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Here There Be Dragons
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In old times, mapmaking was a fairly imprecise task, due to the lack of advanced technology for exploration purposes. So, to fill great blank areas on the maps, mapmakers used to include textual and/or graphic warnings of the dangers of going into uncharted territory. Such warnings took the form of Sea Serpents, dragons, cannibals and many other mythical and, sometimes, even real creatures. The actual line "Here There Be Dragons" has been found only once, on the 16th-century Lenox Globe, but is too cool to give upnote There may be a second instance, the Ostrich Egg Globe, but its authenticity is debated. This tendency is explored in fiction with two usual objectives. The first and more obvious is to show that the map is very ancient or simply medieval. Depending on the setting, the map may be contemporary, but displayed in an outdated manner because that's how things still are made. The other use of this trope is to avoid showing the viewer a dull and realistic map. This is mostly used in video games, to give the world map a more enjoyable presentation. In fiction, many maps don't just warn their readers of the great perils on their way, but sometimes also contain other pieces of information, such as the location of cities and landmarks, pointed by stylistically out-of-scale drawings. Because Everything's Better in Latin, also sometimes seen as its original spelling, Hic sunt dracones. This is a very common feature of the Fantasy World Map. Space-age variants of this trope are also common, especially in Science Fantasy and in settings where Space Is an Ocean, and typically take the form of decorated start charts illustrating the locations of black holes, Space Clouds, Asteroid Thickets, Negative Space Wedgies, hostile alien powers, ravenous space monsters, and the like. Do not mistake this with Here There Were Dragons, which is about the existence of magic (and even dragons) sometime in the past of the setting of a fictional work. Also not to be confused with the fantasy movie review show by Nash of TGWTG, or the steampunk fantasy web novel by Terry Zilla. |
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Jackboots on Whitehall. The excessive detail of the map of Britain stops abruptly at the border of Scot Land, which shows no towns or roads at all, as it's an uncivilised place populated by bloodthirsty blue-faced savages who wear skirts. | |
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Inside Job: "My Big Flat Earth Wedding" confirms that the Hollow World theory is true. This is where Magic Myk comes from and, as pointed out by Reagan? The same monsters you see on old sea charts like the Kraken. The Flat Earth Society leader learned this the hard way… | |
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Destroyermen: Grik charts tend to mark deep bodies of water with glyphs along these lines. | |
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Fargo: Discussed by Lorne Malvo in the pilot; while attempting to warn off an inquisitive traffic cop, he suggests that poking into his affairs will not end any better than attempting to chart such seas. | |
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The Simpsons: In an episode where Homer goes on a sea voyage, this is montaged by a dotted line traveling across such a map. Homer crashes into the compass rose, and avoids the sea serpent outright. | |
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Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. A conspiracy nutter has a map of Area 51 on his Room Full of Crazy, with the lower vault marked only as "Weird Shit". | |
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The Viking: On Leif Ericsson's map of the Atlantic ocean, the western end of the ocean is shown as an abyss watched over by dragons. | |
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In Last Sentinel a map of the Flooded Future World shows only the two surviving landmasses: Southland, where the protagonists are from, is marked Home Sweet Home. Northland, where the enemy lives, is marked Here Be Dragons. It's not entirely facetious as no-one's made contact with Northland for forty years, and some speculate they've all been wiped out and the government's just keeping up the pretense as a Genghis Gambit. | |
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Wario Land: Shake It!: The Shake Dimension has one of these maps◊. Note the mermaid, sea serpent and octopus-like creature in various points on the map and the old-fashioned compass (itself something many of these maps also contain). | |
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In Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: Strong Badia the Free, the map has a drawing of Strong Bad's dragon Trogdor on it, labeled "Here Be Trogdors". | |
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Eternal Darkness has the actual line "Here Be Dragons" on a globe in the observatory. | |
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Played straight with the IDW comic's South of Equestria map, which warns "Here there be monkeys, guard your valuables", "Beware the dangers of the Forest, they be too many a number to document", and "Elephant sightings reported". | |
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: One sea monster is depicted in the Ligurian Sea on a map during a Travel Montage. Furthermore, the Terrible Dogfish's appearance was modeled after old depictions of whales and dolphins, looking like a grotesque leviathan with two blowholes. | |
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Eberron: The continent of Argonnessen is ruled entirely by dragons, and they don't let any of the lesser races near it. Hence, on most maps, it is simply labeled "Here There Be Dragons." Per Word of God, this was an intentional choice because dragons are too powerful for the more low-level stories the setting is designed for. Dragons have a prosperous civilization that is hundreds of thousands of years old, and even the weakest dragons will eventually have magic that Khorvaire can hardly dream of. Except they largely don't care about Khorvaire, and the one thing they do care about (preventing the escape of the Overlords) requires the assistance of mortals, so they must work quietly behind the scenes. Thematically, the nation of Droaam is this for Khorvaire. It was a wild and untamed land for as long as anyone could remember... and then the Daughters of Sora Kell, three immortal hags whispered of in the darkest stories, came out of nowhere and united the region. Now it's a nation filled with extremely dangerous monsters, and stepping across the border is liable to get a human eaten. |
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Harry Potter: The map showing the location of the world's wizarding schools, styled after early world maps from the age of exploration, embraces this trope as part of the wizarding world's general old-time esthetic: besides the somewhat tentative geography (Antartica is barely outlined and North America's north-western corner is conspicuously missing), it features various creatures such as what appears to be an asian buffalo (somehow in North America), a rhino and long-legged pig-like creatures on the landmasses; a hippocampus, a mermaid and ships and sea serpents in the ocean; and ornate drawings of the actual schools marking their locations. In addition, there are elaborate illustrations of scenes from around the world filling in the empty corners of the paper around the map, similar to how many maps were rendered historically. | |
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The Sea Beast is built around the concept "What if those monsters drawn on maps were real?" Travel Montages often show the very beasts on screen drawn on the maps. | |
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Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure includes this exchange: | |
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VGA Miner: If you try to go beyond the limits of the play field, the message "Here be dragons..." is displayed. | |
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Head of the Class: Billy Connolly references this in the context of showing off the new world maps the school bought — he says that the other ones were so old they had "Here dragons be" indicators. | |
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Discworld: Parodied with how tourists' maps of Anhk-Morpork are labelled "Here Be Dragons" to mark the location of the Sunshine Sanctuary For Sick Dragons, a veterinary hospital. The same phrase appears over the actual Sanctuary's entrance as grafitti. Elsewhere, we're told that cartographers sometimes got so carried away with drawing sea monsters that they forgot to put the boring countries and so on in at all. In a meta example, we have this quote from Terry Pratchett explaining why he didn't provide a map of Discworld the way Tolkien did with Middle Earth (before he changed his mind and released one anyway): |
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Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge: Played with; the map shows the three main islands as well as a bunch of superfluous symbols in the blank areas. Clicking anywhere near them makes Captain Dread exclaim "We can't go there, mon. That's the forbidden triangle" or any other shape, including the forbidden elliptic hyperboloid. | |
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Civilization: In Civilization VI, dragons, sea serpents and compass roses will appear on unexplored areas of the map. Explored areas under the fog of war are rendered as monochrome line drawings of cities and terrain as found in old-fashioned maps. | |
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Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic has, according to an old tome, "a deadly labyrinth filled with creatures most foul". Given that the members of this specific party are drow, half-orc, hobgoblin, minotaur and illithid, their reaction is... rather predictable. | |
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xkcd: The Map of Online Communities has a stretch of ocean marked with "Here be anthromorphic dragons", while another shows the sunken ruins of Usenet. | |
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EarthCent Ambassador: This trope is discussed by the Earthcents ambassadors in a reunion when they notice the presence of several planet-sized creatures in the Galactic maps. Someone suggest going there to check what's really in there, but they change idea when Libby tells them that the Stryx didn't put those creatures there for decoration, there really are planet-sized creatures in those places and they don't like anybody bothering them in their territories. | |
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TwoKinds: A map of the continent is decorated with warnings such as "Wolf Lands", "Dogs Here" and "Beware! Here Live Tigers!", mostly indicating the tribes of Beast Men living in those locations. | |
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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists had the Pirate Captain lamenting that they'll never make it where they're headed in time because — as he points out on the map — there's a big sea monster in the way. Charles Darwin (who is traveling with them, because of reasons) asserts that they just put those there for decoration. Sure enough, they make it there without a hitch. Only to have the ship chomped and spat back out by a real sea monster just before the end credits. | |
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Age of Empires II includes a Viking mission where you have to get to the New World. To avoid the simple idea of sailing around Greenland, there's some odd water to the South that destroyes your ships. After conquering some of Greenland, the area's revealed by the computer, showing the shape of a dragon on the minimap. | |
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Battlefleet Gothic: Armada: The opening cinematic starts with a shot of a star map featuring illustrations of numerous space monsters between the various star systems and sectors, including a serpent, a kraken-like beast, and a monstrous leviathan. Considering what kind of universe 40k is, these are likely realistic depictions of very real dangers in those areas of space. | |
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Berserk has an interesting variation — they don't get a map showing the bizarre sea monsters seen on medieval maps, they actually see one after Griffith causes the real world and astral planes to merge. | |
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Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy: The map that comes with the game includes two drawings of colossal sharks out in the deep ocean. They're not just for show, as in-game swimming out of bounds will have a Lurker Shark swallow Jak and Daxter whole. Daxter reveals that there are much bigger Lurker Sharks out there, but still nowhere near the scale of the sharks on the map. | |
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Lord Peter Wimsey: Discussed in "The Learned Adventure of the Dragon's Head". One of the things that arouses Lord Peter's suspicion of the villain is that he claims to have seen "hic dracones" on the maps in a mediaeval book. Lord Peter, being an actual book collector, knows how unlikely this is. | |
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The Palaververse: Once Upon A Winter: "The Mountainside": As "Wyrm" is another way to say "dragon", a similar location marking warns of something draconic: | |
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Endtown: Maps of the post-apocalyptic surface world are a bit... inadequate. As in, they're literally nothing but a north arrow and "here be dragons". | |
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Our Miss Brooks: In many episodes, Mr. Conklin has an old map of North America from the time of the American Revolution hanging on his office wall (i.e. "Spare That Rod!"). The northwest portion of North America is a blank. | |
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The Ancient Art of War: The overworld maps in War at Sea are fancifully decorated with sea serpents, Neptune figures, etc. | |
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Assassin's Creed: Odyssey plays it classically straight: unexplored chunks of the ocean on the map are depicted as ancient Greek maps decorated with artwork of soldiers fighting sea beasts. | |
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In King Kong (2005) the map of Skull Island has the word "Fog" written all over the waters around the island along with a grotesque, crude painting of a roaring Killer Gorilla face, which Carl initially dismisses as a coffee stain when Jack points it out. | |
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Star Trek: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: The novelization has two scientists on the Genesis team, with rather warped senses of humor, create hypothetical maps of the proposed Genesis Planet with one region marked "Here There Be Dragons". By way of explanation, they ask what's the point in giving humanity a strange, new world to explore if there isn't some element of danger? No one's ever quite sure if they're joking or not (Genesis could be programed to create life forms, like plant life, but the main team hadn't coded in animals). While staying the Genesis cave later in the book, Saavik's internal monologue mentions her being fairly sure she saw some kind of large, flying reptile in the distance. Star Trek: The Next Generation: One of the Pocket Books novels is actually called Here There Be Dragons, and deals with a planet where there are, indeed, dragons — well, technically, giant carnivorous reptiles which look like the creatures of myth, although everyone calls them dragons. They don't fly, although one character comments of a dead one he'd seen that he wouldn't have been surprised if he'd been told it could breathe fire. |
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: In "The Salty Sails", Twilight's map has a sea monster on it... which, as a Continuity Nod, looks just like Steven Magnet, an actual sea serpent from Equestria. | |
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Wandering Wenda: "The Disco Dragon of Detroit" has a "HERE BE DRAGONS" sign which Wenda opens (thinking it a decoy) to find an actual dragon behind it. The Duchess of Disco emerges from the "HERE BE DRESSING ROOMS" door beside it after asking if they opened the dragon door. | |
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Total War: Warhammer: The campaign map is highly decorated. In addition to cities and to geographic features such as forests, mountains and smoking volcanoes, numerous creatures are found lurking around its various corners. Flying animals circle in the skies or around mountain peaks, such as crows and pegasi in the human nations, eagles and griffins in high mountains, vultures over deserts, pterosaurs over Lustria, and wyverns over the Badlands. On the landscape itself, boars and wolves lurk in forests and dinosaurs in the jungles, while more unique entities include creatures such as a giant anglerfish-like sea monster in the seas off of Norsca. | |
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The Onion: ""Midwest" Discovered Between East, West Coasts" has a map of Flyover Country styled this way, complete with "Here there be tractor pulls", a sea serpent and a griffin. | |
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Wings of Fire: Exaggerated in Legends - Dragonslayer, as one might expect given the series is entirely about dragons. Every book in the series has a Fantasy World Map printed in the opening pages. Being a human-centric Prequel novel, however, the map in Dragonslayer has all of the labels replaced with variations of "Here Be Dragons": "Here Be Underwater Dragons", "Here Be Dragons, Probably?", "Terrifying Viper Pit of Dragons", and so on. One of the protagonists even lampshades it when reading an in-universe copy of said map: | |
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Battletech, while usually fairly grounded, dips into this trope occasionally where the Deep Periphery is concerned, ranging from probably apocryphal-in-universe tales of vessels that suffer a Mis Jump sometimes coming out of jumpspace looking like they've been clawed or bitten by some vast predatory creature to more mundane stories of Lost Colonies with caches of Star League tech... or The Remnant of the old Star League Defence Forces who deserted en masse rather than serve under the mad tyrant Stephan Amaris (which proved somewhat accurate after the Clan invasion). This region also serves as the setting for the novel Far Country, the franchise's one and only experiment with introducing sapient aliens; there were plans for a sourcebook geared towards playing a Bold Explorer in uncharted space that would have expanded on the concept, but the Out-of-Genre Experience didn't go down well with fans and Far Country is only considered canon in the broadest of Broad Strokes. | |
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Colonization: In the intro to the original game, your colony ship sails across one of these, encountering various sea serpents and anthropomorphic storm clouds as it goes. | |
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Cars 2: The credits did this with submarines, which appear to serve as stand-ins for whales. | |
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: The novelization has two scientists on the Genesis team, with rather warped senses of humor, create hypothetical maps of the proposed Genesis Planet with one region marked "Here There Be Dragons". By way of explanation, they ask what's the point in giving humanity a strange, new world to explore if there isn't some element of danger? No one's ever quite sure if they're joking or not (Genesis could be programed to create life forms, like plant life, but the main team hadn't coded in animals). While staying the Genesis cave later in the book, Saavik's internal monologue mentions her being fairly sure she saw some kind of large, flying reptile in the distance. | |
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Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars: An Easter Egg references the trope: swim out to any of the four corner of the game map, and you'll find a sign with old-script telling you that "Here Be Dragons", which is as good a Hand Wave as any for why you can't get away from Liberty City. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: Topal the Pilot was an ancient Aldmeri Bold Explorer and poet who was the first to discover and explore Tamriel during the Merethic Era. A skilled cartographer, Topal was on an in-universe Cartography Sidequest from the Aldmer to explore and document Tamriel's inland regions, which were very mysterious to them at the time. While he didn't encounter actual dragons (that we know of), he did encounter "cat demons", "human lizards", (believed to be primitive ancestors of the Khajiit and Argonians respectively) "bat lizards" (believed to be related to Morrowind's Cliff Racers), and a race of now-extinct "Bird People". | |
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Freeman's Mind: In one episode Gordon Freeman encounters an utterly useless map and mocks it by using this trope: | |
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In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, during Barbossa and Jack's swordfight, Barbossa gloats over Jack having gotten in way over his head (by, y'know, engaging in single combat with an immortal), taunting him by saying "You're off the edge of the map, matey. Here there be monsters!" | |
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One Piece: Skypiea's map had several symbols, including a ziggurat (marking the position of Eldorado) and some devilish creature roaming through the land. | |
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At the time of the Falklands War in 1982, the opening credits of Newsnight were an animation of a camera panning over a large and reasonably well-detailed world map. Except... the Falkland Islands were thought so irrelevant and insignificant trhat they were omitted from the map. There was a large blank space just off South America where a major war had broken out over an apparent blank void. It had been thought completely implausible that anything of any importance could ever happen there.... | |
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Orion's Arm: From the perspective of the Inner Sphere, the Periphery and Outer Volumes are wild and untamed, most especially the Perseus Arm, which is rich with alien empires and the constant threat of the Amalgamation. The Perseus Princes were Archai specifically designed by the Inner Sphere Archai to manage the region more effectively, but became a de-facto empire in their own right. Then you have virches, which from the perspective of ril become more alien than the actual xenosophonts. While plenty of virches are accessible and understandable, there are many more hidden virches, or virches with wildly different physics. The interconnectness of these virches and the a-lifes that live on the Known Net make parts of it like this. There's also the Ginnungagap Theory, which states that the reason there are no empires that span galaxies (which is difficult but possible on astronomical time scales) is because something or someone in the intergalatic medium, sometimes referred to as "the dwellers in the void", destroys empires that branch out; it's even explicitly criticized as essentially being a more refined version of this trope. |
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How to Train Your Dragon (2010) has a map with, wouldn't you know it, dragons. This is meant literally, as it signals the dragon's nest. The film also lampshades the trope, saying "Here at Berk, we have dragons." | |
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Hitherby Dragons takes this trope as its main theme (and indeed, its very title): in the same way as map-makers didn't know what the world was like physically, and thus drew dragons to represent the unknown, Hitherby's characters don't know the answers to big philosophical questions, but still try to find them, in their own ways. | |
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Here Be Dragons is a science fiction novel whose main character keeps a print of a centuries old map which seems to be a cross between the Lenox globe and the Carta Marina. | |
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The Lost Years of Merlin: The maps seen at the beginning feature this with various creatures depicted in the series, such as kreelixes. The maps of the sequel series, The Great Tree of Avalon, are likewise freely ornamented and annotated to show just what sorts of creatures and landscapes one can find in the various parts of The World Tree. | |
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Warhammer 40,000 has space monsters on its star charts. Again, they're right. In the verse of 40K, there are plenty of anomalies and navigational hazards popping up across the galaxy. Ghost ships, Space Hulks, Warp Storms and Rifts, areas beyond the Astronomicon, nomadic black holes... An Ork map describing the known space around a particular area included the Eye of Terror, which was unexplored, and was simply called "Da Big Swirly Fing". |
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Warhammer: The official maps mark the northlands and southern wastes 'Here There Be Daemons'. They're right. The 8th edition map◊ of Norsca and the Chaos Wastes shows a number of monstrous creatures lurking in Sea of Claws and the Sea of Chaos — the former, between Norsca and civilized lands, is home to a single tentacled beast; the latter, between Norsca and the Chaos Wastes, has a spiked, funnel-mouthed serpent, a red-skinned leviathan and a festering, rotting hulk emerging from holes in the sea ice. The northern end of the map is obscured by a mass of monstrous appendages and marked simply "to the Realm of Chaos". A Skaven sourcebook includes a map which uses the Skaven vernacular. Most areas are labeled with the Skaven names for their inhabitants ("Man-Things", "Elf-Things", "Green-Things", "Dead Things"); the Chaos Wastes, populated, if at all, by mutant monstrosities, is labeled "Things". |
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Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom: The world map is illustrated in this style, with a picture of a sea-monster and a mermaid. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Hasbro released an official map of Equestria in early August 2012. A remark in the lower right corner tells the reader of the dragons' whereabouts, to the southeast, with the words, "Dragons be here." The same map also points out that Griffins live to the east in the same manner. The subversion, of course, comes from the fact that both are well-known and contacted sapient species in-universe, and so the labels make perfect sense, but are used for entirely different reasons than usual. An updated version includes an actual dragon coiling in a corner with a warning that "dragons be here", areas marked "Forbidden Jungle", "Undiscovered West", "Mysterious South", "Arimaspi Territory", and "Bug Bear Territory", and a note at the northernmost part of the map saying "Into the Unknown". A further update◊ for the movie includes a sign reading "here be hippogriffs" next to Mount Aris, alongside a picture of a flying hippogriff, and a narwhal swimming in the ocean next to the Great Iceberg Barrier. Played straight with the IDW comic's South of Equestria map, which warns "Here there be monkeys, guard your valuables", "Beware the dangers of the Forest, they be too many a number to document", and "Elephant sightings reported". In "P.P.O.V. (Pony Point of View)", Applejack's nautical map shows a shipwrecked vessel and a three-horned sea monster, both of which turn out to actually exist. My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: In "The Salty Sails", Twilight's map has a sea monster on it... which, as a Continuity Nod, looks just like Steven Magnet, an actual sea serpent from Equestria. |
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Doctor Who: The opening of "Last of the Time Lords" reveals that the planet Earth and our entire solar system was declared strictly off-limits by the rest of the universe, after Master seized control of the planet during "the Year That Never Was". | |
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Risen: While there's no mention on the map, if you go out too far into the sea, a giant sea monster bursts out of the water and eats you. Humorously, you'll wake up on the beach a bit later without any harm. Observe here. | |
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Tibia: The game's map◊ has several monsters and creatures filling in the sea areas, including a Cthulhumanoid, a whale, a sea turtle, a kraken, a Shark Man, and two sea serpents, sharing space with a ship and a large cloud bank. | |
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Princesses of the Pizza Parlor: From the second episode, the location where the party started their journey from, is labelled as such on one map: | |
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Roahm Mythril's website uses this. (Though there's just one dragon in this case.) | |
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi: The Magic World's map has "here be magical creatures" in chapter 190. | |
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The Others Series: Marked In Flesh features the embodiment of their analogue of the Atlantic Ocean basically tells humans that she remembers when map-makers would mark the maps of her expanses with "Here there be monsters" and then adds that they should resume labeling the maps as such before laying down the rules by which humanity must abide by if they expect to have any ocean-going vessels survive passage through her domain. | |
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Ticket to Ride has various early 20th century vehicles drawn on the maps, such as ships, airships etc. There are also land vehicles, such as a troika in Russia on the Europe map. | |
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The High Crusade: At one point, the narrator (a Medieval monk) criticizes a technologically advanced alien map. Sure, it might be accurate, but its lack of dragons, mermaids, sea serpents and such ornamentation shows a poverty of cultural imagination and depth. | |
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The Dragon King's Temple: The Avatar world is labeled on the Stargate maps as "Dur'Asada". SG 1 initially believes that this is the world's name, but later find out it means "Dangerous, do not enter". | |
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Hc Svnt Dracones has it in the title. It largely refers to the horrors of post-nuclear armageddon Earth, which the Corporations of Mars, Venus, and Jupiter largely aren't even going to touch. | |
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The Hobbit: Tolkien's map depicts the location of Smaug's Lair with the drawing of a dragon, and shows spiders within Mirkwood. It also has an arrow pointing off the edge of the plotted area, noting that to the north lies a terrible wasteland "whence came the Great Wyrms". | |
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The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica is all about this trope and cartography in general, taking place as it does in a universe where all fictional lands exist. The title of the first book is outright Here, There Be Dragons. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "Where Silence Has Lease", while the Enterprise explored an unexplained spatial anomaly, Picard and Riker commented on the superstitions of ancient sailors on Earth during or before the Dark Ages. Picard mentions "Beyond this place, there be dragons." | |
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