Map of the Twin Kingdoms of Aran and Ilan

[Eilathen]

Very very nice! I like it a lot...all of it. I have a hard time deciding which version i like best. I really hope we will se more of this world (in the other thread, you showed us the world-map. I hope you'll make detail maps of every part). Have some rep.!
Oh and if you feel like telling us about the world itself, go ahead, i am all ears

[Caenwyr]

Very very nice! I like it a lot...all of it. I have a hard time deciding which version i like best. I really hope we will se more of this world (in the other thread, you showed us the world-map. I hope you'll make detail maps of every part). Have some rep.!
Oh and if you feel like telling us about the world itself, go ahead, i am all ears

Getting me started on the world is not the problem. Getting me to shut up again might be. Just ask me what you want to know, and I'll be happy to answer. Let me share the first words of my prologue with you, translated to English for your comfort (since I'm sure your Dutch is somewhat rusty atm ). I'm sure there are numerous mistakes in the English translation, but I hope you'll get the general idea nevertheless. Here goes:

It was the last moon of winter. In the forests of Sarand hung a dense fog, snow lay in thick packs draped over the pine trees, slope after slope. The whole world was reduced to shades of black, white and icy blue. On the crest of a hill, in a clearing among the trees, stood an icy signpost: 10 miles to Tormic. Beneath it was a faded track where the snow was slightly less deep, as if someone had passed before the last heavy snowfall. Except for the signpost and the track, however, there was no trace of human civilization. A large raven came flying from the forest with lazy wing beats, looked around and then installed itself on the pole. Proudly he looked over the silent landscape - the king of a fallen world.

All rights reserved, of course. © Caenwyr, 2012

Beautiful. I personally prefer the colored borders, they are more clear to see.

I agree that they're clearer to see, but I'm not sure about the aesthetics. I have come to think coloured borders would look better on a parchment kind of map, focused on politics, while this map is more about geomorphology.

Very nice! My only addition is that I think it would look better if the oceans had some kind of texture. It still looks awesome without it, though!

I should add some texture, shouldn't I? Any idea where I could get a nice wavy texture that doesn't distract the viewer from the land mass?

This is lovely work! The colors turned out beautifully (especially the sea, much better than mine). Really great work on this Caenwyr.

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

Thanks Arsheesh, that means a lot! Especially since it was your tutorial that started all this!

I guess the only thing left to do for now is the labelling of the rivers. Which will be a HUGE pain in the ass, I'm sure. According to this guide, I'm supposed to make my labels float along the riverbanks. I guess I'll have to break out Inkscape for that - there's no way I'm gonna do that kind of vector work in GIMP. *sigh* I guess the fun part is over, and the messy part begins

[Eilathen]

Getting me started on the world is not the problem. Getting me to shut up again might be. Just ask me what you want to know, and I'll be happy to answer. Let me share the first words of my prologue with you, translated to English for your comfort (since I'm sure your Dutch is somewhat rusty atm ). I'm sure there are numerous mistakes in the English translation, but I hope you'll get the general idea nevertheless.

Lol...well, fire away, i am sure i can stop you if need be More seriously: I'm an enthusiastic roleplayer (pen & paper) and therefore always interested in a world's history, its races and realms-write-ups. So if you feel like it, tell me about those fields of knowledge.
And you were right...my dutch is rusty. It is so rusty, it ceased existing But i can offer you german as a substitute