About the work

A closer look.

Send me one place. A real one that no camera ever reached, or one that exists only in your campaign, your novel, your world. I hand back a sheet: a map, a one-line note on every pin, and the sources. The real-place version: twenty dated entries for one town, gathered on one page. The proof is my Kyakhta run, a border town in Buryatia with no street view anywhere near it, drawn entirely from maps, registries and records. For a place you made up: tell me the water, the road out, who trades there. I build the rest the way settlements really grow, water first, then the crossing, then the market street, so the layout holds when your players ask why the market sits on that street. What you get: one page, a map plus notes, sources listed, one revision. What you will not get: invented facts dressed as record. I mark what I read and what I inferred, and I say where my reading stops.