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For as long as humans have had maps, we\u2019ve also had fictional maps. Renowned cartographers of mythical terrain include Dante Alighieri, Jonathan Swift, Sir Thomas More, and, of course, JRR Tolkien, who pioneered many of the tropes that would come to characterize the fantasy genre, amongst them the inclusion of a map at the start of your story.<\/p>\n

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But for all the effort those literary types put into their fictional maps, there\u2019s probably never been anyone quite like Jerry Gretzinger. As explored in a recent video from the YouTube channel People Make Games, Gretzinger\u2014a genial octogenarian from Michigan\u2014has been working on the same fictional map since the 1960s. Today, the map comprises something like 4000 panels, and the channel\u2019s video captures Gretzinger\u2019s first attempt to assemble it in its entirety for over a decade.<\/p>\n