Ancient Map of Lluvia

We have all of these surviving ruins yet few of them will tell us anything substantial about the past. It is maddening!

— Talib Aiy, Archaelologist

Overview

The Ancient Map of Lluvia is the first and so far only discovery that reveals what the continental island of Lluvia looked like before the Great Collapse. The artifact was damaged, and that means that the picture it provides of the continental island is incomplete. If certain methods can be developed to repair the artifact and to preserve its details, then a complete picture of a major geographical feature as it was before the collapse will emerge. The Archivists Guild has offered to attempt a restoration of the document, and so the artifact was transferred from the Camila Grand Library to the Eustacia Archive.

The Map

The Ancient Map was not recognized as one at first. The map was carved in a stone table, complete with reliefs reflecting the old shape of Ancient Lluvia's mountains and valleys so it looked like it was just a broken tablet. Additionally, the map was in several large to small pieces when it was discovered and the colors that would help mark the streams, lakes, forests, and other features have faded. It was only by assembling the fragments was it realized that the artifact was a map and not a misshapen living room decoration. That the uneven surface looked too precise to be the product of random acts of entropy.

Contents

What the map does show is that the part that is now known as a continental island was not always an island, but a stretch that was part of a continuous Quassus Continent. This is quite a different Quassus from the archipelago it is today. Entire stretches of coastline that must have hosted prosperous Ancient Order settlements are either submerged or otherwise eradicated. Many believe that some of these settlements can still be found if one is willing and able to scour the landscape below the sea.

Item type

Book / Document

Current Location

Eustacia Archive

Current Holder

Archivist Taenya Naïlo

Note(s) from the Archivists:

About that quote, I think what the remnants can tell us has less to do with the amount of evidence and more to do with our ability to understand the evidence. Make no mistake however, more intact evidence would certainly be helpful. - Archivist Taenya Naïlo