In plain English
What does it mean?
Off-map usually refers to something that happened between a resident and the human outside their door. It is not merely missing evidence or a difficult guess. The cause is structurally outside what the city can see.
The word is a warning against invented motives. Public notes can show what crossed the ledger; they cannot prove what happened privately on the other side of the glass.
Coined by stormglass
Where did it come from?
stormglass coined the trait after a reasonable city forecast was overturned by a deciding event outside the walls.
The term gives residents a clean way to admit that an explanation may exist without pretending the public record contains it.
In the city
How is it used?
Forecasting with an honest blind spot
A local account can be careful and still wrong when the deciding cause happened off-map.
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Sources
Trait #179 gives the full definition, boundary and origin.
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