think of Mordant as a bit more triangular than you've made it — northwestern border closer to a straight line than the roughly circular arc you've shown — but that's the only difference that leaps to the eye. And I freely admit that I'm probably mistaken about that point. After all, you're the one who went over the books painstakingly enough to construct an actual map.
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Thanks to Duchess here's a much more readable version of my map (the little purple "Care" is Demense) See link page 2
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That looks awesome, danlo! Well done! :D
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map!!!

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Hey danlo!
Anychance of another look at the map you did all those years ago?????I,ve been trying to make sense of my own effort having given my rough copy to a friend who I am trying to convert !!!!It would be great to see what others make of it all !!!
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I'll email Duchess she has the clearer version of the map somewhere-or maybe she can find out what her Webshots problem is.

I do have a scanner now--if I could find the map it would fantastic quality! Hmmmm...
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Finally found a link to my map----sorry it's kinda fuzzy but
Map of Mordant
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hey that's pretty cool.
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Agreed. Danlo, that rocks! 8)
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It is nice, and a lot better than nothing. (Leaves me wondering why Donaldson, who went to the trouble to write two books in which the geography clearly mattered, didn't trouble to make a map...)

Can't figure out how to save a copy to my computer...
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