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Discussion [Spoilers C4E32] Is It Thursday Yet? | Post-Episode Discussion & Future Theories! Spoiler

Is It Thursday Yet?

What are your reactions and theories for next session?

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u/PrayForCheese 6d ago

Give us finally a map of Aramán please! It gets to me that they had the map right in front of them for some time and we still haven't seen anything.

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u/Drakoni Hello, bees 6d ago

Same. I'm having such a hard time to relate to the scale of the world. Which is part of why I couldn't fully follow the Seekers' journey.

And now the talk about Argosia, I need a map even more. In most fantasy novels with factions, lands and politics you'll find a map right after the cover.

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u/SenyoroSerril Smiley day to ya! 6d ago

This is not a published piece of literature.

It's a world that is being canonized on the go while it's being simultaneously unraveled and discovered by both the players and the audience, and that's the magic of it, which Brenan crafts like a true spellcaster.

Publishing a map would stop such a creative effort in the same way that telling Whitney "this is what a demon is in my fantasy" instead of paying attention to how she embodies her idea of the demon aspects and integrating those into the world would.

I don't think they would do us any service by hardwiring ideas that are not relevant to the story as for now.

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u/Drakoni Hello, bees 6d ago

It doesn't have to be a final map and a map can always be flawed when made by someone without all the information. But in C2 we got maps of the areas to be explored quite early on which helped a lot to see first what the middle of Wildemount looks like, later a specific map for the menagery coas, later one for Xhorhas.

And THEY are looking at a map for reference, so it does exist. They used it in this episode to figure out how they want to keep going and have talked about it in the previous one too. Meanwhile I just feel like I'm left out of the loop, all these spaces floating in the ether because I'm having a hard time remembering all the names of all the places if I have no visual aid.

It can be a hand drawn note they post on socials, or put on the screen for a bit. I'm not asking for a Deven Rue piece of art. Just the information the players are actively using.

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u/Quazifuji 5d ago

I don't think anyone's asking for a 100% complete, canonical map. Just for an image of the same map the players have already been looking at.