Atlas Elyden - the Republic of Almagest

[Lingon]

I love the balanced density of detail, it looks so natural and real. Another fantastic piece

[vorropohaiah]

Another excellent one Vorro!

Awe-inspiring stuff! Your attention to detail is astonishing. I'm so impressed with what you're doing.

I love the balanced density of detail, it looks so natural and real. Another fantastic piece

thanks for the comments - sometimes i do get discouraged when I'm neck-deep in labeling and doing icons and such, but once the map's 'done' (i use parenthesis as they're never really done - I've added and changed tuff to all of the so-called complete maps since uploading them) and i look back at it I'm generally quite satisfied with it, if a bit exhausted

[aeroy]

This is absolutely fantastic. Your submission of this to /r/worldbuilding inspired me to check out this forum.

Can you talk about your geographic inspirations when making a detailed map like this? Do you let Photoshop do the randomization? How much detail do you explicitly put in?

[jshoer]

This looks like it came out of a real atlas - terrific job! I like all the little icons and details.

Actually, out of all the little details, I think I like that you have two competing distance scales most of all.

[vorropohaiah]

This looks like it came out of a real atlas - terrific job! I like all the little icons and details.

Actually, out of all the little details, I think I like that you have two competing distance scales most of all.

thanks yeah, apart from the fact that most atlases still have distances in miles and kilometers, a lot of old 'colonial time' maps have different versions of miles, which i thought might be a good touch to pinch

[vorropohaiah]

This is absolutely fantastic. Your submission of this to /r/worldbuilding inspired me to check out this forum.

Can you talk about your geographic inspirations when making a detailed map like this? Do you let Photoshop do the randomization? How much detail do you explicitly put in?

thanks, well, there's very little that's random actually (im guessing you mean something like clouds and then filters to make the mountains?) The maps I;ve done so far already existed in other forms - generally more fantasy-style maps - so i just used those maps as a base for where the mountains would be as so on. Other than that, I do everything one layer at a time.

[AzurePlanet]

Excellent result Nate, as usual!

P.S.
Just a nonsense, but I noticed a very slightly lighter colored rectangular area in the NW corner of the map.
I wonder if that is just an unwanted effect?

[vorropohaiah]

Excellent result Nate, as usual!

P.S.
Just a nonsense, but I noticed a very slightly lighter colored rectangular area in the NW corner of the map.
I wonder if that is just an unwanted effect?

No actually that's a placeholder for when I get round to doing the city map, which I'll paste over it

[AzurePlanet]

No actually that's a placeholder for when I get round to doing the city map, which I'll paste over it

Oh... I'm always more and more impressed by your mapping management!

[ghostywheat]

Wow, easy to ready and understand, yet still beautiful.