Ascension (name of the city)

[dr Jack]

Yeah, I know. Ascension is also a name of a Community Leader (I greet him ).
But, as I said in the WIP thread. I thought this name remind the first use of the city (see the background).
This is my first map and I want to thank every people who gave me suggestion in this creation, especially I appreciate very much this tutorial.

I followed the tutorial step to step and I used GIMP mosaic filter to design the secondary buildings.

I find many suggestion also in this tutorial, and I choose to map Ascension because it was one of the fantasiest city concept I ever created. It can be used in any background similar to Planescape.

Background (easy one):

Ascension is a city floating on a lake. Created in the ancient times by a race called Dergal to became a huge siege engine to break into the heavens; then used from the Rakash who build the POOL as a huge portal; now Ascension is settled by younger races: humans and elves.
The structure of the city remind it’s first function, the road pattern created from the Dergal to gather troops in the middle is still visible in some areas and the POOL is still used to travel and to bring provisions to the city.

Also known as Mosaic city because the city tiles created from Dergal mage artists defined a big marble mosaic. It was an enormous summoning circle. The humans build upon it, and bird’s eye view of these buildings seems another mosaic on the mosaic.

Ascension is a peaceful city and, thanks to the natural defence of the lake, have only few soldier; and it’s a prosperous city too. The POOL and it’s easy ways to teleport goods attracted many merchants and the city itself is full of specialists in many services from magician to lawyers passing through scientists.

Copyright notice: Ascension (map) and Ascension (city concept, description and background) are published under the Creative Commons licence Attribution Share Alike 3.0 Unported.