I like your color choices very much. They make it all look much more interesting.
I like your color choices very much. They make it all look much more interesting.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
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What a great improvement. Its all together more inviting and evocative. I like your gray sea - looks dangerous but not forbidding.
Sigurd
Dollhouse Syndrome = The temptation to turn a map into a picture, obscuring the goal of the image with the appeal of cute, or simply available, parts. Maps have clarity through simplification.
--- Sigurd
Map with continent names.
Sandocrast - The most populated of the landmasses on Parthwon. Over 60% of the realm's population is based out of Sandocrast. The most advanced cultures also reside here. Most of the campaigns have taken place on this continent.
Janavie - Janavie is the only unified continent. The people of Janavie are isolationists and have little interaction with the outside world save for the island nations.
Porotholos - The last landmass to be populated by the humanoid races of Parthwon. Once a dragon sanctuary in the early history of Parthwon, Porotholos teems with wildlife and monsters that have endured through sheer strength and brutality. Only the bravest venture here.
Lakosnaria - The nearly untouched land is home to the largest empire (area-wise) of elves and other fey races. Few humanoid races venture to the southern half of the continent due to swarming jungles that choke the central mountains and hill lands.
Last edited by ProjectThanatos; 01-22-2010 at 08:16 PM.
The Aluvian Tower
The Aluvian Tower is a tower of gargantuan proportions. It was originally crafted by a race now forgotten to time. Originally erected as a seat of the gods, it now remains near barren since the sealing of Parthwon. Without deities to watch over such a wonder, the tower has fallen into near decay. The tower ascends so high into the heavens that it can be seen almost half a world away. Seafarers use the tower for simple navigation at times, but never venture to close. The sea boils around the tower and only fools eager for death come close.
No one has ever returned from Aluvian Tower.
Underwater View
Aquatic Campaigns, while not the norm, are a great way to give worlds new depth. ()
Parthwon is as vivid above ground as it is in the dark abyss. The following shows markers for both trenches (in red) and coral reef concentrations (purple).
This provides a fundamental guide to the underwater machinations of the world. Notice the crescent isle (The Dwarven Kingdom of Paren-lok) to the east of Sandocrast. This mountainous isle was created when the goddess of war cleaved the land from the main continent. The resulting trench is the deepest and most defined. The reef systems are also a result of ocean currents and nutrient deposits. The dark purple sections are complex reef structures that have formed interconnecting networks of numerous self sustained ecosystems. Life in such sectors, is incredibly abundant.
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