Hey folks. This is my first fantasy map but I'm a real-life cartographer so be vicious in your critique

This is an attempt to map Peter S. Beagle's world from his novel The Innkeeper's Song and subsequent short stories (Giant Bones, The Magician of Karakosk, etc.). You might be more familiar with his most popular work, The Last Unicorn, but this is his favourite of his own novels and he can't seem to leave it alone. I got to meet him a few weeks ago at a screening of TLU (the 1982 feature film) and we talked about Innkeeper and he told me he'd like to have it done as a TV series similar to Game of Thrones. That got me thinking I'd like to beat the rush to map this world so that's what I've set out to do. I have three pages of notes from Innkeeper about the relative locations of various towns and cities and I'm still trying to sort out where everything goes. I'm about halfway through the Giant Bones collection of stories (sold as The Magician of Karakosk everywhere else in the world).

So this is my preliminary effort. Any advice would be great but advice from anyone who's pieced together someone else's fantasy world from text would be particularly appreciated.

I created some of the landmasses by ripping up pieces of paper and cardstock and scanning them. That really helped me over the initial hurdle of knowing what the land looks like.

I have to work out where the mountains are supposed to be before I can add terrain, but I've marked in a few places where I think they belong.


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