So, this is my 2nd attempt at a map and I was mainly looking for a bit of advice on it. I started following Tear's Saderan tutorial, but I had trouble getting the mountains to look as pronounced/raised as they do on the tutorial instead of like blobs, so I switched tactics and went for mountain brushes instead.

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My current concern is that this area of the world is meant to have most of civilization living on raised land and plateaus in the areas marked by the mountains on the map. I'm just unsure on how to represent plateaus or raised elevation since it's a big deal for the storyline of this world. Should I mark out the plateaus/high ground separately somehow and separate them from the lower land? Or do you think the mountains are enough to represent that?