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These screenshots display the same place in cloth and normal mode. On the cloth map, it appears that there is an open field to the south south-west of my party. On the normal map, there are mountains. This is the result of using the lower land spell to carve a path through the mountains. It removed some of the big artwork tiles, but no new ones were placed.