In Agatha's Europa, just mapping your route to the corner store can be fraught with peril, thus, geography is far from an exact science. Indeed, in the Girl Genius print novels, the Professors Foglio bemoan how impossible it is to pin down details about this sort of thing when documenting Agatha's life and career. Nevertheless, a few scraps have leaked out over the years.
Globes[]
The strip has to date shown three globes of The Known World, all of them in England. As shown by the included image, none of them really agree with each other. Whether this is a plot point or (ahem) Phil being a little sloppy with the minor details remains to be seen.
- The Royal Collection of Inconvenient Oddities has a globe ✣ which looks much like our own, with the addition in the Atlantic of a dotted line separating Europa from Greenland and the Americas, and an additional large land-mass on the Europan side of the line. The globe also marks the (former) locations of various God-Queens.
- Three of Albia's daughters consult a small globe ✣ when discussing Skifander. This Europa looks roughly like our version, but there are lots of small differences.
- A library in which Agatha and Co. conduct research has an orrery which features ✣ massive changes to Europa, Africa, Asia and India. (The last is an island.)
Additionally, at the start ✣ of the Revenge of the Weasel-Queen side-story, we see an actual depiction of Girl-Genius Earth from space, but no real details can be made out.
Maps[]
Map legend: Being a Cartographic Representation of Europa Wulfenbach and Environs
No maps have ever been posted in-comic. The Foglios did release a real-life map (click HERE) of Europa that can/could be purchased by fans. Drawn by an official Wulfenbach cartographer, it shows a continent which is pretty much like the one in our universe, with a couple of notable exceptions- England and Ireland are of course sinking, and Iceland may be suffering a similar fate. Oslo meanwhile has been replaced with a crater. There are reports from Official Sources that a new updated map may be released at some point.
In-Universe Experts[]
In one of the print-novels, Orotine the Muse of Geometry is reported to be an expert at drawing battlemaps.
Relevant Points of Interest[]
Bits of the Europan-adjacent landscape whose study by fans of the Lady Heterodyne may be beneficial include:
