This hand-drawn and coloured map covers the streets and alleyways from the Skinners’ Hall and Steelyard in the west, to the Tower of London and the fields beyond the wall to the east. The Adventures Window of the Soul and The Gong-scourer’s Baby unfold on these streets – both kicking off across the river in Southwark.

The PDF provides a large format map, including layers that feature the wards on one and churches and notable inns on the other. In addition, as the world of Dee continues to develop and expand, the “living map” will be updated with more layers and content that will be freely available to those who purchase it.

As someone who likes maps, I appreciate the beauty of Mercator’s work. Maps with tiny trees, hills and settlements marked out. I love ’em. I imagine that I must have seen a Mercator map in my youth, or a map by someone influences by his style – as, some of my earliest campaign maps for game aren’t a million miles away from Mercator in appearance.

I have been using Mercator maps for adventures in The Dee Sanction. I used a close up of northern Moravia for one adventure and suspect both Bohemia and Poland will make an appearance in other sessions, quite soon. While you can get these images online, you have to hunt around. My wife saw me looking at one and asked about it, and I must have extolled upon the virtues and beauty of said maps.

We celebrate our wedding anniversary next month, so she ordered me a facsimile of the original Mercator Atlas made by a German company.

As an original of the Atlas can go for an awfully large sum of money, I’m very pleased with the facsimile. Very pleased. Faithfully recreating the pages of the original, parchment stains and all, these maps looks fantastic. As an artefact, it might never reach the table, but images from the pages will.