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Description
This is the new, and final, version of the Inner Space map.

The file is 5000 pixels wide, so please download for full view!

It is based on the old, 2009 map, located here , and, as such, it mainly features the same place names and relationship between them, but the relief has been stretched a bit to accommodate the action.

On the world map, the area depicted covers the eastern seaboard of a narrow, 65 kilometre mountainous isthmus that represents the only land frontier between the hostile "Empire of Marban" and "Confederation of Tambr" (AKA Tambria). The "land" part is purely relative, since, even here, the border follows the course of the Nashaki river, a river which flows out from the Ksamkal Lake up in the mountains on the Marbanian side of the frontier and then splits in two near the town of Jokmal, flowing both east to the shallow, low salinity, Inner Sea and west, to the saltier, deeper Outer Ocean.

For legibility, the map uses English transcriptions of the original place names and the Latin Alphabet instead of the "Prophet's True Tongue", but both the original graduation using the secular "military verste" used in both Empires and the original conventional map symbols were kept. Also, the map is provided with additional graphic scales, in kilometres and the "holy arshin" used by the Temple and the Keepers of the Faith.

Whereas the "holy arshin" has been handed out to the Chosen by the Prophet themselves, the purely secular "military verst" represents a thousand of the secular, decimal measuring system base measurement, the "stej".
Also on the graphic scale, the first "verst" is also graduated in ten of one of the "stej's" multiples, the "sfar", each "sfar" equalling 100 "steje".
Since both are decimal systems, there is a consistent 3:4 ratio between the Inner Space Secular Measurement System and the Metric System, so 3 steje= 4 metres, 3 prajne = 4 decametres, 3 sfare = 4 hectometres, 3 verste = 4 kilometres.
For submultiples of the "stej" we have: 3 rupe (sg. "rup") = 4 decimetres, 3 parme (sg. "parm")= 4 centimetres and 3 hatte (sg. "hatt")= 4 milimetres

The height of the relief is also given in "stej".

Because, unlike Earth, the world has retrograde rotation around it's axis, the geographical meridians depicted on the map are notated from east to west (right to left) rather than the way we used to seeing on our Terran maps. The True Tongue is still read from left to right however, which greatly simplified the transcription process.

A few notes on place naming - all the towns names end in the suffix "al", or "of the temple", since only a places big enough to have at least a temple (which also doubles as city hall) can be officially named. Smaller localities are always considered a part of the closest town with a temple, even if said town is located miles away.

The map itself is based on elements of real geography (a bit of the Transylvanian Mountains, near Arad) as well as bits and pieces of the Black Sea seaboard and parts of the countryside around the Bulgarian town of Veliko Tarnovo, some mirrored and some presented "as is", because, unlike the earlier map, I wanted this one to look "real", something I wasn't happy with on the previous map.
The map formatting is based on Romanian Army military maps from the Communist era.

Also, there are numerous "easter eggs", puns and inside jokes hidden amid the place names.

Description
This is the new, and final, version of the Inner Space map.

The file is 5000 pixels wide, so please download for full view!

It is based on the old, 2009 map, located here , and, as such, it mainly features the same place names and relationship between them, but the relief has been stretched a bit to accommodate the action.

On the world map, the area depicted covers the eastern seaboard of a narrow, 65 kilometre mountainous isthmus that represents the only land frontier between the hostile "Empire of Marban" and "Confederation of Tambr" (AKA Tambria). The "land" part is purely relative, since, even here, the border follows the course of the Nashaki river, a river which flows out from the Ksamkal Lake up in the mountains on the Marbanian side of the frontier and then splits in two near the town of Jokmal, flowing both east to the shallow, low salinity, Inner Sea and west, to the saltier, deeper Outer Ocean.

For legibility, the map uses English transcriptions of the original place names and the Latin Alphabet instead of the "Prophet's True Tongue", but both the original graduation using the secular "military verste" used in both Empires and the original conventional map symbols were kept. Also, the map is provided with additional graphic scales, in kilometres and the "holy arshin" used by the Temple and the Keepers of the Faith.

Whereas the "holy arshin" has been handed out to the Chosen by the Prophet themselves, the purely secular "military verst" represents a thousand of the secular, decimal measuring system base measurement, the "stej".
Also on the graphic scale, the first "verst" is also graduated in ten of one of the "stej's" multiples, the "sfar", each "sfar" equalling 100 "steje".
Since both are decimal systems, there is a consistent 3:4 ratio between the Inner Space Secular Measurement System and the Metric System, so 3 steje= 4 metres, 3 prajne = 4 decametres, 3 sfare = 4 hectometres, 3 verste = 4 kilometres.
For submultiples of the "stej" we have: 3 rupe (sg. "rup") = 4 decimetres, 3 parme (sg. "parm")= 4 centimetres and 3 hatte (sg. "hatt")= 4 milimetres

The height of the relief is also given in "stej".

Because, unlike Earth, the world has retrograde rotation around it's axis, the geographical meridians depicted on the map are notated from east to west (right to left) rather than the way we used to seeing on our Terran maps. The True Tongue is still read from left to right however, which greatly simplified the transcription process.

A few notes on place naming - all the towns names end in the suffix "al", or "of the temple", since only a places big enough to have at least a temple (which also doubles as city hall) can be officially named. Smaller localities are always considered a part of the closest town with a temple, even if said town is located miles away.

The map itself is based on elements of real geography (a bit of the Transylvanian Mountains, near Arad) as well as bits and pieces of the Black Sea seaboard and parts of the countryside around the Bulgarian town of Veliko Tarnovo, some mirrored and some presented "as is", because, unlike the earlier map, I wanted this one to look "real", something I wasn't happy with on the previous map.
The map formatting is based on Romanian Army military maps from the Communist era.

Also, there are numerous "easter eggs", puns and inside jokes hidden amid the place names.