January 2016 Challenge: Thurian Age
The Thurian Age
of Kull of Atlantis
From Robert E. Howard's Kull stories
I started this on January 9th and was intending to do a wip thread but I got a bunch of work right then and didn't have time to do wip posts.
So I'm pretty much jumping in at the end of the process. I started with a world map and used Gprojector to map it on a globe.
Then redrew the whole thing like this. I was trying for a more extreme version of what I'd done in my experiment thread.
This style will need some work and tweaking to deal with all the curve and distortion in terrain as it goes around the globe but generally I like how it worked out.
I've wanted to do a map like this for awhile.
I chose the Thurian Age just because I always liked the Kull stories. And there isn't a very compelling map of it to date.
The Kirk map is nice but it's wrong and doesn't really capture the real scale of things.
My map is wrong in some ways too.
Part of that is due to Howard never having made a map and also because Howard changed his mind and changed events some here and there.
My map is also non canonical because I added stuff not in the stories.
The map is pretty spartan with only the places listed in the Kull stories.
Almost no cities for kingdoms that are said to be so old.
Plus, with this map, my premise was that it was a map made based on secret documents and diagrams found in the archives of an old temple of Set.
So I added some prehuman cities and some lost land locations, some serpent men and elder cities. Just to make it interesting.
Fanatical REH fans will likely hate the map. That's okay.
I also thought if people wanted to roleplay the thurian age this might give them some other locations to work with.
Anyway, this is the finished piece, for the sake of the challenge. If time permits, I may add a border and some other features.
I was also trying to make it look like an old pulpish style map. How successful I was is debatable.
### Winner ###
Thurian Age [N] by sirinkman.jpg
