User:Theinfluencebehindtheemperor

Hi. I make countries. I've got this thing going that I've been doing for about 7 years. It grew out of an earlier project I started when I was about 8 or 9. I'd read the two series the *Belgariad* and the *Malloreon* by David and Leigh Eddings, as well as an attempt at reading the *Lord of the Rings* by JRR Tolkien. I don't think I ever got through the LOTR but around that time I watched Peter Jackson's movies and read *The Hobbit*. I was quite keen on the idea of some fantasy world with a great adventure.

Out of this grew *Tomorak*, a fantasy world based, like Eddings and Tolkien, on a map. It was an ugly thing, drawn with felt tip pens on a reused piece of A4 paper. Naturally, my map was rather square. I had this country with expansive forests and a big river running down the middle. It was bordered by a suspiciously straight mountain range which divided the piece of paper in two. On the left-hand side there was a sprawling plain, in what I decided was a farming nation. There was no regard for climate nor any other geological consideration. I drew three more of these, and soon had the whole continent, which was christened  Tomorak