those lines on the map

If you look closely at my pictures of the map you'll see lines of green. This detail from the previous photo below shows a point where 16 lines begin. This place on the continent of Nordinya is labeled as Aari-Tinhlan, but in my old notes I've also seen it called it Orytinlan. There is a magnificent tower here.

The green lines are straight and go in compass directions. Mountains, such as those shown here, do not stop them. The green lines, of course, are magical.

the continent of Nordinya

This section of the big map shows the continent of Nordinya. In the northern, or upper, area is the land of Celsythir...the land I orginally called Celsy. The region called Shydring is where this fantasy world started.

comments on the land of Moran

In the land of Moran they build ships out of twig trees? The Moranese people are friendly except to outsiders? You're limited to which clothing colors you can wear? Common fabric colors are probably hard to dye bright colors? Perhaps not the most logical ideas in hindsight.

I don't know where I imagined Moran would be, but I'm going to place it on the map to the northeast of the land of Celsythir, in the northern part of Tradlinya, around 50 degrees north latitude. I added to the shown section of the map new computerized text labels. (The text labels for Shayamorling and Morri-Mire are original to the map.)

the lost land of Moran

In my old, but newly rediscovered notes, there's a typewritten paragraph about the land of Moran. This is a fantasy land which I no longer know where it was supposed to be since it's not shown on my map of the world. I assume Moran was originally somewhere to the north or the east of Celsythir. I paraphrase here, instead of quoting verbatim, because my old notes are rather sloppily written.

MORAN
Moran is known for its rolling hills, its sparsely leaved twig trees, its and shipwrights. In the uplands people are mainly farmers or priests. In the lands near the sea people are mostly fishermen, traders, or shipwrights. Most live in small villages.

The Moranese people are good natured and calm. But they do not welcome non-Moranese to their land, and fight any southern or western influence.

In Moran one can only wear solid colors. Only in elaborate outfits are more than two colors used, or trimmings such as embroidery. Most garments are loosely fitting. Common fabric colors in Moran are maroon, deep violet, bright blue, kelly green, rust orange, bright red and rich brown. Men and married women wear leather boots. Fur is common in coats.

The Moranese generally have brownish-gold skin, greenish slanted eyes, and medium brown hair.

more about Marcollina

Acoording to some typewritten notes I found in with my artwork, Marcollina is (and I quote): "The keeper of the Ring of the Heavens. She is from the matriarchal land of Moran."

This tells me is that Marcollina is from a really old part of the story on this world. I don't recall anything about this "Ring of the Heavens", or what it signified. I assume it was a magical ring of the Tolkienesque sort. Marcollina is wearing a ring in my drawing (see previous post).

The land of Moran doesn't seem to be on the big map.

Marcollina

As well as mapping my fantasy world, I made numerous pencil drawings of characters.

This is a Marcollina. I know her name now because I wrote it on my artwork. I assume that she is from Celsythir and that she is a magician. She was not a major character because I don't recall her, but I like her picture.

My actual drawing shows her head to toe, in which her dress is floor length and she is wearing pointy shoes. I cropped this graphic to show detail.

compass directions

On my fantasy map there's a mark showing the compass directions. Instead of north, east, south, and west, my map has these directions -- chalth, selth, tanlth, and merth.

I made-up rhyming compass directions. Not the greatest idea perhaps. I also have four consonants in a row on the word for south (tanlth) which looks a bit confounding. Of the four words, I like the simplest ones best, east (selth) and west (merth). All these words look a bit odd to me given the distance of time.

holding the map of the world

My old fantasy world map is huge. This photo of me holding up the map only shows a only a portion of it. The map is rolled up at the sides, and a section is folded underneath.

dreams burn down

Celsy was created years ago, back when I was a teenager. I spent many hours playing in my fantasy world. In my dreams, I was going to write stories, or even books, set on this fantasy world. But that never happened. Few of my ideas were ever put on paper. I stepped away from this fantasy world. I abandoned my aspirations of being a fantasy writer. Dreams burn down.

map of the world

I may not have found the notebook, but I do have the map. The map is brilliant. It's been a long time since I last unrolled it on the floor. Fantasy books always include maps, don't they?

Celsythir is the country in northern Nordinya. (The suffix of -thir on Celsy means land). Shydring and Fahlandring are regions within Celsythir. Labeled in pencil is an area called the Flanshirn steppe. There's a city on the west coast called Rinca near a large island called Camerinda.

North of Celsythir is the Chalthnor Ocean. To the west is the strait of Sywald, and to the southwest is the Wirajnor Sea. Not far to the southeast is the huge Selthnor ocean.

I have a map of this entire fantasy world. Wow.

lost notes

My old notes about Celsy are somewhere, probably somewhere very secure. They are written in a lab notebook with unlined paper, in a journal of sorts. It's something I wouldn’t consider throwing out. I thought that it would be fairly easy to find. But the notebook eluded it me on my earlier search.

daydreams

Some time ago, in a place not far away, I decided to create my own fantasy land for fun. It wasn't intended to be a Dungeons & Dragons game scenario, but for place to set my own fantasy tales. That was my daydream, anyway.

I did some world building and word building. Stay tuned.