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== History == The Guild of Cartographers was formed in November 2003. The initial impetus came from Pa'trick The Futographer, who was eventually elected as the guild's informal first Grand Master. The motivation for the guild came from the vast area covered by the D'ni Ages. Explorers attempting to describe locations and travel routes were finding it difficult to accurately describe places; many names for locations were simply names of convenience taken from whatever an individual explorer found unique about a location. This led to little if any consistency, and many names were applied to the same place and some names to different places. The D'ni, of course, had maps, names for places, cities, and buildings just as we do today. The [[Guild of Linguists (restored)|Guild of Linguists]] translated some of those names, but many remain unknown to new explorers. The Guild of Researchers attempted to recover places and buildings names. The Cartographers began applying available names to maps and publishing them in an attempt to simplify describing locations and to reduce confusion. But, in many cases the guild simply choose what they thought was the best name. It was not the guild's intention to reveal secrets that may spoil the adventurers' experience of D'ni, so the guild maps do not show the location of [[Journey cloth]]s or [[bahro stone]]s. The historical meeting place of the guild was the URU Obsession forum, until it closed in [[2011 CE|2011]]. Much of the history of the beginnings of the guild was lost with the closing of URU Obsession. Other notable guild members: Ricka, EyeDE, Moiety Jean, Sel-than, Janniran, M'Kenzi, Jack294, myridean, Linkin Imp, CeeVee, L-Annai.
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