So I was going to enter this in the dual month challenge, it fulfilled like world/trading/number eight or something to that effect. I also wanted to play around with octet projections. Long story short I hated it, and as I started moving in/college stuff I didn't have much time to revamp it. Despite all that, I hate not finishing things, so here is the "final" product.
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I think my backstory was something along the lines of eight barons ruling their own portion of the seas and their trading routes.

Anywho, hopefully I will be able to make something better for the challenge, or even just in general.