#overgeeking

Every time I read something about Obsidian wanting Rhodolite for its productive farmland, I keep thinking ... really?  Not to be rude or anything, but on the map, Rhodolite's the size of the Vatican.  Or maybe Luxembourg.   Nobody's looking at Luxembourg and going, "yes, THAT'S the breadbasket for the biggest nations in Europe!"

Rich fields or no, if you're expecting the land of Rhodolite to feed a significant portion of the comparatively enormous Obsidian, I just don't know if there's enough dang space for that. (Especially if we're in some sort of Fancy Fantasy Medieval timeline.) 

So that got me thinking.   What if the map we see in-game is wrong? What if it's actually just really distorted, because accurate mapmaking in this era is hard?  What are the chances that Rhodolite is bigger than it appears?

For example, this is an early map of the Americas.  (Yeah, this is a couple hundred years after our supposedly Fancy Fantasy Medieval time period, but whatev):

(https://www.nypl.org/collections/nypl-recommendations/guides/historical-maps-north-america)

They were trying to be super accurate, right?  It's not completely off the mark. But when you look at a modern map, the distortion of the old map becomes clear:

(https://www.geographicguide.com/)

So maybe, in reality, Rhodolite looks like this!