#Tagdor

[dragoonwys]

#3 Mapping is a stable job, we swear!

"If you ask me, the most stressful thing about the job is the race to be the first good map on the market. Can't haggle when you're the only one selling." -Aria

(While exploring the area, the three found a forest patch that mutated into some funky interesting landmark. Having actual picture proof of a landmark is a great sales point!)

Due to the yearly Shifting, freshly updated maps are highly sought after in Molibium, especially during the months directly after the shift.

In Crown, Mappers are your go to people for these maps. Some territories rely heavily on the work of freelancers while others have their own band of organized Mappers or a mix to call upon. That said, all of the mapped routes within the territories of Kogbor and Tagdor are provided by the various freelancers drifting around the place.

A Mapper's job consists mainly of collecting area information (visual descriptions, distance between landmarks, altitude ect) for map making, the more details the better. They earn a living by selling this information or more commonly and publicly preferred, their own homemade maps to towns and private estates.

Mappers are usually the busiest during the first half of the year. Due to the huge lack of confirmed area information during this time, people are usually more willing to buy new maps at a higher price point, mostly out of fear of missing out on the next big thing in their area. It's bad for the buyer's coffers but great for the Mappers'!

Aria is a seasoned freelance Mapper with a decent enough reputation attached to her mapmaker name, Tangerine Tiger. She had sold enough trustworthy maps in her time that maps with her maker stamp are more readily accepted as being priced as guarantied legitimate than any random newcommer's map. Unfortunately, she hasn't been the winner in most 'first in town' map races in a long while, thus her earnings aren't quite what one expects from someone of her reliable reputation.

It doesn't help her wallet that she has two growing tag alongs to feed. This is them, a cute company roster of three!