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Hello, Lord Jerith, and welcome to the Guild!
While this seems like an interesting project I fear your budget does not match the demanded features requested by you. Let me take a look at it from an experienced cartographer's perspective to explain the problems to you. Please don't take this as a personal attack; you're far from the first person to come here with somewhat unrealistic expectations, and I hope what I lay out down below help you understand the problems.
Here we go:
-- Ordinary detailed colored maps take even experienced cartographers up to 20 hours of work, depending on the size and individually required level of detail even far in excess of that (my largest map job took me ~50h). In your case that would mean a cartographer would work for the equivalent of $6/h (probably far less, given the design process), which is below the minimum wage in many of our cartographers' countries of origin. Naturally I cannot speak for every cartographer on this site, but generally it is safe to calculate with an hourly rate that's
well above twice that much.
-- Since you want the full commerical rights for the map, expect a surcharge.
-- Many a cartographer here will be uncomfortable with the whole "[a]ctually, I would prefer to collaborate with someone who can bring their own ideas"-thing. In practice that's shown to be an uncalculable time sink. And time is money. *shrugs*
-- Following from the prior bullet point, two weeks is a tough schedule,
especially given the collaborative design approach you do prefer.
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