<yaz### [at] gmxde> wrote:

> Hi(gh)!
>
> On 16.05.2013 09:27, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>
>> I can readily appreciate the similarities in purpose, although no bra
in
>> damage in my case - as far as I know ;-) but the compulsion to create

>> one's own world is there and I have felt it strongly my whole life.
>
> Same with me... it started quite early in my childhood days - anybody 
 


soon  

> saw him drawing colorful topographic maps of imaginary places... back 
 


  

> world populated by immortal, hyper-intelligent children but also at  

> constant war with a Darth Vader-like oppressor...
>
> Unfortunately, none of these countless maps (there were physical as we
ll  

> as thematic maps, also city maps) survived until today, as my parents 
 

> back then were quite uneasy about my vivid imagination, so they threw 
 

> away all those maps I had drawn between 1977 and 1983.
>
> At 21, a fellow student who studied linguistics and started a  

> collaborative Tolkien-ish fantasy project, inspired me to re-create M 
 

> 720 (now to be called "Ilthanalg" - "planet of the Sacred Number") and
  

> even to develop an own language for its people; so I drew several glob
al  

> maps (physical, political, temperatures, precipitation and vegetation.

>
> I scanned those maps when my computer equipment became sophisticated  

> enough during the 1990s... but then lost them all to a catastrophic  

> Windows crash. But nevertheless, I think I'm still able to re-draw the
m  

> from memory... and I also have written a lengthy introduction to  

> Ilthanalg, currently only in German, but I hope to get it translated i
n  

> the not-too-distant future.
>
> See you in Khyberspace!
>
> Yadgar
>

I find this very inspiring. Makes me want to continue working on my  

BueHaria Binary planets :)

-- 

-Nekar Xenos-

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