Dear Kellerica, I also love Earthsea!

I have just read the third volume "The Farthest Shore", first published in my country this year. And man, her dragons are really something, half beasts and half gods! And the whole underworld dusty and empty, the variety of cities and climates. Her world has some vivicity doesn't it? You said you prefer your worldbuilding baked with a good story, I remember reading Ursula herself was also like this. She would unravel her world as Ged would travel and land in its shores. I guess mapmaking could be like that also. Do you feel like that in your creative process?