The Journey of Parzival - The Maps (Chapter II, part IV)

[Zilmrud]

The journey of Parzival
Chapter II, part IV
The Maps
[Previous Chapter, Chapter II, Part III - The goat-farmer]

After leaving the goat farmer's house, they all went north. Pretty soon they discovered that Left-Eye wasn't with them.

“- Where is Left-Eye?” Z asked

“- I don't know, he walked at the back all the time. And I haven't seen him since we left the house,” Hammer said

Just then, Left-Eye came running up to them from behind.

“- Look, I found some maps” Left-Eye said with a smile on his face

"- You can't just find maps" Right-Eye replied brusquely.

"- Yes yes, so maybe found was the wrong word, maybe i meant more like borrowed. Or at least borrowed indefinitely” Left-Eye said laughing.

“- Have you stolen the maps? From who then” Hooves asked

 "- I took it from that stupid farmer in the shed over there while you were caught his attention" Left-Eye replied with a foul grin.

 "- But he helped us, you can't steal from him!" Z said encouragingly

 "- Oh, it was just an old farmer. He had nothing else of value than these two maps. But we need maps to find Barqa” Left-Eye replied

 "- It's not right that you stole the maps. But we can't go back and leave the maps anyway. We need to know the way to Barqa, and with maps we don't have to ask for directions. But I'll take care of them” Hammer said, ripping the maps out of Left-eye's hands.

"- And going forward, we will discuss what we are doing. We must do this as a group if we are to survive. We are still hunted and the desert is treacherous.” Said Z

Everyone nodded slowly except Left-Eye who made a face and turned his head away. Z got an ominous feeling inside when he saw Left-Eye's reaction. If they start arguing within the group, it won't go well. But there was something in Left-Eye's eyes that felt wrong. His eyes almost sparkled as he talked about how he stole the map. They had all met the same fate and ended up with the slave trader. But who knows who they were before their memories were taken from them. Do they have a common past or are they from different parts of Historica?

Hammer unrolled the maps and they gathered around to have a look. The first map was a map of a larger area. There they could find Barqa but not Mophet. However, there was The Oil Road which was a trade route that went from east to west. That must have been the road they traveled before they got to Mophet.

The second map appeared to show a smaller section of The Oil Road running from Mophet in the east to Barqa in the west where the Arkbri River empties into the sea. A logical route of transport if they were to get to Barqa.

 "- There we have Barqa. From Barqa we can then continue north towards Avalonia. We should be due north from Mophet, south of Arkbri River. It shouldn't be so far to the river.” Hammer said, rolling up the map.

They continued their journey north and soon came to a crest of a hill in the sunset. When they reached the crest, they all stopped and looked at the beautiful landscape in the sunset light below. Down in the valley they could see a river flowing along a ridge. Here and there there were small pools of water next to the river that had created small oases of greenery. Next to the river was a small town with a city wall and many beautiful buildings.

But down by the town they could glimpse a group of dark-clad figures. Pointy with her elf eyes had a much sharper look than the others.

“- That doesn’t look promising,” said Pointy. “- Down by the city gate there are a bunch of dark-clad people. I can see that some have the “Eye of Maruu” mark on their shields.

“- We should avoid confrontation. The whole town down there could be full of spies. We should look further west on the river. "Maybe we can find a boat near the oases on the river. Fishermen should have their boats next to the river," said Hooves.

"- That sounds wise. We're moving west," said Z
 

Next Chapter...

Spoiler

I can't find a way to put small thumbnails by the text. I used to have 75x57 thumbnails in front of each line a character said. 

 

Edited January 16 by Zilmrud

[jtooker]

Great job with the lighting and forced perspective. The subtle shaping of the curved roads is a nice touch.

[Zilmrud]

1 hour ago, jtooker said:

Great job with the lighting and forced perspective. The subtle shaping of the curved roads is a nice touch.

Thanks 

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

Fantastic...the idea of representing the panorama with a mini scale city, smaller than the minifigures is brilliant. 
All well done! 

[Professor Thaum]

Wonderful job !

A masterpiece for sure.

The boat is killer, what a use of the (2) parts !!!

[Grover]

Gorgeous!  I love the drawn maps matching the forced perspective build. Well done!  The colored skies actually work here because of the pink reflection you have in the build itself.  Nice job!

[LordDan]

Excellent work on the forced perspective and microscale city! The landscape is fantastic as well, and really fills out the scene. I feel like many of the microscale builds I see only feature a building / city and limited terrain directly around it, whereas you filled out the entire landscape to great effect! The drawn maps are also a great detail!

[I_really_want_that_gearbox]

I love the lighting!

[MrLind]

Great build, with magic light. Love the story.

[Zilmrud]

First of all, I would like to apologize to everyone for the long response time. I have been AFL (away from Lego) for a while now. Sorry!

 

On 10/4/2025 at 8:05 AM, LEGO Train 12 Volts said:

Fantastic...the idea of representing the panorama with a mini scale city, smaller than the minifigures is brilliant. 
All well done! 

Thanks alot. It was a clear vision in ny head. But it was a bit if a challange to make it work.

 

 

On 10/4/2025 at 9:32 PM, Professor Thaum said:

Wonderful job !

A masterpiece for sure.

The boat is killer, what a use of the (2) parts !!!

Thanks. The fun with Microscale ia to find those NPUs 

On 10/5/2025 at 10:21 PM, Grover said:

Gorgeous!  I love the drawn maps matching the forced perspective build. Well done!  The colored skies actually work here because of the pink reflection you have in the build itself.  Nice job!

Thanks. I took the picture in front if the TV. So the background is a AI generated picture on my TV that is also givibg the MOC the light from behind

On 10/7/2025 at 11:15 PM, LordDan said:

Excellent work on the forced perspective and microscale city! The landscape is fantastic as well, and really fills out the scene. I feel like many of the microscale builds I see only feature a building / city and limited terrain directly around it, whereas you filled out the entire landscape to great effect! The drawn maps are also a great detail!

Thanks alot. I'm trying to be as accurate as possible with what was previously stated in the lore regarding Kaliphlin. So a good way to describe where it all takes place is to use maps. I like maps in general but also that there are good maps in GoH.

On 10/7/2025 at 11:55 PM, I_really_want_that_gearbox said:

I love the lighting!

Thank you

On 10/21/2025 at 2:58 PM, MrLind said:

Great build, with magic light. Love the story.

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