Arnhaarm - Small fictional world map

[joebg]

I think it looks quite fine, I really like how you did your mountains. How did you do them, anyway?

I did them using seven different layers for each elevation level. Using emboss effects and some brush effects I just paint them one over another to achieve this effect. There is a tutorial with examples for that here at the forum. I just developed my style out of this tutorial. The whole map is done only in Photoshop, nothing external except the paper texture and some crater textures.

[joebg]

I always make some story about the worlds I create. Here is part of it:
Although this world is a bio-dome, its inhabitants are not aware of it, and are living in a society, more like our late medieval period. But industrial revolution is not possible, as the world is artificial, and there are no fossil fuels. All the minerals and metals are deposited by drones (gods, for the inhabitants). They still can discover electricity and create electricity (and not coal) based industrial revolution.
There are four languages, religions and cultures. The peace of this is kept by the great librarian in the city of Winds, where is the great library of all people located (and four universities, one for each culture and religion).
So the time is counted from when the Great Library was built XXX AGL (After the Great Library).
There were a total of three wars up to date, but I want to make a war map of a future war. Now I am thinking how to make it, as I want it to represent the unique soldier and culture types as well to make it as simple and clearer as possible.