http://www.kalimedia.com/Atlas_of_True_Names.html
It's an atlas which translates the meanings of its place names into English. In the case of places that are named after someone, they also translate the meanings of the name. The result is very fantasy-ish.
Hey, that's really cool. Thanks for the pointer! I may have to order a set.
That is really cool. Nice find.
I have not created my Christmas list.
I now have the first entry or two (or three...).
Awesome.
It's like Glorantha!
I think we English speakers are among the most alienated from the concrete meanings of our words and place-names by the way, due to the double heritage of our core vocabulary.
That is super cool. Must get one next time I'm buying stuff for gaming.
I wonder if they got Uruguay's real-meaning right, its pretty commonly known here: "The Land of the Painted Birds".
RPGPundit
I'll tell you in a couple of weeks when it arrives, RPGPundit.
Of course, Canada's is an interesting one too: an absolutely gigantic country named "The Village".
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This is awesome!
Thank you!
On the Christmas List it goes!
I don't know if it's a particularly scholarly work...a lot of places have disputed meanings, and from what I can see they've only got one for each place.
Anyway, maybe you can use this to see what's happening in this alternative world:
http://thesurrealist.co.uk/fantasy.html
Not when the page won't load, we can't.
Not sure what the problem is - I checked the link I posted, and it loaded for me, in both Firefox and Internet Explorer.
No problem for me, either.
It works for me, too.
Okay, so I've now got the world map version of this (there's a UK and Europe one, too, but I only had enough in paypal for one!) Individual countries aren't named, but in the region of Uruguay there's a Land of Bird Tails, with cities called Good Breezes and I See The Mountain. Inland on the Silver River is Rosary.
My continent is called Land of the South Wind and my city, Millstream.
It's pretty cool, it'll make a good Hannukah present for my woman - she likes maps a lot. And dice and games and stories. No, I don't know why that doesn't turn into a like of roleplaying, but there you go, she'll like this, anyway.
Quote from: Kyle Aaron;274314Okay, so I've now got the world map version of this (there's a UK and Europe one, too, but I only had enough in paypal for one!) Individual countries aren't named, but in the region of Uruguay there's a Land of Bird Tails, with cities called Good Breezes and I See The Mountain. Inland on the Silver River is Rosary.
Not sure what Land of Bird Tails woudl be, but "Good Breezes" is surely Buenos Aires, Argentina's capital. And "I see the mountain" is Montevideo's meaning.
Does it mention the Colony of the Sacrament? Or Big Jump? Piria's city? Etc etc.?
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Those don't appear, no.
Remember it's not a huge and really detailed map. It's some kind of lenticular projection (ie where the whole world is shown a big flattened oval), 1:90million scale.
I'm sure everyone will have arguments as to why the names of their local or favoured areas are wrong. It's still a fun map, though.