Posted by Gretel Hanselsister - Yesterday 11:48 PM
I occupied myself with this map some time ago so I'd like to answer this in here.
It's absolutely possible the writers meant the Black Forest. But in the map you can see the "Schwarzwald" is on the left side, pretty far away from where Monroe pointed. But I don't expect the writers to be exact on that Big Grin.
Right. Plus, Queen Stefania is Romanian, I think, so that is difficult to square with my analysis because 'Schwarzwald' or the Black Forest is not anywhere near her country of origin. Also, Adalind and the Frau are in Vienna, so Stefania is most likely in or around that city, too. Oh, well, it was fun flirting around with the idea. But at least I learned that the Black Forest in actually a wooded mountain range from looking at the map and reading about it!
Posted by Gretel Hanselsister:
And the next problem: this map is VERY imprecise. The city of Ulm (according to Monroe the region of the printings of Nick's key) has got more than 117.000 inhabitants today, just compare this to the three or four houses in the map.
From Ulm to the Black Forest, it's about 130km (approx. 80 miles). Even when you have all of the keys and a nice red cross where this treasure is, it would take squaremiles to turn upside down to find it.
And since the object was hidden so many centuries ago, it is probably under a convenience store or house today, so that's also going to be a problem. I'll be a plumed serpant if I can figure it out, unless the final location is an old building, like a monastery, dating from the period.
Posted by Gretel Hanselsister - Yesterday 11:48 PM
What I don't understand: why does someone need all of the keys and every piece of the map to find one location? You just have to find the one key with the location marked.
Excellent point. Since Monroe said something like the key-map was in the same style (he gave it name, I think) as his GF's, maybe the keys comprise a map that uses a special cartography showing cryptic landmarks and all are needed to lead to the final location. Hope it's not under a modern day toxic waste dump
Well, hypotheses are meant to be disproved on the way to a solution, so on to the next one!
I occupied myself with this map some time ago so I'd like to answer this in here.
It's absolutely possible the writers meant the Black Forest. But in the map you can see the "Schwarzwald" is on the left side, pretty far away from where Monroe pointed. But I don't expect the writers to be exact on that Big Grin.
Right. Plus, Queen Stefania is Romanian, I think, so that is difficult to square with my analysis because 'Schwarzwald' or the Black Forest is not anywhere near her country of origin. Also, Adalind and the Frau are in Vienna, so Stefania is most likely in or around that city, too. Oh, well, it was fun flirting around with the idea. But at least I learned that the Black Forest in actually a wooded mountain range from looking at the map and reading about it!
Posted by Gretel Hanselsister:
And the next problem: this map is VERY imprecise. The city of Ulm (according to Monroe the region of the printings of Nick's key) has got more than 117.000 inhabitants today, just compare this to the three or four houses in the map.
From Ulm to the Black Forest, it's about 130km (approx. 80 miles). Even when you have all of the keys and a nice red cross where this treasure is, it would take squaremiles to turn upside down to find it.
And since the object was hidden so many centuries ago, it is probably under a convenience store or house today, so that's also going to be a problem. I'll be a plumed serpant if I can figure it out, unless the final location is an old building, like a monastery, dating from the period.
Posted by Gretel Hanselsister - Yesterday 11:48 PM
What I don't understand: why does someone need all of the keys and every piece of the map to find one location? You just have to find the one key with the location marked.
Excellent point. Since Monroe said something like the key-map was in the same style (he gave it name, I think) as his GF's, maybe the keys comprise a map that uses a special cartography showing cryptic landmarks and all are needed to lead to the final location. Hope it's not under a modern day toxic waste dump
Well, hypotheses are meant to be disproved on the way to a solution, so on to the next one!
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