Well, at least there is that.The landscape of the great waste must be a lot different from how it was before, you know, aside from everything being turned into an ash desert. Hills and everything just sheered off?
“Here be dragons” means dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of a medieval practice of putting illustrations of dragons, sea monsters and other mythological creatures on uncharted areas of maps where potential dangers were thought to exist.“‘Here be dragons,’ is a very interesting sentence,” said Thomas Sander, editor of the Portolan, the journal of the Washington Map Society. “In early maps, you would see images of sea monsters; it was a way to say there’s bad stuff out there.”
Bormac over 8 years ago
Well, at least there is that.The landscape of the great waste must be a lot different from how it was before, you know, aside from everything being turned into an ash desert. Hills and everything just sheered off?
Yakety Sax almost 5 years ago
“Here be dragons” means dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of a medieval practice of putting illustrations of dragons, sea monsters and other mythological creatures on uncharted areas of maps where potential dangers were thought to exist.“‘Here be dragons,’ is a very interesting sentence,” said Thomas Sander, editor of the Portolan, the journal of the Washington Map Society. “In early maps, you would see images of sea monsters; it was a way to say there’s bad stuff out there.”