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Fantasy Maps.

Serious tech for non-serious worlds

A digital atlas of imagined places, charted with the same instruments we use for the real world.

TORIL
The TORIL survey 43.59°N  ·  -76.75°E  ·  z 11.9 The property of all the concepts in Toril is of Wizards of the Coast. Open the full atlas

Plate  II

The Survey

This is a place where imagined worlds are charted in earnest. We treat Faerûn, Middle-earth, and the worlds your group invented last Sunday with the same instruments cartographers use for the real one — projections, tile pyramids, vector layers, geocoders, the lot. The point is not to make a map of a fantasy. The point is to make a fantasy you can wander around in, look up a tavern in, hand to your players, and come back to next month and find unchanged.

We started inside OpenHistoryMap, a project that does the same thing for the past. Most of what runs the atlas is open source: tile servers, generative algorithms for continents and biomes, ingest pipelines for hand-drawn art, an MCP server so language models can keep your campaign’s lore straight, and a FoundryVTT module that turns a region of the map into a playable scene with walls and lights already drawn. None of that is the point either, but it is how the atlas gets made.

The slow long version of the vision is a shared, persistent world where what players do leaves traces — a slow-paced MMRPG built on top of the maps. We aren’t there yet. What we have today is the atlas, the tools to add to it, and an open invitation.

If any of this resonates, the most useful thing you can do is join the survey on Patreon. Patrons keep the chart room open.

Become a Patron!

Plate  III

Contents

In this volume

  1. № I The Atlas Open the full interactive map. Worlds you can walk through at any zoom.
  2. № II The Tools Modules and servers we build so other people can chart their own worlds.
  3. № III The Talks Conference recordings, slides, and write-ups from the road.
  4. № IV Become a Patron Help fund the survey. Patrons keep the lights on at the chart room.