Charts

The map is a thing you own, not a thing you have.

THE FOG. The world is charted in pieces. Thirty regions cover the three maps (twenty on the surface, six in the deep, four on the ice), each with a name that is a place and not a grid square: the Northern Reach, the Sundering Wall, the Karan Strait, the Forge Deep, the Heart of Hrimheim. map and survey draw the country you hold charts of and blank fog everywhere else, so exploring is an achievement and not a formality. charts (also mymap) shows the collection, region by region, and how far along it is.

HOW A CHART IS EARNED. Bought from a cartographer, turned up in a cache, taken off something, given for work done. Orrin Vell, the map collector at Eastwatch, sells the surface trade at 900 gold a chart. Deepfall's chartwright sells the one chart of the deep it sits on, the Forge Deep, and no other. The rest of the deep and all of the ice are CROWN SURVEYS: the kingdom missions award them rank by rank (the ice run through Caer Vaneth's, the deep split across the other three banners) and no shop retails them. learn <chart> copies a chart you are carrying into your own map for good, so the collection is not a bag of paper.

WHAT THEY DO FOR YOU. Beyond showing the ground: every five charts you hold widen what scan reads by a cell, up to four, because a traveller with the coast pilot in the pack reads the land faster than one without. Keepers under holylight see the world as it is, charts or no charts.

See also: help travel, help kingdom missions.

Syntax

charts
learn 
buy chart 
map
survey

Examples

charts
learn northern reach
map 7