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NadorMap20TalGreatSouthContinentNorth
Nador Maps 20-24 show the entirety of Tal, the great south continent of the world of Nador. Map 20 shows the northern part of the continent. Map 20 connects to the western edge of Map 21 and to the northern edge of Map 22. I sketched Tal in the mid-1980s. The Tal maps have a different scale than the Pham maps. One inch on the Tal map represents much more than 40 miles, but I never really decided how much. Since the Tal was created inadvertently when the Musid ripped the Evil Sibling Maza out of her hellish fortress, tearing Tal from Pham, Tal must be considerably narrower (east to west) than Pham, so maybe 1" = 100 miles.