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<blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 8418449" data-attributes="member: 6803643">I'm sorry, but editorial choices and International fanclubs are not the same thing as canonical choices. And that 1980s map is a fan map.Baum very clearly put the Land of the Winkies on the right side of Oz, and the Land of the Munchkins on the left in the first published map in Oz, while in the same book, the cardinal directions of the witches very clearly state that East is Munchkinland and West is Winkieland.You're right that the first glass image he made was the opposite - the normal orientation - but because of glass negative usage, this led to changes in the printings. Ruth Thompson often confused the orientation as some of the editors changed the compass rose by accident. But remember, Thompson was engaged in fanon creations within Oz. It's not her world.The canon is important. It also is narratively interesting for the sake of roleplaying games set in Oz: explaining how east and west are opposite in Oz is a fundamental weirdness that's worth having as a detail. Some have thought it might be because it's through a looking-glass, or else that it's on the reverse side of Earth's surface, so East literally is West, in a Mystara Hollow World sort of sense. There certainly was a hollow world adventure in the early Oz Books - Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz.I grew up with first editions of these books in my house, and this map from Tik Tok of Oz is the correct orientation. And it's a map drawn by L. Frank Baum himself. I'm sorry, but fan maps just aren't canon. They're fanon by definition.[ATTACH=full]144906[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marandahir, post: 8418449, member: 6803643"] I'm sorry, but editorial choices and International fanclubs are not the same thing as canonical choices. And that 1980s map is a fan map. Baum very clearly put the Land of the Winkies on the right side of Oz, and the Land of the Munchkins on the left in the first published map in Oz, while in the same book, the cardinal directions of the witches very clearly state that East is Munchkinland and West is Winkieland. You're right that the first glass image he made was the opposite - the normal orientation - but because of glass negative usage, this led to changes in the printings. Ruth Thompson often confused the orientation as some of the editors changed the compass rose by accident. But remember, Thompson was engaged in fanon creations within Oz. It's not her world. The canon is important. It also is narratively interesting for the sake of roleplaying games set in Oz: explaining how east and west are opposite in Oz is a fundamental weirdness that's worth having as a detail. Some have thought it might be because it's through a looking-glass, or else that it's on the reverse side of Earth's surface, so East literally is West, in a Mystara Hollow World sort of sense. There certainly was a hollow world adventure in the early Oz Books - Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. I grew up with first editions of these books in my house, and this map from Tik Tok of Oz is the correct orientation. And it's a map drawn by L. Frank Baum himself. I'm sorry, but fan maps just aren't canon. They're fanon by definition. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Oz-and-surrounding-countrie.jpg"]144906[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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