World Map

[DarthSanguine]

I made a quick "translation" of the current world map, but I m not finished yet. If someone find some errors or new names, please let me know ^^.

Only mistake I can see right now, is that you put Corvos instead of Dorvos.

[Rongway]

Speaking of old maps, is there any reason why we haven't found any maps of the world from the Allagans yet? Because I'm finding it really difficult to believe that a world-spanning empire could invent space-travel without having a complete map of the world. Why bother expanding towards space if there's land next to you that you haven't yet explored/conquered?

Besides the sensible meta-reasons explained by Moose, and the Calamitous re-geography-ing explained by Razor, we should also consider that maps (as would have been accurate during Allagan reign) quite probably do exist, but they are in non-paper (tomestone) format or otherwise very well hidden. Five thousand years is a long time for paper records, and they are not likely to have survived unless kept in sealed, magicked, or otherwise protected locations.

To draw a real-world parallel, we Earthans have shifted a great amount of our record-keeping to electronic formats in the last few decades, and books from even just a few hundred years ago might require careful preservation and handling to keep them from crumbling on contact.