Anna Meyer

Greyhawk Creator

Anna Bernemalm Meyer
Anna B. Meyer
Nationality:	American
Born:	Sweden
Notabale works:	Meyer map

Anna Meyer (née Bernemalm) is an ENnie-nominated creator of enormously popular digital Greyhawk maps known for their high degree of intricate detail.

Biography

Meyer was born and raised in southern Sweden and moved to California in 2011. She is a former Swedish Air Force fighter pilot and flew a JAS-39 Gripen. She was active political leader in her native Sweden and is active in politics in her new home in California.

"“Anna publishes her Flanaess maps at GHmaps.net and founded the Flanaess Geographical Society. She also co-hosts the Legends & Lore Greyhawk talk show with Mike Bridges and Jay Scott.

Anna B Meyer used to roam in and over the northern reaches of Europe and her native Sweden. Nowadays her deeds are carried out in warm and sunny southern California.

Anna’s an old school roleplayer who began to play D&D in the early days just before the original Red Box came out. While her first session didn’t make her a gamer, she saw the potential in roleplaying and her passion for the hobby grew quickly afterward. Her DM back then had made his own world and to Anna it was like magic—she wanted to have her own world but didn’t know where to begin. A few years later the Greyhawk box came out and after reading a few pages there was no turning back—she fell in love with the setting and has been running games on Oerth ever since. Maps have always fascinated her and so did the map which came with the box. Swept away by its beauty, Darlene’s work inspired Anna to read and create lots of adventures over the years.

For the past twenty years Anna has worked on her Greyhawk mapping project as a hobby, gradually spanning the entire Flanaess. What started as a dabble all those years ago is now a full-time occupation, and her maps are now used by thousands of gamers around the world. In 2011, she moved to California and decided to make her Fantasy Cartography hobby into a professional pursuit.

Anna has played every edition of D&D and tried many other Role-Playing games her favorite genre remains fantasy. Her last Greyhawk Campaign was set in the Rel Deven area in CY598 using the Pathfinder RPG rules, and she has played in both Pathfinder organized play and two other Pathfinder campaigns as well as one D&D 5th Edition game.”"

Career

When Meyer began mapping in the 80s, it was in hand-drawn pencil sketches, and was entirely for her own game reference. She began digitally mapping Greyhawk in the 90s, inspired by the maps she'd seen published in D&D materials. She began mapping as a full-time, professional vocation in 2011 and quickly progressed into notoriety for her work. When she completed her first full version so the Flanaess in 2014, was nominated for an Ennie Award for Best Cartography. She referred to this as "a great honor ... It is the biggest award in the business. Being nominated for my first project was a bit like an actor being nominated for an Oscar for his first role."

That notoriety quickly landed her larger projects like working on Midgaard and The Southlands for Kobold Press.

While still working on other large commercial projects, she continued working on expanding her map of Greyhawk through Patreon. She works on custom sections as suggested by her patrons and pursues related work, like doing new illustrations of the heraldry found on the map,[1] and a variety of new illustrations including climate renderings such as ice age maps and elevated sea level maps, actual globes, regional section close ups,[2] as much as patronage allows.

Meyer is known for her advocacy of sharing through Creative Commons, and her maps are released freely through the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.

External links

• GHmaps.net—Meyer's website; maps available for different Common Years and in various formats.
• 598 CY v.2019—EZView format on GreyhawkOnline.com