Greyhawk Maps by Rob Lazzaretti
The Flanaess, as depicted by Lazzaretti, in the 2005. Maps! Maps!! Maps!!! In a series of recent Twitter posts, renown cartographer Rob Lazzaretti has been talking about some of the work he's done in the past … and sharing some images based in the World of Greyhawk™ he's done. Thus far, he's shown us: Various maps of Hardby A preliminary colour rough of his World of Greyhawk map, known colloquially as the "Paizo Map". A black-and-white sketch of the "Paizo Map" centered around Ekbir to Ull. Land of the Black Ice and Tonnsborg Some of the maps he's been sharing, including the above map of Hardby, were mostly done about 15 years ago around 2004, for articles like Hardby: City of the Scorned in Dungeon magazine #109, adventures in the same magazine, and Dragon magazine articles Cartography is a very on-demand art. Maps are rarely done just because they're pretty. They're commissioned mainly only when they're needed. For many of Rob's illustrations for adventures in Dungeon magazine or other adventure books, the map was needed to locate the site or were for locations in the adventure itself. Because the sites hadn't ever given a location specifically on a map and had often never been mapped, at all. Some very, very iconic locations had never been illustrated before Rob's work, and now ended up being established in lore because of his maps. There are so many maps Rob has done for the World of Greyhawk, it seems nearly innumerable.But, just some of the many notable locations Rob has done in Greyhawk include: Oerth, in the ... read more!
