Thank you much for the compliment.

I used gimp and the wonderful tutorials they have for it here. Pretty much just followed them step by step, trying different things to see what worked for me; and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Good learning experience too. Hopefully the next ones I do will take it up a notch.

It is inspired heavily from England - both in design as well as naming conventions. Mercia, Anglia, North Umbria.. - Wessex, Sussex, Essex - to Wesleo, Susleo, Esleo (same naming convention; just for the Leogria rather the Saxon). Everything divided in to shires and earldoms, rather than counties and duchies.