Adventurous Professions: Cartographer

A Mapmaker or more formally, a Cartographer, is a fairly innocuous profession that one would not immediately associate with swords and magic and derring-do. A Cartographer creates maps, choosing in which ways to depict an area to ease future travels, to make known political boundaries, and to plot sources of natural resources for continued exploitation. Most fantasy worlds are either mostly uncharted, only partially charted, or containing yet-uncharted places.

Even though a geographic area might be charted, there is room for improvement, and therefore room for a more detailed cartography. So even in a fantasy world where most of the known world is mapped, there are always more maps to be made – maps of dungeons, charting of natural resources, charting of the seas, more detailed maps of an area such as geologic maps, etc. A Cartographer always has something to aspire to, and always makes a good fantasy profession to take.

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