This is the one that started it all off, my very first fantasy map, which I must have drawn when I was maybe ten or eleven. I drew one of a desert/treasure island before this, but I think that has been lost and it doesn’t count as a fantasy map in quite the same way. I drew this and then lots of smaller maps for each individual nation on the Lost Continent of Atlanta. Being English, I didn't know there was a city with that name then. I seem to remember spending a whole, (I think it was a very rainy) day in my bedroom doing this.

The story is fairly obvious. Atlantis: good, Brab Murder: bad. When you are that age the world is a whole lot simpler, there are good people and bad people. I had been reading David Eddings' Belgariad a lot at the time and I had some characters in my head that were basically ripped off from that. In other words, wise old sorcerer, good god, bad god (I think he was called Brab Ardor), and all the rest.

I decided, not long after, that the original was a little bit amateurish, so I drew a better one. There were no sub-maps for this one. I can't remember whether or not I was ever going to draw any. The country of Incaro carried into this one, Caro was a reclusive god from the first map and this was his land. The land of Incaro stayed in my maps for many years and is still here in spirit. I liked its forests and I think the idea probably came from Eddings or Tolkien.

This is a much later redrawing of the new Atlantis above. I did it just to perfect the original, by changing the place names and making it much neater. I was no longer drawing Atlantis at this point, and I think I just did it for sentimental reasons.

A while after drawing the first Atlantis map, I got bored with the idea of Atlantis and decided to draw whole worlds instead. I kept some of the place names though. There were stories to go with all these places and even some characters but they were all in my head and are long gone now.

Another evolution. Again the places remain, with slightly changed names, but the world changes. Again, there were events that told the story of this world, but I never got as far as writing any of them down.

Again, another evolution, much later. I think the quality of my drawing has come quite a long way. Not quite up to Ordnance Survey quality yet though!

And on it goes... Another small nation in an arguably powerful position between four large empires. This one was a forerunner of Estoria in many ways. Notice that some of the city names are very similar and the Seven Dwarf Cities do appear in some of the earlier maps of Estoria, although I don't think I have posted any of those here yet.