Map

A map was a document displaying the layout of a region, such as a building, settlement, landscape, country, continent, or world.

Manufacture & Design
Maps could be made using map-making kits.

Maps were often printed on scrolls that could be rolled up, and stored in a map tube or map case.

Uses
Maps helped people find their way between locations, whether in a wilderness environment or in a dungeon.

Maps were useful in warfare. In the Utter East during the Bloodforge Wars (648–657 DR), scroll maps surveying charts were sought after to reveal unexplored areas and dispel the "fog of war". Maps of Neverwinter were forbidden to be made in an effort to thwart Luskan spies.

History
The first recognized map of Cormyr, the Dalelands, and Cormanthor was made by Cormyrian cartographers in the. Called "The Map of the Lands of the Inner Sea", it was commissioned by an ancestor of Aubayreer Mindosel to mark the year of their ennobling in Teshar.

In the, explorers from New Waterdeep created inland survey maps of Maztica.

Sometime after the War of the Silver Marches, several cloud giant nobles embarked on expeditions to remap the Sword Coast, hoping to uncover lost relics of their ancient kingdom Ostoria along the way.

Appearances

 * Blood & Magic