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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ccooke" data-source="post: 6318679" data-attributes="member: 6695890">A few possibilities:1) The map doesn't show the whole area, just a route based on common landmarks. Since the map was made, one of the landmarks - maybe a well-preserved statue - has been removed. The party may (before or after getting lost) find the new "owner" of it. Maybe it's been appropriated for a local humanoid tribe's temple, or a noble decided it would look great as one of the gateposts on his new manor. 2) The map-maker didn't want (other) people to be able to find the site and made systematic errors in the map which he knew how to correct. Since the party have some contact with his family, they might find another map of an area they know already (and thus would be able to compare the differences). Example "errors": The interesting site isn't marked on the map at all. However, four non-existent holy sites *are* marked on it. Connect each one with the furthest from it with lines and the interesting site can be found where the diagonals cross.3) Something near the site - either when the map was made but not now, or now but not when the map was made - is causing compasses to point in the wrong direction. It's not easy to notice unless you get very close to the source of the anomaly, but it's enough to make navigating using a compass very hard in the area. Either the party can notice the issue, lose their compass or observe that the compass and the sun are out of sync.</blockquote>

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