The Kingdoms of Efforopotamia over the millennia

[randigpanzrall]

Dear community,

After a long time of inactivity here in the forum, I would like to start a project again. Two atlas double pages of the four-stream-region “Efforopotamia” are planned. These double pages will include a larger political map and an equally sized economic map showing the vegetation in the “present” as well as eight smaller historical maps showing the region over the last 3,000 years.

Efforopotamia is the region on the Glenndom continent where the cultural origins of advanced civilization on Glenndom lie, where, over the course of the four desert streams, people first practiced division-of-labor agriculture with irrigation and thus formed the first strong small towns and later large cities that rose over the centuries , were rivals and, not least because of this, developed quickly culturally and economically.

First of all, two maps that make it easier to locate and classify the region. The region is a desert and steppe region crossed by four major rivers. Two of the rivers are full of water and navigable throughout the year, the others can shrink into small water graves or run completely dry in very dry summers. The region is bordered in the north and east by high mountain ranges, in the south by the sea and in the west the land runs into what feels like an endless and inhospitable desert.

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[randigpanzrall]

Here is the first work around the region, first of all the coastlines, the rivers, the indicated mountains and the cities and roads in the region:

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[randigpanzrall]

Enclosed is a first draft of one of the pages with the historical overviews

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[Ink_alpinist]

Damn, this is so cool! I love this concept of an fantastical atlas, it feels like seeing another a glimpse from another dimension.

[randigpanzrall]

Thank you very much for your comment, Ink_alpinist. I like to incorporate the history and geography of the region under consideration into my maps and so I usually have a map on the screen but a story in my head.

I have now continued or changed and adapted the upper half of one page and inserted the associated text as well as the map legend and the scale. The region is shown in the first centuries after the first cities were founded on the Mardii, Purat, Isuhr and Idigna rivers

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[Tiluchi]

Love this! Really cool to see this level of detail and backstory put into the history, which is great fun to read. Hope to see more atlas features soon.

[randigpanzrall]

Today I finished the second half of the page and made a few changes. Now two maps cover a period of 1200 years, with textual explanations. I hope you like it.

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[randigpanzrall]

Today I am adding the corresponding second page from the historical atlas, which deals more thematically with the time period relevant to the maps and provides some explanations.

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or the joined version:

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[randigpanzrall]

Today I'm starting with the next page and have added the first upper half there, which tells another chapter of the Efforopotamia region. It is not very exciting in terms of map material, but it is part of it to allow a historical classification

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[randigpanzrall]

Dear friends, today I finished page 48 of the historical atlas, i.e. the second historical map, the legends and the texts.

The page now depicts the fall of the Nasrija Empire, the rise of the Suhr Trade Federation and the emergence of the new Empire of Kabilla, crucial events in the region

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I've had a long break here, am I doing something wrong that you can only see the maps when you're logged in?