The Nation of Orandell

[Immolate]

Thanks all for the encouragement. As they say, the faded type is something of a feature, not a bug, in making it easier to overlook things in plain site. To make it more clear and easy to read, I'd rearrange the labels to prevent overlap and crank up the opacity. So it's a choice that, while it may enhance the utility of the map as a prop, admittedly decreases its usefulness as a guide to the world, and perhaps even its aesthetic qualities.

This suggests a map made by a talented amateur rather than a professional cartographer, which makes sense for a map that the characters take possession of in Dunmar, the town in the north of the map where the characters receive their training in arts that are long-forgotten and come to know the Gods that their people have long-rejected. It is the characters' unique training that makes them heroes in a world suddenly bereft of technology that they depend on. Dunmar is a backwater of Luddites who reject modern society, and a place where true specialists are rare outside the fields of agriculture and hunting. Everyone has to know a little about everything, arguably a more natural state of a humanity where thoughts are focused on survival. That's a long way of saying that map-making is not a profession there, but rather a hobby.

[edit] one thing I didn't mention... it is important that you view the map at 100% resolution. Page-size it is simply too small to make out the details.