The Silk Road Online map is a mixture of factual towns and cities and fictitious towns and cities. To
the East and West, the towns created are made to resemble towns from that time period. The Silk Road
Online map looks like any other map. Regions to the North and South are derived from Chinese folk lore.
The mountainous regions where strange monsters live are taken from old stories.
The Silk Road Online map covers China, India, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and ends in Constantinople. Cities
such as Chan'an, Tunhuang, Hotan, Teheran, Baghdad and Constantinople are real cities. The history of
each was researched to give players a realistic experience of what these cities were really like in
those days. Other cities such as Takla Makan to Hotan, Gollyun Mountain, Himalayas and Cheonchukguk
(India) are not real, but rather they were created from stories passed down from many generations.
By mixing fantasy and reality, the Silk Road becomes the mystical place that was back then. Traveling
the Silk Road as a merchant was dangerous and in many cases, a lonely occupation. This is why stories
were created. To give a sense of history to the Silk Road Online game, programmers mixed both reality
and fantasy so that the stories and the landscape could be equally enjoyed. The map is detailed and
depicts large areas of land. Included in the game is a smaller map that can be used for quick checks on
where a character is and where members of a hunting party are located. The Silk Road Online map is a
good tool to use when a player is looking for a particular region or an overview of the land.
