Thank you very much for the replies!
If anyone else feels like further discussing Alice Margatroid?s house, please do!
In the meantime, I would like to ask you about maps of Gensōkyō. Currently, a simple Danbooru search produces five different maps, and in addition I know of one map programmed in Flash. What maps do you know of? Which ones are your favorites, and why? How have these maps evolved as we have learned about more residents and locations over the years? Have any canonical maps ever been published?
I tend to look at the existence and backgrounds of Gensōkyō?s residents in a Tolkienesque way
The idea of creating a map of this land of wonders does not. Instead, it reminds me of how I read ?
The Neverending Story? (Die unendliche Geschichte) by
Michael Ende for the first time.
I do not have the book at hand right now, but I recall it felt pretty contradictory when I was in my early teens. On the one hand, covering vast distances seemed often necessary to get from one place to another within the magical land of Fantastica (apparently known as
Fantasia in some sources; originally
Phant?sien in German). On the other hand, I think it was once explicitly stated that it was impossible to draw a complete map of Fantastica, because the land was not static. Which parts of it lay adjacent to each other depended on the traveler?s state of mind and other similar factors. Somehow I believe this might be the case regarding Gensōkyō as well.