New World WIP - Eurosivarae

[Steel General]

Some very interesting land shapes you have here GW.

This should lend itself nicely to the development of various kinds of cultures, etc. especially that huge 'inland sea' in the east.

Looking forward to seeing this progress.

[Greason Wolfe]

Some very interesting land shapes you have here GW.

This should lend itself nicely to the development of various kinds of cultures, etc. especially that huge 'inland sea' in the east.

Looking forward to seeing this progress.

My thoughts exactly. I've got a skeleton work-up of some of those cultures already in the works, but before I can start placing them, I need to work out the "bugs" as far as the land goes. I've put some thought into how I'm going to approach the continental drift/tectonic plate action sequence and will be getting to work on that here in just a little bit.

I did want to make a couple of corrections to my first post, however.

Of those members that I listed previously, I should say that not all of them have posted tutorials that are influencing this process. In some cases, it is their own WIPs that are having an influence on my efforts. And, as is often the case, there were a few forum members that I missed mentioning. Of them, Karro, Korba and Redrobes top the list. I'm sure that, by the end of this, there will be others I can add to that list, and hopefully I'll remember to mention them, and rep them for that matter. And lastly, let's not forget about Arcana. Without this forum (one of the friendliest I've seen when it comes to fictional cartography) we wouldn't have a place to share our efforts, knowledge and suggestions. My hat's off two or three times for that.

GW

[Greason Wolfe]

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Ah, the joys of trying to accomplish something when you don't quite have the resources to do so. Such is the case with my efforts towards plotting out continental drift and action along the major fault lines. I can see it clearly enough in my head, but committing it to paper, so to speak, is proving to be exceptionally tedious. While I may still try to work that out (the committing it to paper portion), I've decided, for the time being to move forward with things.

With a fairly clear image in my head about how I'd like things to look by the time I reach the finished product, I opted to cut back a little bit on the Land Expansion sequence. With just a couple levels cut back, it looks like I'll still have plenty of room to work as far as developing a final version of the elevations.

One thing I wanted to do, however, was open up a few sea lanes while maintaining some of the larger continental junctions. Also, and this is a bit of a pet peeve of mine, I wanted to center the landscape, so to speak. For reasons I can't quite explain (and, perhaps, don't understand), I've never cared for maps that have the land masses wrapped around the edges. Maybe it is the fact that, at least for me, it seems to break the flow of things. So it was off to the cutting board to trim down some of the coastal areas, build up a few islands and shift the perspective a bit to meet my tastes. One thing I am still a bit concerned with at this point is that things still seem to look a bit cluttered. But that could just be me, so I'll wait to see if anyone else feels the same.

All in all, I'm generally happy with the way things are going. I've printed out a few "flat" black and white versions of the world as a whole so that I can sketch in a few ideas as far as large scale details go. For now, though, I think I'm going to take a break from the actual mapping side of this project and do a little astronomy and/or background work just to flesh things out a bit more. That will, I hope, give me a better idea of where my climates are going to go as well as how the population has spread out over the world.

Until next time, here's a peek at the current state of the world.

GW