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Full map of Exandria, 2025 update!

Hi again everyone! It's been another year, and with Campaign 4 taking us to another world, I thought it was time to release another update to my definitive map of Exandria!

Linked below is a download file, which includes both high and standard resolution .pngs and well as the low res .jpeg that you see in this post. Also includes the Wonderdraft map file, for anyone who wants to take this map and modify it for themselves!

High-resolution map images and Wonderdraft file download:

Pay What You Want Ko-fi link [HERE]

Only a few changes have been made to my map in the last year, summarized below:

Added Seedfeld from The Re-Slayer's Take to Demithore Valley.

Added Port Callivon and Gremidash mentioned by Raishan in The Legend of Vox Machina to Mornset Countryside.

Added Torm's Hill and Snowgrave pass from ExU: Divergence to Mornset Countryside; added unofficial roads connecting Torm's Hill to Bronbog.

Added Seagate from ExU: Divergence to Othanzia.

Added village of Lichenvel from Vox Machina: Stories Untold to Menagerie Coast

Added village of Vashlow mentioned by K'ryyn in Critical Role Campaign 1 to Menagerie Coast

Added island of Evaterena and the village of Yutazo from Tag Team at the Teeth to the Shattered Teeth.

Once again I want to give special thanks to Don Farland for his original fan map of Exandria, created all the way before the release of Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, upon which I originally based my map of the Shattered Teeth, to Niko Vanhala for his fan-made maps of Marquet and Issylra, upon which I have loosely based my maps of those continents. And of course another thank you to Andy Law and Deven Rue for the official cartography of Exandria!

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Feathursday Herons

Our friend, Wisconsin wood engraver Tony Drehfal, recently sent us an early proof of his engraving entitled Heronry that he is currently editioning. The engraving depicts a Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) rookery near Nashotah, Wisconsin. He had begun the engraving on seamed boxwood and was about 70% complete before he and his wife Jeanne left on a trip for 3 months. When they returned, he discovered that the block had dried and split into four sections along the seams in the dry heat of his studio. He thought the block was ruined!

Still, he set the block on edge in a moist environment for a few months and the gaps had closed considerably. In a few more months they closed even more. He then placed the block in a humidity chamber (just a plastic bin with damp sponges) and in a few weeks the cracks were completely closed. He sealed the seams with glue and was able to complete the engraving. Phew!

Besides being a generous donor to our Special Collections, Drehfal is also a member of both the Wood Engravers’ Network (WEN), the national organization for American wood engravers, and its venerable British counterpart, the Society of Wood Engravers. He currently sits on the WEN Board of Directors.

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“Because the only way to change things is to look at everything again very slowly.”

—La caméra de Claire

bell hooks at a party:

“I interrupted and suggested that he might not be the misogynist woman-hater he is today if he had not been brutally beaten by a woman as a child”

(All About Love, bell hooks)

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#bell hooks #all about love #jaw on the floor

2666 by Roberto Bolaño designed by Charlotte Strick

hardcover: Gustave Moreau, Jupiter and Semele

paperbacks: Book 1: Jupiter and Semele, Gustave Moreau Book 2: Academy, Cy Twombly Book 3: Sea Sponges from Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities

#2666 #roberto bolaño #charlotte strick #book cover #book design

We should invert our eyes and practice a sublime astronomy in the infinitude of our heart… If we see the Milky Way, it is because it actually exists in our souls.

—Borges, translating Léon Bloy, The Mirror of Enigmas

#leon bloy #borges #jorge luis borges #labyrinths

Stunning Celestial Art from the 1750 Astronomy Book That First Described the Spiral Shape of the Milky Way and Dared Imagine the Existence of Other Galaxies

#Thomas Wright #An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe #infinity #Milky Way

Books, Design and Culture

Mona by Pola Oloixarac (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), cover design by Thomas Colligan

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#Thomas Colligan #book cover #graphic design

7 Up Packaging & Visual Identity Goldsholl Design Associates Thomas Miller (designer) 1975-76

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#visual identity #packaging #graphic design

This rejection of imagery, symbolism, or any higher meaning that cannot be reduced to the literal, has become especially pervasive in contemporary art criticism. ... One of the most popular genres of movie “criticism” on the internet right now is the “ending EXPLAINED” video, where any ambiguity or multiplicity of meaning you felt at the end of the film you’ve just seen can be cleared away like spilled popcorn. How did Jack Nicholson get into that old photograph at the end of The Shining? Is Travis Bickle dead at the end of Taxi Driver? Is Deckard a replicant? Surely these are the discussions such movies are supposed to raise, and if enough nerds puzzle over screenshots for enough time, the definitive answer will be found and the movie will be solved.

Aisling McCrea, 24 February 2021, Current Affairs (via)